Monday, March 8, 2010 at 8:00am
Paulet Island, just off the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula hosts a giant colony of adelie penguins. The count varies year to year, but approximately 200,000 birds make for a notable population. They are constantly coming and going from the nesting sights to the sea, bringing food back to feed the growing chicks, often...
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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
Friday, November 27, 2009 at 4:11pm
I sold a photo for the second time recently, which prompts me to make a few comments about the potential life that lurks under some very seemingly dead digital captures. One day while driving the Dalton Highway in northern Alaska, I saw a bow hunter just a few yards off the road waiting for a...
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Categories: Alaska Life, Publications, Technical, Wildlife | Tags: alaska, Arctic, caribou, exposure, hunting, photos, Technical, underexposed
Wednesday, November 25, 2009 at 4:00am
Prior to 2009, the last time I went in search of mountain goats I carried a gun in my hands. That was 26 years ago. After climbing precipitous rocky cliffs for an entire day in pursuit of a billy, I almost gave up many times, thinking surely I would kill myself if I fell or...
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Wednesday, November 18, 2009 at 4:00am
Time to take a little bend in the road of still photography and explore some of the newly bundled features in today’s quickly evolving digital cameras-HD video. Since the inclusion of HD video in the Canon 5D Mark II, I’ve enjoyed playing around with it a bit, with an emphasis on “playing”. It is less...
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Categories: Arctic, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Bears, Nature, Photo Tours, Ploar bears, Wildlife | Tags: alaska, Arctic, arctic national wildlife refuge, beaufort sea, polar bears, Wildlife
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
Friday, October 30, 2009 at 4:00am
A few comments about photographing white subjects in white environments; in particular the issue of exposure and post production adjustments in Lightroom 2.5. Let me first state that I’ve always utilized an expose-to-the-right shooting style (you can explore that concept on luminous-landscape if you are unfamiliar with it). To summarize that briefly, it is a...
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Categories: Arctic, Bears, Digital Technique, Nature, Photo Tours, Ploar bears, Technical, Wildlife | Tags: alaska, arctic national wildlife refuge, exposure, mammals, polar bears, snow, Wildlife
Wednesday, October 28, 2009 at 4:00am
This is another frame taken on a recent Arctic photo tour that I co-guide with Hugh Rose. We expanded to two trips this year, due to increased interest. This female polar bear was looking pretty healthy, and had been feeding on carcasses left over from the Autumn Bowhead whale hunt in the native village of...
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Categories: Arctic, Bears, Nature, Ploar bears, Wildlife | Tags: alaska, Arctic, arctic national wildlife refuge, ice, mammals, polar bears, Wildlife
Monday, October 26, 2009 at 4:00am
In my observations and photography in nature, I consider the polar bear to be one of the most amazing animals, exhibiting tremendous adaptation which has made them fit for survival in a harsh climate. They are generally a solitary animal, with a tremendous range of up to 1000 miles. Much of their life...
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Categories: Arctic, Bears, Nature, Photo Tours, Ploar bears, Wildlife | Tags: alaska, Arctic, Bears, beaufort sea, ice bear, polar bear, snow, Wildlife
Friday, October 9, 2009 at 4:00am
Polar bears congregate along Alaska’s north coast when the scent of the bowhead whale carcasses show up from the autumn indigenous whale hunts. Barter Island, located just off the Alaska mainland, is bordered by the Beaufort Sea to the north. It is growing in popularity as a destination to view polar bears, an amazing experience...
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