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 Ice Caves - Apostle Islands National Lakeshore | |
Looks like I posted my Ice Caves shots to the wrong forum, sorry about that. I guess I usually hang out on the Nature & Wildlife forum so I posted there, when it should have been here. Not reposting everything but thought I would put a few in here for those that don\'t visit that forum.
These are just a few of the many shots from my weekend up at the Apostle Islands National Lake Shore Ice Caves, well I guess Sea Caves coated in Ice. It was a great experience, but bitter cold. Getting ready to go out before sunrise I had my gloves off for only a few minutes and my hands were so cold I couldn\'t feel them. I though it was going to be a short day, but I had to go out.
I was the first one to the parking lot Saturday and the trek out was unbelievably hard. I thought I was going to have to turn back. I had assumed since so many had been there previously (thousands) there would be massive packed trails. Well when I got there you couldn\'t tell where any trails were. It was crazy at times thigh deep in snow and could barely move.
It was worth it though, I had the place pretty much to myself for several hours really no one in the way until after noon when I was heading back and by then there were many hundreds of people out there.
These few shots are all HDR (some of my first ever attempts at this) All were shot at ISO 200 off the Tripod most were at f/16 and for fairly slow shutter speeds of 1/4 sec to 1/2 sec give or take a bit. All shot on a D300s with 17-55mm f/2.8 lens.
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