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The essence of Apostle Islands National Lakeshore in the winter is its different ice/snow formations EVERY YEAR. So as photographers, we would never be tired of visiting there, and would never worry about getting the exactly same images in each visit. Credit to our mother nature!
In this winter, there are three major types of ice formations along the lake shore. Hike from south west to north east, you first see large areas of exposed frozen lake. If the wind cooperates so that most snow on the surface is cleared, you can see those cute ice bubbles and cracks. After about an mile hike, you see ice caves and snow covered lake where most visitors stop. But if you continues hiking 2-3 miles towards to north, the amazing "Ice Kingdom" shown by this photo is there, and I bet few visitors or photographers actually reach that far.
Walking across these ice sheets is already a very challenging task, but to capture the close look of these giant and crystal clear ice, I had to stand and set my tripod on one of the many unstable sheets. The thick low clouds partially blocked the sunlight and created Tyndall Effect during that sunset, and the two brave hikers deserved to get the glorious light and the name "Ice Breakers" :)
How were these ice sheets formed? Thanks and credit to my friend Wan Shi's knowledgeable explanation, "Before the ice caves were opened to public this winter, the lake had been frozen over near the ice caves twice, and then was blown apart twice by strong wind. The broken ice sheets, as large as window glass panels, were pushed by wind and waves to the foot of cliffs, and were later anchored by newly formed stable ice."
Another shot from my stormy day series of the last couple days. I caught this while some sunshine was breaking through a crack in the clouds at a low angle, shining side-long onto the waves giving them the green translucent color. Dark silhouettes of the Cascade mountain range are in the background.
Purgatory for the old St. Nicholas Coal Breaker. There were local and national news stories in early 2015 about the start of demolition of this massive piece of industrial history, and how it was a metaphor for the coal industry, and how the old-timers were wistful. Then work slowed to a crawl or stopped. It had looked like this for more than a year when I stopped by on my way south.
Ice Breaker, Jokulsarlon Lagoon, Iceland
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The Breakers Newport Rhode Island USA. The Breakers was built as the Newport summer home of Cornelius Vanderbilt II, a member of the wealthy United States Vanderbilt family
Breaker Beachside
Full on sunshine, is usually a deal breaker. So I stuck a ND filter on the lens, at the time didnt own one. So I perservered, the light on the water is beautiful.
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Due to the fact that the wind comes almost from West, the waves become the same direction, from W to E, and wash the sand away
To stop/make less this washout effect, to break the stronght of the waves - that's the reason of this pillars. In the northern part of Zeeland there are beaches , many km long, and there are this pillars, always two lines together, repeating so about 500m. Depending from tide/low tide you can see 2,0m or nothing from them.
Westkapelle (51°32′N, 3°26′E) is a village in the municipality of Veere on the island Walcheren, in the province Zeeland of the Netherlands. On 1 January 2005, it had a population of 2,671. Westkapelle is on the westernmost tip of Walcheren and is surrounded by the sea on three sides.
Westkapelle is mainly known because of its lighthouse, standing prominently at the entrance to the village. This tower is the remains of a church that burned down in the 18th century. In the 19th century, a light was added to the top so that it could serve as a lighthouse.
Westkapelle was a separate municipality from 1816 until 1997, when it was merged with Veere.
Camera Model: Canon EOS 5D Mark II
Shooting Date/Time: 9-1-2011 12:51:36
Tv( Shutter Speed ): 1/20
Av( Aperture Value ):F 18
ISO Speed: 100
Kayak in a breaker at Freshwater Bay. I chanced upon this guy (with a couple of other kayaks) during a walk along the cliff-top. A beautiful afternoon, with wonderful sea colours!
This is a Fuji X-Pro2 raw file converted in Iridient Developer - it does seem much less noisy than LR CC manages at big magnification - with better colours (on a sample of not many trials yet...)
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The Old Breaker, another shot from last night at Allonby on the Cumbrian coast. A lovely glow in the sky giving some colour to the clouds.
Olympus OM-D E-M5 MII
Olympus 9-18mm
Formatt Hitech 13Stop ND filter
Couldn't resist taking another of the same breaker especially as the sky was so inviting. I think this one works a little better in colour.
While pulling a bunch of builds apart it occurred to me that my orange brick breaker resembled the body of a dragonfly.
Few more frames from the big sea's last week (or was it the week before 0.o) .. anyhow these were from the 'PM' folder, Day 2... Nothing special .. just liked them :-)
Olympus OM-1 w M.Zuiko 100-400/5-6.3 IS
ISO640 f/8 244mm -0.7ev
Single frame raw developed in DxO PhtoloLab 8, colour graded in Nik7 Color Efex and finished off back in PhotoLab.