Against a Northern Night
Ice crystals suffuse the air with translucent diffraction, while the products of an industrial civilisation pierce the night with their illuminations. The brightest lights, confused by the cold project not only down and around but straight up into the sky as if they are trying to escape to space, but those wayward photons are slowly absorbed and scattered by the myriad crystals of frozen water in the frigid air. Their energetic voyaging initiated at 186,000 miles per second is predictably derailed, and their paths obliviated as surely as in the deeps of a dark and bottomless sea. Everywhere the pervasive cold of a Yukon night slowly wins against the protests of those ordered beams. Entropy wins the night.
This photo was taken from the edge of the Alaska Highway near the airport in Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada. Ambient air temperature was about minus twenty degrees Celcius and there was a mild breeze blowing. The buildings located across the highway from the shooting position are mostly a collection of aircraft hangars and associated structures.
The camera used for this image was the Canon EOS R and lens used was the Laowa Argus FFII 35mm f/0.95. Both were mounted on a Jobu Designs tripod with a Acratech ball head. This is a single exposure photograph processed from raw in DxO PhotoLab 6.1.1. Nothing was added or removed from the image other than a mild crop from top, bottom and right sides. The shafts of vertical light represented in this photo were also clearly visible to the naked eye and are recorded here as seen.
Against a Northern Night
Ice crystals suffuse the air with translucent diffraction, while the products of an industrial civilisation pierce the night with their illuminations. The brightest lights, confused by the cold project not only down and around but straight up into the sky as if they are trying to escape to space, but those wayward photons are slowly absorbed and scattered by the myriad crystals of frozen water in the frigid air. Their energetic voyaging initiated at 186,000 miles per second is predictably derailed, and their paths obliviated as surely as in the deeps of a dark and bottomless sea. Everywhere the pervasive cold of a Yukon night slowly wins against the protests of those ordered beams. Entropy wins the night.
This photo was taken from the edge of the Alaska Highway near the airport in Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada. Ambient air temperature was about minus twenty degrees Celcius and there was a mild breeze blowing. The buildings located across the highway from the shooting position are mostly a collection of aircraft hangars and associated structures.
The camera used for this image was the Canon EOS R and lens used was the Laowa Argus FFII 35mm f/0.95. Both were mounted on a Jobu Designs tripod with a Acratech ball head. This is a single exposure photograph processed from raw in DxO PhotoLab 6.1.1. Nothing was added or removed from the image other than a mild crop from top, bottom and right sides. The shafts of vertical light represented in this photo were also clearly visible to the naked eye and are recorded here as seen.