TSOPhotography by Terje Sørgjerd has produced some amazing videos of his photography. At the moment he has 3 videos. His latest one “The Arctic Light” is the one I am going to post today. Make sure to read the making of the video before you watch it. It will help you appreciate what this photographer went through in order to capture these images.

To help understand how this video is made, here is a little explanation. It is called Time Lapse Photography which means the photographer takes a photo every hour or so and then puts them together in a continuous sequence which turns it into a “mini video” you could say. In this video he covers many parts of Northern Norway and this is what he has to show for it…

Enjoy!!

While teaching here I hope to travel through the country side and take more photos of this breathtaking country. I will post my photos as I go along but I can’t promise they will be on a regular basis, but I will do my best!

Well it has been a refreshing start. I left Dallas at 104F degrees (40C) and am now in Bogotá at 55F (13C).

I hope to post soon with a wonderful update of having a job!! Stay tuned!!

The journey began with a Colombian breakfast just as we made it outside of Manizales. Our breakfast was held in a little house just off the side of a dirt road. From this viewpoint we had the chance to view the town of Manizales along the horizon and take in the tranquility of the mountains that surround Manizales.

As we finished up breakfast we started the ascend up the volcano. As we drove along we could see the land start changing quite a bit. We finally arrived and the highest point that the bus was allowed to drive to. From there we hiked up the rest of the way while taking a number of breaks due to the lack of oxygen at that altitude. The half way point of the hike was marked by a Colombian flag while the top was marked with a large ice glacier! While ascending upside the volcano I was surprised to see how many little kids were climbing up to the top. I learned afterward though that the reason why so many Colombian kids go to the top is so that they can see and touch the snow that is there. Due to Colombia being located on the equator, this is the only place that Colombians can ever see snow in their country.

A few weeks later I flew from the city of Cali over to Bogotá. During the flight I was sitting by the window when all of a sudden a few people ran from the opposite of the plane over to my side to look out. A man explained to me that I was about to see the very top of the 3 volcanoes next to Manizales. Sure enough, just as the man had said, I began to see the tops of the volcanoes appear just above the clouds; as if they were breaking through the sky. It was, yet again, the perfect ‘Kodak’ moment which I had to embrace.