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natgeotravel Video by @renan_ozturk // two rare atmospheric phenomena (the northern lights and a moonbow) collide over goðafoss in northen iceland. ~ there’s always a moment of curiosity (and panic) when i go to retrieve my time-lapse camera after leaving it out all night. did the battery die? did the exposure even work? did a fox come and kick the camera over, and did i end up with a 6 hour time-lapse of the ground? i had left my camera on the edge of the waterfall and i thought it was toast when i picked it up, being super wet from all the mist and not turning on. but when i was finally able to scroll through the shots, i felt a little breathless. 

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This cool caterpillar in Peru will transform itself into looking like a snake when it feels threatened [x]

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“Four and a half hours a day… That’s how long I have slept each day for ten days. Why would I bother being deprived of vital sleep though? Because my mission and goal was to show the night sky in a different way. The second opus of my sequel ‘Galaxies’ aims at finding new techniques and skills to bring the beauties of the cosmos to the general public, and in this optic, I went to spend a bit more than a week in a privileged place: a dark sky reserve. La Palma is located in the Canary Islands, just a few hundreds kilometers west of northern Africa. Its climate and location enable professional and amateur astronomers to gaze at the stars almost year round in a very little light polluted sky. In fact, the cooperation of more than 19 countries in building a giant observatory site on top of its volcano at 2400m is no surprise, because the skies are drier, purer and darker up there. Having shot on top El Teide in Tenerife, the neighbor island two years before (vimeo.com/163680035), I thought it was the perfect place to go shoot the wonders of the winter night sky. Tenerife also possesses decent skies and opportunities to gaze at the core of the milky way, but when your goal is to observe and capture fainter deep-sky red glows, you need a less polluted and bright atmosphere. That’s why I embarked for an epic and restless astro-adventure on Canary’s darkest island.

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