This has been one of my favorite shots from many years. Something about the angles, color and the fact that this was an iceberg. Photographed from a ship in Antarctic I used a long lens to shoot close up sections of the iceberg. This is blue and smooth because the ocean just keeps splashing on it and the water running off of it smooths it out. I love the colors and the fact that nature created this and that this iceberg is long gone.
There a re a few mountain peaks that grab big attention. Peaks that you can see from far away. Peaks that you are driving hours to get to you can see and it seems you are not getting any closer. In Denali National Park there is a peak that hides itself behind clouds much of the time. A few years ago while visiting one of my sons stationed at Fort Richardson and teaching workshop I was able to get this shot. Sunset at Denali. I have a lot of other images from Denali too. Grizzlies, a Lynx, mountain goes. The place is a photographer paradise.
Well you may have noticed that I have not made posts for several days. I was quite busy when in Copenhagen setting up all the infrastructure for this years PODAS workshops. We managed to set up three new workshops as well as take care of a lot of planning and a marketing plan for that will be an excellent workshop series this year. Todays image was made several hers ago while cruising Antarctica. The sky for several hours just stayed a purple color as the sun just set below the horizon but it never got dark. Kind of like a sunset that turns into sunrise in a matter of 90 minutes. Anyway today was a cold day when I awoke so I though it to be a good iceberg day.
Since I did something man-made and architectural yesterday, I thought I would do the same today. welcome to the London Bridge and another angle of it. This is a fun bridge to shoot. IT has so many possibilities and is such a dominant icon of the London Landscape. Getting close and looking up always gives a new perspective.
Imagine if you will what the life of the seal in this picture’s life is like. Living in Antarctica, looney, cold, unpredictable and something always trying to eat you. This shot was made on one of my trips to this amazing continent. It shows pretty well what Antarctica is all about. Giant, lonely and ever changing. This was made on the way to an area called the Gullet. We went through an ice flow and there this seal was with a storm in the background. I just love it.
On one of our landings in Antarctica we came across this old abandoned and falling apart boat and there were a few penguins next to it. I shot quickly as the penguins were busy and had someplace to go. I saw this image in my library the other day and decide i liked it but I should do something to give it an old look. Using SnapSeed on the MAc I did some adjustments to get to this. Now the image kind of goes with the boat and the whole feel of being old and abandoned.
On my first trip to Antarctica we traveled to the southern most city in South America, Ushuaia. Pretty cool place and also the launching pint for a lot of trips to Antarctica. While we spent the day waiting to board the ship a number of us went shooting in and around Ushuaia. This boat I found in the harbor, kind of sinking. I sent the image home and told people this is the boat we were taking to across the Drake Passage and some of my friends (at least the gullible ones) believed me.
One of the things photographers are doing lot of these days is taking normal pictures and using apps on their iPhones and iPads making them look different. I will admit I am guilty of this too, but I believe an image needs to be able to work without a lot of special effects and textures and so forth. Granted there is an occasional image that works well but a good image with good subject, and composition will always win out. Plus after a while all of this fancy effects becomes contrived and overused. Today though I am showing an image that I ran through a new app on my MAC. It was 99 cents and it is called Photo Sketcher and it does some cool stuff. Above is the page from it and below is the original. The original is stung in its own right but the sketcher one works well too. What do you think?
I love London, but I love copenhagen, Barcelona and many more cities also. This shot was made in a small place where there are these array of small fountains. I played here for a while trying slow shutter speeds, longer lenses etc until I came up with this shot which I really like. So today here is LOndon Bridge and fountains.
This shot was made in Iceland at the Glacier Lagoon. I used a long lens on my 5dII to shoot elements of the ice. Tight shots of ice using the telephoto to compress the perspective together. It was amazing what you saw as a frame when doing this vs. what the overall scene looked like. I enjoy using the camera frame to isolate images. I do this both with the telephoto lens and macro lens doing close ups.