A virgin trip... in atlantic salmon country

I´m in St.Johns NL Canada at the time, and have just got back from the trip of my lifetime! In remote Southern Labrador, there are still a few rivers that no people have ever fished.... sounds to good to be true? Think about this, Labrador ins more than 28 Sq Kilometers, 2/3 of the size of all of Norway and only 28.000 people live there. And its remote, only way to get there is by helicopter or bush planes.

We had two NRS rafts to float it. Its just a unique feeling when you are the first humans in arias like this. We had seen the river from the helicopter before we started going down, but the scenery and the fishing that met us as we where going down, where something else.... after each turn, we found new pools, aggressive fish and world class scenery!

C & C on the way down some light white water...

Christer is releasing a nice Salmon.

Dropping of and starting day two with the rafts.

Fish on!

And fighting some more!

What a way to discover virgin water on rafts like this...

Fantastic.....

Chritster on the ares

Fingerlings, caned hotdogs...

Claudio is the captain, and me on the front seat.

Back after a shoot...

Claudio (Arg.), Christer (Swe.), Yngve (Nor.) and Chris (Can.)

Virgin Waters...

I´m back in Canada, this time to fish totally virgin waters in Labrador, Canada. Its not many spots left like this in the world, and I feel very fortunate to be able to do this. After all, there are not many white places left on the atlantic salmon map.

Parts of it has been helifished, but never with rafts. Two beautiful NRS rafts got slinged with helicopter in to the river.

We are in to the last day of the expedition now, and will finnish it by the end of the day. I have never seen so many fantastic pools and butifull senery in my life.

We are the crew of five, a multinational expedition. Chris the expedition leader (CAN), Adam the helicopter pilot (CAN), fishing pioneer and founder of Loop Christer (SWE), Camp manager and master caster Claudio (ARG) and me, the photo boy, Yngve, (NOR).

Hunt River Lodge

What a fantastic corner of the planet I´m in right now. A two hour helicopter flight from Main River I was in las week, and it doesent get much better than this.

Im at Hun River in Northern Labrador right now fishing for atlantic salmon. River is at the time packed with fish, and the place is wild! Had a mama black bear and two cubs acros teh river from my room here the other day, and as I was photographing a angler playing a fish a fox, cam right up to me and was very curious on all the clikking from the camera. Not to mention the house pet, "Buddy" a ground hog that comes up to eat crackers everyday.

More Pics to come... But here is a few anyways...

A nice spot to put a camp

Buddy, ouer camp pet...

GIVE ME MORE CRACKERS NOW!!!

Falls.

A few mosquitos...

Why we are here...

Mr. Fox...

Fish are in at the falls.

Evening flick.

Ms. Black bear and cub.

Main River

Just a few words from Main River Lodge. I got to New Foundland, Canada the night of the 4. July. The day after we flew in to Main River Lodge as I am shooting and filming marketing material for the camp. Its a world class lodge for salmon fishing. It has a bit of history to it as well, as Lee Wulff put up the first building here in 1951, and used it al the way to 1958. Fishing has been good, and Ill post some later...

I´m on my way out the door soon, helicopter will arrive any second, and I will spend a Saturday night in Goos Bay... Don´t know if that is a good or a bad thing, but I guess I´ll find out...;) Sunday is of for the Hunt River Lodge, to start the same project there as I have done here.

See You!

Yngve

A lot of waiting for light and fish means a lot of this...

Working on the Lee Wulff cabin...

Lee Wulffs cabin, just enough space for a bed and a table...

No way you can stand in there...

Nice atmosphere at the river...

You should se the size of that fish.....

Golden Moments

As we are moving all our pictures, films and projects over and out to our brand new Final Cut Server, there is a lot of old stuff to go through. After having this as my professional day to day job for the last 15 years, there is of course a lot of cool stuff and great adventures that comes up. Here's a few things that I want to show you... :)

We got caught in a storm on Iceland at Vatnajøkulen, - Iceland's largest glacier.

- 25 C and 65 m/sek.

A great experience diving with huge arctic that attacked my diving suit. I used a re- breather, and the longest dive was more than 3 hours.

I never wanted to get out of the water.

A great experience diving with huge arctic that attacked my diving suit. I used a re- breather, and the longest dive was more than 3 hours.

I never wanted to get out of the water.

Photographing wild horses at the Stag River Estancia in Argentina

Diving with a killer whale

A 40 kg. Arapaima Gigas in the Amazone jungle

Diving in the clear water of Silfra, between the European and the American continental plates. 1000 ft of visibility in this underwater landscape...

A kiss from a manatee in Florida.

Wrong side...

King crab diving in the Norwegian Arctic

Working in the hard arctic enviroment of Nunavut in Canada.

A great summer day in the south of Norway

Shooting the Alfa boot catalog

The Snow hotel at Bjorli.

A perfect day of casting with Eoin Fairgrieve in Scotland.

inspiration [ˌɪnspɪˈreɪʃən]

n

1. stimulation or arousal of the mind, feelings, etc., to special or unusual activity or creativity

2. the state or quality of being so stimulated or aroused

3. someone or something that causes this state

4. an idea or action resulting from such a state

I think I can safely say that in one way or another the Scanout Team is working more or less 24/7. We are lucky enough to work with the things that we love the most: photography, videography, design, social medias, editing and so on.

Now... Don't get me wrong, - we don't 'work - work' 24/7. We do not take pics., edit or write something all the time, but we work with our creativity 24/7. Inspiration is a major keyword in our business. How are we inspired? What makes the brain start working? The creativity float?

Of course: it varies from person to person. I get my inspiration from watching YouTube & Vimeo. Looking at blogs, Facebook, Twitter & Flicr. Reading books & magazines. Downloading and scrolling through new apps. Talking with people. Sometimes you can read a book, - take a walk and start daydreaming. Suddenly, maybe in the middle of the night, you come to think of something: A cool new project. A new angle. A different view.

You might think: 'That was a general answer'. Yes, it is. Because: Inspiration is all around. Use it!

... Crazy!

We visited the craziest shop here the other day. It's a second hand and antiques store filled with loads and loads of old and new stuff. Useful and useless stuff. Funny and stupid stuff. Things you never knew existed. Things you always wanted to have, but never earlier found. Well, yeah. I think you get the picture ;) And if you don't: check out these pics.

Some old Alfa - shoes. Well used.

Need a 'new' phone...?

Ready for Christmas in the department for Electronics.

... And we actually found some cool stuff. Old cameras, projector lamps with cool wrappings, slides and so on. Absolutely worth a visit ;)