This is about 20km into our backpacking. The fertile soil from recent glaciation sprang colorful life everywhere, even as the valley was changing colors for autumn. Little streams trickled here and there and fell into larger streams. Fording some of these was always a little sketchy when carrying a bunch of expensive camera equipment, but it was always worth it.
I can’t explain how often I stopped to take photos along this hike! I am sure it took about 4x as long as needed, but that was the point of the whole trip, after all…
If you zoom into the large or ( original size ), you can see the glowing blue glacier there, spilling out from between the edge of the Andes.
April 13th, 2009 00:07 | Lindsay Maddox
That is STUNNING! Love it!
April 13th, 2009 00:08 | Thorpeland
Really nice Trey. Is this from a single RAW or from multiple exposures? Enjoying the shots from this trip!
April 13th, 2009 00:09 | Eugene
Better than in real life Trey. Awesome.
April 13th, 2009 00:14 | Craig Ferguson
Beautiful.
April 13th, 2009 00:18 | Matthew
Hey Trey, excellent detail.
When I looked at the original size, I could see vertical “stiching” type pixelation. Is this a panorama? What are those from?
April 13th, 2009 00:18 | Stuck In Customs
Thanks Lindsay, Eugene, and Craig.
Thorpeland — this was 5 exposures -2 to +2 — I wish my camera stepped by 2!
April 13th, 2009 00:19 | Stuck In Customs
Matthew – no – not a panorama… I wonder where the vertical stitching came from? A strange artifact, perhaps…! ?
April 13th, 2009 03:46 | Raymond
Spectacular colors… sweet clouds… another great image!!! Happy Easter
April 13th, 2009 04:30 | Candy Whiting
Totally amazing!!! What a trip that must have been!
April 13th, 2009 06:25 | Gary
Impressive!!!!! You captured the real beauty of The Andes.
April 13th, 2009 08:08 | Michael Appelmans
Great catch of this beautiful countryside! Would love to see a panorama
April 13th, 2009 08:09 | Gail Stayton Moshier
Beautiful picture, Trey. I’m still sharing them with my sister and she agrees that your pictures are beautiful. She does oil painting and water color pictures that are beautiful, too. So she is a fellow artist, just a different genre. Anyway, life is good here in Michigan, busy visiting our family and friends and that’s more than you wanted to know. Thanks for sharing your life with us!!!! Keep up the good work, WTG!!! Be safe, well and warm.
April 13th, 2009 08:25 | Dale Martin
Stunning Trey!!! Hope you had a good Easter Hiking in the Andes!
April 13th, 2009 09:11 | Deana
Sigh… you get to do some seriously amazing things, thank goodness you always take a camera with you, beautiful, simply beautiful!
April 13th, 2009 09:18 | Stuck In Customs
Thanks all!
Gail – glad your sis likes it… adding one fan at a time – thanks! I’ve had several painters use my stuff as reference… I should post all the painting on here sometime – there are some very interesting reproductions being done.
April 13th, 2009 09:53 | Adam
Fantastic shot Trey. You’ve really managed to capture some great colors in this one.
April 13th, 2009 10:07 | Richard Uchytil
Looks like a beautiful meadow at the top of the world.
April 13th, 2009 13:28 | Apostle
BRAVO!!!!
April 13th, 2009 18:54 | Stuck In Customs
Thanks yall !
April 13th, 2009 21:20 | Deb
This has to be one of the most beautiful things I have ever seen! Thank you so much for sharing with us. Be safe and warm and keep up the excellent work. I know you will, you probably can’t help it!
April 14th, 2009 00:34 | Carina
Wow, wow, WOW! Incredible.
April 14th, 2009 09:54 | Joey de Weerd
Stunning colors…it seems like the clouds are been suck away…..
April 14th, 2009 14:31 | Mike
This is a great shot. The 20+ megapixels on that D3x are pretty awesome. I’d love to shoot with one of those for a day.
Cheers,
MD
April 15th, 2009 00:31 | davidinman(.net) » Linkage
[...] This may be Trey’s best HDR – and he has a lot of them. Typically I find his HDR a hodge-podge of good and bad, but there are some stellar gems thrown in there. This is one of the best pictures I’ve ever seen period, and it reminds me why I subscribe to his blog. [...]