This photograph was taken during my
first trip to Svensby, Norway in late January,
2003 in hopes of catching a glimpse of
the aurora borealis in the arctic, night
sky. Svensby is located within the Arctic
Circle at a latitude of seventy degrees
which is almost as far north as the top
of Alaska. To get so far north, I had taken
an overnight train from Stockholm to Narvik,
Norway where I caught a bus to Tromsø and
then a bus and a ferry to Svensby. It was
a long, thirty hour trip, but absolutely
spectacular as we passed wind swept mountains,
blue fjords and snowy plains.
I had spent the night in a small, cozy cabin
that I had rented near the edge of a fjord.
After spending the previous night watching
the spectacular display in the night sky, I
got up at the crack of dawn to watch the sun
rise over the mountains. I hiked up a hill
behind my cabin and was not disappointed. Rays
of sunlight poured out from behind the mountains
as the dawn broke, causing the clouds to glow
with brilliant reds, oranges and yellows. |
