Lights Out in Scoresby Sund: Capturing a Total Eclipse in the High Arctic
Photographers Marc and Wayne successfully captured a total solar eclipse in the remote Scoresby Sund fjord in Greenland. The expedition required complex logistics, including chartering private aircraft to transport the team and their equipment.
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This story illustrates the extreme lengths professional photographers go to for unique environmental and astronomical documentation.
“It was just breathtaking,” Wayne says, the awe unmistakable in his voice. “It was the most epic thing I’ve ever photographed in my life.”
Despite leading photography workshops across the globe for years, this was the first total solar eclipse for both Marc and Wayne. Marc admits it had never really been on his bucket list—largely because those familiar telephoto shots of the corona, however technically impressive, tend to look the same no matter who’s holding the camera.
“Photographically, those types of compositions were never my goal,” Marc explains. “I knew I could just go to NASA and find a beautiful close-up shot of an eclipse. For me, it was more about the light around the eclipse, and how that affects the wilderness or the landscape wherever you’re standing. If I were to shoot an eclipse, the goal was always to go somewhere unusual.”
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