Travel Photographer of the Year 2010 - Amazing Places Portfolio Winner, Quintin Lake (4 images)

STORY BEHIND THE PORTFOLIO

These images were taken during Anglo-Scottish East Greenland expedition in 2006 which was a month long ski journey involving pulling sleds, undertaken with three friends with the aim of climbing new peaks in an unexplored area of East Greenland. The expedition succeeded in 16 first ascents but the real discovery for me was the otherworldly light of the Arctic cased by the midnight sun and the interplay of the palette of pastel colours with the...
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STORY BEHIND THE PORTFOLIO

These images were taken during Anglo-Scottish East Greenland expedition in 2006 which was a month long ski journey involving pulling sleds, undertaken with three friends with the aim of climbing new peaks in an unexplored area of East Greenland. The expedition succeeded in 16 first ascents but the real discovery for me was the otherworldly light of the Arctic cased by the midnight sun and the interplay of the palette of pastel colours with the almost-not-there landscape.

Much of the month was either bright blue skies or while clouds - of little photographic interest - but the images in the portfolio were of sudden moments of drama that punctuated these conditions. For example, the primarily grey photograph, depicting the horizon of light was taken whilst such as the grey image with the horizon of light was taken when were tent bound for three days on the icecap and the light appeared momentarily just before the storm closed in again.

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