Pictures of the landscape genre
I took this photo on Sunday afternoon at 3:16pm, and it reveals the very last hint of light falling on the mountains about 50 miles north of the Arctic Circle. The sun will be gone in a day or so and won’t appear again until sometime in later January. The colors in the sky at…
I’ve been aware of the popular TV series “Ice Road Truckers” for a while, but since I don’t own a TV, I’ve never seen the show. I learned about it during my recent photo tours when traveling the Dalton Highway with fans of the show. The Dalton Highway, in general is in pretty good traveling…
Finger mountain, on the Dalton Highway is a notoriously windy place. It is more of a broad hill with an expansive view than any sort of real mountain. Granite protrusions dot the landscape and make for some interesting features. I grabbed this photo on a very quick stop during one of my arctic photo tours,…
Artwork at the Fairbanks Airport Last month two of my photos were installed at the Fairbanks International Airport. They were 3.5 x 10 feet in length as canvas wraps. I have not seen them yet, since the framer made a direct delivery, and I won’t be flying until later November. If you are in the…
Koyukuk River In general, mid October marks the time when the Koyukuk river, which flows out of the Brooks Range, freezes over. The ice formation on the river creates interesting patterns and shapes during its freeze-thaw-freeze phase. The crystal clear water seems about as pure as water can get. This picture was taken on Oct…
Before leaving for another 10 day venture in the arctic, here is one photo taken during my previous trip last week, late one evening when the aurora spilled across the sky. It was taken about 2:00am, in the Brooks Range, on a nearly new moon evening. In retrospect I would have shortened the exposure a…
If you have followed this blog at all, you will see that the Brooks Range mountains that arc across Alaska’s arctic are a common subject. The range is massive and equally amazing visually, in its diversity of geography and geology. After a successful photo session with the polar bears along the coast, our current photo…
The arctic photo tour I’m guiding was off to a good start on the first evening as clear skies eventually revealed some aurora activity. What was particularly interesting about the display was not it’s brightness but rather the color reflection in the Koyukuk river. It’s been a busy few days and hopes are high for…
Based on my last post and some interest in the process of applying split grads in LR3, I decided to show a simple illustration of that process with this landscape photo that I took in Polychrome Pass, late one night in August. A video might be better to explain all this, but there is some…
Why do I like the mountains so much? Because they deliver such quickly changing weather. The Alaska range arcs across the south central region of the state and tends to serve as a moisture block forcing the dump of precipitation on its southern side, leaving the interior of the state a more dry climate. This…