Iceland

Two minutes and seventeen seconds. That’s how long a group of explorers stood under an ominous light of darkness. This paradoxical and temporary moment where a Greenlandic sky revealed shades I’d never witnessed before. Two minutes and seventeen seconds. That’s also how long I had to document a moment that I had no experience with. It was something I’d spent weeks preparing for, but if I’m being honest, I still wasn’t sure how the final visual story’d play out. Here I was, in the deepest fjords of East Greenland, on the top deck of a small ship with two tripods, two cameras, and two minutes and seventeen seconds. I needed a specific image. An image that could convey the gravity, wonderment, and contradictory nature of what I was about to experience. In the summer of 2026, I got to experience first-hand just how special a total solar eclipse is, and in this story, I’m going to share my journey in bringing this image to life. An Opportunity At Wonderment A few weeks after returning from an assignment in Svalbard, I received a call about returning to the Arctic Circle. Only this time, it’d be aboard another vessel that was travelling to East Greenland in an effort to witness a total solar eclipse. I’m not an astrophotographer. I’ve never witnessed an eclipse of any kind. And truthfully, I never had a desire to seek one out. That being said, 2026 was a big year for space and sci-fi. Experiencing the double-feature of _Project Hail Mary_ in […]