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Light from above, Tromsø, Norway

by Adelheid Smitt
Tromsø bridge
8/1/20186/18/2017, 7:16 PM (NaN minutes after sunset)
Canon EOS 6D + EF24-70mm f/4L IS USM
70.0 mmf/11.0 1/500 s200

My trip to Northern Norway was a gloomy one, with midsummer temperatures around 3-4°C, clouds, fog, rain and snow. All of this except for one brief moment when I was walking around Tromsø and saw the Arctic Cathedral light up as if in a heavenly spotlight. It was quite amazing to see and I actually had to tone down the photo because the church was looking completely overexposed. The Tromsdalen church was built in 1965, and it's roof consists of aluminium coated concrete panels. The architecture reminds of icebergs and also Sami tipis, and even though it is a simple parish church, not a cathedral at all, it has grown out to be the symbol of this city at 69° latitude.