Norway Travel Series by Calum Bradshaw

Today, we’re featuring an amazing Norway travel series from film photographer Calum Bradshaw. Here is more from Calum about capturing the incredible landscapes of Norway with a panoramic camera…

These photos are from a series I shot during a five-day road trip through Norway’s Lofoten Islands. We drove from Tromsø to Å and back again, stopping to photograph beaches, mountains, bridges, and the very, very many gorgeous red-cabin villages in the area.

Lofoten is a stunning backdrop for a photographer – mountains run straight into the sea, snow blankets the peaks, and the uninterrupted eastern horizon delivers daily breathtaking sunrises. With my photos, I aimed to capture something of the scale of the region, alongside the peace to be found in its wide open spaces. Every new bend in the road delivered a stunning vista, but these roads were quiet; often we were the only people in sight – we had our own private mountains.

For this trip, I had picked the XPan as my primary camera. In a place defined by open spaces, panoramic shooting felt right. In many of the photos, my subjects are deliberately small – a man, a sign, a cabin – and the XPan frame size is perfect for extending the majestic scale of the environment around them. I’m also a filmmaker by trade so have a personal soft spot for the ‘cinematic’ images this camera kicks out.

Analog cameras and films used: Hasselblad XPan (Find at KEH Camera or on eBay), Mamiya 645 Pro (Find at KEH Camera or on eBay) | Film stocks listed in captions

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