Ice Ice Baby… 02·05·10

As promised, here are some more Iceberg barrels (The last photograph is from a different wave sequence, but is so juicy that I thought I’d include it)…if you look at the 4th shot in the sequence there is a small dark spec right above the right side of the wave (left side if you were on the wave) which can also be seen a little bit better higher in shot 5…that’s a bird with a 12-16″ wingspan…when seeing these blue barrels from the ship I assumed they were about chest high…it was dificult to gauge the size not having anything for scale. It was not until I really looked at these shots that I saw the bird and thus could measure these babies at about 10ft+…Amazing. Check out the Antarctica Portfolio for more shots…

16 Comments »

  1. Amazing…thanks for sharing 🙂

    Comment by maggie — February 10, 2010 @ 5:19 pm

  2. Thanks maggie…everyone who reads this should check out maggie’s work at MAGGIEMARSEK.com or sealayer.com

    you’ll be psyched you did.
    g.

    Comment by Surfbird — February 11, 2010 @ 10:49 am

  3. Thats “cool”

    Comment by Griff — February 13, 2010 @ 4:54 am

  4. Ha…thanks Griff.

    Comment by Surfbird — February 14, 2010 @ 8:44 pm

  5. […] the full series and more on the waves, click here) when seeing these blue barrels from the ship I assumed they were about chest high…it was […]

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  6. How do I buy copies. Incredible. I … must … have.

    Comment by Clif — March 7, 2010 @ 11:42 pm

  7. Is that for real or have they been Photoshopped?

    Comment by Ramsnake — March 8, 2010 @ 3:53 am

  8. I’ve never seen water that color

    Comment by ewarner — March 10, 2010 @ 11:28 am

  9. Super sick

    Comment by jamestull — March 10, 2010 @ 11:30 am

  10. Thanks Clif, i’ll email you about the prints…

    Comment by Surfbird — March 10, 2010 @ 11:41 am

  11. Hey Ramsnake…not photoshopped, the only thing I used was a polarizing filter. It was a stormy gray day and so the ocean was almost monotone in color, but then we came up onto this berg and circumnavigated it and low and behold on the other side of our initial approach, the iceberg had a long underwater shelf that was perfectly shaped to form these beauties. The ice shelf is so purely white that the refraction of the ambient light comes through the water and emits this really crazy almost neon blue light. Incredible. I sat there in awe and just kept shooting…I wish we could have stayed longer, but after one full circle around the berg, we continued south towards Antarctica…so no photoshop, just pure beautiful nature and God at work. 🙂

    Comment by Surfbird — March 10, 2010 @ 11:50 am

  12. Gracias Jamestull…

    Comment by Surfbird — March 10, 2010 @ 11:55 am

  13. Yeah ewarner, I hadn’t either…pretty wild!

    Comment by Surfbird — March 10, 2010 @ 12:00 pm

  14. Well, they are amazing images well done for happening to be in the right place at the right time!

    Comment by Ramsnake — March 23, 2010 @ 3:51 pm

  15. Gracias Ramsnake.

    Comment by Surfbird — March 24, 2010 @ 11:18 am

  16. I hope you don’t mind but I’ve pinched one of your pics for the front page of my blog – fully accredited of course

    Comment by pete — April 1, 2011 @ 1:34 pm

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  • maggie says:

    Amazing…thanks for sharing 🙂

  • Surfbird says:

    Thanks maggie…everyone who reads this should check out maggie’s work at MAGGIEMARSEK.com or sealayer.com

    you’ll be psyched you did.
    g.

  • Griff says:

    Thats “cool”

  • Surfbird says:

    Ha…thanks Griff.

  • […] the full series and more on the waves, click here) when seeing these blue barrels from the ship I assumed they were about chest high…it was […]

  • Clif says:

    How do I buy copies. Incredible. I … must … have.

  • Ramsnake says:

    Is that for real or have they been Photoshopped?

  • ewarner says:

    I’ve never seen water that color

  • Surfbird says:

    Thanks Clif, i’ll email you about the prints…

  • Surfbird says:

    Hey Ramsnake…not photoshopped, the only thing I used was a polarizing filter. It was a stormy gray day and so the ocean was almost monotone in color, but then we came up onto this berg and circumnavigated it and low and behold on the other side of our initial approach, the iceberg had a long underwater shelf that was perfectly shaped to form these beauties. The ice shelf is so purely white that the refraction of the ambient light comes through the water and emits this really crazy almost neon blue light. Incredible. I sat there in awe and just kept shooting…I wish we could have stayed longer, but after one full circle around the berg, we continued south towards Antarctica…so no photoshop, just pure beautiful nature and God at work. 🙂

  • Surfbird says:

    Gracias Jamestull…

  • Surfbird says:

    Yeah ewarner, I hadn’t either…pretty wild!

  • Ramsnake says:

    Well, they are amazing images well done for happening to be in the right place at the right time!

  • Surfbird says:

    Gracias Ramsnake.

  • pete says:

    I hope you don’t mind but I’ve pinched one of your pics for the front page of my blog – fully accredited of course