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Caption: Story of the Photo A LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS
Caption: The following is a short story about photographing Vestrahorn in Iceland during the autumn of 2016.
Caption: “The bedrock nature of space and time are science's great 'open frontiers.' These are parts of the intellectual map where we're still groping for the truth - where, in the fashion of ancient cartographers, we must still inscribe 'here be dragons.'” – Martin Rees
Caption: One fascinating result of space and science is the Aurora Borealis, a phenomenon created by the collision between particles in the Earth’s magnetosphere and solar winds shot straight from the sun.
The first time I ever saw auroras was at Vestrahorn, a mountain whose elongated, jagged peaks make it look like the spine of a sleeping dragon.
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Caption: They came at twilight. At first, they glowed ever so faintly. Because I had never seen them before, I wondered with a sigh, “Is that it?” But then, not a minute later, they shot out from behind Vestrahorn with the fury of dragon’s breath, with the all-consuming incandescence of the wildfire from Game of Thrones.
Caption: In that moment, the dragon of Vestrahorn became the light in the darkness – bridging the earth and the cosmos and illuminating the map to the great frontier.
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