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I know, it doesn't even look real right ?

Those were exactly my thoughts when I was driving this road in Northern Iceland ! As I realized th...
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I know, it doesn't even look real right ?

Those were exactly my thoughts when I was driving this road in Northern Iceland ! As I realized these mountains were glowing red I looked for a place where I could pull over and quickly headed to the middle of this lake to capture the moment, giving up on my original photography plan .

I have witnessed a lot of amazing light displays in my life, but I never saw anything that nearly resembled this ! How on Earth does a mountain glow this way ?

Yet, I captured a few pictures of this scene and they all look the same in the RAW file, so I'm sure it wasn't just a perception error on my side.

I had second thoughts about publishing this photo because the light looks so unreal that I was afraid people would think it was some cheap photoshop trick . After going through a few of these I even tried to desaturate it so it looked more convincing but in the end I decided to do some minor edits and keep the colors exactly as they were in the RAW file after standard adjustments like shadows and hightlights .

I am not quite sure I like it but nevertheless I have decided to post it so people can see how Nature is constantly able to surprise us (especially in Iceland :D), even when you think you saw it all !

I have absolutely no idea where this was shot, just some random lake somewhere in the North of Iceland !

What about you, have you ever seen anything similar to this light display ?
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