View allAll Photos Tagged glacier
Walking up to Baltit Fort.
Karimabad, formerly known as Baltit, is the capital of Hunza District, in the Gilgit-Baltistan province of Pakistan.
Karimabad town, located on the west bank of the Hunza River, is in the Northern Areas of the Pakistan, in a valley which is at an altitude of 8,200 feet. The town is made up of stone walled steep sloping large terraces. The town was a caravan halting place for people who were traveling through the Hindu Kush mountains to the Vale of Kashmir. It is set amidst the snow clad mountain peaks of Rakaposhi (altitude of about 25,000 feet (7,600m), and glaciers like the Ulter Nala as a backdrop, and deep gorges.
This is a photograph of the Athabasca Glacier in Banff National park. The sight of this is amazing and an experience worth savering
Glacier in Alaska, USA.
A highlight of any Alaska journey is being able to see glaciers in action. The ice age is still underway here with an estimated 100,000 glaciers in the state, covering three percent of the landscape and creating most of its rivers. Glaciers are rivers of ice that flow from ice packs high in the mountains, where more snow falls than melts. In constant motion, they can move ahead at speeds of several feet a day, or sudden surges of as much as 300 feet. Some are retreating, or shrinking due to increased melting or a lack of new snow to feed them. The beautiful blue colour associated with glaciers is created by the density of the ice which absorbs all the colours of the spectrum except blue, which is reflected.
Tidewater glaciers flow to the sea and are found at the head of fjords or inlets which they carved while retreating. These are the glaciers you can see while on an Alaska cruise when your ship takes you up close to these wonders of nature.
Calving occurs when pieces of a tidewater glacier break off and fall into the sea. The creaking sounds associated with calving glaciers and the roar as pieces fall into the sea are as impressive as the visual scene itself.
No post-processing done to photo. Nikon NEF (RAW) files available. NPP Straight Photography at noPhotoShopping.com
Walking on this clear platform hanging over the abyss was a thrilling experience. We combined it with a tour that also involved getting to walk on (and drink from) the Athabasca Glacier. I recommend the entire experience.
Beneath the vatnajökull glacier on Iceland's south coast incredible ice caves are carved by the waters flowing through and beneath the vast tongue of ice. As scientific understanding of this frozen world deepens, we begin to see that life survives even after being frozen in time for thousands of years. It even thrives in the waters underneath: icelandmonitor.mbl.is/news/nature_and_travel/2017/07/10/r...
Kevin Benedict and I had the incredible experience of exploring the ice caves, led by the fantastic guides from Blue Iceland - blueiceland.is on an unforgettable visit in 2018. Deep inside the glacier I was mesmerized by the forms, textures and otherworldly glow coming from within the ice. At times it felt almost organic, like being inside an unimaginably large alien creature (yes, I have an active imagination and I watch and read too much Sci-Fi). With our recent understanding of the vast amount of bacteria, viruses and other microscopic life that lies within the ice, this may not be entirely inaccurate! I've already posted a couple other pictures from the ice cave, so I may be starting to get repetitive here, but this is possibly my favorite picture from the entire trip. I know abstracts aren't everyone's cup of tea, but the forms, the almost oily texture, the color and the glow of this particular surface within the cave made me almost giddy, and the fact that I was able to capture this surprisingly well in camera delights me to no end. It was *not* an easy photo to take as it was a rather tight space, and quite deep within the cave, so it required some sucking in of the tummy and rather complicated arranging of tripod and camera. I couldn't get the visual alignment quite as square as I would have liked but I was happy to get any shot at all (and astounded that the camera was able to find focus in such a dark place). I was also *very* relieved once I had the shot and was able to extricate myself and move back out to less claustrophobic conditions. So I know that few others will have the same emotional reaction to this icy abstract that I do and that's ok with me, this image brings me immense personal satisfaction and some good memories of being forced out of my comfort zone to experience something truly unique.
My camera, which I dearly love and has served me brilliantly, nonetheless has some flaws. The sensor is well known to have hot spot issues with longer epxosure shots. The same Sony sensor is used by both the Nikon D810 and Pentax K-1. Nikon provided a fix for this issue once it became evident (photographylife.com/news/nikon-confirms-the-d810-thermal-...), but Pentax chose to fix it via software, so the K-1 provides a hot-spot removal option on long exposure shots, which is effectively implemented as a two-phase shot where the camera takes the same image again with the shutter closed, finds all the non-black pixels and then subtracts them or some such thing. Anyway, this is ok BUT I don't use it that often in practice because it adds a large amount of in-camera processing time to an already long shot. Keep in mind I almost always shoot with Pentax's "Pixel Shift" mode which takes 4 shots moving the sensor 1 pixel between each shot and then combining them together to get improved sharpness, dynamic range and color fidelity. Pixel Shift proved an absolute technological god-send in the darkness of the ice caves allowing me to lift the shadows by 2 additional stops without adding noise. But now you have a shot which is already a 30 second exposure X 4, so two full minutes of exposure time. Adding the automatic in-camera hot spot reduction would've taken each shot to nearly 5 minutes (!). That's a long time to be hanging around in a dark cramped nook of a cave below a few million tons of ice. So to finally come to the point of this story, I didn't use the hot spot reduction. And it's a dark long-exposure shot. So there were a lot of hot spots I found in this image and it took hours of cloning to remove the 200+ hot spots from the resulting image. And I may not have found them all.
Because in Greece these days the temperature will climb to 38 degrees C, I thought would be a nice idea to post some pictures to cool the atmosphere.These pictures are from the Parque Nacional Los Glaciares in the Santa Cruz Province, in Argentine Patagonia. It comprises an area of 4459 km². In 1981 it was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO.
Los Glaciares, of which 30% is covered by ice, can be divided in two parts, each corresponding with one of the two elongated big lakes partially contained by the Park. Lake Argentino, 1,466 km² and the largest in Argentina, is in the south, while Lake Viedma, 1,100 km², is in the north. These pictures are from the lake Argentino.
Glacier view close up... seen while cruising (and stopping) through Glacier Bay National Park & Preserve, Alaska.
Alaska Inside Passage cruise [Sept. 10-17, 2017].
Glacier Bay National Park & Preserve, Alaska... seen from a cruise ship. Fairweather Mountain Range (and Mount Fairweather) in background.
The Meares Glacier appears to be one of the few glaciers that is advancing. It is flanked by coniferous forest and advancing ice has knocked down trees along the edge. It was a highly active glacier when we were there and made deep, resonating creaks and groans, and frequently calved chunks of ice into the fjord. Most of the glaciers we saw however, were receding. There was one memorable moment when I looked at the ship's GPS and it showed that we were actually within the glacier, except we were a few hundred metres away. I don't suppose they update glacier positions as often as they do roads. The face of the glacier is about a mile in length and it was named after British Naval Captain John Meares (1756-1809) who explored Prince William Sound in 1876-7.
This is a view of the Matanuska glacier in Alaska. I spent a couple of hours climbing deep into the glacier. This view is of a small fraction of the glacier that took about 3 hours of climbing to find. The glacier stretchs for many miles and carves away everything in its path. As it pushes through the mountians it carries rocks that weight many tons. Amazing power! In this section, there was a small lake of melted ice water. The icy water was a beautiful blue color and was freezing cold. As you get closer to the glacier, the tempature drops around 20F. I had a friend who decided to walk into the lake. That was not a good decision. It was a great day in Alaska.
I did upload a larger version of this image.
This is a tight shot of the Austdal glacier. The ice is breaking off the glacier with tremendous force. The glacier is constantly moving and changing. You can see the whole front of Austdal glacier from my panorama shot in my photostream.
I love the texture in the ice together with the fantastic blue colour. Hope you enjoy the photo as much as I do. Thank you for looking!
Der Aconcagua befindet sich in den argentinischen Anden in der Provinz Mendoza nahe an der chilenischen Grenze. Er besitzt fünf Hanggletscher und bis zu zehn Kilometer lange Gletscher. Ein Nebengipfel (6.928 m) liegt südlich des Hauptgipfels. Der Berg ist kein Vulkan, obwohl er ebenso wie der Mount Everest aufgrund der häufigen Wolkenfahnen an seinem Gipfel lange für einen solchen gehalten wurde.
The Aconcagua is located in the Argentinean Andes in the province of Mendoza near the Chilean border. He has five hanging glaciers and up to ten kilometers long glacier. A secondary peak (6928 m) lies south of the main summit.
QUELLE: WIKIPEDIA
Argentina.
Patagonia.
Santa Cruz Province
The Perito Moreno Glacier (Spanish: Glaciar Perito Moreno) is a glacier located in the Los Glaciares National Park in southwest Santa Cruz Province, Argentina. It is one of the most important tourist attractions in the Argentinian Patagonia.
The glacier is unusual in that it is advancing, while most glaciers worldwide are retreating. The reason remains debated by glaciologists. The terminus of the Perito Moreno Glacier is 5 kilometres (3 mi) wide, with an average height of 74 m (240 ft) above the surface of the water of Argentino Lake, in Argentina. It has a total ice depth of 170 metres (558 ft).
Due to its size and accessibility, Perito Moreno is one of the major tourist attractions in southern Patagonia. It is less than two hours by bus from El Calafate, and many tour companies run daily visits. A large visitor centre at the site features a walking circuit which allows visitors to view the southern flank and the east facing edge of the glacier.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perito_Moreno_Glacier
Blue ice occurs when snow falls on a glacier, is compressed, and becomes part of the glacier. Air bubbles are squeezed out and ice crystals enlarge, making the ice appear blue.
Small amounts of regular ice appear to be white because of air bubbles inside them and also because small quantities of water appear to be colourless. In glaciers, the pressure causes the air bubbles to be squeezed out increasing the density of the created ice. Large quantities of water appear to be blue, as it absorbs other colours more efficiently than blue. Therefore, a large piece of compressed ice, or a glacier, would appear blue.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_ice_(glacial)
often shrouded in clouds, we were lucky to get a warm sunny day for one of our visits to this glacier that is right in Juneau - not downtown, but close enough!
The unusual feature of this otherwise standard view of the Aletsch Glacier from the Jungfraujoch are the six small figures in the lower-centre foreground. This is a party of thrill seekers returning from camping out overnight on the glacier somewhere beyond the section of crevasses just to the right of centre of shot. They give a great sense of scale to the scenery...
The Aletsch Glacier is the largest glacier in the European Alps. It has a length of about 23 km and covers more than 120 square kilometres in the eastern Bernese Alps in the Swiss canton of Valais. The glacier is composed of three smaller glaciers converging at Concordia, where its thickness is estimated to be near 1,000m. It then continues towards the Rhone valley before giving birth to the Massa River.
This view looks down the Jungfraufirn. This firn in fact represents the straight continuation of the Aletsch Glacier, yet is the shortest of the three tributary glaciers. It has its origin on the southern flank of the Mönch, at the Jungfraujoch and at the eastern flank of the Jungfrau (just behind me to the right in this view). Down to the convergence point at Concordia, the Jungfraufirn is a scarce 7 km long. At its highest point, it is 2 km wide, and further down, between the two sides visible in the distance it is still over a kilometre wide.
The whole area, including other glaciers is part of the Jungfrau-Aletsch Protected Area, was declared a UNESCO World Heritage site in 2001.
Scanned from a negative.
Here you can see the toe of the Athabasca Glacier.
This panorama was stitched from 18 hand-held bracketed photographs with PTGUI Pro, tone-mapped with Photomatix, and touched up in Aperture.
Original size: 8716 × 3545 (30.9 MP; 136.23 MB).
Location: Columbia Icefield, Jasper National Park, Alberta, Canada