While in Svalbard, Norway we visited an old mining outpost. I was in heaven as there was rust galore. If you are a follower of my blog you’ll know how much I love rust. So, here is the first of a number of rusty images from Svalbard. Made with a Phase One IQ180.
While in Salvbard, Norway we landed our zodiacs in an area that used to be an old marble mine. I always love these abandoned areas as I travel around the world. I’ll find rust, decay and all sorts of cools things to shoot that are not necessarily and landscape but in reality are. There were several huts here and this image is the side of one hut with a table. I liked the two mention feel and balance of the table with the window. Shot with a Phase One IQ180.
I am going to switch things up a bit and move away from fall colors and head back north to Norway. This image was made this past August in Svalbard, Norway. It was shot from the ship while we were at anchor. I selected a square format and put very little land and water in the image as it was they sky that was so beautiful. Shot with a Nikon D800E and 8-400mm lens.
I saw this while we were cruising in Zodiacs along a face of a glacier in Svalbard, Norway. This shows sediments that over the ages has seeped into the glacier. I loved the stark contrast.
This shot was made in Svalbard Norway on my recent Arctic Adventure. we were cruising this bay where a few glaciers were ending. Also, we were searching for Polar Bears. When we cruised by tis piece of ice in our Zodiacs, I had to ask the driver to go around a time or two. I finally saw the image in my viewfinder and fired away. I think I captured the essence of the iceberg as well as the big glacier behind it with the kind of light that we were experiencing at the moment. I really like this one.
Norway is a very beautiful country with Waterfalls, lakes, and rolling his as well as some huge peaks with deep fjords. I spent a week there a few years ago and I am now in the midst of planning a PODAS workshop there in 2014. This is a shot I love just because the god of light was watching out for me. The sun just hot this little farm perfectly.
I am excited because I leave in a few hours for my 40th class reunion back in Wayne, PA. HArd to believe it has been 40 years. I’ll be meeting up with some old firefighting buddies and visiting some people I haven’t seen in a very long tome. Best of all I’ll be eating breakfast at my all time favorite breakfast place Joe’s Place. Three mornings of breakfasts there should do me for a while. Today’s image is from a glacier in Norway. Light and the color of the ice make it a beautiful image.
This is an image I made when visiting Norway. What a beautiful country. Full of mountains, fiords, and waterfalls. I love the whole shot here with the waterfall, cloud and steam. Shot with a P65+.
One of the locations I want to do a PODAS workshop at next year will be Norway. I was there a few years ago and have tremendously nice images from the trip. This is one shot near the base of a still active glacier looking down the valley that the glacier once occupied. The small puddle of water on the rock kind of sets a nice foreground for the distant valley. If I remember this was shot with a P45+.
I haven’t published images from Norway for a while. Norway is one of those unknown but very beautiful countries. Waterfalls, fiords, valleys and magnificent landscapes are all over the place. This shot was made at sunset over a lake and a valley carved out by a glacier a long time ago. Shot with a Phase One P45+. I want to go back with my 80 megapixel IQ180 and shoot there.