Scandinavian fairy tale: picturesque landscapes of Norway in the lens of Hans Gunnar Aslaksen

Hans Gunnar Aslaksen is a 49-year-old landscape photographer from the small town of Lavrik on the southern coast of Norway. A happy husband and father of two children, Hans works as a graphic designer, and in his spare time enjoys landscape photography.

According to Hans, he is an introvert by nature, so he always liked to spend time in nature - hiking, camping, fishing. And four years ago, he decided to buy a Fujifilm XT-10 to leave a memory of his trips. It took quite a bit of time, and now Hans has been sitting on YouTube for hours, trying to master the manual settings of the camera and studying the channel of the famous photographer and YouTube blogger Thomas Heaton.

After the trip to the Norwegian waterfall Feringsfossen, Hans was no longer separated from the camera.

Thanks to his education as a graphic designer, namely knowledge of the basics of composition and color theory, Aslaksen successfully copes with the color component of photography:

To improve the images, Hans is constantly analyzing his work and trying to learn from his own mistakes. Also, the photographer is always open to criticism from colleagues, as this is a great way to look at his work from the outside: