by Lyonel Perabo | Nov 30, 2015 | BIVROST Stories
If the magnificent spectacle of the Northern Lights could be summed up in one single word it would be Colors. The powerful light-show that graces the skies of the Far North indeed takes several forms and many colors, each one even more beautiful than its predecessors....
by Lyonel Perabo | Nov 22, 2015 | BIVROST Stories
Most tend to associate Pirates with the Caribbean, warm weather, azure skies and sunny sand-beaches. However, Pirates were also found in many other places, a few of them even laid waste to the Norwegian Arctic some four centuries ago… Thanks to movies,...
by Lyonel Perabo | Oct 31, 2015 | BIVROST Stories
Norway was one of the focal points of both the allies and the axis during the second World War. Numerous battles and other capital events took place on Norwegian soil but none is more harrowing than the Arctic escape of sergeant Jan Baalsrud in 1943. In April 1940,...
by Lyonel Perabo | Oct 16, 2015 | BIVROST Stories
For most of the XXth century, photographers who wished to snap a shot of the Aurora had to rely on silver-coated films and darkrooms to obtain any kind of results. Towards the end of the millennium, a new technological breakthrough made it much easier to obtain...
by Lyonel Perabo | Oct 3, 2015 | BIVROST Stories
In our previous installment of this series, we talked about how the Aurora was traditionally painted or drawn in the Renaissance and the Early Modern period. Today we will look at the way people represented the Aurora through Analog Photography. While analog...