Hardangervidda

Michał Amerek
3 min readSep 23, 2014

abstract feelings

Hardangervidda is largest mountain plateau in Europe, covering an area of about 6,500 km2. Known from harsh climate enables the presence of many species of arctic plants and animals especially wild reindeer herds which are the largest in the world. Also one of Norway’s largest glaciers is situated here. Unfortunately, so many you will no find in my photos.

The landscape is mostly barren, treeless rocky terrain covered with grasses and streams.

Not wanting to pick on too long trip I had to be careful and look closer than further.

Expanses of bare rocks and scattered stones are impressive fairytale. Actually, they are the remains of ancient events — actions of glaciers during the Ice Ages.

Such views — rocks, water tanks , the remnants of snow — are excellent opportunity for black and white pictures.

Images here are interesting in their detail. You can walk over them around; celebrate it on the one side and on the other, and finally take another look (as the one below being same place as presented on the first picture from the top).

Broader view is impenetrable spaces , which follows the water in any form in a rhythm known only to itself, outside of time. You can almost feel the void …

… feel like the earth is mixing with the sky …

… feel imperceptible movement …

… feel the blast on animal hair.

It is no coincidence that people want to say something back in the language that they heard staying here.

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