Blue + Reposts

Very nice image, Eva. I was at Portage Glacier in early September last year. It is a beautiful place and I did not see another photographer the entire time I was there!

Eva, The blue tones and the light on the ice looks wonderful to me. I like the fog in the bg too, but the dark diagonal line doesn't work that well for me. 28 years, yes it would be interesting to see the changes and what you might come back with .

Nick Bristol
Lone Rock, WI

Love the blues, Eva, and the wonderful forms and shades in the ice. While I like seeing these icebergs in their setting, I could see several crops to really focus on the ice only, trying to minimize the background; guess more of an abstract ice image perhaps. Just a thought. I was last there at Portage in 2005; you would be surprised how much less ice there is in the lake due to recession of the glacier.

Made a brief stop at portage while hitching a ride from denali to seward last august. The steel grey skies remain, but a fair bit of the ice has disappeared

gorgeous blues there eva.

I never thought I would give up film, and now I can't imagine using anything but digital! Still, I do miss the old days sometimes. Great color and texture in the ice Eva. From reading the other comments, it's sad to think the ice has disappeared to such an extent.

Thanks for your comments and critiques. Here is a cropped version.

Liked the first photo, even with the strong light.
... but the cropped version is just perfect!!!

Love the cropped version, the highlights and texture lead the eye nicely

Count me a strongly opposed to the crop. Don't you think the sense of place is integral to the success of the photograph? Even the cloudy sky works to provide some scale, at least for someone with experience in this type of landscape. The qualities of the ice itself don't hold me without the backdrop.

I think the light is perfect for the subject, but I might be tempted to go less blue overall.

Gorgeous light with great textures in the ice.

A great version of the majestic color of ice. Bluestastic!

Thanks for the critique Kent. I do like the larger view better myself but the dark slope on the left seems to be problematic to some due to the limitations of the film I used back in the day and I can see why today in the digital world some people have a problem with it. I did lighten it a bit by selecting it and creating an exposure layer since there is some detail in the transparency but a single scan does not capture the dark areas and bright areas well. I scanned for the bright areas. I have many other transparencies as well as negative medium format images from Portage Glacier, Mendenhall Glacier, and Denali from 1982 and 1983 that I am starting to revisit and scan. I am contemplating updating my SilverFast Ai software to Silverfast Ai Studio. This will allow me to blend multiple scans at different scan exposures. The blues are "as seen" in the Ektachrome transparency. I don't remember the degree of blue since it was 28 years ago but this is the level of blue on the transparency. I rarely apply any saturation adjustments to any of my images whether they be film or digital. I do appreciate your input and thanks again.

The blues really sing in this shot.

Eva, I really liked your cropped version. I liked the color and texture of the iceberg but something was not making it a striking image. But I was not able to pin point it. The second version is just perfect. It shows the color and the texture of the ice. Great job again

Processed without bringing out detail in the dark peak on the left.

Eva that looks like a lovely smooth scan with very little obvious shortcomings at all. The textures on the ice berg are superb and even the detail on the slopes is apparent in the shadow so very well done. I am with Kent on the sense of place prevailing.

Cool--i was at Portage about 1996 or so. I like the first post here best, but to be honest i think the reflections on the ice/water are just a bit too harsh for this to really work well. Great subject though