Monthly Archives: April 2020

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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Alaska#8

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Glacier, Snow laden Chugach Mountains and Clouds, seen from Prince William Sound, Alaska.  The glacier inlet you see on the left is the same one that was on the right in Alaska#6.  As the boat moved away from the spot of Alaska#6, I fired several frames.  The visual overload that day was a little too much and I ended up with tired hands and shoulders, carrying two camera bodies and two heavy lenses in extremely cold and wet weather.  All worth it.  Nikon D700 with Nikkor 70-200mm f2.8 lens.

Prince William Sound, Alaska, USA

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Alaska#7

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Iceberg, snow, glacier, hill and clouds, Chugach Mountain range, seen from Prince William Sound, Alaska.  There are so many elements here.  The foreground iceberg in blue, the extension of  a glacier on the right, snow on the left and the hill covered in clouds.  I was shooting with my D4S loaded with the Nikkor 200-500mm f5.6 lens and this scene needed me to go wider.  Instead of changing my lens, I simply shot several frames that covered the top left, the top right, the bottom left and the bottom right.  I stitched them all together to create this image.  Images of this form factor are usually not stitched, but given the lens I had with me at the time, I had to improvise.  I am glad I did.  Looking at this image, I still feel the same chills that I felt that day. 

Glacier and hill, Prince William Sound, Alaska, USA

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