Un/Taken ep. 12 Chris Alfthan

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This topic is about the photo you did not take. If you haven’t seen the previous episodes, read those stories here.

In this episode we get to know the story of the Finnish outdoor photographer Chris Alfthan. He tells the story of his photos, taken and untaken.

Here we go.

Untaken

Which photo was untaken and why did you not take it?

We were heading up to Kebnekaise mountain station in Sweden for the winter season for work. The morning that we crossed the Finnish/Swedish was brutally cold, -28C but there was 'snow smoke' as we call it in Swedish and the sunrise was incredible. There was a river that we crossed where the water reflected the sky and it looked like a river of molten gold with a mist dancing on top of it. The pure white snow added some contrast and it was one of the most fantastic winter scenes I have seen. We had a timetable to keep so I had to accept the fact that I would not be able to capture it on film. Still hur…