Ruben Nilsson Photography
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Forest and water

Two August afternoons: the forest as one surface from a high point, and a lake the next day with a thunderhead over it and one shaft of light on the far shore.

From high enough up, a forest stops being trees. It becomes one dark surface with the sky resting on its far edge, and the only thing that changes is where the light is standing.

The next afternoon that light turned up properly: a thunderhead over the lake, everything under it almost black, and a single shaft of sun finding the far shore while two people swam through the middle of it.

2 August — the canopy

A dark forest canopy stretching to a flat horizon under a wide sky of grey cloud, a pale line of light at the edge.
Forest to the horizon 53 mm · f/10 · 1/40s · ISO 100
A dense forest canopy of spruce and birch filling the frame, late summer green with the first yellow tips.
Canopy 38 mm · f/4.5 · 1/25s · ISO 100

3 August — the lake

Dark storm clouds over a wide lake, a bright shaft of light on the far shore and two people swimming in the foreground.
Storm light 50 mm · f/2.5 · 1/4000s · ISO 100

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