I love Black and White images! Classic Silver Gelatins, oooh!
This image was taken on my medium format Bronica on Velvia Transparency (like film, but not) remember that cool stuff landscapers? I also used a polarizer to get the sky dark to get nice contrast from the snow which was burned down for competition prints. Ansel Adams is every landscape lovers hero and this scene just smacked of his lovely monolithic mountain images so I tried hard to replicate his efforts and getting the most out of the whites and blacks.
You can now hang my Fine Art Landscapes on your walls! I have selected my preference for frames, canvas or print surfaces for each of my Fine Art Lanscapes online here.
Oh, geez, don’t even get me started on how gorgeous the Brooks Range are in Alaska’s Arctic. The is a cool side of Mount Dillon which is in most of my Aurora (Northern Lights) pictures. However, this is the South side of this great Mount and most of the Aurora images are of the North side of this view. It is amazing how different they can look too from differing directions.
Anyway, this was one neat day! We stopped to take images of this view because the Koyukuk River looked thinner than the day before. I knew if we waited until the next day we would not even see the water, just ice. It was the quick season of freeze up! The Koyukuk River was literally freezing before us. The process is relatively fast and so amazing to me. If you look closely at the bank on the right you will see a thin layer of ice forming. As the water freezes and breaks loose from the edges it washes downstream in little clumps and attaches again to the side of the river that is forming its own set of ice. The ice crystals that form on the edge are crazy-unique too.
There is way too much to describe about the Arctic here in this one post, but hopefully as I develop the Landscape section of this site all will be revealed.
I have been going through my favorite Landscape images recently in preparation for my first foray into selling them in a more public arena. I had several images selected from Fine Art Photoblog and I am thrilled! I have followed them for the last 2 years and always have loved their posts each day of a new fine art image. As a result it became apparent that this might become a great opportunity to offer these images to people looking for artwork to hang in their homes.
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