Mood: Flat
Music: Coldplay - Parachutes
Today I was picked up and transferred onto a coach which drove 80km out of El Calafate to the site of the Monero Glacier. From there we were put on a boat and drive closer to the glacier edge before walking around the side and up to a place to put crampons on. It was while walking around the edge that I spotted this chunk of ice breaking away from the glacier and falling into the water. I did capture 5 photos in sequence but the one I've posted gives the general impression.
When I say crampons, I mean several pieces of metal welded together to form a cheap crampon type thing. I really did notice the difference from those I wore on the glacier in Iceland as it was much harder to go up and down very steep slopes of ice. I also wasn't given an ice axe this time, which was a shame. From my English speaking group of 17 were walked up onto the ice, being told to keep in single file at all times. It was from here that a young Austrian guy and I started walking in the right places, just not quite in line with the rest of the group. The 17 of us were mostly made up of a group of 10 Israelis who seemed to want to take forever to go anywhere, talked over the guide the whole time, pushing in lines to see things that were one at a time and were just generally quite annoying.
Once off the ice I kept chatting with the Austrian guy, who has now been in South America for 18 months, traveling from Costa Rica all of the way down to the south of the continent. We chatted for most of the rest of the day and had dinner in El Calafate together before I walked back to my hotel and he went to play in a poker tournament at the casino in town.
I get a lie in tomorrow as my transfer isn't until 11am. I don't think I'm going to have an internet connection while on my cruise ship so this might be it until I get to Sydney!
Bye for now!
I guess it's a bit late now (and, of course, you can post-process this) but a great tip on getting more accurate colour-casts on ice and snow is (in the absence of a 60% grey card) to set your White Balance to 'cloudy' (or equivalent). This helps to correct the blue-cast from the reflection of the sky in everything else. Alternatively, take a picture of the snow alone filling the view, and then use this image as the target for a Custom White Balance, which should best accuracy.
ReplyDeleteAre you shooting in RAW as well as JPEG?
Enjoy the cruise!