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The aurora borealis, or the northern lights, illuminate the sky above the village of Kraknes in northern Norway, Feb. 18.
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Night Shoots are soooo much fun. I hope he had some nice Brandy, Hot Cocoa or whatever to keep warm with on a cold night like that. I get the Carly Simon song line going through my head about going to Nova Scotia , to see a total eclipse of the sun from this, except for me it would be The Northern Lights. Ribbit.
@Dan, and other doubters below, this photo was obviously taken by an experienced shooter of Northern Lights - this is the way the best Northern Lights pictures always look. The lights on the snow and in the distant city look unnatural because he is using a long exposure - otherwise the auroras might not have shown up in the photo at all. The apparent weird proportions on the boat are the result of a wide angle lens - very useful when you're trying to take a picture of THE WHOLE SKY, but not good for showing objects in proper proportion. I still don't get what everyone's saying about the part of the boat that's in the water - as far as I can see every part of the boat that is visible in this photo is resting on the snowbank. Whatever part of the boat is touching the water is not visible from this angle, from what I can tell. And the comment about the "two wheels" just below the window, it's actually a wheel and the shadow of the wheel. Chill out and enjoy the beautiful photo, and you can always see lots more at Spaceweather.com.
I don't know about the way the boat sits in the water...looks fake to me.
Your mind is already being corrupted and that's why you mind will tell you it looked fake. Most people would take it as it is, and for those who have seen a boat struck on a snow bank, this picture is as good as it gets.
i TOTALLY agree i think this picture is a complete fake! the boat proportions just don't look right.....
Dan & Nick: The scene is simply breathtaking - and real. The boat is sitting up on the shore. Happens all the time up in Norway. The Northern Lights are real, too. Just coincidence that it looks like it does. I've been to the far North, and the Northern Lights can appear all over the sky in a myriad of forms. The colors can boggle the mind, too. If you want to see something really mind-boggling, go up to Resolute in Northern Canada; it isn't very far from the North Magnetic Pole. I'll bet the Northern Lights are REALLY SPECTACULAR up there. (all caps for emphasis)
@Dan - boat not in water. boat on ice.
total photoshop. look where the boat meets the water. total fake.
You're right.Someone took the boat and pasted it on the beach.
@chris-1895265; Amazing how the anonymity of the Internet brings out the best in folks. Basically, Chris says "the person that took this picture is liar and a fake". Chris, if you met Martial Trezzini face to face and looked at his photo, would you call him a liar and a fake?
"Amazing how the anonymity of the Internet brings out the best in folks" The corporations will remove this anonymity by requiring all users to use Facebook or Linkedin, maybe twitter. Just like your local paper is forcing commenter's to reveal who they are so the corporations will pay a fee to them, that they receive from advertiser's. These days are slowly coming to a end, maybe 2013 will be the end.
There's nothing wrong with someone looking at that picture and thinking it's been altered and saying so, I thought so too at first. The way the stern of the boat looks like it is submerged in the water, at least on my screen, just does not look right. It seems to be badly photo-shopped. HOWEVER, on closer look, I'm really just seeing the curvature of the hull, not the water line. The boat is actually completely out of the water and that is what threw me (and probably others) off at first.
Great photo, by the way!
@ Fritter. I would have no problem saying that. It just looks too fake to me.
I believe it's faked, but I'd be glad to be proven wrong. I'm also curious about the wheel under the window. It seems to be doubled. I would not have caught that, had the stern not looked so strange also.
Chris, et al.: Please read my post 3.3, above.
totally beautiful......
you guys must be totally inebriated, I don`t see a boat !!!!!!!!!!!
I totally agree ol` mate...........
Took my breath away man, when I first saw it!!!! Outstanding work, Hats off to the photographer!!!! Great composition, Great use of Nature and Still life together!!!!!! You have out done yourself~ Thats for sure!!!!
Pretty, but two obvious problems: how is he lighting the snow?, and that boat is of no known design, it's missing part of the stern.
What you see is the curvature of the hull.
this looks like a video game photo
So many neighsayers, though I too thought at first that it had been doctored in photoshop. However on a much closer observation, this is along exposure picture. You can see the snow caps on the mountains in the distance, which you would never see on a short exposure. You can see a light line of what I think is a plane in the lower left part of the picture. Further the water is perfectly smooth, there is no way a body of water that big is going to be that smooth, this is an optical illusion of the long exposure. The hull of the boat is obviously tilted from fore to aft. The dark line on the stern is where the boat is submerged in the water, the fore is tilted up from the shore. The dark line on the stern is also part of the long exposure based on water moving up and down where it meets the boat.
Bottom line, great shot and IMHO, NOT a fake.
As the magnetic north drifts further towards Siberia the aurora borealis will be more and more visible to those in Northern Europe.
First a "cloud tsunami" in Florida, now northern lights washing over a ship in Norway? For Christ's same, do some journalism and stop with the distractions. Get to work!