This small panorama was taken from the bow of a ship in the Inside Passage in Alaska, near Skagway. To call the nature in Alaska untamed would be an understatement. The glaciers are so plentiful that some have no names, and the fjords stretch for days. All of the stones have stories, variegated and striated like this one from eons of ebbing and flowing tides. The morning mist was a beautiful phenomenon, which I attempted to capture in this photograph. It blanketed everything in a soft, dense fog, which sometimes did not burn off until well into the afternoon, when the blue skies brought out the deep cerulean of the glaciers. Although beautiful in full color, I felt that the black and white of this photograph worked ever so well with the natural contrasts of the subject.
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ST. AMAND PHOTOGRAPHY 