Daily Images by Kevin Raber
Greenland is a spectacular place. I don’t know why I waited so long to go there. There are incredible landscapes. Glaciers by the dozens. and if you’re lucky to get a calm day gorgeous reflections like this one of massive rock walls and a glacier reflected in the water.
On our last day we took a walk through this fishing village. The sky was gray and it was dusk. But, there was so much to see. I let the camera handle the higher ISO and just shot what I saw. This was so classic with the fishing hut and boat.
As you read from my previous post I’m heading to Iceland next weekend. It’s a great time of year to visit. It’s the end of winter and days are getting longer but it is still cold and should have snow. And, most important is it a time where a lot less tourists visit. I have a small group this year and we will travel around the whole Island shooting all the best locations. I can’t wait. I’ll have a lot to share on my return. Hope you like today’s image.
It’s 11 days until I head back to Iceland to run our annual winter workshop with Daniel Bergmann. So, thought I would post an Iceland image today. A lot of people shoot this image as it is at a well know overlook. I couldn’t help myself though as I post mine.
Ok, I’m not one for the iconic image of a place but I must confess I shot it. It was crazy when taking this photo. It was made from a bridge just a short walk from the hotel – cabins we were staying in. The bridge must have had 50 photographers on it all shooting the same things. I absolutely hate that. i don’t like being where there are other photographers. It disturbs to no end. Seems everyone wants the same shot and here I was just as bad as them. So, enjoy the photo but know I feel bad about putting up an image so many other have done.
As you can probably tell I really enjoyed Lofoten except for the fact that there were too many other photographers there. Everyone that I encountered were trying to make iconic images as they must have seen on websites. except for a few instances, I wanted to see things differently. Thus I tried a lot of long exposure and I looked for patterns and things in the landscape. This image was made to show depth of field in the foreground with small details and to then allow the rocks and surf to become part of the image too. I used a new filter system by Wine Country to handle the ND filters I used. I’ll be doing a review on this system in the next few weeks. Hope you enjoy this image.
I discovered a new place in April of 2016 while running a workshop with Art Wolfe and Ignacio Palacios. In northern Chile on the border with Bolivia, there is a region of great beauty called the Atacama. It’s got some incredible landscapes and great skies. We photographed both in Chile and Bolivia, sometimes at altitudes of 16,000 feet. This is one from the series of images I made. More to come.
One of my favorite places to photograph in America is the Palouse. It’s not crowded with tourists and it is all about the landscape and big sky. The landscapes are big and broad and many time can be shot with a long lens like this shot. As the sun peeks around the clouds interesting shadows are cast and as the sun gets lower at the end of the day you get these beuatiful defining shadows of the gentle rolling hillsides. I am doing 2 private 4 person workshops there this summer.
Patagonia is all it is said to be. I wasn’t expecting such beautiful mountains. Throw in amazing light for every day we were there and you can’t walk off without making great images. I will most likely lead a workshop to this region again in 2018. Stay tuned.
I was in Iceland shoot a very big waterfall. I love waterfalls and I am sure by now you know how much I love Iceland. After I shot the bigger waterfall I but my long lens on the Fuji-Xt2. It has the reach of a 600mm lens on a full frame camera. I started to explore at the longest focal lengths different parts of the waterfall. I used a 1/2 to 1-second exposure to shoot what I found. This was one of those shots.