Floating on the Bartenszzee somewhere high up in the north between Norway and Russia, further away from civilization a human being can hardly come.
The light in these polar regions is something special, almost magical. It has a softness and purity that you see nowhere else in the world. The photo was taken around midnight just below the island of Kvitøya and the arctic latitude (80 degrees north) . The island was only discovered in 1707 and actually consists of one large ice cap which is often covered by a dome of fog and mist. For a long time we could not see the island either, but on the 2nd day it suddenly became clearer and we had a view of the island above the slope of the fog.
It is very quiet, some floating ice lies motionless in the wrinkleless sea of ice, where the weather can just as well be very rough. Not this night, it's windless and a serene peace and quiet emanates from this overwhelming polar landscape. No sound that disturbs the silence, total silence, where on earth do we find that?
Passionate nature and wildlife photographer traveling to all corners of the world. Dirk-Jan's photography is mainly focused on depicting the beautiful and fragile nature on earth, but he also likes to depict landscapes on his travels and in The Netherlands.
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