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"Remember, you are this universe
and this universe is yourself."

- Creek poet Joy Harjo



To answer a few common requests/questions :)

Can I post a bigger size?

Done. upped to 1000px from 700px

Bigger/Wallpaper?

Sorry, no. If you want to use the 1000px version as a wallpaper that doesn't fill your whole screen, go for it. That will have to suffice. It looks good on black anyways ;)

Is it real?

Yes! The EXIF data is available lower right. DSLR, tripod, cable release - all that hehe.

For some strange reason there are two versions of this photo. One that is long - wider than 1:2, and this one. They are both the same photo but I have no idea how I ended up with one that is long and one that is much shorter! It is a stitch of a few images but I don't remember making two attempts, or how I ended up with the difference. Friggen weird! Ah well, a anomaly that works well for me! May release the panoramic version at a later time.

Where is this?

About 40km from a small town called Fort Smith near the Alberta/Northwest Territories border. The waterscape is a bend of the gargantuan Slave River (a mile across on average), which runs from mid Alberta all the way into the Great Slave Lake.

The water empties from the Slave Lake and becomes the Mackenzie River, feeding into more separate lakes and rivers and underground waterways than you might imagine. Most of Canada's water, and a large portion of the worlds fresh water, can be found in this region and Canada's north in general. The Mackenzie continues northward, where it empties out into the Arctic Ocean.

The waterscape is not an ocean =P A few have made the mistake of thinking the shapes near the shore are waves. If you look closely you can see cracks in the "waves." It is just irregular shapes created on the spring ice because our melt takes several months.

Are there really that many (viewable) stars where I live in the night sky?

Technically, for the most part, yes. This photo is by my estimate effectively one stop brighter than visible with the naked eye. In complete darkness (in the absence of light from the blue spectrum), a compound called rhodopsin begins to accumulate in the rods of your eyeball. After about 40 minutes it reaches its peak and is similar to raising the ISO sensitivity of a camera. This process is called dark adapting your eyes.

Combined with fully dilated pupils, the swath of the milky way and thousands of stars are visible. It is absolutely, insanely beautiful. I have been fascinated with it since I was young. I can't wait to buy a deep sky telescope.
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Stunning. Amazing. Absolutely gorgeous. Beautiful. Surreal. Just to name a few words deviants have left on this brilliant capture. The colors, the exposure, the reflection. Simply perfect!

Endless Possibility by ~OctoberLife ( Featured by `Anoya )
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~readmymiind 16 hours ago  Hobbyist General Artist
really beautiful.

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~jaufar May 11, 2012  New member
sweet picture :D
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Awesome work!!!

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Congratulations! Your photograph has been featured here: [link] . Have a great day! :blackrose:

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Stunning
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~DeliciouslyPsychotic Apr 20, 2012  New member
Is...is that... is that the aurora borealis! :O *Falls instantly in love*

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*OctoberLife Mar 28, 2012
Thanks you!

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WOW. That's just amazing. I love it.

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