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View to the South

One year ago this evening I returned from my month long trip to South America and Antarctica.  So while I was working on the long delayed video of the trip I did some frame grabs that were taken with the idea I would want them in the future.  That future arrived today.  The image is of my last glimpse of the Melchior Islands off the coast of the continent Antarctica as we headed north.  The fact that I could get this image at all was amazing to me.  As we left the passage between the islands clouds covered our departure.  However hours later, probably 25 miles away, the clouds had lifted and the bright sun peeked through under them.  The only camera I had in my hand for those few minutes was my Canon GL-2 video.  So maximum zoom, braced against a bulkhead of the rolling ship, I steadied for as many seconds as I could hold my breath.  A year and four frame grabs later, with a lot of help from Photoshop CS3 and Photoshop Lightroom, and Genuine Fractals 5.0, I got a pretty good shot for the web.  Just not as good as one of my shipmates with his 500mm.

Panorama of SE Iceland

I was looking for another image and stumbled on five images that I had not stitched from the Iceland trip.  It is now in the Iceland Travel Gallery.  I call it YELLOW CONTEMPLATING BLUE (the tourist in the yellow hood is staring at the blue berg bit).  A nice discovery for me and him.

Speaking of discoveries, my Iceland travel pal, is now in Fairbanks, Alaska heading north.  Steve Ginn writes about it here.  Steve has now been to Antarctica (almost 66 degrees south), to Iceland (above 66 degees north) and now to Alaska, and above the 67th latitude.  All in one year.  Having done 2/3rds of that with him, it is a huge effort.  I expect to see a lot of great images from him this winter.

Aldeyjarfoss Falls, Iceland

This panorama is 14,391 x 10,806 pixels and was created from 12 hand held images with my Canon 1Ds Mark II, 70-200mm f/4 IS (at 70mm) on June 28, 2007.

http://terra360.com/images/zoom_aldeyjarfoss.html

IVRPA Meeting

The International VR Photography Association is having its meeting in Berkeley, CA.  Everyone is learning a lot about the capture, creation, technical fine tuning, and business of this special world of imagery. More to come on this soon, but likely not until after ICELAND.  I depart on June 21st.