Fabulous photos, Pal! Rick
--- Pål Jensen <[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 > 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 > 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 > 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 > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > http://www.photo.net/photos/RickW __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
