David's Images of the Day Photoblog
Views of the sky. Sunrise, sunset, clouds, and weather
Summer Baltic Sea Rain Clouds at Dawn from the MV Explorer. Composite of 13 images taken with a Fuji X-T1 camera and Zeiss 32 mm f/1.8 lens (ISO 1600, 32 mm, f/2.8, 1/30 sec). Raw images processed with Lightroom, Autopano Giga Pro, Capture One, and Photoshop CC. Best viewed Full Screen.
Puffin In Flight After a Successful Morning Fishing Trip. Cape Ingolfshofdi (Ingólfshöfði) a private nature preserve on an isolated headland on the coast half way between Skaftafell in Vatnajokull National Park and Jökulsárlón ice lagoon in Iceland. Image taken with a Nikon D4 and 80-400 mm VR II lens (ISO 360, 400 mm, f/5.6, 1/1000 sec). Image processed with the new 64 bit Focus Magic filter.
Arctic Tern Hovering Looking For Fish in the Lagoon. Breiðamerkurjökull Glacier at the Jökulsárlón Lagoon in Southeast Iceland. Image taken with a Nikon 1 V2 camera, FT1 adapter, and 80-400 mm VRII lens (ISO 160, 116 mm, f/5.6, 1/800 sec).
Snapshot Taken While Riding a Bus from Stockholm to Uppsala, Sweden. Semester at Sea, Summer 2014 Voyage Field Trip. Image taken with a Fuji XT1 camera and 23 mm f/1.4 lens (ISO 200, 23 mm, f/2.5, 1/1000 sec). Raw image processed with Capture One Pro, Focus Magic, and Photoshop CC 2014.
The group did a high-speed RIB Safari boat tour to the islands around Vestmannaeyjar. We needed to get into arctic survival suits, and had shoulder harness belts holding us in our seats. I strapped a camera to my chest with a fisheye lens and set it to automatically take images every few seconds. At times the boat was traveling at 40 knots with lots of heavy bouncing. We went all the way out to Surtsey island that I remember reading about as a kid rising from the sea as a volcano. At one point we saw a whale, so slowed down and stopped to take pictures. While stopped the boat rocked a lot, causing one or two passengers to lose their breakfast. This is a rough cut before adding titles, stills, a GPS map, and music. Beware if you are prone to motion sickness. Images captured with a Nikon D800 and 16 mm f/2.8 fisheye lens.