15 below zero

[Andy_Sorensen]

Our church had a winter fun day last saturday.  I agreed to build an igloo at the event and then of course, sleep in it.  But before crawling in the bag, I managed to squeak out a few photos from my camera whose batteries were dying from the cold.  It was 15 below zero at the time of this photo.  Taken at ISO 800 with a 30 second exposure, there was significant digital noise in the sky, but was successfully able to counteract that with a Photoshop plugin called Dfine by nik software.  Worked like a charm.  Anyway, here's the igloo, which was built on a frozen lake in southcentral Alaska.  The lake is called Beach Lake, so I guess you could call this photo an Alaskan January day at the beach!   




The igloo is glowing from the light of a lantern inside.

[Marilyn]

Wow that is so awesome.

[Al Moak]

That's absolutely fabulous!  And to think that it was taken at the beach!  I guess the long exposure was exactly the thing!

[SmokeytheDog]

Looks like an alien growth on the surface of the moon!

[Pat]

My goodness, Andy!  What an awesome capture! 

[Summicron]

The whatever it is in the background, possibly the sea makes this look otherworldly like the center of a crater on the moon, I once came across an igloo on top of Ben Nevice in Scotland one Christmas, cut from blocks of snow, the snow was 12 ft thick up there.

[Janet]

That's lovely!  And I knew instantly what it was!  I wouldn't have had the knowledge to get such a good photo of it, though.  Congratulations!

[Ruth Ann Bice]

Soooo beautiful.

[Gord Brown]

   Unbelievable picture and such a view behind the Iglo

[Larry Hanna]

My initial reaction was lava cooling.  Very nice and different.

[Etta Sue]

Better you than me sleeping in your igloo!!    I like a warm comfy bed.  You did a great job building and capturing your igloo on film!