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Challenge: Best of 2011 (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Canon EOS-50D
Lens: Canon EF-S 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 USM
Location: Geiranger, Norway
Date: Aug 20, 2011
Aperture: f/11
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/60 - 250 - 15
Date Uploaded: Jan 19, 2012

 Geiranger Norway, 8/2011

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Post challenge:

Thanks everyone for the votes and all the wonderful comments. I really appreciate them!

This past summer I spent about month traveling around Northern Europe, which included a 2 week cruise. Geiranger was one of the stops and I thought it was just incredibly beautiful. It's just a tiny fishing village with a population of about 700. Our bus tour stopped at this lookout for a few minutes and after taking these shots, I wandered down to the lower lookout. I sort of forgot about the time and the guide came running down screaming, "BUS 8, WE NEED TO LEAVE NOW!"

On our way down the hill, she made it a point to announce to everyone that 2 other buses have now passed us because "a few riders aren't keeping track of the time." Oops, :)

It's hard to see but there are a few people standing on the sheer cliff on the right side of the image. The quide said 7-10 people would fall off the cliff every year so they now have a little rope barrier on the edge. I walked over to the edge and looked down...woah.

Thanks again and I'll post up a couple of outtakes from the area later.

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here are some other shots from geiranger:


Statistics
Place: 13 out of 410
Avg (all users): 6.9177
Avg (commenters): 8.0345
Avg (participants): 6.8942
Avg (non-participants): 7.0238
Views since voting: 1455
Views during voting: 486
Votes: 231
Comments: 37
Favorites: 1 (view)

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 02/24/2012 06:57:18 AM
Wonderful image, congrats on the score! Totally unexpected scene from you :).
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 02/24/2012 01:12:53 AM
Congratulations Mark it is a brilliant shot.
When is our team regrouping? It's been too
long!
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 02/24/2012 12:27:33 AM
Wow I wish I would of spent more time looking at this, it's amazing!
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 02/24/2012 12:15:33 AM
Oh God, I missed your photo during viewing/voting :)

I had quite a similar image of Geiranger taken one month earlier but I prefered the Trollstigen. Funny how we live sooo far and we have in this challenge images taken at no more than 2-300 kms :)

Congrats on the top twenty!
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
02/22/2012 10:16:29 PM
That must be quite remarkable to see in real life, nice work. NV
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 02/22/2012 09:20:28 PM
Beautiful!
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 02/20/2012 02:03:10 PM
Seems like I have seen this before; maybe a different version. Great dof and color. (voted earlier)
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 02/20/2012 09:32:22 AM
It is a shot like this that allows me to appreciate something I will probably never see without having seen your wonderful photograph! Thank you! Remarkable planet earth! 10
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 02/19/2012 05:32:01 PM
Looks like a scene from a movie. Beautifully done!
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 02/19/2012 05:20:36 PM
Love the Depth and focus throughout the entire frame makes one feel small. Great expansive shot. 8
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 02/18/2012 01:49:56 AM
Gorgeous landscape image with incredible DOF.
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 02/18/2012 01:15:06 AM
Magnificent vista, hard to imagine the sheer size of this. Great capture.
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 02/18/2012 01:01:09 AM
Hell of a scene. Great photo.
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 02/18/2012 12:08:07 AM
What a rugged, beautiful place, excellently captured. love the outflow of the fjord splashing down the mountainside to the valley below.
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 02/17/2012 01:58:00 PM
A peek into a different style of life entirely.
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 02/17/2012 07:47:07 AM
Oh wow.. stunning! Definitely would love to know where this is because I sure would love to visit such a place!
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 02/16/2012 08:12:07 PM
Great image!
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 02/16/2012 08:02:33 PM
Magical!
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 02/16/2012 06:44:04 PM
This is so well done. Very pretty and majestic.
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 02/16/2012 09:32:56 AM
My pick for one of the fav to top this challenge. What a beautiful scene capture by you. Well done!
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 02/16/2012 08:23:58 AM
What a magnificent scene, made more magnificent by the low hanging clouds.
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 02/14/2012 12:03:54 PM
loving the vastness, the processing is just pushed to the edge of what i consider acceptable without going over. well done.
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 02/13/2012 10:21:47 PM
Magnificent
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 02/13/2012 09:13:38 PM
Nice depth, I can almost feel the fresh air.
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 02/13/2012 05:26:01 AM
What a beautiful landscape! Impressive.
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 02/12/2012 09:34:34 PM
Norway? Amazing scenery.
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 02/12/2012 03:08:51 PM
Gorgeous!!!
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 02/11/2012 03:46:23 PM
stunning
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 02/11/2012 12:38:01 PM
What an incredible view. Beautifully captured
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 02/10/2012 08:04:55 PM
looks like such a beautiful spot
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 02/10/2012 02:26:11 PM
Wow, where is this?
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 02/10/2012 01:37:16 PM
very beautiful scene!
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 02/10/2012 12:32:49 PM
Oh, if only we weren't constrained by 800 px. This is the best landscape image I've seen on DPC for quite a while. Great job! 10
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 02/10/2012 08:58:32 AM
Can´t go wrong with a Norwegian fjord, a very nice shot.
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 02/10/2012 01:43:30 AM
! Magical fairyland. Thank you Thank you for not HDR'ing this to death!
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 02/10/2012 12:36:31 AM
*gasp*


Beautiful!

I hope this does well for you.


(just commenting on a great image... not voting)
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 02/10/2012 12:23:35 AM
Truly shows the grandness and scale - very impressive place and capture!
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