Beautiful weather is something you have to enforce; this is certainly true of Iceland. On this evening at Lake Myvatn in the north of Iceland we succeeded. The whole day it had been heavily clouded but in the evening just in time a hole appeared in the clouds at the northwestern horizon. Just big enough for the sun to shine through and puth both the clouds and the lake and surrounding volcanic landscape into a spectacular red light.
This digital painting is an adaptation of a photograph taken from the southern shore of the lake, near Skútustaðir. The dark mountain we see rising on the other side of the water is a volcano, the Vindbelgjarfjall, over 500 meters high. On that side of the lake there is also still ice; it had not yet all melted at the end of April, the time of shooting.
The nice thing about sunsets near the Arctic Circle is that the light show often lasts quite long. But sooner or later the sun disappears below the horizon. Fortunately, we still have the photos, as well as this digital edit.
My work can be found in the border regions of photography, painting and computer visuals. With my company 3Develop I do work in commission but I use the same techniques, skills and software to make free work.
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