Travels through British Columbia to The Rockies 6

I've been having big problems with exposure over the last few days The trouble is the skies. To get any detail in more cloudy or overcast skies you need to underexpose. HDR stuff is not an option for me, so I either lift the foreground or find some middle ground. In fairness to the E-P1 it has done pretty well, as with all live view cameras at least you can see what you are getting before the exposure is made, and the images when downloaded always seem to show more detail in shadow areas than they did on the screen after the exposure. However even in good conditions I find underexposing by 1/3rd of a stop can help.

Yesterday we visited the Athabasca Glacier which is part of vast Columbia Icefield. Here it is possible to take a trip onto the glacier. It was our second visit as with the first one we felt the cloud was a little too low. On our second visit we were there for the first excursion of the day at 9.30. Unbelievably there were only eight of us on the transportation and therefore on the Glacier, and the next buses were full. Our driver told us that sometimes there are up to 300 people on the glacier. Its all done in a very organised and safe way, but frankly who needs so many people getting in your way.

So here are a few pics from the trip.

Firstly this was on our first visit when the cloud was a tad low and shows the initial bus taking us up the Ice Explorer buses



You can actually walk up to the tip of the glacier which we did, though you are kept off the ice.



This shot is taken from the ice explorer bus as it starts its decent onto the ice





I have to say that it was absolutely perishing cold up there and the wind did not help, though my sunhat did As you can see in this shot the wind did it no favours though



This final shot is on the way down to the Icefields Visitor Centre on the Icefields Parkway which you can just see in the valley bottom