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
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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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 11, 2009 at 8:30am
In late August the salmon streams of Prince William Sound are filled with pink salmon. To these streams comes a frequent visitor, hungry for abundant meals of fish-the black bear. I watched this bear fish in the stream for about an hour or so. It was obvious he was near satiation, since the only parts...
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Wednesday, August 12, 2009 at 4:03pm
This image of a brown bear catching a red salmon at Brooks falls in Katmai National Park is comprised of three independent images, stitched together to generate a panorama or 3:1 format image. This offers a high resolution file that embodies a wider format more suitable for some reproduction uses, for example, a billboard. In...
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Monday, August 10, 2009 at 9:34am
Rain, moist air, and wind direction have given Fairbanks residents some reprieve from the forest fire smoke that has in the past few weeks made air quility very bad. Since I have not photographed much recently due to this, I thought I’d make a post from a previous trip to Katmai National Park.
This frame of...
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Thursday, July 23, 2009 at 12:12pm
For the coastal brown bears of Katmai national park, salmon is a vital part of their diet. How they capture these fish varies: some catch them with their mouth as the fish jump the falls, as noted in the previous blog photo; some steal fish that other bears catch; some sit nearly submerged in the...
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