Daily Images by Kevin Raber
I am leading a workshop to Iceland in March. It’s the best time of year to visit Iceland. No tourists and you can see Iceland the way if should be seen. This photo of an iceberg on a beach is only a sample of what you would encounter. If interested click on the link here or contact me for more details. This was a short time exposure so the waves could blur just a little and capture the water as it runs off the shore. This is one of many beautiful images I shot on that beach this one day.
This is kind of an artsy image. I want the image to tell a story. This was made in an old church in New Orleans. We were on the upper floors and the stairway was undergoing renovation. The tarp for keeping dust out was pulled open and there was beautiful light coming through the plastic tarp as well as the stairs behind. Ask yourself, where do the stairs go, what is this place?
One thing that I never get tired of in Iceland is waterfalls. I know some people do as there is a waterfall around every turn. You could go nuts shooting waterfalls in Iceland. This waterfall, Gullfoss has so much water running over it is staggering. Where does it all come from? Rather than shoot the falls like everyone else and tried to fit this mammoth waterfall into the frame I put on my 400mm lens and shot the falls in close. I also tried various shutter speeds until I found one that gave the falls just the right look. Not too velvety and not to definitive. I liked the way this turned out.
I love Arches National Park. This park is close to Moab and the park and region around it offers great photo opportunities. I Usually arrive at the park before sunrise and shoot for several hours during the morning light. I return to town for breakfast and day excursions and then return late afternoon for sunset. This shoot was made a few years ago. Sadly on my last visit, much of the scrub like what I used in the foreground had been removed. Even a tree I used in the past as a foreground was gone. This, I am happy to have an image like this. This was made with a Phase One IQ180 with a 28mm stopped down to f/22 for depth of field. Luckily it worked or I would have had to do some focus stacking. I can’t wait to go back to Moab, hopefully sometime this year.
In Buffalo, NY there is a cool old turn of the 20th-century water plant. It’s ana amazing structure and a privilege to shoot inside it. I have been there many time and find all sorts of things to shoot as well as interesting compositions. This image was made with my iPhone using an app that does double exposures. Lots of fun to shoot this way. Sometimes it works and sometimes not. That is also the fun. This one I like a lot. I made a sepia tone image and a regular one. Which one do you like best?
I know it’s a strange thing to say, but Iceland has the nicest mud. This image was made in a geothermal field in Iceland. As I was walking around this giant area that had bubbling hot springs with bubbling mud I came across dried out areas. The mud had dried and cracked. It looked so pretty so I did a series of images. This is one of them. Kind of abstract but not. I liked it and hope you do.
Every now and then I experiment with certain apps. This one app takes an image and makes it circular in design and then allows you to play with settings to change the look. This is an image of a bear in Alaska walking through a flower field. I had some fun with it. It’s just a fun picture. Sometimes you just gotta mess around.
Iceland is so beautiful in the winter. This image was made at Stockness. It’s different on every visit. I’m leading a workshop there March 20-30. 2017 (this March) and still have room for a few attendees. I will not be doing a winter workshop there in 2018. So, jump on board and see Iceland the way it was meant to be seen. Visit my Rockhopper Workshops for more information. Guaranteed fun plus amazing photos. Hope to see you there. If you have any questions, email me.
As you can see if you have been folloWing my blog for a while, I have a thing with Iceland. It’s. amagical place. I always find something different to photograph there. I was on a day tour from Reykjavik and came across this church on one of the many back road I explored. The red roof and the background makes for a very serene photo.
When visiting Iceland it is a fun side trip to find and visit a puffin colony. These cute birds usually nest along cliffs and there are some spots in Iceland where they are quite prevalent. They are colorful birds and put on quite a show. During the nesting times, these birds will fly into the ocean, grab some krill and fly up to the cliff. They then wait a few minutes to make sure the coast is clear and then fly to their chicks with a mouth full of food. I shot a ton of images of the Puffins and used the Fuji XT-2 and 100-00mm lens. It was great fun plus I got some nice images.