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[The Guardian] ‘You can imagine it’s you, standing there on the edge’: Atle Rønningen’s best phone picture

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‘You can imagine it’s you, standing there on the edge’: Atle Rønningen’s best phone picture

A massive cliff and a fearless friend helped the photographer capture an unforgettable image“Eskil is a tough guy,” Atle Rønningen says of the friend he was hiking Pulpit Rock with. “It’s a massive cliff over 600 metres high, in Preikestolen, Norway. It’s so popular and busy in the summer months, so we went in the spring as soon as the snow had gone. It was still icy in some places, and the weather changed abruptly all day,” he says.It was fortunate Eskil had no fear of heights, Rønningen adds, because as he approached the ledge, the rain had turned to snow and the wind had picked up. Even so, the guys kept their goal in mind. “We wanted to show how capable mobile phone photography is,” Rønningen explains. “This was 2014, so Instagram was very new and few people knew how to take good pictures using their phone. We wanted to show what could be done.” Continue reading...
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