When Galvin Green contacted me to be part of the team to shoot their 2017 range of apparel at Lofoten Links, I could barely hold back my excitement. This would be my 3rd trip to the Arctic Circle and my first when there would be 24 hour daylight.

3 flights and 18 hours later, I arrived with the film crew late Sunday evening. The sun was beginning to set and was producing the most amazing ethereal spooky light. Straight away we got into our buggies and went exploring the course for the best spots to do the filming and stills.

The strangest thing with 24 hour daylight is that you don’t seem to get tired, even when it’s 1am in the morning your body clock is in some sort of limbo mode, so trying to get some sleep that first night was difficult and at the same time really weird.

After a few hours of restlessness I got up and went and had another look around the course. The winter hadn’t been kind and there were some severely stressed areas of grass which had been burnt due to the ice that had formed on some of the greens and fairways.

This would make shooting stills and films a little bit more difficult than expected. However Jerry the course Superintendent was on the case and almost overnight the course started to get back to the great condition it was in from my last visit.

The Models and the rest of the Galvin Green team arrived later that day and almost immediately we were out working.

The beauty of the GG range of products is that it’s clothing to suit all kinds of elements, so bright sunshine wasn’t necessary for the first part of the brief, this was just as well because it was raining and also extremely cold.

The new range for 2017 is actually the most exciting and visually strong portfolio of products I think I’ve ever seen, and because our 4 models were all fit playing golf pros the outfits looked stunning against the incredible backdrops. It really made my job very easy.

And so the shooting went on with small weather and powernap breaks to help refresh the batteries. Our hosts for the 5 days were brilliant serving us some of the best meals I’ve ever had, including local lamb, Halibut and Catfish.

Our final day saw the most amazing sunset and sunrise where it looked like the sun was just bouncing off the Horizon. I managed to get 2 hours sleep before we were back out on the course to get the final images. We worked through to breakfast and then got ready to leave.

The last leg of my fight from Oslo to Gatwick couldn’t have been worse with delays coming from all sorts of incidents. Probably engine failure being the most scary! And then to top it all we couldn’t get of the plane at Gatwick because no one had thought it important enough to bring us steps to get off.

Eventually I got home early Friday morning and it was straight into post production mode. Unfortunately I can’t show any of the garment shots until early 2017 but hopefully you can get a sense of adventure and an insight into this amazing company and location from the few images posted here.