ENTRY DESCRIPTION
In frame, the students from the Arctic Nature guide of Svalbard leading an amazing expedition in early June 2021, crossing on the glacier tops, surrounded by some of the most amazing landscapes we can find on earth. Not everyone on this planet is lucky enough to live this kind of experience, and my love for photography comes from this; showing what some can never see... The details found on the mountain rocky edges are so thin and bring great dimension to that polar landscape.

They look so soft, so white, and so smooth. When covered with snow, glaciers look so welcoming. An empty space asking to be discovered and explored; but what lays underneath can lead to serious danger.

Glaciers are unstable and a lot of knowledge and confidence is needed to traverse from a place to another when walking on these hundred of meters thick ice.

AUTHOR
Virgil is from a small French town between Lyon and the Swiss border.

In June 2011, with nothing more than a bag on his back, Virgil set out to explore the world and discover his passion for the great outdoors and photography. As the years went on, Virgil used this time to build a global network of connections, which led to him becoming a full-time outdoor guide in 2016. Through the years, he was slowly heading North, where he spent two seasons in Finnish Lapland as a snowmobile guide in the Arctic; it was here, in the cold and dark of the Polar Night, that Virgil first gazed upon the Northern lights.

Virgil concentrates mainly on Arctic Landscape and Night Photography. It allows him to express his inner self and invite others to share in the spectacular and unyielding power of mother nature.

''Patience and creativity are all you need.''

Virgil is self-taught and believes in self-guided learning along with mutual knowledge sharing. His unending passion for photography and the outdoors pushes him to improve constantly, making photography part of his everyday life.
NorthernLights are a unique feature of his photography style and lead him to build robust and constructive compositions around them.

"A great aurora image is a great image even without aurora."

The photos you find in his gallery are the result of thousands of hours outside in snowstorms, strong winds, extreme temperatures, and a tremendous amount of time spent waiting on nature for that precise, extraordinary moment. Really often, the aurora is the wow effect of the photograph, the icing on the cake.
Virgil is always oriented on understanding his surroundings, finding the best angles for his compositions, and finding the right orientation to sublime the light in relation to his chosen subjects.

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