This was my first photo tour in Alaska and myself and my guests were all looking forward to photographing, whales, bears, icebergs and more. Even though we did capture all those things, we also found ourselves captivated by the landscapes. In this blog, I want to share with you some of the beauty that we saw on the tour.
The day before our boat headed out, we all met in the small town of Petersburg, Alaska. This is a small fishing town which also has a pretty harbor. We watched as sea planes went in and out of the area. In this photo you will see lots of seagulls feeding in the water. That is because the local fish processing plant has a pipe which sends all the excess fish parts back into the water. The birds love that!
We walked around the harbor and enjoyed the fresh air and peaceful sites.
This is a view of Petersburg and the majestic mountains in the background.
This one of the few photo tours where I packed a drone. Late in the afternoon, I sent the
DJI Mavic 2S up into the sky to get an aerial shot of the small town.
The next day, we boarded our boat and started out of the harbor. As we did, we watched as the clouds danced across the tops of the local mountains.
It was fun to capture the beauty surrounding us.
Great reflections.
Once we left the harbor and headed out into the inner passage, we went through some really dense fog. I was a bit worried since we could not see anything and I really wanted my guests to get some good photos on our first day.
After an hour or so, we came through the fog and everything opened up. We also saw Humpback whales for the first time. We all had a great time photographing the whale tails as they came up out of the water. In the days to come, we got much better whale shots, but hey that is another blog post.
At the end of our first day we saw the late afternoon sun coming through the clouds. I taught everyone the best camera settings for capturing the "gods rays". It was an awesome way to end Day 1.
In the following days, we saw endless photographic landscapes.
Once again, we enjoyed photographing the clouds amongst the mountains.
We saw this pretty waterfall (with an iceberg in front of it), and I thought it would make a pretty photo. Usually for waterfalls, I try to photograph them at 1/2 second to show the motion of the water. In the past we would not have been able to capture this at such a slow shutter speed. You can't use tripods on a moving boat and it would have been tough to handhold a camera at this speed. With these newer cameras (with in-camera stabilization and stabilization in the lenses), it is now possible to handhold a camera even at 1/2 second or even longer. I encouraged everyone to try this. I was mostly using the
Canon R5 Mark II on this trip.
We had numerous sightings of rainbows.
This rainbow was captured on the last morning of the trip. All of us were in the boat looking at our images when Laura went outside with her cup of coffee and saw this beautiful sight. We all scampered outside and captured this moment. This was another good lesson of under exposing the camera to bring out the colors of the rainbow.
This last shot was taken from outside the tiny "airport" as we were all leaving Petersburg. We had some time before our plane arrived so I grabbed the
Canon R5 Mark II and
RF 100-500mm lens and took this final image. Not a bad view from the road.
And just wait to see the other photos from this photo tour!
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