David's Images of the Day Photoblog
Rob, our guide walking the high-wire at a construction site near Hosteria Lago Grey in some pretty high Patagonian winds. Images taken with a Nikon D3s camera and 28-120 mm f/4 lens. Animation created using Google Photo.
Orange colors at dawn in Patagonia. Hosteria Lago Grey near Torres del Paine National Park. Image taken with a Nikon D3x camera and 28-120 mm f/4 lens (ISO 100, 75 mm, f/5/6. 1/10 sec).
Guanaco Running at the Entrance to Torres del Paine National Park in Patagonia. We were working on taking landscape images when two Guanaco’s started chasing each other. At one point they ran right through our group, and I managed to take this picture. Two days earlier we had been practicing taking pictures of horses in motion, which helped me take this one. Image taken with a Nikon D3s camera and 70-300 mm VR lens (ISO 200, 300 mm, f/16, 1/100 sec). Later on there was a Guanaco framed on a ridge with the mountains behind.
Individual images in the slide show can be viewed here.
The hound guarding Mirador del Payne Hosteria at dawn. Overlooking Lago Verde and Torres del Paine National Park at Estancia Lazo in Patagonia. Image taken with a Nikon D3x camera and 24-120 mm f/4 lens (ISO 100, 40 mm, f/16, 1/60 sec).
One issue with using a DSLR to take images in Patagonia is the wind, and the potential for dust to land on the camera sensor when changing lenses. I had to spend a lot of time removing the dust spots from this image.
This was a travel day, starting out in Argentina and ending up in Chile. For lunch we stopped at an Estancia (sheep ranch). I don’t think we crossed the border yet. We had a demonstration of the sheepdogs herding the sheep, and then one of the sheep getting sheared. That is where wool comes from. After lunch we proceeded to Hosteria Mirador del Payne on Estancia Lazo. A long drive.
Individual images from the slide show are available here.
Individual images from the slide show are available here.
Individual images from the slide show are available here.