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Sunset, Biebrza marshes        Images © Mark A. Chappell

The Biebrza National Park in the Podlasie region of northeast Poland has some of the largest marshlands remaining in Europe.   One September evening our friend Marek Konarzewski led us to an isolated spot were we waited at dusk for large mammals (deer, elk) to appear.   None did (although we were visited by thousands of mosquitos), but the sunset and moonrise were pretty.   The moonrise picture was a difficult exposure and the resulting image is the result of two combined digital 'developments' of the same raw image file: one for the moon and one for everything else.   For all of these images a graduated neutral-density filter helped control the contrast of dark foreground and bright sky.

  • Canon 1D Mk. II, 17-40, 24-105, or 70-200 f4 IS lenses (2007)