Crack

You probably heard and old saying that goes something like “No plan survives contact with the enemy”. Simple and pretty accurate, but it sounds as if it applies only to the army.

To make it more general, we could say that “No theory survives contact with reality”, or maybe I was a little to optimistic!

My last post was almost two months ago, when I had just arrived to El Chalten. Since then a lot of things have passed, some were bad but luckily most where pretty good. However, some didn’t allow me to go out as much as I wanted and as a result I had few pictures to post.

Now I am having more time, and it has allowed me to go out more frequently, and even go camping once a week (on my free day).

Hopefully I will keep having enough time (and energy!) to go out. The weather now is pretty nice. Not too cold and not too hot, though it is still as windy as ever.

To the pictures then. The first is from Laguna de los Tres (the same place from my last post).

Crack (Cerro Fitz Roy y Cerro Poincenot)

Laguna de los Tres, El Chalten, Patagonia Argentina

It was taken during sunrise a few weeks ago. To get there at sunrise, I slept in camp Poincenot, and then made a 2,5 km trek during the nigh. I arrived there 45 minutes before sunrise and spent a few minutes trying to find a nice composition.

This is what I choose in the end. I am pleased with the result. The cracked stone in the foreground creates a nice line across the bottom of the image, a few cloud formed at the top and the mountains took a nice color.

To make it even better I would have preferred to show more of the lake (you can see a little bit at the left of the image), but since I was on a slope leading up I was not able to raise the camera enough to show it.

Aside from that, I really like the result.

Bellow there are a few more images I like in no particular order.