Arctic Circle

On July 23th, 2009, we entered the Arctic Circle by flying from Oslo to Alta, Norway.
This collection of photographs were taken during our 3 days of contiuous daylight.

The Rock Carvings in Alta Museum is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site.
These carvings date to as early as 4000BC.


Since many of these carvings are very faint, they added this red color to make is more visible.








Hammerfest, which claims to be the northernmost city in the world


Hammerfest Church




View of Hammerfest from Salen


The Meridian Column, listed on UNESCO World Heritage List


Reindeer in the Arctic Circle


Watching the midnight sun at Nordkapp, the northernmost point of continental Europe






Reindeers causing a road block.




Fish Drying Racks






Midnight sun at Ivalo, Finland






Santa Claus Village in Rovaniemi, Finland
















Sammi people at Reindeer Park in Finland








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Oslo, Norway

Viking Ship Museum, Oslo
















Oslo City Hall, site of Nobel Peace Prize presentation




















Streets of Oslo

Vigeland Sculpture Park, Oslo, Norway

Vigeland Park is the largest park featuring one artist, Gustav Vigeland.  It contains more than 200 sculptures of human life and emotions.
Our tour allowed us one hour in the park, which I decided to use to photograph almost every sculpture.  Due to the limited time (about 15sec per sculpture, including walking composing time), some of the photos were blurry or not well composed.
The slideshow of all photos I took is here (Warning: Sculptures depict human in nude form).

Below are some of the photos I took.

The Bridge, the Fountain, and the Monolith



The Bridge contains over 50 sculptures on both sides, here are a few of those.

The most popular sculpture in the park depicting an Angry Boy.  His left fist is golden because many visitors hold his hand taking photos.






The Fountain, surrounded with Tree like sculptures


Sculpture of children hanging off a tree



The Monolith, which is carved from a single limestone.


Tourist mimicking the sculpture of boys looking up the sky












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