David's Images of the Day Photoblog
Estancia Helsingfors
Afternoon stop at an unnamed lake: Black-necked Swan, Coscoroba Swan, Chilean Flamingo. My eBird Checklist
Afternoon walkabout at Helsingfors Estancia: Southern Caracara. My eBird Checklist
Calafate to Estancia Helsingfors. Individual images in the slideshow are available in my PhotoShelter Gallery.
This was our first full day at Estancia Helsingfors. I am adding some images taken that day. And I still have many more to share.
Thom and Thomas Discussing the Photography of Wind Blown Trees in Patagonia at Estancia Helsingfors. Image taken with a Nikon D3x and 16-35 mm f/4 lens (ISO 125, 26 mm, f/11, 1/250 sec).
Wet Crested Caracara at Hosteria Helsingfors in Patagonia (southern Argentina). The bird was sitting outside the kitchen window in the rain (begging for bacon). Images taken with a Fuji X-T1 camera and 55-200 mm lens (ISO 800, 200 mm, f/4.8, 1/30 sec). Raw image processed with Capture One Pro, Focus Magic, and Photoshop CC.
I think I am going to like this lens. The images were taken hand-held with the optical image stabilization (OIS) on at 1/30 sec.
We started the day riding horses on a trail to an alpine lake. Most of the group chose to ride the horses, even though many of us had not been on a horse for many years. The horses brought us to a point near the end of the trail which we needed to complete on foot. Our gaucho took an image of me riding the trail with my Leica V-Lux 20 point & shoot camera. One thing that all of us on the horses learned was the need to apply sunscreen to the tops of our hands, which were all sun-burned by the end of the trip. That afternoon after getting back to Helsingfors, we checked out and took the bus to Hosteria El Pilar just outside of El Chalten. This location is much closer to Fitzroy. So far the weather on the trip has been unusually clear for Patagonia. Note that I don’t like the color profile for these out-of-the-camera jpg images.
