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For best people, the accommodation of which wallpaper to accept for your iPhone is aloof a amount of going through your photo library to acquisition the appropriate picture. For Espen Haagensen, however, the action aloof became a accomplished lot easier. Starting September 17th, a photo of the Alabaster Way he captured while in Norway will become the absence wallpaper in iOS 8, software that will be downloaded hundreds of millions of times by users all about the world.
Two canicule later, on September 19th, countless iPhone 6 and 6 Plus units will activate aircraft out to customers, all preloaded with the aforementioned shot. I talked to Espen about the photo’s origins and how it feels to be so acutely featured by Apple.
Haagensen’s aboriginal photo (left) and Apple’s adaptation (right). [Photo Credit]
According to Haagensen, the angel was captured aftermost December during a ski cruise with a abundance accumulation in the Norwegian Trekking Association:
Every year we booty the alternation up in the mountains and ski for 5-6 hours to get [to] the Demmevass hut. The hut is actual alien and old and is situated close to a glacier. After we get there we adapt acceptable Norwegian Christmas food. The abutting day we ski aback to the railroad afore we take the alternation home.
I do absolutely a lot of starscapes and Alabaster Way shots but this was the first time I brought a appropriate advanced bend and abounding admeasurement tripod to Demmevass. There was a rather big moon so the Alabaster Way was faint, but around midnight there were some skies and the moon abolished and I was able to capture a nice series.
The Demmevass hut Espen speaks of is the baby architecture pictured in the aboriginal photo above. Apple removed the anatomy from the aircraft adaptation of the wallpaper, acceptable to actualize a added simple image.
Espen originally aggregate the angel on the photography armpit 500px, area the angel garnered a lot of attention. While he never asked Apple how they begin the image, he suspects it was acknowledgment to its popularity. Espen describes how Apple approached him about the photo:
I was approached a brace of months ago by Apple, they capital to license the angel for non-broadcast use. Then some time in July they capital to extend the authorization to additionally accommodate advertisement use. I didn’t apperceive before yesterday what they were activity to use it for. A aide alleged me during the Apple presentation.
Imagine the shock of Apple application your angel to advance the cast new iPhone 6. Espen say’s that it’s a bit awe-inspiring alive so abounding bodies will see the image, but it’s absolutely a appreciative accomplishment.
You can apprehend added about the area the photo was taken actuality (Google Translate link), forth with some alternating shots from the aforementioned night.
