Having a decent lens lets you pull out detail – like these seagulls floating on glacial ice at Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska.
Hope that doesn’t sound too boastful, as the reality is that immediately after I’d taken the shot an eagle swooped down from its perch on...
I’ve taken prettier shots of Alaskan glaciers, but I like how this shows the sheer amount of work these things do grinding away at the mountainside.
Just look at all the cuts that have been made.
Although it’s now in retreat, you can clearly mark the...
Here I’m looking back as we left Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska.
The picture was taken on Day 4 of our Holland America Line one-week Alaska cruise. We travelled on the MS Zuiderdam late August/early September 2011.
I didn’t realize until afterwards...
Taking photos of a 250-ft glacial face presents problems of scale: in person it awes you into silence, but, frankly, once it’s in your camera the shots could be a close-up of a snowball.
So I got some of the ship into the frame. These cruise ships are tall – this is...
I love the meeting of sea and ice, along with all the horizontal stripes, at this tide water glacier in Alaska.
I took the picture at Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska. I’m pretty sure that it shows the Margerie Glacier, which stands 250 feet above sea level – and...