Greenland Kayaking

[SteveGriffin]

These are from a trip which I did to Greenland in August

C&C please

[biggerry]

I bet that was darn cold!

I reckon its a great series of images, in particular #3, the headon one of the gentlemen in kayak with the ice flow backdrop...

#4 gives me the sense of the team/party just about to embark on the trek up that mountian...very well composed in my opinion....

[gstark]

Steve,

Magic!

What Gerry said for #4.

In #3, the only minor niggle I have is that the kayak is pointing towards our left, and thusly seems as if it may be heading "out" of the image. Were it to be pointing to our right, and with the exact same composition, it would appear to be heading into the image. It's a very minor compositional issue, and I accept that you may not have been able to adjust for this at the actual time of shooting ....

As for that bloody big ice cube in the first ... what size glass of scotch is needed for it?

[DaveB]

They're all good!
My first reaction was along the lines of "You lucky, lucky, bastard..."

With #3 I don't think it's a _problem_ the way the kayak is pointing, but it could be interesting to see what it would have been like the other way.

From a technical point of view, I'm curious as to what equipment you used on the kayaks (and also which company/ship you went with).

[radar]

Looks like a great trip, had a look at the rest of your gallery, wonderful. I like all of them but the first and third are really good. They look even more impressive when viewing them in the larger size.

Cheers,

André

[Marvin]

I love the first. The people in the kayak give you a good idea of the scale of the ice.

[zafra52]

And the winers are... 1, 2, and 4 in that order. Number 3 is good, but comes across as one for the family album. I love the the reds in the first two and the human element against the glorous landscape in the fourth.

[SteveGriffin]

Thanks for all of the positives. It was a spectacular trip. Plenty of photo oppportunities!

I used my D300 and 18-200 in the kayak - double dry bagged unless I was shooting and had a couple of other lenses and filters for use when it was less risky.

The ice in #1 wasn't particularly big but I loved the colour and shape of it. Some of the bergs are huge - over 100m tall ABOVE the water.

I certainly wouldn't recommend the crowd that I travelled with unless you can live on air (rather than food) and you don't mind paddling in submarining kayaks and sleeping in leaking tents whilst being led by a guide who couldn't read a map and hadn't actually been to the area before. We have ended up getting a partial refund because it was so bad. If you had asked a week ago I could have pointed you to a great website but that had to be taken down as a condition of getting our refund.

[zafra52]

The good thing about it though, it is you are back in one piece, have lovely photos and memories to tell. Sometime a bad holliday is better than none, if you survive to tell.

[Big V]

What a great experience and lovely photos to show for it as well.