Category Archives: Landscapes

Alaska#18

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Alaska#18 – Mt. Denali National Park, Alaska.  I don’t shoot landscapes in the middle of the day (usually), because the light is much better around sunrise or around sunset.  In this case, because of the bus timings, I had two choices.  Take the photographs disregarding light or skip them altogether.  I am glad I made some images.  The clouds made it possible to get reasonable shots without harsh mid-day lighting.  It was a little after 11am, when this was shot.  A very rare landscape shot for me.  Nikon D4S with Nikkor 200-500mm f5.6 lens.

Denali National Park, Alaska, USA

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Alaska#17

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Mt. Denali, Denali National Park, Alaska.  As you know, tourists are no longer allowed to go into Denali National Park freely in their own private vehicles.  You pretty much have to win a lottery to have this privilege.  In late July, we stayed overnight in a lodge outside the Denali park and took the Denali tour bus and photographed through the bus window or when the bus stopped.  When our bus arrived at this location, Mt. Denali was covered with clouds.  Fortunately, the snow capped peak was visible at the very top.  This photograph became a keeper for me, because of a sense of discovery.  This is a routine trite shot of some hills with clouds over it, until you discover the snow capped Mt. Denali.  Nikon D4S with Nikkor 200-500mm f5.6 lens.  Why use this telephoto for landscapes?  Isolating interesting compositions from a bus is easier.  If I included the bus window and the road and the parking lots, it wouldn’t be as interesting.

Mt. Denali, Denali National Park, Alaska, USA

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Alaska#16

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Chugach Mountain ridges and clouds, as seen from Prince William Sound, Alaska.  This is an extended view of the same scene from Alaska#15.  I fired several overlapping frames and later stitched them in Lightroom.  The interplay between the ridges, the clouds and the snow laden peaks continued to mesmerize me for a long time during the cruise.  Nikon D700 with Nikkor 70-200mm f2.8 lens.

Prince William Sound, Alaska, USA

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Alaska#15

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Another composition of the same scene in Alaska#14.  In this one, I eliminated the water from the bay.  Although I was on the same boat, this gives the perception, that I was firmly on land.  Lot of depth here from the foreground hill with a bit of brown on it, to the distant snow laden peak.  Notice how the fog made the distant peak less clear and therefore added depth.  Several frames stitched together in Lightroom to make the pano image.  Nikon D700 with Nikkor 70-200mm f2.8 lens.

Prince William Sound, Alaska, USA

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Alaska#14

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Chugach Mountain ridges and clouds, as seen from Prince William Sound, Alaska.  Here, I love the interplay between the ridges, the clouds and the forest.  A bit of a brown in the foreground hill anchors the photograph.  Nikon D700 with Nikkor 70-200mm f2.8 lens.

Prince William Sound, Alaska, USA

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Alaska#13

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Snow, Glaciated Chugach Mountains and low clouds.  While the ridges and the snow were very interesting, what I love most about this scene are the low clouds.  This is one of those photographs that I hope conveys the visual overload I experienced that day, but no photograph is as good as experiencing it directly.  Nikon D4S with the Nikkor 200-500mm f5.6 lens.

Prince William Sound, Alaska, USA

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Alaska#12

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Gull colony on a vertical cliff and waterfall, Chugach Mountain range, seen from Prince William Sound, Alaska.  Multiple frames were stitched together to make this pano shot.  Nikon D4S loaded with the Nikkor 200-500mm f5.6 lens.  The easiest way to make such a shot from a bouncing boat, with heavy camera/lens hand-held is to fire the shots in high speed continuous shooting mode (9 frames per second for my D4S) and go from the left of the scene to the right.  Yes, using a high shutter speed helps to get everything sharp.  I used 1/640 s. 

Waterfall and Gull Colony, Prince William Sound, Alaska, USA

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Alaska#10

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Glacier, Chugach Mountains and clouds, as seen from Prince William Sound, Alaska.  You can see the glacier have two separate inlets into the bay here.  The glacier is the same as the one shot in Alaska#3, but this one was composed as a pano shot.  Several individual frames stitched together in Lightroom to create this one.  Nikon D700 with Nikkor 70-200mm f2.8 lens. 

Prince William Sound, Alaska, USA

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Alaska#9

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Gull colony on a vertical cliff, Chugach Mountain range, seen from Prince William Sound, Alaska.  Multiple frames from a D4S shot with Nikkor 200-500mm f5.6 lens, stitched together to make this pano.  Seeing so many gulls at once on a vertical cliff was a first for me.

Gull Colony, Prince William Sound, Alaska, USA

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