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I am back on FM with another photo from my Baffin Island 2014 trip.
Taking photos in the Arctic, far up North or down there in the South corner of the Planet Earth brings a lot of pleasure. I have visited both extreme locations: Baffin Island up North, in the Canadian Arctic and Patagonia at the southern most end of South America. I will be going back to both these places in 2015 because they deserve my return. The light created by Sun that travels very low above the horizon can’t be compared with any other location. As long as you have some clouds on the sky, even mid day feels like a morning or evening. It was exactly the case with this photo. I took it about 4 hrs before the sunset. There wasn’t too much of a color on the sky, yet. Nevertheless, the thin layer of clouds diffused the light creating this pleasing golden glow. This added a little bit of a warm feeling to this land that never melts. Big, flat glaciers like Turner Glacier showed on this photo are often featureless. In search for interesting foreground I crossed this glacier many times. One of the most interesting attributes that I found is that there are numerous channels carved in the ice by melting water. This particular channel that is visible on this photo ended with a pit. I can only imagine the waterfall plunging into this blue crevasse.
Very nice Artur! I love the strong leading line which slowly takes my eye up to Mt. Asgard. I presume this is focus stacked - correct? I'm viewing on my (non-calibrated) work monitor and there seems to be a slight magenta cast on the foreground snow. Not sure if you are seeing this on your calibrated monitor.... Thanks for sharing!
What a beauty, it deserves the revisit for sure, thanks to your great capture, i can imagine the feeling of being there and looking at this magnificent view.
Great work Arthur.
I've seldom felt the need to travel abroad much, due to the fact that there is already more than I can see in my lifetime without ever leaving the states, but your images from Baffin have made me set a goal of getting up to the arctic at some point in the future. Inspiring stuff and an amazing location.
The composition is right on. Love that cloud in the upper right completely echoing the crack at the bottom left. Very cool there. Details look really sharp and nice. That mountain is certainly a unique shape ... very cool! My only complaint is the warm white balance. Maybe it was that way, but as an outside viewer it seems a bit warm overall to me. It looks like hell has frozen over!
Artur,
Amazing image , I am with Kyle, the glowing blue crevasse in the FG is spectacular against the rest of the image. Great job here . Regards,
Dean
Thanks everybody for comments and votes. Glad you like it. It is one of my favourite ones from Baffin.
@ Gary Clennan-I don't see magenta on my monitor.
@B. Landau-not many options to put sun elsewhere for this photo. It had to be that way or the whole composition would be worse. Classic payoff.
@Kris Kayser-White balance...well, I don't know. It seems fine to me, but opinions may vary
