A quieter website
This website didn’t change because something was broken.
It changed because I wanted it to be simpler, calmer, and more respectful of the people visiting it.
Over time, the web has become noisy.
Many sites track you, analyze you, profile you, and quietly hand pieces of you to systems you never asked to interact with. Often for no real reason — other than “that’s how it’s done now”.
I decided that this site didn’t need any of that.
🔧 What changed
Behind the scenes, I rebuilt the website to work without:
- Tracking
- Analytics
- Marketing pixels
- Third-party fonts or external resources
- Unnecessary cookies
There are no “accept all” buttons here.
No hidden scripts watching where you go next.
No silent data collection.
Just pages, text, and photographs — delivered directly from my own server.
🤔 Why I chose this path
As a photographer, I spend a lot of time thinking about trust.
People trust that my images represent something real.
That a place looks the way it does.
That a moment mattered enough to be captured.
It felt wrong to then run a website that quietly did things visitors didn’t agree to — or even know about.
So instead of asking for your consent, I removed the need for it.
🌿 What this means for you
When you visit this site:
- Nothing is tracked
- No profile is built
- No data is sold, shared, or analyzed
- Your browser isn’t followed anywhere else
The site works whether you accept anything or not — because there’s nothing to accept.
⚖️ Fewer features, fewer worries
Yes, this means fewer plugins, fewer animations, and fewer “smart” features.
But it also means:
- Faster pages
- Fewer errors
- Less maintenance
- And fewer things that can go wrong
Most importantly: peace of mind — for you and for me.
🕊️ Closing thoughts
This website is not trying to be clever.
It’s trying to be honest.
If you’re here to look at photographs, read a story, or simply browse quietly —
you’re welcome to do so — without being observed.
That feels like a reasonable standard.
And once you notice it,
it’s hard to go back.
📸 Signature
— Roy Arne Olsen, Honningsvåg