Gunaella Pass

Guanella Pass, Georgetown, Colorado

Been quite busy lately but I found the time to get out with my camera one morning last week in Colorado. I was staying with a friend in Gerogetown, Colorado and drove up to the top of Guanella Pass, 11,669 feet. And PS, it is hard to breath at that altitude if you are a sea level New Yorker....

It was bitter cold that morning. Despite the cold, on the way down the pass, I managed few images, one which is posted today. It was the wispy cloud that caught my eye and I wanted to made theimage before it dis-appeared behind the mountains...

Whidbey Island - Deception pass

Deception Pass - Whidbey Island

Whidbey Island - Deception Pass....This image was made on the last day of the Last-Pixel Show workshop at the Pacific Northwest Art School. The weather held up and everyone seemed to be having a fun time......Hopefully wil be back next year....

Really liked the school and the area - lots of places to shoot and everyone is quite friendly. Perfect place for a photographic trip.

Image made with a medium format digital back...

Las Vegas - Red Rock National Park

Red Rock National Park, Las Vegas

“Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world"............John Muir

Bastion Falls

Bastion Falls, Hudson Valley, New York

Ireland Landscape

Ireland

'One of the biggest mistakes a photographer can make is to look at the real world and cling to the vain hope that next time his film will somehow bear a closer resemblance to it'......Galen Rowell

Iceland Waterfall - Gullfoss

Gullfoss, Iceland

'Photography is not a sport. It has no rules. Everything must be tried'....Bil Brandt

The header image is from an industrial thermal energy site near Reykjavik....One just walks around these industrial sites - no fences, no guard, good service.....

Iceland Reflections

Glacier Reflection 1

Sometimes finding a good image is difficult -  like seeing the trees in the forest....And being on this glorious location in Iceland has similar problems.  I remember my first trip to this spot and being awestruck by the sheer beauty of what was in front of me....Wonderful ice sculptures floating about on the smoothest of water and equally special reflections.....What I learned this time around was to think about the shapes in the image and how they related to each other.....instead of just being in awe of the total structure of the scene....great learning experience this time around....

What I liked about this image was the fish-head shape in the back left and I worked the rest of the composition around this space.....

The header image is detail form today's post.....

Iceland - Glacier Detail

Last Wednesday and Thursday were spent at the Fosshotel Skaftafell in the southeast of Iceland. Right behind the hotel was Iceland's highest mountain, Hvannadalshnjukur,  and the largest glacier, Vatnajokull. The glacier was in walking distance from the hotel - a bit of a mountain walk but generally accessible.  Additionally the glacier Jokulsarion is a quick 40 minute drive from the hotel - and at 3AM can we reached in less then 30 minutes.

The glacier covers covers approximately 8% of the country - Iceland being the same size as Kentucky - 40,411 square miles...

With the hotel so close we were able to photograph this glacier three times. Of course I made traditional landscape images but today's post is  detail from this glacier....

The image in the header is the wide shot this detail was pulled from....If you are receiving this blog via email click on the title and it will take you to the main blog page to see the wide shot.

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