Glacial Waves

Gallery: LandscapePosted March 7, 20182,221 views7 comments

I'm posting this not because it is a particularly beautiful scene, but because it shows a very unusual occurrence of pressure waves caused by a glacier. At least, they are unusual for me. These pressure waves are caused by fresh ice pushing down into the field.. The waves are similar to the ripples caused by a stone thrown into a pond, but that's where the similarity ends. I've darkened the mid-tones a bit in the wave area to make them more prominent. Too much given that it was mid-day in late December? Last, I converted to BW. Olympus E-M1 and 12-40 lens at 1/2000, f/6.3 and ISO 200.

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Comment posted by Allen Brooks on March 8, 2018 at 10:53 AM

An interesting phenomenon; thanks for sharing it. Makes me think of an amphitheater.

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Comment posted by Steve Kennedy on March 8, 2018 at 9:51 PM

Very cool Richard! I have never seen that phenomenon before.

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Comment posted by Ian Cameron on March 9, 2018 at 5:19 AM

That is interesting I am assuming this is on a a massive scale and not just a small scale image. There is very little to give away the dimensions of the scene we are looking at.

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Comment posted by Ed McGuirk on March 9, 2018 at 8:51 AM

Richard, thank you for sharing this unusual phenomena with us, it's really interesting to see.

As an abstract image, it has a lot of visual interest and works really well for me. There is a nice "flow' to this image. The processing of the mid-tones in the "wave" area looks okay to my eye. I think you could maybe even add a little more contrast to the wave area to make it pop more, but that is a matter of personal taste.

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Comment posted by Michael Lowe on March 9, 2018 at 8:50 PM

I like this. There's certainly enough here to hold a viewers interest.

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Comment posted by Preston Birdwell on March 10, 2018 at 6:38 PM

Very interesting phenomena, and you did a good job pulling this off. You could tweak this a little more, as Ed suggests. Just curious as to the location.
--P

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Comment posted by Ed Lowe on March 12, 2018 at 4:39 PM

This does have a nice abstract quality to it and I also like the lack of scale in this scene, Richard. The processing looks great and thanks for sharing the additional info as to the cause of the ripples.

Ed

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