Far out Faroes: A photo essay from the Faroe Islands

This past October I had the opportunity to travel to the Faroe Islands on a photo tour with Offbeat Photography. The Faroes are an 18 island archipelago in the North Atlantic Ocean, located between Ireland and Iceland. Rugged, isolated and relatively undiscovered, the Faroes are a landscape photographer’s dream location.

My first glimpses of the Islands came through a shroud of fog on my flight from Copenhagen. Vast, open ocean was suddenly interrupted with a harsh, rocky island, tall cliffs falling straight into the sea below. My heart rate immediately increased with the anticipation that one can only feel when about to explore places unknown.