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Daily Images by Kevin Raber

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Smoking Man In China

I was running a workshop in the southwest part of China and on one of our lunch breaks we stopped at this very rustic restaurant.  When I say rustic, I mean they were killing chickens and then making our lunch.  This part of China was very different from what you see in the east with the big cities.  Even the hotel rooms were rustic and it was freezing cold at night and the only heat was a heating pad under the sheets of the worst bed I ever slept in.  Anyway, back to the image.  After lunch, a few of the guys on the workshop decided it was time for a smoke and they were kind enough to let me shoot a few images.  I liked the light coming in from behind and the way it illuminates the smoke.  They tried to get me to smoke with them but just the second-hand smoke was enough to knock me out.  Interesting experience to say the least. This was shot on an Olympus MK 5 camera.

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The Opera House

The Sydney Opera House, Australia

I love design and abstracts of buildings.  Looking for and photographing these kind of shots is something I look forward to when visiting small and large cities.  This is image, is the well know Opera House in Sydney Australia.  It’s an amazing building and very iconic.  I have done a lot of images of this building and the ones I have that are different work best for me.  I converted this to black and white and like the subtle tonality and angles.   Hope you enjoy it.

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Lemaire Channel – One End To The Other

I really enjoy doing panorama photos. Not only do they make large files that I can print large but they also allow a viewer to see a lot more in an image than a traditional single shot frame does.  There are a lot of photographers that make a big point out of doing perfect panoramas using special rigs and aligning the nodel points to perfection.  While I do that sometimes most of the time I just don’t the gear or the time.  As a matter of fact a lot of time I can really good panos just by panning the camera handheld.  And, that’s exactly what I did with this image.  I was on a moving ship traveling through the Lemaire Channel.  It’s a most amazing place in Antarctica and while you can get great single frame images I saw an opportunity and thought I’d give it a shot by doing a handheld pano while the ship was moving.  The water was calm and the sunrise was just happening.  A gorgeous,  moment is the only way to describe it.  So I did two series of pans and one turned out.  Photoshop where I did the stitching together of the images, was brilliant at compensating for the movement of the ship and thus this is the image I ended up with.  The channel can be seen from one end to the other.

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A Foggy Start Of A Day In Tuscany

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I really love Italy and especially Tuscany.  The Dolomites are another favorite part of Italy I visit often.  This was shot one morning early as the sun was coming up and I caught the fog in the valley.  Made with a Phase One camera and an IQ180 camera, it’s kind of an iconic shot of Tuscany.  I softened it a little bit to add to the feel of the picture.

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Under A Glacier

Inside an Ice Cave in Iceland

Have you ever been under a glacier?  I have and it is scary and cool at the same time.  One of the best places to explore ice cave is in Iceland in the winter.  Ice caves are the space between a bottom of the glacier and the earth the glacier is moving on.  In the summer time there is usually a massive amount of water running through these caves from melt off but in the winter everything is frozen and as a result, you can explore these caves (carefully of course).  The best way to see these ice caves is with a guide who knows the caves and where it is safe and not safe.  This image was made in a cave where you had to crawl in many places.  I loved this giant ice pillar.  This image was shot with a Phase One camera and the exposure was several minutes.  It is very dark in these caves and only a small amount of light filters through the glacier itself.  I highly recommend this experience but only if you are not claustrophobic.

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Merry Christmas From Debra and Me

Kevin Raber and Debra Fadely – Raber on the Ocean Nova in Antarctica

It has been a good year with moments of great sadness and wonderful happiness.  Life goes on and sometimes we find strength from our losses and sadness.  This was my case this year.  I look forward to 2017.  I am blessed to have a career I love. A wife I am totally in love with and our kids who we are very proud of and love dearly.  This photograph was made by our friend Hans Strand an outstanding photographer from Sweeden who was on our trip to South Georgia Island and Antarctica.  I wish all of my readers a happy holiday and a great new year.

 

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Valparaiso Chile

Valparaiso, Chile . . . Click On The Image to See Larger

On my visits to Santiago, Chile I usually make it a point to arrive a few days early so I can spend a day shooting in Valparaiso.  Valparaiso is a coastal town about 2 hours away from Santiago.  You can hire a car fo the day and take a tour of this city built on a hillside.  The attraction is all the graffiti.  It’s a city of Graffiti art and there are some incredible places to photograph. On my last trip there I had lunch at a small cafe and out the window of the cafe, I saw the scene above.  I love rust and I really liked the story the photograph told.  A lot can be interpreted by viewing this image.  What do you see?

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Rust Everywhere

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.

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Penguin Love

Penguin Love, shot with a Fuji XT-2 and a 100-400mm lens

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.

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We Are Back In Many Ways

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.