Monday, November 23, 2009 at 12:26pm
While I spend my share of time traveling to exotic locations to photograph, I still contend that photographing in one’s backyard is viable for the average photographer. Now I confess that I have a fine backyard for this–8 acres of boreal forest, and not all backyards are the same. But, you don’t need acres really,...
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Categories: Cold weather, Fairbanks, Interior, Landscapes, Mountains, Nature, Publications | Tags: alaska, Aurora borealis, backyard, frost, landscape, Landscapes, Mountains, northern lights, photography, photos, Publications, window frost, winter
Monday, November 16, 2009 at 4:00am
For a few years now I’ve had some photos on display at the Alaska Coffee Roasting Company in Fairbanks. If you are passing through Fairbanks, they have fresh daily roasted coffee and it some of the best I’ve encountered, and that includes many locations around the nation. In November of each year, I refresh the...
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Monday, November 9, 2009 at 4:00am
Finding the all-round vehicle that suits multiple purposes, including photographic adventures, is not only difficult, but ultimately a compromise somewhere. I decided to own just one vehicle due to a proclivity towards minimalism (I’ll save breaking that rule for camera gear). In my search for a car there were a few important aspects I looked...
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Categories: Birds, Caribou, Denali National Park, Interior, Mountains, Nature, Technique, Uncategorized, Wildlife | Tags: animals, Birds, caribou, denali national park, foggy, great gray owl, landscape, mist, moody, raven, sunroof, Wildlife
Wednesday, October 21, 2009 at 8:00am
I’ve been posting a few photos and comments from a recent photo tour in Alaska’s arctic. Here is a link to a gallery of a few shots I quickly processed before heading back in the field for the second photo tour.
http://alaskaphotographics.com/galleries/2009-photo-tour1/
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Monday, October 19, 2009 at 4:00am
One of the beauties of photographing in Alaska in October is that the quality of light stays relatively warm and angle-appropriate for shooting most of the day. However, there is nothing quite as dynamic as the first and last light of any day. This shot was taken about 1 hour before actual sunset, but the...
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Friday, October 2, 2009 at 7:41am
After waiting out a few days of rain in southcentral Alaska, I worked my way to the Harding Ice Field and Exit Glacier in Kenai Fjords National Park, on the Kenai Peninsula. The Exit Glacier flows out of the Harding Icefield, and terminates at a popular walk up viewing point accessible by road near Seward,...
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Monday, September 28, 2009 at 4:00am
On a short excursion in Prince William Sound (courtesy of Discovery Voyages), a group of us basked in the sunshine on a tremendous hike through the lush and verdant hillsides of Western Prince William Sound and the Chugach National Forest. It was an area I longed to trek in given a clear day. The granite...
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Categories: Landscapes, Mountains, Nature, Prince William Sound, Regions | Tags: chugach national forest, fog, glacier, landscape, Mountains, prince william sound, southcentral
Wednesday, September 23, 2009 at 5:00am
There are two summits on Denali, or Mt. McKinley, the north and the south. The South Summit is the higher one (20,320 ft), while the North Summit has an elevation of 19,470 feet. You can see the South Summit clearly in the view, taken from the McKinley overlook along the Parks highway (note the north summit...
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Categories: Denali National Park, Interior, Landscapes, Mountains, Nature, Public Lands, Regions | Tags: denali, denali national park, landscape, Mountains, mt mckinley
Monday, September 21, 2009 at 5:00am
This is shot is mostly luck mixed with a little bit of perseverance. First of all the mountain often clouds over as the day progresses and if it does not, it tends to be very hazy by this time of day. It was noon when I shot the frame, and thanks to the amazing clarity...
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Categories: Bears, Denali National Park, Interior, Landscapes, Mountains, Nature, Public Lands, Wildlife | Tags: alaska, denali national park, grizzly bear, Interior, Wildlife
Wednesday, September 16, 2009 at 8:28am
The monolithic mass of Denali, North America’s tallest mountain seems to have a million faces. I’ve photographed it hundreds of times, from many different locations, on the ground and from the air. It looks different from every view and the weather it generates surrounds it with an array of ever changing clouds. In early September...
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Categories: Interior, Landscapes, Mountains, Nature, Regions | Tags: clouds, deanli national park, Interior, Landscapes, mt mckinley, reflection, sunset, water
