Category: Skyscape

Views of the sky. Sunrise, sunset, clouds, and weather

One-Year Ago (05-August-2013) — Iceland

Gone to See Iceland 2013 Photography Safari with Mike Hagen. Day 7: (ingólfshöfði) Along the South East Coast.

Puffin In Flight After a Successful Morning Fishing Trip. Cape Ingolfshofdi (Ingólfshöfði) a private nature preserve on an isolated headland on the coast half way between Skaftafell in Vatnajokull National Park and Jökulsárlón ice lagoon in Iceland. Image taken with a Nikon D4 and 80-400 mm VR II lens (ISO 360, 400 mm, f/5.6, 1/1000 sec). Image processed with the new 64 bit Focus Magic filter.

Puffin In Flight After a Successful Morning Fishing Trip. (David J Mathre)
Puffin In Flight After a Successful Morning Fishing Trip. (David J Mathre)

One-Year Ago (03-August-2013) — Iceland

Gone to See Iceland 2013 Photography Safari with Mike Hagen. Day 5: Breiðamerkurjökull Glacier, Jökulsárlón Lagoon South East Coast.

Arctic Tern Hovering Looking For Fish in the Lagoon. Breiðamerkurjökull Glacier at the Jökulsárlón Lagoon in Southeast Iceland. Image taken with a Nikon 1 V2 camera, FT1 adapter, and 80-400 mm VRII lens (ISO 160, 116 mm, f/5.6, 1/800 sec).

Arctic Tern Hovering Looking For Fish in the Lagoon. (David J Mathre)
Arctic Tern Hovering Looking For Fish in the Lagoon. Image taken with a Nikon 1 V2 camera, FT1 adapter, and 80-400 mm VRII lens (ISO 160, 116 mm, f/5.6, 1/800 sec). (David J Mathre)

Friday (01-August-2014) — Sweden

Gone to See Europe 2014. Day 62: Semester at Sea, Summer 2014 Semester Voyage. Stockholm and Uppsala, Sweden.

Snapshot Taken While Riding a Bus from Stockholm to Uppsala, Sweden. Semester at Sea, Summer 2014 Voyage Field Trip. Image taken with a Fuji XT1 camera and 23 mm f/1.4 lens (ISO 200, 23 mm, f/2.5, 1/1000 sec). Raw image processed with Capture One Pro, Focus Magic, and Photoshop CC 2014.

Fake Lighthouse in front of a self-storage facility. While riding a bus from Stockholm to Uppsala. Image taken with a Fuji XT1 camera and 23 mm f/1.4 lens (ISO 200, 23 mm, f/2.5, 1/1000 sec). Raw image processed with Capture One Pro, Focus Magic, and Photoshop CC 2014. (David J Mathre)
Fake Lighthouse in front of a self-storage facility. While riding a bus from Stockholm to Uppsala. Image taken with a Fuji XT1 camera and 23 mm f/1.4 lens (ISO 200, 23 mm, f/2.5, 1/1000 sec). Raw image processed with Capture One Pro, Focus Magic, and Photoshop CC 2014. (David J Mathre)
Fake Lighthouse in front of a self-storage facility. While riding a bus from Stockholm to Uppsala. Image taken with a Fuji XT1 camera and 23 mm f/1.4 lens (ISO 200, 23 mm, f/2.5, 1/1000 sec). Raw image processed with Capture One Pro, Focus Magic, and Photoshop CC 2014. (David J Mathre)
Fake Lighthouse in front of a self-storage facility. While riding a bus from Stockholm to Uppsala. Image taken with a Fuji XT1 camera and 23 mm f/1.4 lens (ISO 200, 23 mm, f/2.5, 1/1000 sec). Raw image processed with Capture One Pro, Focus Magic, and Photoshop CC 2014. (David J Mathre)

One-Year Ago (01-August-2013) — Iceland

Gone to See Iceland 2013 Photography Safari with Mike Hagen. Day 3: Vestmannaeyjar (Westman Islands).

The group did a high-speed RIB Safari boat tour to the islands around Vestmannaeyjar. We needed to get into arctic survival suits, and had  shoulder harness belts holding us in our seats. I strapped a camera to my chest with a fisheye lens and set it to automatically take images every few seconds. At times the boat was traveling at 40 knots with lots of heavy bouncing. We went all the way out to Surtsey island that I remember reading about as a kid rising from the sea as a volcano. At one point we saw a whale, so slowed down and stopped to take pictures. While stopped the boat rocked a lot, causing one or two passengers to lose their breakfast. This is a rough cut before adding titles, stills, a GPS map, and music. Beware if you are prone to motion sickness. Images captured with a Nikon D800 and 16 mm f/2.8 fisheye lens.

WARNING – THE TIME-LAPSE VIDEO MAY CAUSE MOTION SICKNESS

One-Year Ago (30-July-2013) — Iceland

Gone to See Iceland 2013 Photography Safari with Mike Hagen. Day 1: Golden Circle.

Almannagjá Fault Where the North American and Eurasian Tectonic Plates are Separating. Þingvellir (Thingvellir) National Park in Iceland. Image taken with a Nikon D800 camera and 24 mm f/3.5 PC-E lens (ISO 100, 24 mm, f/11, 1/100 sec).

The rock ripples are on the Eurasian side, and the rock wall is on the North American side of the fault.

Almannagjá Fault Where the North American and Eurasian Tectonic Plates are Separating. Þingvellir (Thingvellir) National Park in Iceland. Image taken with a Nikon D800 camera and 24 mm f/3.5 PC-E lens (ISO 100, 24 mm, f/11, 1/100 sec). Nikonians Iceland Photo Adventure Tour. (David J Mathre)
Almannagjá Fault Where the North American and Eurasian Tectonic Plates are Separating. Þingvellir (Thingvellir) National Park in Iceland. Image taken with a Nikon D800 camera and 24 mm f/3.5 PC-E lens (ISO 100, 24 mm, f/11, 1/100 sec). (David J Mathre)