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Result of some experimenting with the underwater housing a couple of nights ago at Lake Minnewanka.
Above, aurora pillars explode from behind Mount Astley. Below, evidence of the many trees that were flooded when the lake level was raised by 30 metres in 1941.
2 images focus-stacked. For more underwater images from Banff National Park, check out this link here: http://bit.ly/1TKIvz1

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Spring panorama in Slovakia, River Hron.

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The first light of the day kisses the Breadknife.  The shot was taken looking down over the Warrumbungles after night hiking up to the Grand High Tops with a headtorch.  The Breadknife is a volcanic dyke nearly 90 metres high but only 4 m wide which is particularly rare. The Breadknife is composed of peralkaline trachyte and was once part of a large shield volcano, that first erupted about 17 million years ago and stopped about 13 million years ago.  Warrumbungle National Park, NSW, Australia

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A shot of Bâlea Lake cabin taken at sunset.

Bâlea Lake (Romanian: Lacul Bâlea or Bâlea Lac, pronounced [ˈbɨle̯a]) is a glacier lake situated at 2,034 m of altitude in the Făgăraș Mountains, in central Romania, in Cârțișoara, Sibiu County. There are two chalets opened all the year round, a meteorological station and a mountain rescue (Salvamont) station. It is accessible by car on the Transfăgărășan road during the summer, and the rest of the year by a cable car from the “Bâlea Cascadă” chalet.

In 2006, the first ice hotel in Eastern Europe was built in the vicinity of the lake.

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White Rim Road in a very foggy/snowy weekend, at Canyonlands National Park. Thick layers of inversion hanged by the canyon for almost a week. You can see the road all the way to the bottom of the canyon. We did all 90+ miles of that road, what an experience… 3 image panorama.
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A two weeks solo trip to Patagonia recently, I spent half of time @ Torres Del Paine and half of the time @ El Chalten, it was a long way to get to it, spent almost 7 days on the road too. But it is def. worth it, two weeks are too short to explore Patagonia and I will go back again for sure 🙂

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Last Spring I went to the Tetons for wildflower season. While there are no wildflowers at the beaver pond, I went anyway to experiment with the unexpected.
I have seen this location, which is tiny to begin with, lined up with 15-20 photographers for sunrise. Shoulder to shoulder tripods intertwined. I photographed then too, but I decided to run down at sunset to try the unexpected. As I suspected I would, I had the place to myself with the exception of a couple of tourists carrying iPhones.
I envisioned this scene to look pretty much as you see it here and wondered why people only photograph it at sunrise, other than the obvious, sometimes we behave like sheep and follow the expected. I understand that at sunrise you get front light on the peaks and illuminated clouds. Sunset you get more of a silhouetted scene. That said, it is possible to get side light, or a sunbeam passing through behind the peaks.
I used a 5 stop ND in this shot for a 2 minute exposure which explains the silky cloud movement. The sky was hazy and cloud covered, but there was enough light trying to burn through to make some nice dramatic light reflecting in the clouds.
Grand Tetons, Wyoming, USA

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