Peter_Skov
Russet Lake and Wild Flowers at Dawn
I was recently informed about the Galen Rowell Tribute Group here on Flickr and I was flattered that the message bearer thought my work was worthy. I went home to see what images I had that would adequately reflect Rowell's influence on my photography.
In truth, I don't feel his style has been so much of an influence as his approach. I learned much about mountain photography from his book 'Mountain Light', which I must have read at least three times.
This photograph here was captured at Russet Lake, in Garibaldi Provincial Park, British Columbia, Canada. I was back home in Canada for 15 months and asked a friend to join me for a hike to this lake. In the morning there was little potential for alpine glow photographs because of the too perfect summer sky. However, the wildflowers in bloom and the early light creeping into the scene kept me busy.
The slide was shot on Velvia 50 and scanned back in 2005 at Lens & Shutter as a low res scan. The blues came out a little too strong and I tried to correct this with GIMP but I couldn't get a satisfactory effect that matched the original slide. Also, the sharpness seemed too strong and so I used a Gausian Blur set at 1 (the lowest setting) to reduce the pin-prick white pixels that seemed to be throughout the image.
While the photo is posted here as a tribute to Galen Rowell, it was published in a 'Canadian Camera' issue in 2007 along with an article about my mentors in photography and was used as an example of J.A. Kraulis' influence on my work. The photo representing Rowell's influence was a shot of Cerro Poincenot, near Cerro Fitz Roy in Argentina. That photo is also in my photostream.
Russet Lake and Wild Flowers at Dawn
I was recently informed about the Galen Rowell Tribute Group here on Flickr and I was flattered that the message bearer thought my work was worthy. I went home to see what images I had that would adequately reflect Rowell's influence on my photography.
In truth, I don't feel his style has been so much of an influence as his approach. I learned much about mountain photography from his book 'Mountain Light', which I must have read at least three times.
This photograph here was captured at Russet Lake, in Garibaldi Provincial Park, British Columbia, Canada. I was back home in Canada for 15 months and asked a friend to join me for a hike to this lake. In the morning there was little potential for alpine glow photographs because of the too perfect summer sky. However, the wildflowers in bloom and the early light creeping into the scene kept me busy.
The slide was shot on Velvia 50 and scanned back in 2005 at Lens & Shutter as a low res scan. The blues came out a little too strong and I tried to correct this with GIMP but I couldn't get a satisfactory effect that matched the original slide. Also, the sharpness seemed too strong and so I used a Gausian Blur set at 1 (the lowest setting) to reduce the pin-prick white pixels that seemed to be throughout the image.
While the photo is posted here as a tribute to Galen Rowell, it was published in a 'Canadian Camera' issue in 2007 along with an article about my mentors in photography and was used as an example of J.A. Kraulis' influence on my work. The photo representing Rowell's influence was a shot of Cerro Poincenot, near Cerro Fitz Roy in Argentina. That photo is also in my photostream.