Entries by Cody

Lofoten – Norway Travel Plans – Summer/Autumn 2014

Photo: Sunrise rainbow at Bunes beach, Moskenesøy, Lofoten Islands, Norway.  August 2013 A couple days ago I booked two sets of plane tickets for Norway!  As many times as I’ve been to Lofoten now, I still get excited once I commit to a plan and get things rolling.  Only seven weeks of waiting left – […]

Lofoten Islands Travel Podcast Interview – Kuadrant Podscast

Photo: Autumn view from Offersøykammen, Vestvågøy, Lofoten Islands, Norway.  October 2012 I was recently interviewed for a new Travel podcast – Kuadrant Podcast.  It was the first time I’ve ever done a ‘live’ interview, or basically any sort of interview for that matter, so I’m not sure how much to tell you to expect from […]

Recent Published Works – Norway and Lofoten

Photo: Campfire at Bunes beach, Moskenesøy, Lofoten Islands, Norway.  April 2013 Lofoten Islands in National Geographic Traveler Poland – February 2014 A couple of my Lofoten images were published in the February edition of the Polish version of National Geographic Traveler magazine in an article about the world’s most spectacular islands, in which Lofoten rightly […]

Lofoten Islands Photography Workshop – January 2015

Photo: Clearing winter storm at Unstad beach, Vestvågøy, Lofoten Islands, Norway. I’m honored to announce that I’ll be joining the January 2015 Muench Photography Workshops tour as their guide to the Lofoten section of the tour. The complete tour is 10 days, from January 15-25, 2015 and will be led by world renowned landscape photographers […]

Brecon Beacons National Park – Mynydd Llangorse

Photo: Watching sunset over Llangorse lake from Mynydd Llangorse, Black Mountains, Brecon Beacons national park, Wales.  April 2014 With the long days of summer just around the corner it’s now possible to head out into the Black Mountains for quick evening hikes from here in Hay-on-Wye.  Normally, the default hike is Twmpa or Hay Bluff, […]

Brecon Beacons National Park – Black Mountain

Photo: View along the Carmarthen Fans, Black Mountain, Brecon Beacons national park, Wales.  April 2014 The Black Mountain – Y Mynydd Du, the strangely singularl named mountain range, not to be confused with the Black Mountains or Black Mountain itself, on the Western edge of south Wales’ Brecon Beacons national park is home to the […]

Lofoten Islands Winter 2014 – Horseid Beach

Photo: Hiking towards Horseid Beach, Moskenesoy, Lofoten Islands, Norway.  March 2014 For a reason unknown to me, but likely having some purpose, the Monday morning ferry to Vindstand and Kjerkfjord leaves Reine at 07:00 am.  In early March this means it’s still quite dark out.  As the crew showed up and we boarded the boat […]

Lofoten Islands Winter 2014 – A Night At Kvalvika Beach

Photo: Footprints in the sand at Kvalvika beach, Lofoten Islands, Norway.  March 2014 It is a scenic bus journey from Narvik to Lofoten.  I keep telling myself that I need to spend more time exploring Vesterålen and Ofoten, yet when the opportunity seems to present itself, I remain in the west of Lofoten.  Maybe next […]

Hindera Family Origins in Schmitsch, Silesia – Smicz, Poland

Genealogy research into the Hindera, Lempka, Brinsa, Walczyk, Globisch, Pela, and Masur families originally from Smicz, Poland – Schmitsch, Silesia, Germany and settling in southeast Nebraska in the 1880’s – 1890’s. This article is an update into my research, mainly of the Hindera surname.  A few years ago, I wrote a BLOG POST about my […]

Swedish Interlude Part 2 – Kebnekaise Fjallstation

Photo: Winter mountain landscape of Swedish Lapland, Kebnekaise Fjällstation, Sweden.  February 2014 …Continuing from PART 1 A steady snow was falling by the time the bus pulled into Kiruna late in the morning, the steep slag piles of the iron mine covered in hoarfrost and clouded in mist, resembling the White Wall out of Game […]