The Relaxed Photo Thread

[AlaskaMoose]

Some very early-spring views of the Fraser River at Hope, British Columbia. Photos were taken in late-March 2022, from a small, viewing lookout spot located in Centennial Park (at Water Avenue and Wallace Street). The spot, and fine weather offered some fine views of the Rive and mountain background settings.

The River was still running at winter-low water conditions, offering very different views from spring-high conditions to follow soon, after weather conditions have changed, and mountain snow has melted Though the current conditions looked rather bleak, with lack of spring colours as yet, they provided some interesting first-time seen views, having never been to Hope this early in any year before. Will post some summer / fall views at another time.

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Very nice! Somewhat similar to the water/landscapes I see in the interior of Alaska, and Northern Canada.

The rugged landscape, murky water, lots of large rocks and gravel, mountains, plus lots of spruce and birch are the norm in the interior of Alaska, and also the Canadian Yukon.

 

[AlaskaMoose]

 

[BotchQue]

Very nice! Somewhat similar to the water/landscapes I see in the interior of Alaska, and Northern Canada.

The rugged landscape, murky water, lots of large rocks and gravel, mountains, plus lots of spruce and birch are the norm in the interior of Alaska, and also the Canadian Yukon.

What makes the water so murky up there? Here in UT and MT, the higher you go, the more crystal-clear the water gets.

 

[OldMacs4Me]

What makes the water so murky up there? Here in UT and MT, the higher you go, the more crystal-clear the water gets.

I suspect that it's because it's glacier fed and that's silt from the glacier. Similar to water coming from the Columbia Ice Field.

 

[OldMacs4Me]

Yesterday April, 19, 2025 was the 111th year since the Hillcrest mine explosion in Southwestern Alberta. Happened 4/19/1914 at 9;30AM. Couple of photos I took at 10:30 AM yesterday morning of the memorial. Note that we are now on Daylight Savings Time hence the hour difference. The third photo shows the smaller of the two mass graves that between them hold more than 100 of mine workers who died that day. Another 67 of those workers are buried in individual graves throughout the Hillcrest cemetary.

You can see a portion of the larger mass grave in the upper right corner. Note that not all of the individuals have headstones.

More info here:https://coalminersmemorial.tripod.com/hillcrestminedisaster.html

Two versions of the same song about the disaster. The first has the artist providing a good explanation. The second is just the song, but the audio is much better.

 

[AlaskaMoose]

I suspect that it's because it's glacier fed and that's silt from the glacier. Similar to water coming from the Columbia Ice Field.

Yes, specially during the spring and summer when the snows on the mountains melt. Even when the water clears, which happens now and then, the water then looks sort of a beautiful whitish/bluish/greenish color. The water in some of the glacier-fed river waters, including the "Copper" where the famous "Copper River salmon" is found, are always silty. The Copper river is not only glacier-fed, but the water contains volcanic ash that is washed down the mountains. Even during the summer the water is very cold.

What makes the water so murky up there? Here in UT and MT, the higher you go, the more crystal-clear the water gets.

It is the same with a lot of the creeks, streams, and some rivers the interior of Alaska- once the snow melts or when not raining. But large bodies of water like the Copper and the Yukon Rivers, both which are fed by glaciers and snows that are present in very high mountainous regions of both Alaska and Canada seldom look clear. I have been told that the waters of the Frazier (in Canada) clears now and then, but it too is quite a large and powerful river.

This creek is snow-fed from the usually called "Rainbow Mountains" that are located right next to the Richardson Highway in Alaska. The photo was taken before it rained:

This photo shows the same creek just after it rained:

 

[AlaskaMoose]

This is the same river and location in one of the first photos I posted somewhere above. You will notice that in that first photo the water looked brown or silty. I took that photo early in the Summer when the snows and glaciers in the mountains were melting. But this photo (below) was taken later in the summer on a cool day that was not raining.
This is a glacier-fed river that is not very deep. I believe its name is Delta, or perhaps Little Delta River, and it flows for a few miles along the Richardson Highway and the Rainbow Mountains (part of the Alaska Range), down to Delta Junction and beyond.

 

[richardallan]

This is a photo of Blanche Point. The little rock off the point is Gull Rock. It is the southern end of Maslin Beach in the southern suburbs of Adelaide, South Australia. This southern end of the beach is an officially designated nude beach but too cold at this time of year! Blanche Point only gets the evening sun on it like this for a few days a year either side of the Winter Solstice. This was taken on the 17th June and the Solstice was on 21st June 2009. This was told to me by South Australian photographer Stavros Pippos.

This is a blend of three bracketed photos taken with my first digital camera - a 6MP Pentax *istD DSLR. I used HDR software Photomatix to blend the exposures and ended up doing a 12" x 18" print of this. I was always pretty happy with it and even won a prize at the camera club I belonged to back then. But I happened upon the file recently and it looks pretty terrible compared to anything with my more recent cameras. So, I decided to see what I could do with modern software. Software now is just a completely other ball game. I was watching a YouTube video recently of doing an HDR merge in Adobe Camera Raw which is my preferred Raw converter alongside DxO Photolab. So I decided to follow that. Being easily able to use masks when in Raw conversion is an another level also which we just take for granted now. Anyway, I opened the file in Photoshop, did some minor retouching and then used combinations of adjustments in Tony Kuyper's panels, Nik Software plugins Pre Sharpener and Color Efex and a few minor tweaks in Luminar Neo here is what I came up with. Colour wise, it is pretty close to the original but probably a bit more natural. Detail wise, it leaves the 2009 version for dead. I can see myself trying Topaz Gigapixel to do an A2 print of this on my new printer.

Anyway, enough rambling on. Here's the pic.