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Bjørn Rørslett

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Re: Monochrome scenes, not black and white conversions
« Reply #120 on: March 24, 2016, 01:58:17 »
One of my coldest assignments ever. Taken with the restored UW-Nikkor 15 mm f/2.8 wedged in between submersed ice sheet in an alpine wetland. To accomplish this, I had to jump into the water myself of course.

Freezing cold doesn't even begin to describe the situation.

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Re: Monochrome scenes, not black and white conversions
« Reply #121 on: March 25, 2016, 00:29:39 »
Opportunities with ice are virtually unlimited. Just the 'point and shoot' kind of photography ....

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Re: Monochrome scenes, not black and white conversions
« Reply #122 on: March 25, 2016, 00:32:16 »
Bjørn, majestic images.
Both underwater and icy have your 'footprint' :)
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Re: Monochrome scenes, not black and white conversions
« Reply #123 on: March 25, 2016, 00:39:58 »
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Both underwater and icy have your 'footprint' :)

Hard to avoid as I confess to be the photographer ....

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Re: Monochrome scenes, not black and white conversions
« Reply #124 on: March 25, 2016, 06:07:58 »
Methane, the harbinger of global climate change.
Please tell us more about this magnificent shot, Bjørn. Is that Methane stuck in ice?
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Re: Monochrome scenes, not black and white conversions
« Reply #125 on: March 25, 2016, 08:34:43 »
Yes. A common sight on productive water bodies when the ice is "black", ie. fresh and thin with no snow on top. Always a conflict between getting the shot and not crashing through the delicate ice sheet.

You can actually, by punching a small hole, set the escaping methane gas afire.

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Re: Monochrome scenes, not black and white conversions
« Reply #126 on: March 25, 2016, 10:46:56 »
One of my coldest assignments ever. Taken with the restored UW-Nikkor 15 mm f/2.8 wedged in between submersed ice sheet in an alpine wetland. To accomplish this, I had to jump into the water myself of course.

Freezing cold doesn't even begin to describe the situation.

Fascinating picture! The composition and the fact that the upper part show motion and the grass in the lower part show non. Ice is a endless provider of pictures. Its well worth enduring the frigid waters.

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Re: Monochrome scenes, not black and white conversions
« Reply #127 on: March 25, 2016, 11:21:03 »
Fascinating picture! The composition and the fact that the upper part show motion and the grass in the lower part show non. Ice is a endless provider of pictures. Its well worth enduring the frigid waters.

As long as one manages to stay on the ice and not being under it, I agree. Unfortunately, the latter scenario has occurred to me more times than I like to remember. Being trapped under ice is not a pleasant experience.

The "grass" by the way is Common Cottongrass (Eriophorum angustifolium), which of course is not a grass at all :D

I was submersed into a bog with particle-laden water trickling through it, hence the illusion of moving water. In reality, there was an ice layer on top with cracks through which snow fell. Exposure time probably around 2 minutes.

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Re: Monochrome scenes, not black and white conversions
« Reply #128 on: March 25, 2016, 12:21:53 »
Are you seriously suggesting that I should keep grasses, sedges, rushes and its subfamilies apart. That would be paying my botany teacher to much credit ;)

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Re: Monochrome scenes, not black and white conversions
« Reply #129 on: March 25, 2016, 12:28:53 »
Are you seriously suggesting that I should keep grasses, sedges, rushes and its subfamilies apart. That would be paying my botany teacher to much credit ;)

They are not that difficult to tell apart ... Not at all.

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« Reply #130 on: March 25, 2016, 18:47:10 »
They are not that difficult to tell apart ... Not at all.

I know, just cracking jokes about botanists. My botany education is a few years old but I try to keep it afloat by using "Lids flora" now and then.

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Re: Monochrome scenes, not black and white conversions
« Reply #131 on: March 25, 2016, 20:22:57 »
One of the landmarks in my vicinity is the "King's Oak", a free-standing cluster of summer oaks on open fields adjacent to my local lake (Maridalsvannet, Oslo). These oaks grow slowly partly because the soils are not very productive at their location, and partly because the microclimate is on the cold side for this species. Written sources from the 16th century tell the trees were already large at that time, so they must be between 500 and 1000 years old by now.

The characteristic profile is often seen in advertising and serves as a frond for weddings and similar events. Hikers and cyclists camp beneath the boughs in the summer season.

Over the centuries, man's impact on the immediate surroundings no longer can be ignored, as cable runs and telephone poles encircle the tree grove. Thus , as a photographer, one has to decide how to include these artefacts into the composition, because avoiding them is impossible and retouching later really makes a false impression of the scenery.

I have photographed these trees for more than 40 years and still am able to come up with new interpretations. So much for a scene being "done" in photographic terms. ...

This is an illustration to show a winter moonrise over the oaks.

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Re: Monochrome scenes, not black and white conversions
« Reply #132 on: March 26, 2016, 21:48:08 »
Wow! Many beautiful photos i have found here! :)
This is something like red grass :)
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Re: Monochrome scenes, not black and white conversions
« Reply #133 on: March 26, 2016, 22:14:28 »
Thanks to Mongo and Jakov, I truly appreciate your compliments.

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Re: Monochrome scenes, not black and white conversions
« Reply #134 on: March 27, 2016, 18:23:08 »
The road to Hamningberg in Arctic Norway is one of the most photogenic ever seen. The geology is simply fantastic and the scenery is literally from another planet.  In this case, I went off-road where the rocks were less acutely sharp and allowed passage on foot.