LANDSCAPE PHOTOGRAPHY
IN NORWAY

Join a wonderful hiking & landscape photography workshop in the nature of North Norway! 

We visited Lyngen on our personal holiday and fell in love at first sight! Big forests, blue lakes, high mountains, sea shore - all the magnificent and interesting arctic landscapes in one place. People on the farm were so warm and nice that we just cannot be coming back to this place in Svensby at the Lyngen Alps.

Strong nature, good food, beautiful landscapes, professional hiking and photography guide, and friendly people in the Norwegian countryside. What else do you need during your active photographing week? Here is it, the perfect place to enjoy your holiday with your friends and camera! Northern Norway offers a dramatic nature with a lot of tracks for hiking and Lyngenfjord is no exception

Group of hikers walking on rocky trail near a river, with a glacier and mountains in the background.
A peaceful Norwegian lakeside village with colorful autumn trees, houses, and boats docked along the shoreline, with mountains in the background and a cloudy sky overhead.
Scenic landscape of a mountain range reflected in a calm lake with a cloudy sky and greenery along the shore.
Hikers walking on a rocky trail in a mountainous landscape with a glacier, snow-capped peaks, sparse trees, and autumn-colored shrubs.
Blue-watered lake and the path in front of the mountains.
A narrow canyon with multiple small waterfalls flowing over dark, layered rocks into a river below.
A peaceful mountain landscape with a calm river, trees, and mountains in the distance during twilight.
Four people on a rocky shoreline with mountains and water in the background, one person with a tripod.

LANDSCAPE PHOTOGRAPHY IN NORWAY

FACTS AND ITINERARY

You travel with a hiking and photography guide to different destinations by car. The guide is a professional nature photographer and knows the best spots for beautiful shooting in the area.

To get to different destinations, we must walk along paths and hike on the tops of the fells and hills and to the rivers and lakes. Daily distances are about 1-8 km. You also have to carry your photography equipment, daily drinks, and other equipment in your rucksack.

We accommodate on the Norwegian farm in twin rooms. Your guide takes care of meals, so you only have enough drinks and snacks in your backpack for the day trips. Sometimes we may take a soup lunch with us in the soup thermos. ​

We discuss and learn, for example about the northern species, light, photographers' position, equipment, composition, and technical issues. One of the most valuable processes during this week is learning new skills from the other participants.

One interesting part of the schedule is the showtime for you at the end of the week. In this part, you can introduce your best shots of the workshop with a projector on the big screen and tell your stories from your perspective.

  • Place: Lyngen, Svensby, Norway

  • Date: 21.–28.6.2025

  • Availability: 1.6.–15.10. Ask for availability for your group and book now!

  • Duration: 8 days, 7 nights

  • Number of participants: Min 5, max 8 persons

  • Accommodation: At the farm on the fjord shore, in cozy lodges/apartments. Twin rooms with all the necessary kitchen and other equipment.

  • Price: 3390 €/person

  • Price includes: Return transport from Troms Airport to Lyngen, activities due to the program, guidance, meals (breakfast, lunch, dinner), accommodation in twin rooms

  • The price doesn’t include flights.

  • Equipment: Participants have their own camera equipment, tripod, laptop, memory stick, good hiking boots, waterproof clothing, warm underwear, etc., according to the weather. Please ask for the whole list of equipment after booking.

  • Equipment included in the price: Walking sticks and all special equipment if needed in the activities.

  • By additional cost: Photographing equipment, binoculars. Clothing set: Water/windproof jacket, trousers, mittens, headwear, boots 90 €/set/person/week.

  • Supplements: Return transport from Oulu, Finland

  • Payment: Invoice, cash, credit card

  • Tour level: Easy. Participants are required to have a basic fitness level. Previous experience in outdoor activities is desirable. The maximum walking distance is around 1-10 km in varied terrain in mountain conditions. Altitudes during the treks are between 100 to 500m. Every participant has to be able to carry their own drinks, snacks, and around 5 kg of personal equipment in partly challenging terrain.

  • Languages: Finnish, English

  • Insurance: We require participants to have their own insurance for outdoor activities.

  • Tour operator: Our tours are organized responsibly by Matexpro Oy, registered with the Finnish Competition and Consumer Authority (KKV) under registration number 322/21/Mj.

Photographer in Lyngen, Nordic Wildscape

ITINERARY

  • Arrive at Troms Airport, where you meet your guide. Transport to Svensby farm in the Lyngen area by car with low emissions. Transport time is approximately 1,5 hours.

    In Svensby, the Solheim Fritidsgård-farm is a wonderful, authentic Farm accommodation near the fjord shore. House works for us as a base camp for this unforgettable photography adventure. There is homemade dinner waiting for us on the table with different local delicacies every day. Program briefing on the first evening. To have a nice and safe adventure, we'll have basic info about clothing, accommodation and some instructions for the week. Evening meal in the dining room and accommodation in rooms. Shower, maybe a dip into the cool sea! Welcome to enjoy your photographing holiday!

  • Breakfast in the dining room. The trip will take us to a wonderful blue-colored wilderness lake which gives us a lot of ideas to photograph. After a short 15 minutes drive to the parking (Aspevatnet trail head), starting point of the trail. Slow and peaceful, approximately 2 km hiking on the partly stony path like in the fantasy movies, to the shore of the lake and a fireplace, mountain views on the background. Photographing & picnic lunch by an open fire. Hiking back to the car, relaxing, photo editing time. Photographing continues near the cabin. Enjoying the evening lights on the sea shore. Shower, dinner and accommodation in the cabin. Hiking in highland and forest views, 4 km, 10 - 200 m above sea level. 5-6 hours trip, approx. 1,5 hours hiking. Possibility to photograph the magnificent Northern Lights in the evening (from the beginning of September).

  • After breakfast, we start the excursion by transport by car to Lyngstuva, in the northernmost part of the Lyngen area. The route to Lyngstuva takes road no. 314. We drive the road through Nord-Lenangen until we reach the end of the road and park it in the meadow in Russelvi (Ruoššajohka). First, the path runs along the seashore. It is a gravel road at the beginning but then turns into a path. The last section goes around a small hill before arriving at the lighthouse. Hiking in sea views, 6 km, 100m above sea level. 5-6 hours trip, 4 hours hiking. Picnic lunch. Drive back to base camp. Outdoor Barbeque snack by the open fire at the Kota, Lapland tepee. Dinner and shower.

  • Breakfast at the base camp. Making a picnic lunch from the breakfast table and after that only few minutes transport to Barheia. Easy climbing through the forest to the top of the fell. There are no rocks, the path is pretty steady and it's not slippery. Photographing the mountain tops around, horizon, clouds, old forest, fjord, and sea from the top. Hike and transport back to the farm. In the evening visit to local museum close to the farm. Night visions and Northern lights (autumn). Hiking in forest and sea views, 6 km, 350m above sea level. 4-5 hours hiking trip. Shower, dinner, accommodation.

  • Early breakfast at the accommodation place. 1 hour transport by car to Lyngseidet. Lyngensteps were built by the Sherpas from Nepal in year 2021. Over 1000 stony steps rise about 300 meters on the fell side above the Lyngseidet village and fjord. Landscape, sea and cultural views. Tour continues to the "Worlds end", place even more dramatic views to the mountains, islands and the sea. Lyngensteps is definitely one of the must-visit destinations in Northern Norway. The hike is quite hard, but you can choose the length by yourself. Group can be divided. After the stony steps the route is mainly a normal path lined with fell birches. Picnic lunch during the tour. Transport back to the base camp. Hiking in mountain, sea and forest views, 6 km, 6-7 hours trip, 5 hours hiking. Shower, dinner, accommodation.

  • After breakfast, we start the excursion by transport by car to the North, and visit Nesset Lenangsøyra which is an interesting viewpoint of the Arctic Ocean. Short break at the Selnes chapel, a local small church on the fjord side. After a short drive, we come to Innereidet, the churchyard, and the cemetery with a beautiful mountain view. Transport back to the base camp. Lunch, dinner, accommodation.

  • Breakfast. Showtime for your best shots of the workshop! At the end of the workshop, we collect together all the wonderful memories, process them together on the computer and make a presentation of the images. Celebration dinner in the evening.

  • Departure day. Breakfast and transfer to the Troms Airport.

We reserve all the rights to change the activities' order or the program's content due to the weather or other conditions.