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BUENOS AIRES
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| Think of Buenos Aires and you might think of 'futbol', steaks, and the Tango. They say it takes two to tango, and it's true. Dancers are ever-willing to perform for a few pesos, and when you get the image home perhaps you will toy with the image as I did like the shot at top left which has a 'graphic pen' touch to it. |
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La Caminito, Boca, Buenos Aires. The rich colors are the result of ships docking in Buenos Aires, and leaving behind gallon upon gallon of colorful paint. La Caminito is the result. |
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Recoleta cemetery is noted for inhabitants such as Eva Peron [Evita], and more recently the large collection of cats that hang around looking for tidbits and affection. |
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An interior shot of the Metropolitan Cathedral that stands on Plaza de Mayo. |
Spring indicated by the pretty Jacaranda tree in Buenos Aires, Argentina. It was the color harmony that caught my eye for this shot. |
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A view of the Puerto Madero Waterfront on which is anchored the ARA Presidente Sarmiento ship which is now a floating museum. The river is Río de la Plata, known in English as the River Plate. |
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Buenos Aires' street markets are a great place for a bargain, and for the photographer, a lot of color. |
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MOUNT FITZ ROY AND ENVIRONS
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Mount Fitz Roy mood . . . 1 of 4. Shots one through three are long lens shots. |
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Mount Fitz Roy mood . . . 2 of 4. |
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Mount Fitz Roy mood . . . 3 of 4. |
Mount Fitz Roy mood . . . 4 of 4.
A wider angle perspective with yellow Dwarf Paramelas thrown out of focus in the foreground, but included to add a sense of depth . . . and some color. |
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We're out early each morning expecting spectacular light on Mount Fitz Roy. While waiting for that to
materialize one can point one's camera toward the colorful sunrise over Lago [Lake] Viedma. |
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Besides Lago Viedma above, one can also turn the opposite direction for a shot such as this one. It's not typical of the Andes obviously, but it does give the eye, and one's mind too, something else to consider. |
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The Las Vueltas River with a Patagonia Pea flower foreground. |
The Crested Cara Cara pauses to assess it's prey. |
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The Crested Cara Cara moments later in flight. |
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A shot in the Mount Fitz Roy foothills that gains credit for it's moody lighting. I used a graduated grey/split neutral density filter to aid with the impact of the shot. |
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Salto del Anillo [The Ring Waterfall], near the Las Vueltas River. The plant growing behind the waterfall is the Waterfall Plant [Lagrima de Cascada]. |
The Calafate flower, also known as the Box-Leafed Barberry. |
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Immature Black-crowned Night Heron |
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Chorrillo del Salto [waterfall]. |
A Condor in flight set against the backdrop of the Chilean Andes. |
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Wild horses take to the hoof near El Calafate. |
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The local tea is 'Mate' [pronounced mar-tay], and is drunk from a calabaza via a silver bombilla above. It's a drink that is particularly popular with the Gauchos of South America, our guide at right, and myself because it's not unlike British black tea! |
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The Black-faced Ibis looking for food on domestic grassland.
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PERITO MORENO GLACIER
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The impressively aqua blue Perito Moreno glacier sandwich between mountain and the delicate Fire-bush flower. |
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A large chunk of ice weighing around a ton falls from the Perito Moreno glacier. |
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A close up of a Fire-bush flower with the backdrop of the aqua blue Perito Moreno glacier.
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TORRES Del PAINE National Park, Chile
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A Guanaco 'poses' Andean style for our photography group. |
A Guanaco gives me the look. |
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A trio of Guanacos completes the trio of Guanaco images. |
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An Argentinean gaucho, horse and dog herd two sheep to greener pastures near the Argentina/Chile border.
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A Fire-bush framing distant Castillo Mountain on the far side of Lago del Toro [Bull Lake] in Torres del Paine National Park.
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The Paine River shot in 'available darkness' with an aperture of f.22 and a long shutter speed that allows the moving water to turn to a 'mist' of sorts. |
Another Paine River image shot not long after sunrise. Again, an aperture of f.22 was used for decent depth of field, but with the emphasis on the flowering Patagonian Pea foreground. |
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The Horns, 'Cuernos', in Torres del Paine National Park, Chile. This is the dawn light. Ya' just gotta be there, then see how the 'Artist' is gonna paint the scene that morning!
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A client shooting the first light from the Pehoe Inn bridge in Torres del Paine National Park in Chile.
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A different perspective and different light for this shot taken almost at water level. To get the soft water effect I used an aperture of around f.22, a low ISO, and made sure I had a shutter speed of half a second or slower. A fifteenth or slower works well for waterfalls, but for the effect above longer exposures are needed. A neutral density filter - or two - perhaps even a polarizer, will help you achieve that. |
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A Coscoroba Swan taking off from Swan Lake lagoon. |
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A male Lesser Rhea with chicks in Torres del Paine national park.
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Pehoe Inn on the edge of Pehoe Lake, with Punta Bariloche peak at right. This was a wonderfully moody and colorful morning, with the cloud formations the result of the high winds that prevail in the region.
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Red Fox near Lago Grey.
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Whenever chunks of ice break off the Grey Glacier in Torres del Paine national park, they float down Grey Lake and create surreal scenes such as this one. |
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Chilean Flicker feeding it's young. |
For another perspective of the Torres del Paine peaks I got close and low, with a wide angle, over the red Guanaco Bush [Fire Tongue]. The bush is also known as Neneo Macho, and I have a similar horizontal version below. |
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The delicate and tiny Virgin's Slipper flower found on the Andean mountain slopes. |
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This dawn shot of the Torres del Paine peaks at dawn could pass as an oil painting at first glance. |
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Then a return to the same spot at a later hour yields a rainbow, and some decently moody lighting. |
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An Upland Goose female with chicks in tow on Lago Pehoe. |
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A pair of hikers are mesmerized by the power of Salto Grande waterfall. Who wouldn't be? |
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Torres del Paine national park peaks with a foreground of Guanaco Bush. Foreground interest can greatly add to the impact of a landscape when done right, though the trade-off is smaller peaks. However, that's a sacrifice I'm willing make whenever or wherever I'm presented with a similar situation. |
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The Towers in Torres del Paine. Sunrise was a flop at this spot, but even though this was shot in the afternoon, the light and shadow plays upon the rock pinnacles to good effect.Same goes this next shot below. 'It's 'the wrong time of the day', but the light and shadow is terrific.
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The Chingolo, or Rufous Collared Sparrow. |
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Horses belonging to Patagonian Gauchos await their next 'instruction' under the Torres del Paine peaks known as The Towers. |
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A Gaucho's horse sings Chilean opera . . . or so it may appear!
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We strive to be eclectic as possible in regard to subjects on our photography tours, so here is a perspective that you have probably not seen before. In the mountains of Europe there are log cabins and striking churches to accent one's shots . . . and in Torres del Paine one has a colorful corrugated home. |
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