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About the Images in Mountain Magic
The Sneffels Range is a mountain range not far from Ouray,
Colorado. Colorado’s whispering aspen
make a terrific autumn attraction for nature photographers as well as for
lovers of spectacular mountain scenery.
The ability to explore numerous mountain trails by four-wheel drive adds
an extra dimension to this adventure.
Colorado’s mountains feature numerous jeep trails, many of them left
over from mining days.
The “Bow Valley Peaks” shot was taken from the old highway in the Bow
Valley, a few miles north of Banff, Alberta, Canada.
The “Kananaskis
Peaks” were photographed not far from
the Kananaskis cross-country ski area.
The Kananaskis area gained worldwide visibility as the scene of the
downhill- ski races during the Calgary Olympics.
“Rocky Mountain High.” This
is a
view along the Columbia-Icefields
highway
just before the Columbia Glacier,
when approaching the glacier from the south.
Winter snowfalls frequently close this highway.
“Castle Mountain,” “Bow Valley Winter,” “Bow Valley Blue,” “Near Lake
Louise,” and “Near Peyto
Lake,” are all images captured during
the same cold snap when all the ingredients for good winter scenery just fell
into place. This happened relatively
early in the winter and for that reason the Bow River was not frozen yet,
causing some steaming in the 30 degrees below zero weather.
“Oxbow Morning” is an
image of the Tetons rising above the Snake River, Wyoming.
“Mount Fitzroy,” “ Fitzroy Sunrise,” and “Cerro Fitzroy” are obviously images of Mount Fitzroy a famous peak
in the South Patagonian Andes. This is
where the photographer experienced the most powerful winds of his
lifetime. When I first arrived at the
location where I took the sunrise shot the next morning, I had been forced to
leave my wife behind along the trail in a sheltered spot because she was unable
to stay on her feet in the gale-force wind.
At the actual lookout point I could only get a glimpse of the scene that
lay ahead from behind a huge boulder.
Fitzroy was not visible. That
night we camped in a very sheltered forest, about an hour from the sunrise
viewpoint. The wind howled all evening
but slowly calmed down during the night and by the time I had to get up to hike
to the peak, the wind had totally died down.
But luck was with me once more that morning: the long and thin
lenticular clouds for which Patagonia is so well known created a dark band
between the sunlit mountain peak and the glacier at the right bottom. This was very helpful from a compositional
point of view: the eye happily moves back and forth between the mountain peaks
and the sunlit glacier in the right bottom of the image.
“Emerald Lake Winter” was
shot in Yoho National Park, British Columbia. The image doesn’t actually show
Emerald Lake itself but a pond just adjacent to the lake.
“Skoki Trail” is an
image, which shows the peaks of the Lake Louise Area in the background and on
the right top of the image some ski runs of the Lake Louise Ski area are just
visible. The cross-country trail on
which the photographer was skiing is not visible but it was the Skoki Lodge
trail. This was a very frigid morning.
This image was captured with the Mamiya 7 camera, a lightweight rangefinder camera
designed specifically for “the
outdoors”.
“Ogilvie Range”. The
Ogilvie Range is a mountain range in the northern Yukon, and is one of the most
northerly ranges of the Rocky Mountains.
The image was taken on a trip along the Dempster Highway, which runs
more or less from Dawson City to Inuvik on the Arctic Ocean. The character of
the peaks, and the way the sun lit these peaks, made for a rather fascinating
image.
“Patagonia” is an image taken on the
trip to the Perito Moreno glacier. The super-blue water is that of Lago
Argentino. The mountains are the
Patagonian Andes. The lenticular clouds
were a daily treat in this area. They
are likely related to the high westerly winds which prevail in South Patagonia
in the summer, just to the east of the Patagonian Andes’ Icefields.
“Volcano,” and “Volcano Hawaii” were images taken from a helicopter at sunrise.
We had come to Hawaii not
only to get married on a beach at sunset, (which we succeeded in doing!) but
also to photograph a volcano and lava.
These were images I needed for a show I was working on at the time.
(Blue Sapphire). Unfortunately, Pele, the Hawaiian God of Fire did not
cooperate and shots of lava turned out impossible to get for a mortal in hiking
boots…except: by helicopter. The helicopter pilot was good enough to pass
along a tip he had learned from a National Geographic film crew: shoot at dawn:
the glow of the lava and the rising sun will be better balanced and both the
lava and the surrounding landscape / sky will be visible. It worked!
Peter Van Rhijn, ANEC
Toronto, Canada
December 2002