[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've added four images to my portfolio at Photo.net: > http://www.photo.net/photodb/member-photos?user_id=266609 > > > They are all shot in august this year with the Pentax 645NII and the > Pentax645 33-55/4.5 lens close to home. > > > http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=5030349
Otherwordly, nice capture, but the colors are so out of whack to my normal expectations that my brain says BS! :) > This is a four minute exposure shot after the sun had set. The mountain is > colored by the red afterglow whereas the rocks in the foreground is colored > by the blue sky overhead. The location is the western side of the Moskenes > island; the outermost of the major Lofoten islands in Northern Norway. This > area represent the wildest coastal landscape on the planet and it is only > accessible by boat. Straight ahead behind the montains runs the worlds > largest maelstrom made famous by Jules Verne (20.000 leagues under the sea) > and Edgar Allan poe (A descent into the maelstrom). The mountains in the > image are among the lowest in the area at about 500metres tall. The boulders > are about the size of houses. In the distant montainside, slightly to the > right of the center of the image is a cave the size of a cathedral. This > cave contains 5000 years old, stone age cave paintings. To the right of me > is the open ocean where the next landmass is Greenland. To the left is a > vertical mountain side that is about 800 meters high. Incidentally Poe > describe the view from this mountain like this: > > "A panorama more deplorable desolate no human imagination can conceive. To > the right and left, as far as the eye could reach, there lay outstreched, > like ramparts of the world, lines of horridly black and beetling cliff, > whose character of gloom was but the more forcibly illustrated by the surf > which reared high up against it its white and ghastly crest, howling and > shrieking forever" > > Pretty strong stuff there form Mr. Poe. Anyway, there were people living > there to about the early 50's. Behind the mountain is a place named Hell. It > is the only harbor in the area. There were several houses there and even a > school. One of the gullies in the mountain in the picture is actually the > school road for the kids living in the eare where the picture is taken. In > the winter they uses ice axes (no, I'm not making this up). In the early > 50's all the houses were dismantled and it is only inaccessible wilderness > there now. > Unfortunately the small size of the image on the web take away some of the > impact. It works well as a large print. I think that the light communicate > some of the gloom described by Poe. > > > > http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=5030355 > I walked for an hour or so in the mountains in dense fog hoping that I > eventually would get through it and that there would be photo oportunities. > > > http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=5030361 This is a beautiful capture and you should blow it up to as large as you can. I think you can sell this image! > I've had about six trips to this pond on a small island. In late august the > light was finally on my side. > > > http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=5030363 Beautiful again. > This is a previsualized image. I passed this mountain pond in 1999 and saw > that it was an image here when the sun set. In mid august this year I > finally got around doing it. I went up there, set up the tripod and waited > for about two hours until the light was right. > > > Pål > > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
