The first time I saw this view (without the snow) was in the summer of 2001, sometime around 2:00 in the morning. It’s from a little mountain on the way to Steinetinden. It’s a very easy hike in summer, which gives an amazing view from the summit. When it’s covered with fresh snow, it’s a bit more difficult, but the view is better and worth the effort, though one wrong move near the top would mean a fall of around 700 feet.
From back in the summer. click to see bigger…
Been busy… Will post more often once the holidays are over with.
It was sometime just after dawn on a cold and rainy late September day in 2003 that I first saw the shadowy cliffs of the Isle of Skye rising from the stormy sea. Arriving there that morning pretty much ruined any plans I had for seeing the rest of Scotland, as I wasn’t able to leave until it was almost time to fly home, nearly a month later. And again in the autumn of last year, I got ‘stuck’ for two and a half months. I’m sure it wont be the last time…
Kinlochleven, Scotland. October 2006
Kinloch, New Zealand. December 2005
Language lesson: ‘kin’ is a Gaelic prefix for ‘head’ or ‘top.’ Hence, ‘kinlochleven’ = head of Loch Leven.
Set ablaze in September 1646 during the late days of the 30 years war to keep it from falling into the hands of the approaching Swedish led Protestant army.
7 shot pano of a wintry Stamsund, taken while on the way to Steinetind on a cold snowy spring day.
One of the coolest places in the world! I’ve been busy going through my archives as I’ve been submitting to a new stock agency and looking for images to send in (its my ambitious goal to reach 1,000 images by the end of the year). I shot a lot of panoramics while in New Zealand, but never really took the time to process them. So its kind of cool sorting through photos that I haven’t really looked at for over a year; brings back lots of cool memories.
Normally I don’t take much interest in shooting sunsets, but sometimes I can’t resist. I took this shot about 4 years ago, and quite by accident. The previous day we had gotten some cool clouds in Santa Barbara (and for those of you not from Santa Barbara, it’s not too often that we get any sort of ‘interesting’ weather), so this day I had driven up to La Cumbre peak, as I had some old film and felt like taking some pictures to see how things would come out. As time progressed, the light got nicer and nicer. As I wasn’t planning on shooting anything serious, I was lucky I had a roll of film that wasn’t expired by 5+ years, and thus able to take a few decent shots. Just digging through some archives and came across this shot, perhaps a bit bored as well…
