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Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, Alaska, USA. Here the bottom left has the pink flower laden hill as foreground. Additionally, this has the same type of cloud-ridge interrupts. Finally, this has three layers of shaded clouds in the top right part of the image. Nikon D4S with 200-500mm f5.6 lens with 1.4x teleconverter. Shot at 700mm.
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Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, Alaska, USA. Loved this composition because of the pink flower laden foreground hills, followed by four distinct interrupts by the clouds on the ridges. The first such interrupt is in the top left corner of the image. The same pattern repeats as you go to the right for a total of four times. I saw this happen and to isolate it, not only did I have to add my 1.4x teleconverter to the 200-500mm f5.6 lens setup at 500mm, but I also added a 1.5x crop in-camera. Effectively, this is another 1050mm shot.
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Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, Alaska, USA. This is another 700mm landscape. Loved this composition because of the three distinct layers of hills shown here, accentuated by the way the clouds interrupt the ridges.
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Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, Alaska, USA. Continuing on with highly unusual landscape here. I shot this with the same 700mm lens setup. Loved this scene because of the rolling wavy lines on the main subject hill, arrested by the strong sharp diagonal right to left ridge. Additionally the cloud cover is layered, covered a little bit of the main subject hill, but covering a lot more of the background hills. This scene is so isolated that to reach it with my lens, I had to apply a further 1.5x crop in-camera, to finally nail this framing. Effectively, this is a 1050mm shot.
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Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, Alaska, USA. This image was made continuing on with my 700mm setup from Alaska#35. I loved this scene because of the shadowed hill in the foreground, followed by strong diagonal lines in the mid ground hill, followed by hazy distant hill. With clouds filling 1/3 of the frame.
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Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, Alaska, USA. The sheer uniqueness of this landscape encouraged me to shoot this image. The horizontal pattern at the bottom, followed by diagonal pattern above it and finally, the uniquely different hills anchoring the background. The low clouds added drama. To isolate this scene, my Nikkor 200-500mm f5.6 lens was insufficient. I needed to add my 1.4x teleconverter, to effectively shoot this at 700mm.
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Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, Alaska, USA. When a natural scene has geometrical patterns embedded, it excites visually. Here you see how the pink flower laden foreground hill slopes right to the left. The distant hills slope from the left to the right (two of them). Finally the snow in the farthest hill slopes from the right to the left. An alternating pattern here. Finally, the clouds on top. Nikon D4S loaded with the Nikkor 200-500mm f5.6 lens.
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Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, Alaska, USA. This scene was interesting for me firstly because of the pink flower laden hillside. Secondly, there is a repeating pattern of ridges coming out of the clouds to the bottom right. Nikon D4S loaded with the Nikkor 200-500mm f5.6 lens.
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Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, Alaska, USA. This scene intrigued me because of the pink flower laden foreground hill on the bottom right, followed by the shadowed ridge and then the lit mountains in the background covered by clouds. The sharp ridge cutting the clouds in the top left anchors the shot along with the pink flowery hill in the bottom right acting as a secondary anchor. Nikon D4S loaded with the Nikkor 200-500mm f5.6 lens.
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Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, Alaska, USA. On our second day trip to Brooks Falls, instead of seeing the bears for the second day in a row, we took a bus ride to the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, a great location within Katmai National Park. This is one of several scenes I photographed there. The low clouds helped add drama to this landscape. An abstracted “Z” from the elements here. Nikon D4S loaded with the Nikkor 200-500mm f5.6 lens. People call this lens a wildlife lens. For me, this is a versatile all round lens.
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