David's Images of the Day Photoblog
Views of the sky. Sunrise, sunset, clouds, and weather
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.
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.
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.
Stairway to Seljalandsfoss, a Waterfall in Southern Iceland. HDR composite of 7 images taken with a Nikon D800 and 16 mm f/2.8 fisheye lens (ISO 100, 16 mm, f/16) using Google HDR Efex Pro 2.
Sunset Along the Reykjavik Harbor Walkway. Image taken with a Nikon 1 V2 camera and 10 mm f/2.8 lens (ISO 160, 10 mm, f/8, 1/400 sec). The foreground is a water fountain, and the bicycle rider just happened to go by as I took the image.
