Field notes / Behind the frame

Wings up over a gray shore

Place

Svalbard

Latitude

81° N

Date

May 2024

Photographs

1

Reading time

1 min read

An Arctic tern with its wings raised over a soft gray shore, made at 600 mm on the morning of 13 May 2024.

Upstroke · 81° N · 13 May 2024
Signature 81° N edition

The tern was photographed at 10:43 in the morning on 13 May 2024, at 600 mm, 1/4000 s, f/4 and ISO 1600.

The shore behind the bird falls away into a soft gray, so the wings are the only hard edges in the frame. It is printed as a signature edition, the smallest edition on this site, and it will not be reprinted once the edition sells out.

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