The Nordic Light International Foto Festival just closed their last exhibitions and fotocommunity (that is Grit, Totto and me) set down our displays and dismounted all the computers and packed them in their boxes again. My car is full to the roof again and ready to roll out of Kristiansund tomorrow morning. The weather hasn't been nice to us here, it is cold, windy and raining all the time, average temperature is about 8° Celsius, yesterday morning I saw fresh fallen snow in the mountains just a few kilometers away from here. As we heard there are some roads closed due to the snow and so we decided to take the coastal route via Bergen and stay with Tove Fölid tomorrow night at her house in Bergen before we move on towards Oslo where we will have to be by Thursday morning and will board the ferry to Kiel, Germany. We will hopefully arrive there on Friday morning and will then head straight on to Berlin for the fotocommunity.de festival there.

Overall this has been a week of meeting and making friends, all interested in photography and all sharing the same passion for it. We have also had quite a few interesting chats and talks with some of the exhibitors and it was all topped with a great and typical Norwegian dinner at Christiane Wüllner's home last night, where famous Bruce Barnbaum was also invited and shared some of his opinions and thoughts on photography and nature preservation with us. He even brought and showed us some of his prints that have not been displayed in his exhibition, that was a highlight too. If you are into fantastic black and white photos, check out his work!

After dinner and desert and a good portion of red wine to go with it, we went to the official end of festival party where we could say good bye to many of our new friends, not without having them promise to upload their photos and become active members real soon. We are really looking forward to that!

So overall I could say this was a very worthwhile trip for fotocommunity, trying to bring our idea of sharing our common passion for photography and discussing our works with the rest of the world to Norway and it's people. As I sit here and write this little article, it really makes me happy and proud to be a member of this great idea and community!

Over and out, will be reporting about the Berlin festival to you guys not being able to make it there in about a week from now....

Andy