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Day hike through the Hooker Valley. I was lucky that the sun was already lower when I arrived at my destination. The sight of the mighty mountain is breathtaking.
Aoraki / Mount Cook is the highest mountain in New Zealand, with 3,724 m (12,218 ft).
Sunset at Cooks Beach, a secluded beach in Freycinet National Park, facing towards the sheltered Great Oyster Bay on the east coast of Tasmania, Australia.
Camera: Ricoh KR-10 Super.
Lens: ?
Fujichrome slide film.
Scanner: Nikon LS-5000 (by jetzt-digital).
Edited with GIMP.
Seen from the more traditional angle across from Lake Pukaki. Mount Cook / Aoraki lies in the Southern Alps in the South Island of New Zealand. Mt Cook / Aoraki is the tallest mountain in New Zealand at a height of 3,724 m. Unfortunately the weather gods kept the sun at bay and caused a light breeze. However, I'd like to think that I still managed a respectable image. Hope you will enjoy this one!
Rather than using the traditional landscape lens I used my 85mm portrait lens which brings the distant mountains in a bit closer.
A BNSF eastbound manifest blasts out of a tunnel in the Columbia River Gorge east of Cooks, Washington. A 2013-built CREX ES44AC leads the train.
The setting sun catches the side of the vertical retort building (1932) at the site of the old Launceston Gas Company. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Launceston_Gasworks
In 1826 Launceston, like most cities was running on sperm whale oil for their lamps. But in 1844, Dr William Pugh (a pioneer of anesthetic medicine) produced a means by which he could convert coal into methane gas to light his house. This was an idea that took off quickly around the world and gas companies were formed to mass produce methane gas from coal.
In 1858 the Launceston Gas Company was formed and on 5 April 1860 the city turned on its gas powered street lights for the first time. In 1932 the vertical retort building we see here (where the actual conversion process was carried out) was built. It was a far more efficient and larger means of producing more gas. Most of the coal was actually shipped in from the Hunter Valley and down the Tamar to the wharf directly outside the main entrance to the gasworks.
By the 1970s LPG had become more convenient and a cheaper form of gas and so the conversion processing plant was shut down.
So this is my tribute to yesteryear. Enjoy it while it lasts. It was also part of my personal challenge to only use a 50mm lens.
Construction began in the spring of 1907 in Rhyolite, NV and by 1910 the Cook Bank was closed. The bank was three stories tall and housed the local Post Office in the basement. The inside had marble staircases and all the modern conveniences, like electric lights and indoor plumbing. A financial crisis at the time caused banks across the country to go bankrupt.
October 10, 1999 finds GBSOA thundering down the hill near Cooks with 6593, 1762, 1761, 1756 and 2054. The WC had done a lot of track work in the area and the hogger was putting that to good use on this fine fall afternoon.
The sun sets above with the clouds over Mammoth Hot Springs there in Yellowstone. It was incredible view to behold. Tried to do it some justice with this handheld capture.
Another 3 shot pano stitched together in Lightroom taken along the Cook Inlet in Alaska
Sorry metadata isn't there. I don't know why it didn't export. It was taken around 3:30 to 4 pm
Canon R5
Lens RF 28-70mm
28mm focal length
1/400th of a second with ISO @ 160
f / 8.0
Aperture Priority
3 photos taken in a row, moving left to right and then combined in Lightroom
Distant view of Aoraki / Mt Cook around sunrise on a chilly morning. At 3,724 m, Mt Cook is New Zealand's highest mountain. The body of water is called Lake Pukaki, one of NZ's hydro lakes.
Mount Cook, New Zealand.
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Half way between Mount Cook village and the Hooker Glacier we came across this old hut. As can be seen all the way up the valley New Zealand's high point dominated the approach.
Taken from SH 8 on the golden hour at about a 60 km distance away (as the crow flies) on the shore of Lake Pukaki. Due to the use of the 105 mm prime this is a heavy crop in pp. My initial plan was to shoot a wider view but decided during pp it looked a lot better cropped as the foreground was just too much water.
ペニンシュラの前ではクリスマスマーケットをやっています。
飾り付けられた歩道ではコックさんがケーキを売っています。
There is a Christmas market in front of the Peninsula Hotel.
A cook sells cakes on the decorated sidewalk.
The Hooker Valley Track leads you through the Hooker Valley to here - the beautiful Hooker Lake in Mount Cook National Park, New Zealand.
Wall Art or Digital Image available:
The beautiful milky blue-grey stream of the Hooker River cuts its way through the verdant valley beneath Aoraki, South Island's highest peak.
from north
Yukon/Alaska border
13,766 ft (4,196 m)
other side - www.skolaiimages.com/photo/mt-cook-photo-of-the-st-elias-...
"a massive and complex peak with many challenging ridges...a spectacular steep north face with a large hanging glacier giving it the appearance of a half eaten heavily frosted wedding cake" - A Climber's Guide to the St. Elias Mountains, Volume 1, by Richard Holmes
Considerable loss of ice in last 4 decades - see 2nd note from left on image
1st ascent, 6/29-8/12 1953 - publications.americanalpineclub.org/articles/12195403200/...
(difficult trip out - "On August 3rd we began the 60-mile journey to the ocean. Rain, fog, and poor visibility made the trip a most uncomfortable one. When we reached the beach on August 9th we didn’t have a piece of dry clothing among us. The preceding six days had been too much for even waterproof articles. To add to our misery, a cache of food left on the beach was stolen, apparently by fishermen. We were reduced to a diet of wild peas for three days. On August 12th we were picked up by Merriman. Dr. Robert Sharp, geologist studying the Malaspina Glacier, had spotted us earlier that day while attempting to air drop supplies at his camp on the Malaspina Glacier.")
(1999 traverse AAJ 2000 p 219 - c498469.r69.cf2.rackcdn.com/2000/220_canada_aaj2000.pdf)
"Named in 1874 by . H. Dall, U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (USC&GS), for Captain James Cook, 1728-79, English navigator and explorer who was responsible for considerable exploration of the Alaska coast as far north as Icy Cape, near latitude 70." - edits.nationalmap.gov/apps/gaz-domestic/public/summary/13...
publications.americanalpineclub.org/articles/12196803600/... -
"In 1874 W. H. Dali and Marcus Baker of the U. S. Coast Survey named Mounts Cook and Vancouver from the sea, but somehow the names and elevations must have gotten scrambled, as they mapped Cook’s approximate elevation on Vancouver and Vancouver’s approximate elevation on Cook, and surely they had intended the higher mountain to bear Cook’s name, for he was the more famous of the two British navigators. At any rate, the names stuck where they first appeared on the maps and the elevations were soon applied to the right mountains. At the time of the Klondike gold rush the need was seen to determine the Alaska-Canada boundary more precisely, as the old Russian-British Treaty of 1825 had merely said for this section, "the chain of mountains which follow, at a very small distance, the winding of the coast.” The crests and interior of the Saint Elias Mountains were quite unknown around 1900 and "a very small distance” was taken to be within 10 marine leagues, so it was decided to connect prominent peaks no more than 34½ miles from the sea to form the boundary between the head of Portland Canal and the 141st meridian. Mount Vancouver was used as Boundary Peak 181, but the surveyors went in no further than the sea in this area, hence they used the south-southeast summit rather than the higher one hidden behind it."
aka Boundary Peak 182
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Boundary_Peaks_of_the_Alask...
www.famousfix.com/list/international-mountains-of-north-a...
more distant view (showing vast Seward Glacier) - www.flickr.com/photos/29750062@N06/32070263882/
my photos arranged by subject, e.g. mountains - www.flickr.com/photos/29750062@N06/collections