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Up Close and Personal

Strain — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 02:33:00 +0000

As cozy as that crevasse looks, the sound of rolling boulders and collapsing ice was unnerving enough to keep me on solid ground…

Pentax K10D / DA 18-55, PEF converted in Lightroom

Mirror Image

Strain — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 01:51:00 +0000

I paid in blood to get this photo, and have the mosquito bites to prove it…

Pentax K10D / DA 18-55, converted from PEF in Lightroom

Unuk Finger

Strain — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 02:51:00 +0000

The Unuk Finger, at over 2300 metres in elevation, is the highest point for miles around. The peak is encircled by glaciers; all but one arrete on its northwest slope is buried in ice. That doesn’t stop the intrepid mountain goats, though. A flyby of the peak last week revealed several sets of tracks in the snow, all the way up to the summit.

I’ve been leaving my DA 10-17 Fisheye in camp the last few days, in favour of my old-school Pentax-M 50mm 1.7. It can be a pain not having the ultrawide angle of the fisheye, but the old 50 is far and away the sharpest lens in my kit, a quality that makes it perfectly suited for when I have black-and-white in mind…

Pentax K10D / M 50 1.7, B&W conversion from PEF in Lightroom

High Alpine Black and White

Strain — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 21:44:00 +0000

A black and white treatment from a vantage point similar to the one in the post “Another Day in the Office”

Pentax K10D / DA 10-17 Fisheye

A Portrait of the Prospector as a Young Man

Strain — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 05:49:00 +0000

For the record, I don’t like Joyce and I never finished the book…

Pentax K10D / DA 18-55

Ted Morris

Strain — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 03:02:00 +0000

The Ted Morris Glacier, over a kilometre wide at the first bend, is the largest glacier in my general area and the northern lobe of the Frank Mackie Glacier, which stretches 40km south to the Alaska border.

Ice Age

Strain — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 05:47:00 +0000

Two more from earlier this week:

Unuk Finger

Another Day in the Office…

Strain — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 05:57:00 +0000

The Ted Morris glacier. Pentax K10D / DA 10-17 Fisheye

More Glacier Photos

Strain — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 01:24:00 +0000

Same glacier as yesterday. All photos here taken with my K10D, the first three with the DA 50-200, and the B&W with the DA 10-17 Fisheye.

Calving

Strain — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 01:19:00 +0000

Some photographers will sit and wait for days at the terminus of an ice sheet, hoping to capture on film the awesome power of hundreds of tonnes of ice peeling away from the glacier and thundering to the ground below. I don’t exactly have that kind of time while I’m at work, so I kinda figured I’d never manage to get a photo of calving in progress. Unfortunately, my camera was secured in its pelican case for the main event: about an hour after this, a block the size of several houses broke loose, shaking the ground as it crashed several hundred metres to the valley floor…

Before:

After:

Waterfall in the top left, for scale: