Place your vote (right) for the top 7 Alaska Natural Wonders. This is my sixth pick out of seven, more to follow. The 2,300 mile Yukon River, interior, Alaska The mighty Yukon River with with its headwaters in British Columbia, Canada is 2,300 miles long. It transects interior Alaska and has been the subject of…
Place your vote (right) for the top 7 Alaska Natural Wonders. This is my fifth pick out of seven, more to follow. Mt. Augustine, volcanic island off the coast of the Alaska Peninsula. Incandescence lava flows on the North and North east flank. Alaska contains over 130 volcanoes and is home to over three-quarters of…
Place your vote (right) for the top 7 Alaska Natural Wonders. This is my fourth pick out of seven, more to follow. Copper River Red Salmon (Sockeye) Alaska has five species of Salmon, and they all are harvested for commercial, personal, or subsistence use. The King and the Red salmon however, are the most favored…
Place your vote (right) for the top 7 Alaska Natural Wonders. This is my third pick out of seven, more to follow. North face of Mt. McKinley (Denali), and Wonder lake, Denali National Park, Alaska. North America’s highest peak is Mount McKinley (20,320+ ft), situated in the Alaska range which arcs across Alaska’s interior. The…
Place your vote (right) for the top 7 Alaska Natural Wonders. This is my second pick out of 7, more to follow. Meares glacier, Prince William Sound The ancient mass of a glacier, particularly a tidewater glacier, that crashes into the sea is both a visual and audio phenomenon. Those who have witnessed it, won’t…
Place your vote (right) for the top 7 Alaska Natural Wonders. This is my first pick out of 7, more to follow. Northern Lights over the Brooks range, Alaska. Even though I’ve seen and photographed the northern lights many, many times, they never cease to amaze me. It is one subject listed under the 7…
In a conversation with friends the subject of travel arose, and with that, a discussion about the 7 wonders of the world. There are many categorical variations of this, i.e., The 7 wonders of the natural world, the Ancient world, the medevial world, and more. I wondered what the 7 natural wonders of Alaska might…
Red Salmon, Brooks River, Katmai National Park, AlaskaCanon 1Ds Mark III, 500mm f4L IS, 1/640 sec @f/8, ISO 1000 In reviewing some files from a trip to Katmai, I came across this image, which is the only one I kept out of many taken. It’s a much more difficult acquisition than it may appear. This…
Zastrugi: wind blown snow patterns, Barter Island, Alaska Canon 1Ds Mark III, 24-105 f4L IS, (45mm), 1/60 @ f/20, ISO 400 Zastrugi or “sastrugi” is a term used to describe patterns in the snow that coincide with the direction of the wind. In ground blizzards, snow patterns can actually serve as a compass if one…
Tamarack trees, Fairbanks, AlaskaCanon 1Ds Mark III, 500mm f4.0L IS, 1/160 sec @ f8, ISO 800 Alaska’s boreal forest is dominated by just a few species of trees, the birch, aspen and spruce. There is one conifer however that loses its needles during winter, unlike the other evergreen species of black and white spruce trees.…