Alnes is a small village on the west coast of Norway. It lies on the western shores of “Godøy”, an isle about half an hours drive from Ålesund, the major city of the area. You don’t get much furter west in Norway than this place, only a few small isles lie furter to the west and they are mostly populated by birds. The weather and nature is rough, everything you see bears withness to this, from the windswept grass and lack of trees, to the heavy waves roling onto the shore. Even then, people have been living here for at least a thousand years. Then, as now, the sea is what people make a living from and the foundation of community. I visited Alnes one bleak winter day, with a brooding sky yet (luckily) relatively calm weather. As a testament to the powers of wind and sea, the beach in the little bay on several of these pictures, are sandy, a couple weeks before it was all rocks. Depending on nature’s whims the sea pulls the sand off, creating a rocky beach just as easy as it put the sand back in place making a nice beach for bathing in the summertime. In these images I have attempted to reproduce some of the wast nature and somber feel of this place, but also show that even in the wintertime there is colour and texture to be found.