Mads Nordsveen has traversed the world, capturing spectacular vistas of dramatic French cliffsides, palm-lined California beaches and the Northern Lights.

But over the weekend, it was a simpler sight in his native Norway that caught his eye.

The travel photographer was hiking with some friends on the northern Norwegian island of Senja when they spotted a little reindeer calf, white as the snow that blanketed the ground around them.

"He almost disappeared into the snow!" Nordsveen later wrote on Instagram

Were it not for its dark eyes and bone-colored antlers jutting into the air, the calf might have looked like another snow mound.