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Midnight sun
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Path of the Midnight Sun over the course of 3 hours, South Cape, Spitsbergen.
The midnight sun at Nordkapp, Norway.
The Arctic Cathedral with surroundings in Tromsø illuminated by the midnight sun.
Midnight sun in Kiruna, Sweden.The midnight sun is a natural phenomenon occurring in summer months at latitudes north and nearby to the south of the Arctic Circle, and south and nearby to the north of the Antarctic Circle where the sun remains visible at the local midnight. Given fair weather, the sun is visible for a continuous 24 hours, mostly north of the Arctic Circle and south of the Antarctic Circle. The number of days per year with potential midnight sun increases the farther poleward one goes.
There are no permanent human settlements south of the Antarctic Circle, so the countries and territories whose populations experience it are limited to the ones crossed by the Arctic Circle, e.g.. Canada, United States of America (Alaska), Denmark (Greenland), Norway, Sweden, Finland, Russia, and extremities of Iceland. A quarter of Finland's territory lies north of the Arctic Circle and at the country's northernmost point the sun does not set for 73 days during summer. In Svalbard, Norway, the northernmost inhabited region of Europe, there is no sunset from approximately 19 April to 23 August. The extreme sites are the poles where the sun can be continuously visible for a half year.
The opposite phenomenon, polar night, occurs in winter when the sun stays below the horizon throughout the day.
Since the Earth's axis is tilted with respect to the ecliptic by approximately 23 degrees 27 minutes, the sun does not set at high latitudes in (local) summer. The duration of the midnight sun increases from one day during the summer solstice at the polar circle to approximately six months at the poles. At extreme latitudes, it is usually referred to as polar day. The length of the time the sun is above the horizon varies from 20 hours at the Arctic Circle and Antarctic Circle to 186 days at the poles.
At the poles themselves, the sun only rises once and sets once, each year. During the six months when the sun is above the horizon at the poles, the sun spends the days constantly moving around the horizon, reaching its highest circuit of the sky at the summer solstice.
Due to refraction, the midnight sun may be experienced at latitudes slightly below the polar circle, though not exceeding one degree (depending on local conditions). For example, it is possible to experience the midnight sun in Iceland, even though most of it (Grímsey being a notable exception) is slightly south of the Arctic Circle. Even the northern extremities of Scotland (and those places on similar latitudes) experience a permanent "dusk" or glare in the northern skies at these times
little-used path round the back of our office building, glowing green with moss in the warm spring sunshine
Gravestones lined by the path in the cemetery. Ive often wondered since i was a child (i used to live right next door to this cemetery) if they are buried in the grass behind or under the path itself. The stones continue on both sides of the path for around 300 yards.
The pathway once you walk out of my apartment, leading to my car. See another perspective I shot a while back here
This is one of several preliminary photos I have taken for my R6 challenge in the group GetPushed ( www.flickr.com/groups/1681475@N24/pool/with/6038489387/ ) . My Challenge this week for get Pushed was set by Tom Brown (http://www.flickr.com/photos/t_e_brown/. )
My push challenge this week was to do something black and white, no color. To say that this particular genre is different for me would be an understatement. I have looked at some B&W processing, but it seems I always have a preference for the color. Maybe this is because I grew up watching B&W TV in Central America - who knows? Anyhow, great challenge for me.
NOTE: I am trying several approaches to this challenge, and trying to settle with something worthy.
This particular photo was taken during the early evening and is at a local park shelter that will be the place my daughter gets married later this October. This is the gravel path from the parking lot to the shelter, and features the use of an infra-red filter.
My camera has a setting for "monochrome", so I tentatively set it to that and plunged right in. Imagine my surprise when I uploaded RAW and saw all the images were in color! So I had to re-monochrome them in post-processing, where the choice of filters to convert to B&W are daunting and intimidating. Something I will have to study up more about and play around with.
Anyhow… more to come.
We just had three days in paradise ♥ In Baan Bang Pakong, we had beautiful little houses just next to the river. We could swim in the pool and watch the flood rise. There were fireflies along the path and many different Thai dishes to eat.
This photo is of a path that leads from the southerly end of Edwards Garden up to the southwest corner of the parking lot. Photo looking north.