The Arctic Light

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This was filmed between 29th April and 10th May 2011 in the Arctic, on
the archipelago Lofoten in Norway.

My favorite natural phenomenon is one I do not even know the name of, even after talking to meteorologists and astrophysicists I am none the wiser.What I am talking about I have decided to call The Arctic Light and it is a natural phenomenon occurring 2-4 weeks before you can see the Midnight Sun.

The Sunset and Sunrise are connected in one magnificent show of color and light lasting from 8 to 12 hours. The sun is barely going below the horizon before coming up again. This is the most colorful light that I know, and the main reason I have been going up there for the last 4 years, at the exact
same time of year, to photograph. Based on previous experience, I knew this was going to be a very
difficult trip. Having lost a couple of cameras and some other equipment up there before, it was crucial to bring an extra set of everything. I also
made sure I had plenty of time in case something went wrong.
If you can imagine roping down mountain cliffs, or jumping around on slippery rocks covered in seaweed with 2 tripods, a rail, a controller,
camera, lenses, filters and rigging for 4-5 hour long sequences at a time, and then
having to calculate the rise and fall of the tides in order to capture the essence - it all prved bit of a challenge.

And almost as if planned, the trip would turn out to become very
difficult indeed. I had numerous setbacks including: airline lost my
luggage, struggling to swim ashore after falling into the Arctic sea: twice, breaking lenses, filters, tripod, computer, losing the whole dolly rig and controller into the sea, and even falling off a rather tall rock and ending
up in the hospital. As much as I wanted to give up, the best way Out is
always "Through". I am glad I stuck it through though because there were some amazing sunrises waiting. At 1:06 you see a single scene from day to night to day.

I asked the very talented Marika Takeuchi to specifically compose and
perform a song for this movie, and what she came up with is absolutely remarkable. Thank you very much Marika!



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[byKevOhlsson]

simply amazing.

[jun2006ok]

Couldn't think bout importance of nature, just working, playing, and etc.

What a wonderful world we have but not seeing it!

[TradeMark2003]

@7Marcellko7 Your comment made me think, that once someone dies, and they meet God, he would say, you were already in heaven, you just didnt realize it.

[7Marcellko7]

Man was always looking for way to Heaven, but not realizing that it is already here! Just as little needed ... "to open your eyes!"

[1ckis]

Потрясающе красиво!

[rrpjdisc]

@dzmcm His use of the words when he says "...one I do not even know the name of, even after talking to meteorologists and astrophysicists..." leads me to believe he thinks it's some special thing or occurrence, past just simply calling it a "phenomenon" as in just calling it a "case" or something like that. Also, just the fact that meteorologists and astrophysicists couldn't tell him what the "phenomenon" was and explain it to him, troubles me, since it's not too hard of a thing to explain.

[dzmcm]

@rrpjdisc

Ok at this point I'm going assume you're not simply a troll and you believe what you wrote.

Observable thing = phenomenon. Knowing how/why is not part of the definition. And your reason suggest that you don't even know how/why, only that someone else does. I agree that there is no need for a special term, but that only supports his use of the word phenomenon.

[rrpjdisc]

@dzmcm Mmm, actually no I don't. I fully understand that it's an observable occurrence in nature, and it's in fact quite explainable -- the sky appears to be different colors after different times when the sun is at certain places in the sky...that's a simple fact, and just because they're more vivid where he was filming at doesn't mean there needs to be some special term for them -- it simply has to do with where he's filming at, and how the air is different there in comparison to other places.

[dzmcm]

@rrpjdisc

You seem to have a false understanding of the word phenomenon. It's understandable. People have misused it for a long time. He's talking about an observable occurrence in nature. The phrase he used is about as concise as the English language allows, and not at all inaccurate.

[rrpjdisc]

Umm, this is an amazing video an all, but are you stupid Terje?

This isn't some "natural phenomenon", it's simply natural colors that are occurring at sunrise and sundown -- they're just simply more vivid and such where you filmed at.