Monday, December 14, 2009 at 9:15am
I was all ready to photograph the Gemenid meteor shower last night, but clouds moved in around midnight, which was a disappointment. However, on Sunday morning, I woke up to a faint aurora display, directly over my house. I grabbed my camera and took a few experimental shots. I say experimental because I was testing...
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Monday, November 30, 2009 at 9:02am
I’m guilty of tight compositions. It’s a by-product of the school of thinking that frowns on cropping and feels that a single image needs to be self contained and compositionally defined when you push the shutter button. It’s a school of thought I no longer adhere to, but won’t get into that subject right now.
When...
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Categories: Denali National Park, Interior, Publications, Technique, Wildlife | Tags: alaska, boreal forest, composition, denali national park, design, moose, stock photography, Wildlife
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
Monday, October 5, 2009 at 4:00am
Late September and early October bring the first snow to Fairbanks, generally. A light dusting on the trees which still retain a few of the autumn leaves offers a beautiful contrast of soft white and colorful autumn colors. This frame was taken in the undulating hills on the north west side of Fairbanks, just...
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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
Friday, September 18, 2009 at 5:00am
On my late August trip to Denali Park, I decided to focus primarily on landscapes, since I was getting around on a bike and on foot. However, I did spend one cloudy afternoon in the pursuit of caribou. I spotted this bull some distance away and started trekking up the tundra hillside with my new...
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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
