SteemitPhotoChallenge Entry - "The worlds most beautiful train journey" up the mountain in Flåm, Norway - Original Work. (background resolution)

[nords]

After taking a ferry from Balestrand to Flåm, we got onto "the worlds most beautiful train journey". This was a short, yet amazing ride up from the fjord, passed amazing waterfalls and mountains, up to the teeny village of Myrdal.

"No other standard-gauge railway in the world is as steep as the Flåm Railway. This 20-km line has a height difference of 866 metres, making an average gradient of 1 in 18. The horseshoe tunnel spiralling in and out of the mountain is a testimony to the most audacious and skilful feat of engineering in the history of Norwegian railways..." Visit Flåm

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Camera: Canon 5DmkII
Lens: 17-40mm @ 17mm
Shutter Speed: 1/250 secconds
Aperture: f/4
ISO: 100

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Comments

[delmoro]

you have such beautiful photos of travels! thanks for showing them to us. it's inspiring!

[nords]

Thank you! It sometimes feels like cheating when its the land itself that is beautiful, and I just have to know how to run the camera properly to capture it :p

[toshare]

Nice photo

[nords]

Tusen Takk :)

[chorock]

Great nature! but all train journeys are also beautiful in Norway. I watched the train journey of Bergen-Oslo on Youtube. It is also great! Share more photos from your train journey! Great shot!

[nords]

Thanks! We took the train from Flam all the way down to Oslo, so like 5 hours through the countryside. It was great, but that 20km leg up to Myrdal was 10 times better than any other train I've been on :)

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[jarvie]

Those dark blues and greens work really nicely together. Nice framing from a moving train! I'll get over there some day... some day!! haha

[nords]

Thanks! yeah I broke the rules of putting anything out of the window, some of the tunnels are only centimeters from the windows so people definitely could lose a limb if not careful. but yeah, I never shoot in daylight without a circular polarizer which helps the colors and gets the skies to pop

[jacobts]

Beautiful photo. Reminds me of a fun train ride up in Skagway Alaska. But this is looks like even more the adventure.

[nords]

Oh man alaska is another place I want to visit, its probably like the fjords but times 100 since its such a HUGE place.

[asgarth]

Really nice shot!! Thanks for sharing ;)

[nords]

thanks! I'm glad people enjoy it, I'll be posting more from around the world so stay tuned :)

[torbjorns]

Amazing picture! And not only this, but I love your photos! Followed;) I love photographing too so you can check out some of my posts, have a nice day! :)

[nords]

Thanks! and I'm following you too, as I love Scandinavian pictures and whatnot :)

[kaanhan]

You should also see "dogu ekspresi" which travels to Kars from Ankara in Turkey
https://www.instagram.com/dogu.ekspresi/

[weberh8]

Great picture ! I wish you luck, i missed my entry :(

[danielapetk]

I love your point of view