The total solar eclipse in the Arctic on March 20, 2015 was my first. Over 4000 people gathered on that morning on Adventdalen, a valley outside the mining city of Longyearbyen Svalbard, which has probably never seen so many people on its grounds for the past 600 million years. I wanted to dedicate this montage (panorama), manually crafted from over 600 individual frames, to photographers, who go out to this world armed only with cameras and lenses and their committed love to documenting and preserving the beauties of our planet for generations to come. I captured the tense anticipation of my "angels with cameras" before the eclipse with one camera (100mm lens) and the solar eclipse itself with another (2x convertor; 500mm lens). While putting together the final image, I was inspired by Middle Ages paintings, where unlike modern perspective, the focus of attention is portrayed BEHIND THE MAIN PROTAGONISTS BACKS.
