A few more images captured at Jökulsárlón - first in the evening the day before when the waves buffeted the drift ice and glacier pieces. It was cold and windy that day.
What a change in the following morning! The sun was up, the wind was practically still and the tidal ebbed, exposing the beaten up pieces of ice on the beach. But it was cold nonetheless. Although it didn't look like it but there between 100 and 150 people on the beach, making it really difficult to take picture without including people in your frame, especially using a wide angle lens.
The ice pieces pictured in the morning were actually fairly small but captured at close up distances and low angle, practically on the ground in some cases. The flip screen did come in really handy in this case .
Not sure why, but I like this image. Shot through the plane's window as a man was de-icing the plane. This was at the Anchorage Airport in Alaska. Probably not something people in Sourthern areas get to see, but they do this before most flights in Alaska when it's below zero degrees.
A couple of shots from the desktop using the A7s with ancient Leitz 50mm Elmar wide open at f/2.8 mounted on a Hawk's helicoid adapter. I find this lens has a unique rendering style.
(i) time for a break, time for several cups of yak butter tea. Most Tibetans drink up to 40 cups a day, you get used to it over time, it's their main source of fat and very important to the diet. (ii) more refreshing is barley grain beer, called chang, these women are enjoying a cup each at the winter festival. FE55 / a7r.
Greggf wrote:
Some great images last page! Joshua...I need to go on a photo trip with you!! Awesome pics!
Gregg
Thanks, Gregg! Yes, next time I will be up in your neck of the wood, I will let you know and if you go down south, please do let me know.
HelenaN wrote:
Very nice set Gregg, and I love all Iceland photos from Joshua and teh_rebel on the previous pages!
Thank you, Helena.
A few more from the same spot as the day progressed as I was trying to capture more and sometimes bizarre "ice sculptures" scattered around on the beach....
Gregg, the A7 II is the most enjoyable camera out of the 3 bodies and the IBIS performs very well for me. I took 3 bodies on that trip although I didn't use the A7 II much since it was more my back up body after experiencing a failure of my A7r in my previous trips.
Except for shooting in the ice caves, when I used my A7r and for shooting the northern lights, when I used my A7s, the Canon 11-24mm stayed on the A7 II all the time. Although it is an ultra wide angle zoom, but I shot a lot of close up shots at low angle and admittedly (shame on me) I didn't use my tripod for these shots, the IBIS helped tremendously to get tack sharp images.
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