Friday Photo #604 – Twilight Moon

Photo: Twilight moon over Himmeltindan, Vestvågøy, Lofoten Islands, Norway. July 28: 23:11
It has only been a couple short weeks since the midnight sun has left Lofoten’s sky and I can already sense the change in the air as this year’s wonderful summer will soon begin its departure. On a couple of the cloudier nights of this past week I’ve already needed to turn on the lights in my house a few times. By Now, the sun is below the horizon for 4.5 hours while a soft twilight glow fills the northern sky. It is only 3 weeks until the return of the northern lights. Time flies.
I can’t remember the last time I saw the moon. It has probably been around, but I generally don’t pay much attention to it during the summer. Then on this evening, I just kinda noticed it in the twilight sky over the mountains of Veggen and Himmeltindan. Despite the good weather, I’ve barely touched my camera in the last weeks as my time is consumed with long overdue house maintenance. Luckily it only takes me a minute to take a photo out the window. And so here we have a quarter moon in the twilight sky of late July.
Unknowingly at the time, and almost the photo for today, this scene would become a little more tragic on the following day when a humpback whale became stuck in fishing nets in Nappstraumen. It took over 24 hours before the coastguard arrived to make a rescue effort to free the whale. Which they did. And then decided the whale had become too exhausted and injured from its 24 hours stuck in the nets, so they killed it later in the evening. The mountains as witnesses.
Camera Info:
Nikon Z8
Nikon 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6
160mm
ISO 100
f 7.1
1/50 Second
WB Daylight
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