Category: photographs

You may be surprised to know that this post’s featured image involved a considerably shorter lens than did the “5A” photo, taken 38 minutes earlier, when we were still offshore.

When I took the above photo, we had for some minutes been strolling along the rather young beach which had formed/emerged as the glacier retreated – and lost its former status as a “tidewater” glacier.

First, please have a close look at this post’s image.

It offers a much closer view than that presented in “4A” of this series.

When I took the “5A” & “5B” images we really were much closer to the same glacier’s snout, but for the “5A” image I also deployed a telephoto rather than a wide angle lens.

Now, have another look at the “4A”image, which shows all of this glacier’s snout, rather than a small portion thereof.

This series’ “4A” image was dominated by several square kilometres of a glacier, but also included what appeared to be a very small boat.

The very same boat is the obviously-substantial star of “4B”.

For eight nights and almost nine days my beloved and I were among the 16 people (12 passengers) who were comfortably accommodated and very well fed on MV Catalyst.

The boat also carried kayaks for us all, and towed the tender that speedily transported us to and from many of Glacier Bay’s glorious shores.

In some places and circumstances a human’s eyes and brain find it nigh-impossible to gauge just how close – or how far away – is whatever you are looking at, intensely.

The absolute (and relative) sizes of things – things-natural and things-manufactured by humans – can likewise remain an almost total mystery, until one is actually in or on the man-made thing, and/or within not very many metres of a landscape feature’s “face”.

One such place and circumstance: Alaska’s Glacier Bay, when “exploring” it by boat.