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Info created, uploaded and nominated by AWeith -- AWeith (talk) 09:10, 11 October 2016 (UTC)- Info I bring this image to your attention for the second time. According to the initial comments I have changed brightness, contrast, and field of view. I also tried to convey the magical evening mood by adjusting the color temperatures a bit. As I wrote before, this gigantic calving took place in the later evening after the Svitjordbreen as a paramount example for a surging glacier was busy leaving small icebergs to the fjord all day. None of those calvings compared to the one in the evening shown here. We stayed at a safe distance, i.e. approximately 500 meters (one usually stays away from the glacier front for about five times its height), because we took in mind that in the past quite a few people have been hurt or even killed by ice chunks during calvings. We experienced the offshoot of the induced freakwave nevertheless. Please take the resorting gulls as a scale for what happened at the glacier front. -- AWeith (talk) 22:10, 14 October 2016 (UTC)
