Spitzbergen

[1948berg]

My oldest son spent a year on Spitzbergen, studying. He won a prize for this photo. It is a skier with a head lamp Telemarking down a mountainside on Svalbard (Spitzbergen) during the long, but not totally dark, artic night
http://www.gallis.com/kag/svalbard/bilder/mai/01-sarkofagski.jpg
More from Spitzbergen, which we call Svalbard in Norway on his home page here:Kristian André Gallis

 

[MrJimi]

Great photo
Jim

 

[Bird]

OK, I'll bite, Gunnar. I can see how that photo could be unique enough and interesting enough to win a prize, but what is it? I'll take a guess and see if I'm seeing it right; a time delay photo of a skier coming down from the top carrying some kind of light.

 

[Bird]

MrJimi, you must have typed faster than I, but at least it appears we're both seeing the same thing.

 

[MrJimi]

Bird, I cheated, I deleted mine after I went back and saw the explanation? DOH
Nice picture

 

[Bird]

OK, now I'm wondering whether I just didn't read the whole post the first time or whether Gunnar edited it to explain the photo.

 

[Egon]

Nice turns!

 

[MrJimi]

OK, now I'm wondering whether I just didn't read the whole post the first time or whether Gunnar edited it to explain the photo.

I think he edited it. Shhh
we saw the same thing

 

[1948berg]

I forgot the first time, so I edited. This is what it says under his pic;
Endre Før Gjermundsen skiing telemark downslope from the Sarkofag mountain. Approximally 2.5 minutes exposure time with Nikon F2 camera. Lens: Nikkor 50 mm f/1.4 set to f/8.

 

[Bird]

Oh well, at least we were right about what it was. And it is an impressive photo.