It's a good few years since I've travelled the far north of Norway, and this time we were on a research trip during the polar winter. Yes, that's right: no sunlight at all, and about two hours of moody dusk each day, and 22 hours or darkness. Add to that howling winds, lots of rain/sleet/snow and freezing temperatures, and you are roughly in the ballpark.
In the few days that we didn't have bad weather, we made the most of shooting whales in Kvaloya Sound, flew over a giant oil platform in the Barents Sea, and spent lots of time on the road across northern Norway and the Vesteralen islands. I was glad to have my trusty EOS 6D cameras which operate very well in the dark - as this assignment would not have been possible just a few years ago. Even so, the missing light played havoc at times, and this must be the first trip ever where I had to work without sunlight for a prolonged period of time.
