This shot was taken in Bensingersiel at the North Sea a few minutes before sunrise. Except for graduation curves, I didn't have to add any saturation. The colors were amazingly strong. The sky and foreground were taken from two separate shots, because I didn't have an ND-Grad filter with me and the difference in brightness was even too strong for RAW-editing.

Foreground: 11mm, f/11, 26 seconds, ISO 1600.

Sky: 11mm, f/11, 49 seconds, ISO 100.

Canon EOS 20D, Sigma 10-20mm F4-5.6 EX DC HSM, polarization filter, tripod. Edited with Adobe Lightroom 3 and Adobe Photoshop CS5.

This was a lucky shot! On our snowmobile ride a friend and I took the wrong turn and found ourselves on the way up the mountain. While attempting to turn the snowmobile around, it got stuck and therefore we had time to take some pictures of the magical sunrise/sunset scene. In december the sun never really rises above the horizon in this area. Ylläsjärvi, Finish Lapland.

Canon EOS 20D, Canon 18-55 Kit Lens, Adobe Lightroom and Adobe Photoshop.

I ran into this amazing scene early one morning in December, 2009 near Nissedal, Norway. It lasted only a couple minutes and soon the light was much less impressive...

Canon EOS 20D, 18-55 3,5-5,6 Kit Lens, Manfrotto Tripod, Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3.