Waterfall and Tjornuvik
There are 18 islands of volcanic rock making up the Faroe Islands and this one is Streymoy. Using a wide angle lens I shot the tiny village of Tjornuvik, like so many villages at the end of a tight bay, with the island of Eysturoy in the background. Just off the end of Eysturoy are a couple of famous small sea stacks, one with an arch.
Old Boat, Funninger, Eysturoy
On Eysturoy we stopped in the village of Funninger with a small port that featured a weathered concrete jetty. These oceanside villages get a lot of weather so everything looks old. The boat inside the boathouse has weathered paint and the boathouse doors show the effects of fronting directly on the sea.
Funninger Church, Eysturoy
Still in Funninger, I shot the church looking across the water at another arm of Eysturoy. The old buildings in the Faroe Islands have grass roofs and this church had a beautiful little graveyard next to it. The village is a very peaceful place.
Lone House, Gjogv, Eysturoy
We had dinner one evening in Gjogv, way at the northern end of Eysturoy and after dinner the light was wonderful on a nearby mountain. Gjogv is big enough to almost be a small town and it has a very tight and protective natural harbor.
Hvithamar Fjord and Salmon Farm
After our Gjogv dinner we hiked out to the edge of a cliff over a fjord where we could look down on a salmon farm. The circles are the salmon farm and the boat is tending to it. Beyond that we can see the islands of Kalsoy and beyond that and just under the clouds is Kunoy.
Saksun Bay, Streymoy
Saksun is on the northern part of Streymoy, the largest island, and it has a beautiful and very sheltered bay with a church and some historic buildings. Waterfalls tumble down the mountainsides around the valley and only one farm family lives here. It is a wonderful place.
Traelanipa Cliffs, Vagar
The Faroe Islands feature huge sloping grassy mountainsides but they are also very famous for their cliffs that sometimes reach 600 feet and plunge straight into the Norwegian Sea. Watch where you step. This cliff is only about 200 feet and is adjacent to the iconic "hanging lake" that some people say looks like it hangs over the sea. It doesn't and it's just a matter of perspective.
Rocky Finger Near Traelanipa, Vagar
We hiked three kilometers out to Traelanipa at the end of the hanging lake after dinner and as we came back around 10:00 it was getting dark. I saw this finger, perhaps 300 feet or more high, jutting out of the clouds. For size perspective, the dark thing on the grassy slope is a house.
Mulafossur Waterfall, Vagar
This is an iconic waterfall and if you see photographs of the Faroe Islands one of them will almost certainly be this shot. Gasadalur is a tiny village at the end of the road and to the west (the left in this photo) there is very little to protect it from the Norwegian Sea and beyond that the North Atlantic Ocean. A 25-second exposure has softened the waterfall and the waves hitting the cliff.
Sornfelli Sunset, Streymoy
Our final evening in the Faroes, we went to a high mountain to shoot the sunset with the island of Vagar across the water. There was a very high and precipitous slope with an unsteady trail across it but it gave a great view of the ocean and clouds as the sun went down.
