"YUKON GOLD"

Gallery: LandscapePosted January 15, 2012688 views33 comments

It has been a great week up here in Whistler. Zack Schnepf was up here doing some consulting work to assist me in getting many of my images ready for printing. I am hoping to open a gallery here in Whistler later this year

I had no idea how much work goes into printing and mounting images for canvas, fine art paper etc!! I can see why people outsource it all!! It is a bit overwhelming, but I enjoy the challenge. I also wanted to thank Adam Gibbs and Kevin McNeal for dropping by and giving me their input on my images and ideas for location of a gallery in Whistler.

I wanted to post this image I took back in October 2011 from my expedition trip up in the Yukon. I was so busy processing the aurora images, I left this one to the end. When we landed at our starting point in the sub arctic, we were about 15 min away from an amazing sunset. It was difficult to scramble and find a decent composition. I was happy with what I found. This image looks great printed "BIG", since the range in the distance is a bit far away.

This image was processed for print, and prints great. So if you find any issues with saturation, please keep this in mind.

All comments are welcome

Comments

33 comments

Comment posted by Rick Goldwasser on January 15, 2012 at 6:20 PM

Looks nice, no problem with saturation at all. I like the warm tones in the clouds to offset all the cooler colors in the rest of the scene.

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Comment posted by James Fougère on January 15, 2012 at 6:20 PM

Here is a fantastic shot that Colin Sillerud took of our helicopter taking off just prior to sunset. Thank you Colin for allowing me to post this image

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Comment posted by Lorna Taylor on January 15, 2012 at 6:20 PM

Beautiful work ! Good luck in your new gallery, I hope it is a great success !

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Comment posted by Nick Bristol on January 15, 2012 at 6:27 PM

Beautiful! I love the light and wonderful color. Great comp too! That glow and texture on the foreground ice is so nice!. This is really nice, James. Much luck with your new gallery!!
Colin's chopper shot is fantastic as well.

Nick Bristol
Lone Rock, WI

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Comment posted by Russell Colletta on January 15, 2012 at 6:35 PM

Looks good on a monitor too James. Will look great gracing someone's wall.

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Comment posted by Scott Miller on January 15, 2012 at 6:48 PM

The gold and blue combo just works great here. wonderful light and nice foreground.

Learning the ins and outs of printing is something I need to do as well. It is a bit daunting.

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Comment posted by Anne K. Rusk on January 15, 2012 at 6:56 PM

Glad to hear things are coming together, James! Good detail and contrast. No issues on the iPad!

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Comment posted by Peter Coskun on January 15, 2012 at 7:03 PM

What a beautiful scene. The saturation is perfect and love the glow on the mountains. These are the kinds of places I'd like to visit sometime in my life. Especially if you need a chopper to get there!

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Comment posted by Harry Lichtman on January 15, 2012 at 7:15 PM

Some fantastic lighting here. Thesoft yellows works so well with the blue snow. The composition leads me throughout, a winner shot. Especially like that yelow band of mist/clouds near the horizon.

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Comment posted by Peter McDonald on January 15, 2012 at 7:17 PM

Awesome, its so crisp! My eyes are led on an arc from the foreground to the beautiful sunset.

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Comment posted by Tom Hilton on January 15, 2012 at 7:55 PM

James,
Excellent image... I would love to see the big print
Best of luck with your Gallery...
I hope it does well....
Very nice image

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Comment posted by Tony Kuyper on January 15, 2012 at 7:59 PM

Beautiful, James. Good luck with the gallery.

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Comment posted by Joshua Hardin on January 15, 2012 at 9:24 PM

Perfect leading lines and color James. Wouldn't change a thing on this image. Awesome!

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Comment posted by Yiming Hu on January 15, 2012 at 10:27 PM

You nailed it! Beautiful colors and great comp. Good luck with your gallery!

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Comment posted by Nancy Lea Sandy on January 15, 2012 at 10:39 PM

Great image. Crisp and clean. Lovely colors

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Comment posted by Harley Goldman on January 15, 2012 at 10:48 PM

Beautiful image. Wonderful light and sweet scene. Good luck with the gallery!!!!

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Comment posted by Lon Overacker on January 15, 2012 at 11:28 PM

James,

Gorgeous winter landscape! I think the composition is fantastic and I would love to see more of this type. Even though there is great light and drama in the setting sun, you chose to give most of the real estate to the landscape and used the drama up top as an accent to the landscape. this is outstanding.

I'm sure the print is wonderful and I wish you the best of luck with your new gallery. thanks for sharing here!

Lon

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Comment posted by James Fougère on January 16, 2012 at 1:42 AM

Thank you for all the great comments, I am glad to see a positive response to this image.

I would have posted a larger version, but I have recently been contacted by a German photographer who found one of my images on a electronics site used for advertising HD TV's in Portugal !! It seems that many images from Earth Shots.org are getting scammed for illegal use.

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Comment posted by David Edwards on January 16, 2012 at 2:40 AM

Everything looks great to me, James... beautiful light and color. I like the way you've used the fg snow line and rocks to curve the eye around towards the peaks. The light and color on the clouds is sweet and the blue of the snow is a wonderful complement to it. Sure looks like a pristine and remote location. Good luck with your printing and the gallery.

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Comment posted by Maciej B. Markiewi on January 16, 2012 at 3:30 AM

Beautiful one, this part of the water not fully covered by the snow, bordered with the rocks leads nicely into the image where the light is magical

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Comment posted by Andreas Resch on January 16, 2012 at 4:40 AM

Very nice one, James. The yellows work so well together with the blues. All the best for your gallery plans.

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Comment posted by Michael J Greene, on January 16, 2012 at 9:08 AM

Very impressive + awesome work James. Good luck on your new gallery.

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Comment posted by R.Bill Moser on January 16, 2012 at 11:50 AM

Great image and good luck with the gallery

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Comment posted by Joseph Campisi on January 16, 2012 at 1:14 PM

Wonderful shot in every way James! Saturation looks good to me. It looks like it's tilted slightly down to the lest, but I think that's just an illusion due to that sloped shore on the right. Good luck with your gallery!

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Comment posted by Gary McGhee on January 16, 2012 at 1:53 PM

It's a magical looking, totally untouched landscape James, wonderful depth.

Gary.

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Comment posted by Dennis Harding on January 16, 2012 at 5:00 PM

This very cool shot draws me in. It's a beautifully balanced Comp and the color is perfect. Good luck with your gallery James.

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Comment posted by Kyle L. Krause on January 16, 2012 at 11:21 PM

Outstanding imagery James, what a wonderful location. Composition flows nicely and it's all about the light. Wow!

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Comment posted by Ian Cameron on January 17, 2012 at 4:42 AM

Fabulous James I really like it. I will be in Fernie in around two weeks hopefully skiing with family. My first time in Canada.

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Comment posted by James Fougère on January 17, 2012 at 12:32 PM

Ian,

Fernie has great dry snow! I am sure you will enjoy it there. Whistler where I live is bigger, with 2 mountains to ski on with 240 ski runs. I assume you are flying into Calgary. You should hit Banff and Jasper if you can! Your camera would be happy

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Comment posted by Stuart Williams on January 17, 2012 at 2:29 PM

the reflected light is what really grabs me. well done - for a scramble (!) - and good luck with the gallery.

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Comment posted by Chip Phillips on January 18, 2012 at 2:09 PM

Awesome work James. Your processing is looking fantastic-learning from one of the masters! I wouldn't change one single thing here.

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Comment posted by Shantikara Valuska on January 20, 2012 at 4:26 PM

Beautiful as it is! Great composition, light and colors. I love the subtle reflection in the foreground. Must have been nice to be there.

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Comment posted by Zack Schnepf on February 2, 2012 at 6:26 PM

Looks excellent James. It looked even more impressive as a huge print. Thanks for having me in Whistler. It was a great week, we got so much done, and having Adam and Kevin come hang out was icing on the cake.

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