Depot Bay to Seal Rock
A few images from our trip to the coast the week of the 4th. I will admit to a little HDR processing on all of these. I am still learning the limits and capabilities of HDR. I know it can be a great tool and on the other hand is is something you can go “way out there” with in processing. Some of these may be just a little heavy but I don’t think any are “way out there” HDR was done with Photomatix.
Click on any thumbnail for a larger image. Hope you enjoy.
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- Bridge On Otter Crest Loop Road
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- Crab Pots On The Dock at Depot Bay
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- Rust and Reflection
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- The Janice Ann at Newport Bay, Oregon
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- The Lora Lee in Newport Harbor
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- Tide Pool at Seal Rock
Mendenhall Glacier
If you looked at the three “The Blues”, you saw what a couple of glaciers looked like on my trips to Alaska in ’05 and ’10. I am going to do something I don’t normally do and feature the work of another photographer on my site. This is with his permission.
A friend of mine, Chip Kalvin, flies helicopters for Temsco Helicopters in Juneau Alaska. He is not just a pilot but one of the best nature interrupters you will run across. I believe this is year 14 for him up there flying the glaciers and showing others from all over the world how magnificent the Juneau Ice Fields are. In that dozen years Chip has been watching the glaciers shrink away. I’m not yelling “Save the planet” here because there is noting we are going to do to save it. We have been able to screw up parts of it but in the big picture we are a bug on the windshield.
These images document the last few years on Mendenhall Glacier. I would really advise that if you want to see Mendenhall still calving icebergs into the lake you don’t wait too long to get up there.
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- Mendenhall Glacier 2010
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- Mendenhall Glacier 2010
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- Mendenhall Glacier 2010
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- Mendenhall Glacier 2010
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- Mendenhall Glacier 2010
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- Mendenhall Glacier 2010
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- Mendenhall Glacier 2011
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- Mendenhall Glacier 2011
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- Mendenhall Glacier 2011
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- Mendenhall Glacier 2011
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- Mendenhall Glacier 2011
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- Mendenhall Glacier about 1980 (30 years ago)
The Blues Volume 3
They started as one of many snow flakes sometimes hundreds of miles away and thousands of years ago. They have been compressed so tightly from the weight that the air is forced out of the ice. They scoured away at granite mountains. In the end they are small fragile and beautiful ice sculptures floating in the sea or a lake. Others just crumble and melt away on a beach or even on a rock shelf in a mountain range. Most are shrinking and dying, yet a few are still growing.
I don’t think you will ever really “get the feel” of a glacier until you walk on one and then touch a piece of that ice that is melting away. It makes no difference if it is Alaska or somewhere else in the world, if you get the chance to go see a glacier, take it. This is my last in “The Blues” series. It all ends as an iceberg melting away to nothing.
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- Harbor Seals On An Iceberg
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- An Iceberg Floating In Glacier Bay Alaska
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- Iceberg Drifting Near Hubbard Glacier
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- Not Much Left of An Iceberg in Tracy Arm
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- An Iceberg In College Fjord Alaska
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- An Iceberg In College Fjord Alaska
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- An Iceberg In College Fjord Alaska
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- An Iceberg in Tracy Arm
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- An Iceberg In College Fjord Alaska
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- Bald Eagles On An Iceberg, Glacier Bay
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- An Iceberg in Tracy Arm
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- An Iceberg In College Fjord Alaska
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- An Iceberg in Tracy Arm
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- An Interesting Iceberg in Tracy Arm
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- Mother and Pup Harbor Seals On An Iceberg
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- Iceberg Drifting Near Hubbard Glacier
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- Iceberg Floating Near Hubbard Glacier
The Blues Volume 2
More Glacial Blues but from the face this time. These are true blue, through and through. The Blues Volume 1 was more about detail and the top of the glacier. Here you will see the size of the glaciers and some of that grinding force that forms the Alaska landscape. This is a mix of tidewater, landlocked, lake and hanging glaciers.
I hope you enjoy. Watch for the final Volume 3, What’s Left Of The Blues.
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- A “Hanging Glacier” In College Fjord
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- Mendenhall Glacier Near Juneau, Alaska
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- One Of Many In Glacier Bay
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- The Real Blue Ice
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- Follow The Ice Up The Hill
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- The Days Are Numbered
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- Mendenhall Glacier and Lake
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- Ice Meets Water and Rock
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- Caving Glacier In Glacier Bay
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- North Sawyer Meets The Water
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- Kayaking on Mendenhall Lake
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- Mother Nature The Ice Carver
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- Cruising Hubbard Glacier
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- Tidewater No More
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- One Of Many In College Fjord
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- More Ice Water and Rock
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- North Sawyer In the Tracy Arm
The Blues Volume 1
They have got Delta Blues, Chicago Blues and Saint Louis Blues. Blues can make you happy or blue. Blue is what it is. In Alaska, the blues is a little different. In Alaska, the blues is glaciers. The blues helped carve out Alaska and are still doing it today. To get to the blues in Alaska you can go by air or boat. There are some blues you can even drive to. If you are thinking about flying to the blues, look into Temsco Helicopters. Without them and Chip over there I would not have gotten the images in this collection. And now Ladies and Gents, The Blues!
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- Herbert Glacier, The Blues From the Air
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- Glacier Pool and Crevasse On Mendenhall. Chilling Blues.
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- Patterens In The Ice On Mendenhall. Chilling Blues.
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- Mendenhall Glacier Pool. Chilling Blues.
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- Herbert Glacier, The Blues On The Ground
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- Mendenhall Glacier Pool and Crevasse On Mendenhall. Chilling Blues.
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- Herbert Glacier, The Blues From the Air
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- Herbert Glacier, The Blues From the Air
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- Mendenhall Glacier Pool and Crevasse On Mendenhall. Chilling Blues.
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- Herbert Glacier Pool, The Blues On The Ground
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- Patterens In The Ice On Mendenhall. Chilling Blues.
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- Herbert Glacier, The Blues From the Air
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- Herbert Glacier Pool, The Blues On The Ground
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- Herbert Glacier, The Blues From the Air
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- Mendenhall Glacier, Blues On The Ground
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- Herbert Glacier, The Blues On The Ground
Watch for The Blues Volume 2 Staring “The Faces and The Big Picture”
A drive along the Siuslaw River
To satisfy a very large need to get out of the house Jonna and I wandered out to what for us was virgin territory on Friday with a drive on the Siuslaw. The day started off pretty sunny but high clouds moved in later in the day. Most of the area is second growth timber…
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