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First Light
$150.00

"First Light"
Copyright © 2001 Bryce M. Payne.
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Fuji Crystal Archive print.
All prints are custom printed. Allow 2 weeks.

Edition Size: 25
Signed and numbered by the artist

Image Size Print Type Price
6" x 9" Fuji Crystal Archive $75US
11" x 14" Fuji Crystal Archive $150US
16" x 20" Fuji Crystal Archive $225US

Image ID: S2.0106.2013.15 (Request Larger Proof)

Subject: Sunrise over Europe
Location: Flying across the Atlantic

Artist Notes While I've never much liked long flights, I have always marveled at how the flight from America to Europe compresses time. You board in the evening, they feed you dinner, you watch a movie, you fall asleep and then you wake up to fresh tea and breakfast, a rising sun and ready to land with a full day ahead of you in Europe. It's as if a full day has elapsed. If only...

On this particular journey, I wound up with a very chatty British seatmate who kept going til sometime after Iceland. I wanted very much to sleep, but it was not going to happen. So instead I strolled the Virgin plan, up to Upper Deck and back and marveled at all of the sleeping innocents. Hah, I thought, as the sun began to peer across the horizon. I'm getting to see the new day before any of them. I hurriedly returned to my seat, secured my most essential camera gear, film and scurried back to the east-facing window and waited for just the right image. This is that image.

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