The Abandoned Engine Room of the Coppermine
The Abandoned Engine Room of the Coppermine
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Stuck In Customs
Stuck In Customs
© 2012 Trey Ratcliff
© 2012 Trey Ratcliff
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SPECIAL GUEST APPEARANCE
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My Tour and Workshop is uniquely crafted for the photographer who wants to make better portraits with natural light, natural light with strobes, and other light modifiers.
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Daily Photo - Helga’s Farm in Iceland
My friend Helga has been wonderful enough to invite me to her farm in Iceland many times. It’s always a fun trip up to the north to see her. But, I always get a little lost. Finding the particular-turn-in along this fjord is constantly a source of confusion, especially at night. I don’t know why it is so difficult to me, because after I get there it is plain as day. And I’m sure all Icelanders think I am crazy… but it’s like a hidden door, fey and fleeting with the light, and you can only see it during certain portals of time.
Once you get on the little dirt road to her farm this is what you see.
The Deep Icy Lake
Lake Wakatipu, cut by glaciers 15,000 years ago, plummets to 399 meters in depth (almost a quarter-mile)! There is something creepy about very-deep lakes. I don’t know what it is. I mean, anything could be down there. Something cold, old, and terrible… slithering around through a slurry of icy mud and grit, just waiting to shoot to the surface for a snack…
Oak on Winter Sunrise
I hiked through a frost-covered meadow in the morning to get up under this tree. And it was one of those meadows with very long grasses that formed little frosty mounds. They give way with each step with the sound of a tiny crunch and spring back up after you pass. But the moisture is so light and cool, it is not even noticed until you look down and see your shoes have a slick coating of their own.
I then got up underneath this old oak tree with my wide-angle lens, aiming it in the direction of the rising sun. Because I was so deep in the valley, the sun did not crest for another three hours, but the light dithered in different ways the whole time.
My first trip to Yosemite was so fun — I can’t believe it was only a few weeks ago!
I’ve been to Yellowstone about a dozen times, so it was strange never to have a trip to Yosemite under my belt. Yellowstone is great and everything, but it lacks a few of these “epic” scenes, if you know what I mean.
Little Church in Yosemite
While in the meadows between the mountains of Yosemite, I did not expect to see this little church.
And waiting for the right kind of light was another challenge. The light down in the valley is so strange. The sheer walls of the mountains on both sides are so steep that the sun disappears quite early in the day. Everything becomes a little-bit-dreamy then, and I felt like that was a good time to take the shot.
The Glaciers of the Alps
Getting to the top of these mountains happened just in time, late on s cool, crisp day on one of my first afternoons in Switzerland. I knew things would be beautiful way up here in the upper atmosphere, but I honestly did not expect the streaming confluence of flowing ice. This is always a nice and unexpected aspect of glaciers – how they look like they are flowing and still at the same time.
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