The Bolafjall platform, six hundred metres above the sea

Bolafjall rises straight out of the sea north of Bolungarvík, and a viewing platform now hangs off its rim: a steel deck reaching out over a six-hundred-metre drop, with the Atlantic below, the fjords running away east and, on a clear day, the mountains of Greenland's coast as a line on the horizon. A gravel mountain road climbs almost to the top, so this enormous view costs a short walk rather than a day.

For photographs it is the opposite of an intimate spot. The platform's steel lines give a strong geometric foreground for two figures, with nothing behind them but air and ocean — the sort of frame that needs no props and no direction. Shoot from along the deck so the railing leads out into the void, or from the rim so the platform itself and the couple on it read against the sea far below. The cliff faces roughly north and west, so evening light is the good light: in June that runs to a midnight sun sitting on the sea, which this far north actually happens.

Seasons decide everything. The road up is a mountain gravel road: open in summer, closed or impassable through much of winter, and subject to sudden weather. Check road status and the forecast the same day, do not attempt it in poor visibility or high wind, and accept that a booked session here may have to move to sea level. Snow lingers late; fog can sit on the summit for days.

Safety: the platform is engineered and railed, and it is safe to stand on — the rest of the rim is not. Stay on the platform and the marked ground, keep well back from the unfenced clifftop either side, and mind the wind, which at this height and exposure is strong enough to make loose items and light stands genuinely dangerous. Anything that goes over the edge here is gone.