Faroe Islands Total Eclipse 2015

[gleaf]

Monthly travel tours etc brochure arrived yesterday offering an Icelandic tour including seeing the March 2015 eclipse from the air in the totality zone.
The imagination roils with thoughts to setting up an LF camera at the aircraft window for the shot in an environment of digital camera people.
It might make for a good humor video however....

Search shows Faroes and Svalbard are in the path.
http://www.visitfaroeislands.com/be-...-and-duration/

Not that I will ever have the funds to make the trip.
Have any of our members traveled to the Faroes?
Anyone planning to make the Eclipse shot in in the Faroes in 2015?
Location ideas, lodging, logistics... ,(Gear in Gear out) information?
Ferry vs Air seems Ferry Service would be more LF friendly.
Perhaps a European tour operator is offering a photo tour package to the Faroes for the event?

Pot prepared. Paddle inserted. Stir Stir Stir.

[Steven Tribe]

A total eclipse is not a good time to visit either The Faroes or Svalbard unless you are an astrophysicist who gets off on corona photos. Both have unique landscapes and buildings/towns but have the disadvantage of indirect travel, high costs and unreliable weather. Greenland and Island are somewhat more accessible, though Greenland has the disavantage of restricted and expensive internal air connections.

[Stephane]

I have been to the Faroes few times, and to Svalbard.
The Faroes are know for the unpredictable weather, which means you might end up with grey skies, and hence nothing to see.
Svalbard is very cold, and you need to carry a gun if you go outside Longyearbyen for protection against polar bears. By the end of March you approach the midnight sun period. Svalbard is a very expensive place to be...

[gleaf]

I knew that they were not offering see it from the air based from Iceland for no reason. Green Gate Incoming appears to have two ferries being chartered to act as out of season hotels with 8 day round trip and stay over in the Faroes. The write up I found says scouts will check the 4 best mountain seeing spots to see which one(s) are go and the buses will get you the viewing... A lot of money to take a shot on North Atlantic weather. I spent 4 years at Lajes Field in the Azores. No North Atlantic High, no stability. Marching storm fronts... The shot of eight or ten view cameras in a row catching the event is a mythical shot for a near mythical visual happening. Sigh. Faroes sounds like great trip in the better season.

[Steven Tribe]

Some facts:

It rains on the average 25 days in the month of March.
Average temperature is 4 deg Centigrade.
Average rainfall for the month is 160mm.
Average hours of sun per day is 2.

"scouts will check the 4 best mountain seeing spots" - the highest mountain in The Faroes is just over 800m and this won't be above the cloud cover.

Otherwise it's a great place!

[George Hart]

Steven's right about the Faroes. Been there once, wonderful place, would gladly go again. First time I got out of the car at a photogenic location my hat blew off. All apart from the remainder of the "weather", wind there takes on a new dimension. What trees there are get uprooted regularly. Any camera with bellows is liable to become airborne!

[billschwab]

I've been leading groups there for a couple years and have to admit trying for this period, but it was booked 2 years ago. Also, as others have mentioned, there is a slim, although not impossible chance of seeing the sun.

Anyone interested if shooting there, it's quite beautiful and not always as has been described. Still not for the feint of heart though.

I've got another trip going in September if anyone is interested.

http://northlightworkshops.com/tours/faroes/index.html

[Monty McCutchen]

A Bill Schwab led trip is Bucket List Territory. Faroes or Iceland would be an outstanding opportunity to be led by a great photographer to some of the best spots possible. September…hmmmmmmmm

My 20 x 24 with 8 other photographers holding umbrellas up to shield the wind, and then all of the other photographers voting me off the island 20 minutes later. The quickest photographers survivor exit ever! I may have to re think this!!!

Monty

[bigdog]

A Bill Schwab led trip is Bucket List Territory. Faroes or Iceland would be an outstanding opportunity to be led by a great photographer to some of the best spots possible.

But probably not for Sun worshipers ...

[billschwab]

September…hmmmmmmmm

We'd have to rent a van just for you... but it would be fun! Thanks, Monty.