David Burren Photography

Photography for both pleasure and work.

2009 Arctic Winter Trip

From November 24 through to December 28 2009, David will be the Artist in Residence aboard the MS Trollfjord travelling along the coast of Norway.

Live map of David's travels

This is not continuous tracking: points on the map are added via Spot or Fire Eagle updates. Dates are in UTC, not local time.

The blog will be updated throughout this time with information and images from the trip. This page is an index to all the information we have related to the trip.

Announcement

2009-10-06: Two polar regions in the same year!

Preparations

2009-10-08: Blogging while travelling
2009-10-10: Planning flights
2009-10-13: Camera equipment
2009-10-23: Planning the medical side of travel. Also we've added the first version of the trip map (on the right of this page).
2009-11-12: Packing for travel. Actually a note that I'll be talking about this later...
 

Heading to Europe

2009-11-14: London calling
2009-11-15: London roaming
2009-11-19: My new favourite duck

Norway!

2009-11-24: Departing Bergen

My internet connection in Norway turned out to be to awkward to use for updating this site (and I was very busy, which did curtail my patience somewhat). So the blog posts are now (Jan'10) being trickled back into the blog feed:

2009-11-25: Ålesund
2009-11-26: Trondheim
2009-11-26: North of The Circle
2009-11-28: Bearded Seals
2009-11-29: North Cape
2009-11-30: Kirkenes
2009-12-01: By the light of the moon
2009-12-02: In the Vesteraalen Islands
2009-12-03: In-camera sharpening DOES matter!

This index page is updated manually. A dynamically-generated list of blog posts (from newest to oldest) is also available.