Emerald Lake Panorama

I shot this standing on the middle of the blown open area on the ice that you can see in the previous post. This year has been very low in snow and the ice was just wonderfully reflective as you can see. This panorama was 360 degrees around and is shown in a cylindrical projection. When you are standing in this spot, the mountains just tower around you, so this really doesn't do the majesty much justice except when you see it large. It's also great in a panorama viewer but I need to figure out how to embed that on this webpage (preferably without flash or java).


On the ice. Buy a print. On Flickr. On facebook. On Google+.
Stitched from 12 images. Nikon D600, Tokina 11-16 mm f/2.8 at 16mm, f/16, 1/60s, ISO 100.

Freezing my fingers off at Lake Haiyaha

Last Sunday the 30th I went for a sunrise hike to Lake Haiyaha followed by Lake Emerald and above. I have already posted a few images from this trip here and here. I have several more nice images to share from Emerald later but first I want to share a few more images from Haiyaha. Haiyaha is apparently a native American word for rock, which is quite apt as the lake is bordered by lots of really large boulders left by the glacier that carved this valley and is still found higher up in tiny 'Chaotic glacier' which is more like a snowfield. It's visible in the image I posted before. As always I waited a while for the sunrise to come and got shivering cold too lately realizing that I had handwarmers in my backpack - another lesson learned ;-).

Hallett on ice. Buy a print. On flickr, On Facebook, On G+/Picasa.
Nikon D600 on tripod, Nikkor 24-85mm f/3.5-4.5 at 24mm, f/16, 1/13s, ISO 100

The ice on the lake had all these domed structures over large rocks beneath the ice where it had frozen over before and the water level receded creating small pyramids or domes over the rocks.

Lake Hayiaia sunrise panorama. Buy a print. On flickr. On facebook. On G+/Picasa.
Stitched from 15 handheld images. Nikon D600, Nikkor 24-85mm f/3.5-4.5 at 24mm, f/11, 1/50s, ISO 100.

The above image shows about 230 degrees of the view on the lake.

Hallett hat. Buy a print. On flickr. On facebook. On G+/Picasa.
Nikon D600 on tripod, Nikkor 24-85mm f/3.5-4.5 at 42mm, f/11, 1/30s, ISO 100.

I like this more close-up view of the peak. Next up will be some images on the ice of Emerald. Those are my favorites from this hike.

Hallett Reflection

Majestic Hallett reflects in Emerald Lake on a rainy and cloudy evening in Rocky Mountain National Park. From the same evening hike as the previous picture was taken.


Hallett Reflection. Buy a print. See on flickr. Google+. Facebook.
Assembled high resolution image from 9 shots using Nikon D300 at 22mm, ISO 400, f/16, 1/4s