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Des' Alaska/Canada Trip #13 - Ice, Ice, Baby

PostPosted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 11:18 pm
by losfp
What's a trip to Alaska without shots of icebergs eh?

Glacier Bay

The ship clears a path through the ice for some sea kayakers, with the Johns Hopkins Glacier in the background

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This doesn't look that impressive until you realise the wall of ice is probably 60-80m tall!! We stood there are watched the glacier calving continuously for ages - probably once every couple of minutes, acompanied by a loud crack, like thunder.

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Tracy Arm

South Sawyer Glacier - all the bits of ice are falling off this glacier!!

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PostPosted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 9:48 am
by stubbsy
Des

Those last two images are superb - especially the second last which has wonderful use of foreground to draw the viewer into the shot.

And please, I know you're excited about the great images you've captured, but our guidelines are no more than 4 images per post. :wink:

PostPosted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 11:02 am
by losfp
Ah yeah, sorry Peter. In the excitement I lost my ability to count ;)

PostPosted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 11:06 am
by hyperhiryu
I'm liking #1 and #5. Love the contrast of the kayaks on the water, and how big was the chunk of ice in the last one?

Looks like you had a great holiday!

PostPosted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 9:18 pm
by losfp
hyperhiryu wrote:I'm liking #1 and #5. Love the contrast of the kayaks on the water, and how big was the chunk of ice in the last one?

Looks like you had a great holiday!


Cheers guys!

That big squarish block of ice on top of the even bigger bit of ice was roughly 4WD-sized ;)

Them's some BIG floating bits of ice, especially if you consider apparently 90% is below the surface

PostPosted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 9:48 pm
by radar
Des,

the fourth one is awesome, great shot with the ice flow and the fjord in the distance.

First one is also very nice.

Cheers,

André