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Arctic Sunset

I've been trying to achieve an image like this for the last five Norway trips, light and conditions never combined in the right location until a couple of weeks ago. These little rorbu are just the most beautiful of buildings, the last rays of sunlight on the distant mountains was the perfect backdrop. These conditions are why I have such a fascination for the arctic, the light is just incredible, especially mid winter. When the few hours of daylight has gone the moonlight brings the snow covered landscape back to life, its hard to find time to sleep.

This was the first time in a couple of months sunlight was visible here this far into the arctic north, it would have been a few days earlier but it was always too cloudy on the horizon.

 

Canon 1dsmkiii 70-200 3.2 secs @ f8 iso 100 Lee 0.6nd grad and nd B+W kaseman 105mm polariser

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Uploaded on February 3, 2011
Taken on January 24, 2011