Reversing Time

you signature image! great image, as ever though, as ever, the scale is difficult to grasp! i am permanently fascinated by the forms, textures and colours of the ceilings of these places you find. wonderful!

Incredible capture Kent!

Stuart - Thanks. To provide some idea of scale for this photo in particular, the camera was roughly two feet off the ground and two or three feet from the nearest rocks. Then, just factor in the focal length to get some idea of what's going on.

Absolute beauty ! Loved that hazy warm light from the left.
Also liked the BW image in your blog.

The warm side lighting makes this one of, if not the best of your ice cave images and that's really saying something. Just amazingly beautiful in an alien way.

The warm sidelight (real but admittedly enhanced) comes from brilliant sunlight hitting the ground around the mouth of the cave way off stage left. What are seen as highlights in the context of the photo have to be reevaluated with consideration for the ten minute exposure time. Obviously, by the time the shutter closed, this was already a LONG way from a moment of "reality".

Balakumar - Thanks for your compliment on the other image as well.

Love that ice, mixed with light. The cool/warm touch is wonderful.

It's an excellent photograph Kent. This is probably something I'll never see for real, so thanks for showing it. The blue light contrasting with the warmer light is terrific.

Gary.

Very nice Kent, that light coming in is perfect. Cool stuff!

Wow, this is a beauty - one of your best of this genre IMO.

Kent, I love the warm atmosphere coliding with cool tones in this shot.

Kent,
I love the atmosphere. The warm light makes the image for me. You handled exposure well. Very nice work.

Great light and colors. What an odd place. Sweet image.

Hi Kent, the blue tone, the light and the place are stunning, did you take another with less time?

Best regards
Roberto

Really beautiful, otherworldly stuff. Your composition has nice depth and all the elements are well arranged. Must really be something to see . . .

Thanks for showing us this truly stunning place, Kent! A wonder of nature for sure. The images and the text are wonderful.

Wow, this is really nice. All your images from the glacier are amazing and this one here has once again this magic light. The soft hazy atmosphere adds a special touch. Wonderful.

Roberto - I did take two shorter exposures to help estimate the long exposure necessary, but since using ISO 3200 still yielded and exposure time of about half a minute, there is almost zero change in the texture of the water. I assume that is why you asked.

Fantastic light, Kent.

Another excellent ice cave shot, Kent.

I love it! Marvelous scene well captured.

This is fantastic! I agree, possibly your best of this type of shot. The color, and structure of the ice is amazing. It also works well with the contrasting warm light coming in. Is this glacier in advance, or retreat? I figure there is some amount of risk involved in spending the necessary time in there to get this capture???
Recieved your note, no problem. Sorry about the delayed response. Been out of town for work all last week. Let me know when things calm down

Chris

Watching a glacier melt is watching the work of thousands of years being undone.

Thanks for bearing witness. The image and quote is a poignant reminder of how fast things can be undone when we're not careful.

Chris C - As with almost all glaciers in Southeast Alaska, the Mendenhall is receding at a pretty dramatic pace. Those who visit viewing areas after being gone from Juneau for several years are always making remarks about its diminished size. Even from one year to the next, I'm often surprised. Not all glaciers are receding though, and this weekend I hope to visit the Taku, which has been advancing for some years now.

Kent,

I have truly enjoyed and appreciated these images you have been bringing us for the past several years. I marvel and the beauty and mystery and would say that you have captured the essence of these placed beautifully. I can only keep repeating the word, book, book, book, book....

This one here I think is less abstract and more informative; meaning, it's easier to understand and comprehend what this is an image of. Where as many of your images are more of the mind-boggling type, if that makes sense.

Anyway, I'll stop for now. Truly marvelous work.

Lon

Wow, this is just sweet. I do find the side light pollution a tad disctracing. Still, this is quite excellent.

I'm tempted to agree with Kory about the side-lighting, but i do think it adds something to the dynamics here, and everything else is so other-worldly and cool that i can overlook the nits here. Great stuff!

Otherworldly and spectacular.

Glaciers melt, that's their beauty. Think of the numerous images this glacier has given you, If it wasn't melting and changing, what would have?

Absolutely wicked shot Kent. That blue with the light shining through is amazing.

Sweet image! I love the blue tones in that ice....and that light is sick!

Amazing, beautiful light and great composition. I really like those blue tones. This is nice work, Kent.

Nick Bristol
Lone Rock, Wi

another spectacular image from the ice cave master!

Your ice images are always a visual treat and this is no exception. Beautiful work, start to finish!

Kent,

You can almost feel the light in this image. Really amazing.

yes, like Stuart mentioned, you´re signature! impressive everytime I see these intimate ice-cave scenes of yours. love this top to bottom and even that warm light on the left is awsome. beautiful...!

Carl - I'm not totally sure what the point of your comment is. All glaciers melt. Even advancing glaciers melt. My post isn't meant to imply that watching the work of thousands of years being undone is an inherently bad thing, only that it is profound enough to think about for a while. On the other hand, though I appreciate the unique opportunity I have to photograph a glacier that is melting away, I feel for the future generations that will miss out on experiencing these glaciers for themselves.

I always enjoy your ice caves photos Kent, otherworldly.