There are so many things to like about South Georgia Island. Every cove, every harbor, every fjord has something special for the photographer and explorer. This particular spot has everything I like, rust and landscape and a few seals. We had the pefrect weather for this excursion. Made with a Fuji XT-2 and 18-55mm lens.
South Georgia Island is a great place to shoot King Penguins. I did was sit on the beach by the water and these fellows came over to say hello. It’s amazing how curious and friendly these little guys are. This was shot with a Fuji XT-2 and 10-24 wide angle zoom.
South Georgia Island is like a magical land in the middle of an ocean that is very hard to get to. No matter what bay you visit or what land you set foot on you are blessed with incredibly beautiful scenes that make great images for the photographic artists. This image was made at Gold Harbor which is just teaming with wildlife and amazing landscapes. This was done at sunrise before breakfast. The day just got better from that point on.
Fuji XT-2 and 18-55mm lens.
On our trip to South Georgia and Antarctica, it was the early bird that saw spectacular sunrises. Being the leader of this trip it wasn’t unusual for me to wake the ship up early to see and photograph a sunrise like this. Shot with a Fuji Xt-2 and the 16-55mm. This was pure South Georgia, color and clouds.
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Over the last 3 weeks, I captured 12,000 images as part of the Luminous-Landscape South Georgia and Antarctica adventure. I have managed to narrow the collection down to 2400 images, The rejects sit in a separate folder off on the server just in case I ever need to refer to them.
Now that I am in major editing mode and have started to output some of my favorites images, i thought it would be good to share them. I’ll also be doing an article on LuLa soon with many more images. Today though I thought it would be great to share with you an image of what I call Penguin Love. Penguins are incredible creatures and they do the most amazing things. I loved the way these two showed their affection with each other.
Shot with a Fuji XT-2 and a 100-400mm lens. The Fuji never let me down on this trip. The 100-400mm with great IOS let me hand-held exposures with the equivalent of a 600mm lens. And, it focuses close enough to get images like this.
Today we launched the NEW Kevinraber.com. reabereyes.com website. One of the things I did for a long time was to make a post a day with one of my photographs and the story behind it. Today we are back with the new look.
We are also back from Antarctica and South Georgia Island. What a fantastic trip to such an amazing place. I lead a ship of 68 photographers to this amazing place, and for 21 days we had an adventure of a lifetime. You’ll read more about this in coming weeks.
I look forward to sharing more photos and stories. Also, the new site will also have the articles I have written for Luminous-Landscpe.com the site that I am publisher and CEO of.
One of our highlights on the Iceland trip was visiting an Ice Cave. Not only was the experience of getting to the cave fun but the cave was pretty cool too. We had to use big four-wheeled drive vehicles to get these and then once there get into all sort of gear. The light inside was all blue as the ice filters away all other light, So, here is a photo of the ice cave ceiling and one of me looking like I am straight out of the Blue Man Group.
You may have noticed I have been absent from any recent posts. This was due to leading a workshop in Iceland for Luminous-Landscape. We had a great workshop and we saw and did some amazing things. It was quite the adventure for sure. We had everything Iceland could throw at us weather wise. From cold and high winds to beautiful mild winter weather with perfect clouds. So, to get things caught up I will share a number of images I had posted on Facebook during the trip. My camera for this trip was the Sony A7rII as well as my iPhone. I had fun using both and you’ll see images made with each. These images are just a drop in the bucket of some beautiful images I have come home with. More will be coming. I am leading another Iceland workshop in June. And in a few weeks will head off to Patigonia and the Altiplano for two back to back workshops. So, expect lots of images.
This image was made last fall in Bar Harbor, Acadia NP. What a great place for photography. Today I am zipping up my bags and heading to Iceland to run workshop and 2 weeks of photography. I’ll post here, on Facebook as well as Luminous-Landscape as I travel and internet connections allow. Stay tuned.
There is nothing like an Antarctica sunrise to clear the mind and senses the soul. When you wake up to a scene like this how can you not have a great day? This was made just about a year ago.