Goodbye autumn, I enjoyed you so much this year! I’m about to launch for three weeks of photo tours in Alaska’s Arctic and will return with some great experiences and hopefully some wonderful photos. The weather during this time of year is always sketchy, but always dramatic as well. I’m looking forward to the opportunities…
A few days ago I received a copy of the 2014 Sierra Club Engagement Calendar, one of the most popular calendars on the market. I’ve been submitting work to them for publication for decades now, and reviewing the final pictures chosen is always interesting. This year however, I was very happy to see that out…
In reviewing some photos I took in March 2013 during a trip to the White Mountains Recreation Area near Fairbanks, I found this shot that I overlooked for some reason and it was sitting in my outtakes folder. It exhibits a color of the aurora that I don’t see often, the yellow/gold, as opposed to…
I’ve been working on a graphic for my eBook update and it amazes me to look at spectrum of colors in the aurora borealis. Here is a screen shot from my collection in Lightroom with 1 x 1 crops for a collage page in the book.
I woke to this view yesterday morning, as the first snow dusted the ground on Moose Mountain in Fairbanks. I’ve been working on the area surrounding a quaint little cabin on my property, preparing for some aurora borealis photography with the cabin in the foreground. I took this photo last year, but there is a…
Sable Pass is the first of four, nearly 4,000 ft. (1,292m) mountain passes that you cross on the 90 mile stretch of Denali Park Road. I took this picture in August while visiting the park during a very cloudy and rainy period. Denali looms off in the clouded mountain background, not visible in this picture.…
One thing I love about Alaska is it’s mountains. And mountains usually mean weather, drama, wind, and all of the paradoxical beauty and ferocity that goes along with that. While it is pretty common knowledge that mountains change elevation over time, I found it interesting in the news today that Mount McKinley, locally known as…
The Design is nearly complete on the children’s book I’m co authoring with Alaska writer Debbie S. Miller. I posted a previous photo of the first cover version, but that has been changed up with this recent image I took on the coast of Katmai National Park last summer. I like this version a little…
Cabins in remote locations in Alaska are often vandalized by bears. If you get in the right circles of people, there are many stories to be told to verify this. So the protocol when leaving the cabin for a period of time is to bear proof it. This usually involves covering windows with plywood…
Baranof Island is a large island in the Southeast Alaska panhandle, and it is home to the small community of Sitka. I made an excursion there recently for a photography assignment and am always impressed by the scenic beauty of the area. The many layers of the topography around Sitka are accentuated by the often…