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Icebergs at Sunset
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Icebergs at Sunset

by Stan Wojtaszek

Gallery: LandscapePosted May 11, 2013111 views8 comments
Fishermen, supplying their long liner, offered to take me out of Bear Cove, into White Bay, to get a better look at the icebergs. What an impressive sight; they were everywhere !!

Comments

8 comments
Comment posted by Navin Sarma on May 11, 2013 at 1:40 PM
That is quite an impressive iceberg. I'm dying to see these one day. Nice contrast against the green trees. Perhaps a wider view would be nice too, just to have a little more context as to where this was shot.
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Comment posted by Stan Rose on May 11, 2013 at 3:18 PM
Neat! I agree with Navin--more room on the lhs needed to be pecise--but overall a nice shot. :wavey:
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Comment posted by Daniel Rappaport on May 12, 2013 at 1:56 AM
What an amazing object. Well composed, beautiful subtle color.
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Comment posted by Catherine Reilly on May 12, 2013 at 2:12 AM
Subtle colors. The reflection of the iceberg in the water is eery in a interesting way.
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Comment posted by Richard Teller on May 12, 2013 at 7:16 AM
The ice shape is a great subject and the sky color works well, but I agree with more room because for me the burg is to centered in the image a makes it a bit static.
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Comment posted by Mark Seaver on May 12, 2013 at 10:24 AM
The iceberg is a very interesting natural sculpture and it's color works well with the subtle glow in the sky. I think that sculptural feeling would be enhanced if the background berg wasn't there, but I've heard those things are tough to move, :biggrin: .
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Comment posted by Stan Wojtaszek on May 12, 2013 at 12:32 PM
Thanks, all, for the views and the comments.
Bouncing around, a fair bit, in the small boat we were in. Top it off, it was starting to get quite dark. The exposure, for this shot, was f:5.6; 1/60; ISO 400; image stabilization on. 35 mm focal length equivalent: 105 mm.
Had a shot with more room on the left (a horizontal); deleted it; can't remember exactly why; background must not have worked. Kept this one because I liked the sky.
Mark: you're right; the back berg would be VERY difficult to move. The front berg is part 1; the back one part 2. That's one berg, joined under water. If I pried them apart, the front one would have fallen over, soooooo, I decided to leave them intact. :biggrin:
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Comment posted by Stan Wojtaszek on May 12, 2013 at 12:43 PM
To tell the truth, the bay was packed with these things. Good thing we were far enough from shore there were no bugs or my mouth would have been full. :) Spent more time tripping over my jaw than anything else. In spite of all the bergs, this was the closest to a decent shot I got. We were either too close or too far. Then there were all the blurred shots. Surprising how small a wave can be to cause that. The waves weren't big at all but they were choppy. All in all, though, I was thrilled by the experience. Plus the fact that complete strangers loaded up their boat, came back to pick me up and then toured me around for twenty or thirty minutes. I think I made their day with my "main lander's" eyes popping out of their sockets and a grin big enough there was only a little piece of skin left keeping my head attached to my neck.
Some really nice people out here in Newfoundland.
Registered on August 6, 2012, 21 Posts, 86 Comments