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The Geiranger fjord; Norway's most famous fjord and a UNESCO world heritage site.

A minute before this was taken it was completely white, and a minute after it was almost completely white again!

Picture taken from Ørnesvingen (the eagle turn), which I actually had almost completely to myself for some weird reason (a few hours earlier when I was going towards Geiranger I ended up at the turn together with 3 full tourist buses and some cars).

This is actually stitched together of 15 pictures (with a lot of overlapping...!) in portrait format taken with a wide-angle. So it's a lot wider than the average Geiranger photo :XD:

And yep, those tiny little ships down there to the left are actually big cruise ships :D

Post-processing
Adjusted all the pictures in camera raw, adjusted the wb a bit, turned up recovery a lot to make sure there was no overexposed areas.

Stitched the pictures together with automatic photomerge in photoshop.

Lightened and turned up the contrast with different curves layers. One for the trees on the hill in the foreground and one for the fjord. And darkened a tiny bit and turned up the contrast with a curves layer for the sky.

Cropped slightly to a 3:2 format.

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:iconseraphro:
really beautiful moment :clap:

and heh the fjords are really something, i mean they look so fantasy like ;)

congrats on getting the shot :w00t: and thanks for sharing

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:iconlilacscenteddream:
wonderful! Perhaps that's what Eden looks like

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:iconanoya:
What a beautiful view! Great colors, nice point of view, lovely face of mother nature :aww:

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:iconjohnysnap:
Very nice!!! I want to get pics like this! Must of been amazing to see it. Brilliant how you captured everything with the right colors and reflection!

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:iconkvikken:
It sure is a beautiful view, I guess it's a reason this fjord is on UNESCO´s world heritage list :aww:
:iconsamedi:
Wow, what a view. Are you fairly high up here? Considering the low clouds...

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May 28, 2009, 12:45:05 PM

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