Day two of our Iceland Tour and we get these conditions at Jokulsarlon. One of the best sunsets I have had in all the years I have been there.
This image was made with super strong side light from the sun just above the horizon, lighting up this ice berg like a light bulb.
A really gorgeous moment. Wind screaming outside now – another wild night on Iceland. But with three happy clients.
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Before we came up, we were on the Isle of Skye for three days, just getting warmed up and looking for a new home.
It was a successful trip and typically for the west of Scotland at this time of year, we had variable weather from horizontal rain, to glorious sunsets.
I love this area for its contrasts, jagged mountains, rivers that in 24 hours went from calm, still meanders, to raging torrents – wonderful conditions to immerse in the landscape.
This is about 11 vertical images merged to pano in Lightroom CC and further processed on the laptop in Photoshop.
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Within the last 200 years the vast majority of it has been felled.
Thankfully, the tide may be turning and once again Scotland is being forested with native species. A new dawn perhaps?
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This is an 11 shot vertical pano with thee 14mm handheld and stitched in CC 2015.
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Surely this is the valley?
Overlooked by Everest, Lhotse and Makalu with over 4000m of vertical elevation.
This shot was taken from near our camp 4 in the valley floor at 4250m – a rest from the higher altitude areas above us.
The frost on the foreground plants was so blue compared to the sunlit mountains behind.
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Marc Adamus had found this little lake earlier in the day and although we had headed for our tents with the peaks shrouded in low cloud – by 10:30pm everything was clear.
Finding the lake again in the pitch dark was a laugh, all of us floundering around in the dark, breathless at the altitude and the pressing cold.
However, all turned out well and watching the Milky Way over Everest, Lhotse and Makalu was breath-taking.
As usual, I managed to find the water by stepping up to my knees in it!
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Then came the sheep and the Highland Clearances – a mass exodus that saw America, Australia, Canada and New Zealand grow in numbers and the birth of Scottish ancestry.
Thankfully, Scotland is being forested once again and the old forest is becoming new forest. Good news for Scotland and for me.
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Living in this corner of paradise is a blessing.
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This image was taken from about 4500m outside the village of Tingri (the jumping off town for Everest north).
I kept warm in the pre dawn by having a push up competition with our Tibetan driver – 🙂
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Ama Dablam is a beautiful mountain and hangs over much of the trek up to Everest Base Camp from the south (Nepal) side.
The trail is punctuated by many of these Tibetan Stuppas – little shrines of worship, decorated with stones carved with the repetitive Om Mani Padmi Hum. This shot by moonlight illuminated for me a beautiful experience of solitude and reflection.
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