Antarctica Part V

[DaveB]

Time for another installment...


Dragon head emerging from the deep, Lemaire Channel
EOS 40D, 100-400mm IS @ 100mm



Iceberg doorway, Fish Islands
EOS 5DmkII, 24-105mm IS @ 75mm



Iceberg, Grandidier Channel
EOS 40D, 24-105mm IS @ 98mm



Deville Glacier, Andvord Bay
EOS 5DmkII, 24-105mm IS @ 24mm



Photographers and iceberg, Andvord Bay
EOS 40D, 100-400mm IS @ 200mm


Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9, Part 10

[gstark]

Still more great images, Dave.

The last of these ... the texture on the iceberg is great, but in addition, the inclusion of the photographers gives us a sense of scale ... the grandeur, the majesty ... of what you must have been experiencing.

[radar]

Awesome series Dave, I especially love #2, 3 and 4. Last one is also great for showing that sense of scale. The texture of the glacier in #4 and the colours are great, I'm sure it would look wonderful printed big, very big.

First one is just too scary

Thanks for sharing all of these.

[biggerry]

thats a rather large iceberg in #4

I reckon you could make a very fine calendar out of you trip images, even just with the ones you have posted to date!

[Willy wombat]

Sensational scale! I bet the guys in the little boat were happy it didnt calve off any chunks of ice whilst they were sitting there!

[stubbsy]

Dave I'm running out of superlatives to describe this series of shots. I've not commented in each post since I have so little to add to what others have already said, but I just had to post here to say how sublime a shot image #2 is. Thanks for sharing all these beauties.

I now soooooo want to go to Antartica.

[marcotrov]

Dave absolutely first rate images. The colour, grandeur and sense of scale created are tremendous. Must have been one helluva experience.
cheers
marco

[colin_12]

I like the abstract thought in #1.
The rest are just great as has been this series.
Don't stop now.

[DaveB]

I like the abstract thought in #1.

Thanks. Here's a shot of the dragon's head just after that photo:

EOS 5DmkII, 24-105mm @ 47mm

It's the bergy-bit on the right: the dragon's eye and teeth were only apparent from one angle as we sailed past. This shot also gives you some idea of the weather conditions we were in. Cold, grey, and windy. But definitely still worth being out on deck! BTW, where's Hazelbrook? You might want to fix your profile before Gary notices.

[DaveB]

The texture of the glacier in #4 and the colours are great, I'm sure it would look wonderful printed big, very big.

Just to be clear, it's not a glacier. It may have once been part of a glacier (although it was probably part of an ice shelf over in the Ross Sea). It looked as though it had come from one of the huge tabular icebergs that float around the continent, and had come into this sheltered bay and become trapped. It may have in fact gone aground.