The view from the top of Mount Cook (Aoraki) is truly a sight to behold. Or we have heard!
We decided to give the high peaks a miss today, and instead joined the tourist trail along to the Hooker glacier. This involved an easy 12k round trip along an (almost) wheelchair accessible path.
When we rounded the corner and Aoraki appeared before us, it was initially shrouded in cloud (presaging an oncoming storm). Gaps in the cloud slowly passed in front of the mountain, and after about 20 mins, we figured that we'd seen all of it, albeit not all at once.
The glacier has formed a lake at the bottom, which has a number of icebergs in it. Dave fished part of one out for Hannah, who promptly got very cold hands waiting for Dave to take photos with various devices!
Then we made tea as the weather closed in.
So - icebergs are officially cool, if not a tad chilly.
ReplyDeleteNow, there MUST be a mountainography app out there, or in someone's creative wotsit (Tim? Are you there?) for creating a complete picture of the view of a mountain, as seen through slowly moving Swiss cheese. Everyone who has ever seen a mountain anywhere in the world would welcome it.
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ReplyDeleteI did once see a program that allowed you to take multiple photos of a scene (with lots of people in) and then essentially delete the people. This would be kind of the same, but... as you will see from today's post (if we ever manage to post it - technical problems) this would be superfluous in this case
ReplyDeleteYou would have thought they'd have got more original with the names. I've lost track of the number of things I apparently own....
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ReplyDeleteThis is a decent tutorial showing how to stack mages and remove transient objecs using the GIMP:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.halley.cc/photo/multexp/gimp.multexp.2.html
Now that you've got the nice sunny shots from your later adventures you might decide it isn't worth the effort to salvage this view... but you might find other misty mountains (compulsory Tolkien reference - tick) that warrant use of the technique.
Gareth.