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.
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.
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.
Antarctica offers a an environment of great photographs. Dynamic, changing and never cliched. You can be on shore or the deck of the ship and see and shoot just beautiful images. This one was made one morning when I was on the deck all by myself. And, I was presented with this shot of clouds, distant icebergs and the rising sun peeking through cracks in the sky. Makes for some dynamic photos. It then got darker and an hour later it was blue skies. Things happen fast there and they are unpredictable.
The Lamar channel is a very cool place to cruise through especially if you get to cruise it at sunset. On my first Antarctica trip we cruised the channel at magic hour. The sun was low and the moon was coming up. The sky turned orange and purple and the water looked like it had a sheen of oil on it from the reflection. Just an amazing experience. This is a shot taken at one end of the channel. I believe these two peeks are called Ulla’s Tits. Must be a story behind it.
This is a cool image done while visiting the Mt Cook area in New Zealand. We did a cruise in these Zodiac like boat and were able to get right up on mini icebergs which were breaking off the Glacier in the background. I had fun trying to put both the iceberg and glacier in the same shot to show contract and such. What do you think?
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!
My first post of the new year and it is of ice, my new obsession, or so it seems. Why am I fascinated by ice? Because it is here today and gone tomorrow. It’s not a cliche like so many images of the grand canyon. Ice is in constant transition, usually the melting kind. This little iceberg was shot in New Zealand. I am sure that as the day went on it moved and melted and may have even turtled (which is roll over terms for icebergs). I have lots of ice pictures and through out this year you will get to see even more.
This was another image done at the Glacial Lagoon in Iceland. The sun was just right to create God Rays. Simple and effective.
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.
No matter where you look there is ice. I guess Iceland gets the name with ice in it for a reason. In certain parts of Iceland there are many glaciers and I am talking really big glaciers. And these Glaciers loose Ice all the time. This is a shot of an iceberg with a big glacier behind it. I believe the glaciers is called Steinholtsjökull, good luck on pronouncing it. This glacier like a lot of others has a lake at the bottom of it that icebergs break off into and float around. With all good landscape shots it is good to have a foreground and the iceberg did a great job of providing the foreground against this large glacier.