The main regions of Alaska divided up, and special places
There is much to write about regarding my late June trip to the arctic, and little time to do so due to another scheduled photo trip in which I’ll float a river out of the Brooks range in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. More about that upon my return. Looking back on the last week,…
My trip to the high western arctic unfolded broadly under the never setting sun. With a short turn around between another venture back to the arctic for a river trip, I’ll have some photos to share but little time to write. The birds nesting in the tundra region were continual companions in a very solitary…
Going off the grid I’m preparing for a 7 day solo, fly-in trip into Alaska’s remote western arctic. It is the result of many planning iterations, previous ones including more people, but this is what shook out in the end. While I have a preference for working solo, since I feel I do the best…
The road that transects Denali National Park crosses 4 mountain passes and many river drainages. This is astonishing for a road that is only 90 miles long, and one of the reasons that majestic views are not lacking on that journey. And, this lends to photos of wildlife contextually placed in this wilderness mountain setting.…
As a follow up to my previous post “wolf pack kills moose calf” last week, in which a colleague and I photographed a predator/prey scene in Denali National Park, I thought I’d make a few comments on the photographic equipment and technical side of that shoot, and then share a few pictures taken following the…
I joined my friend and colleague Hugh Rose for a one-day professional photography permit in Denali National Park on Thursday. Historically, (that is over the last 15 years) whenever Hugh and I join up in the park, we encounter something special to photograph, and this short trip rivals all previous ones. When exiting the park…
If you can’t beat em, join em. That was my thought over the Memorial Day weekend-sort of. This is in context to the wildland forest fires and subsequent smoke that is plaguing much of interior Alaska. Intsead of running from the smoke, I figured what the heck, I might as well run to it, and…
There is a new mode of travel available in Fairbanks this summer. Although populous in other locations around the nation, the magically balanced Segway can now be rented for a tour around town. On a photo shoot for www.EcoSegAlaska.com, I had a chance to not only photograph them, but ride one as well. Virtually silent,…
The Kobuk river in the western Brooks range is designated a wild and scenic river. Last weekend was the first time I’ve flown over it, and it kindled an interest to make a river trip sometime in the near future. Break up this year along Alaska’s major river systems of the interior was relatively gentle,…
It’s been a long time since I’ve photographed in Alaska, 4 months to be exact. International travel and surgery have kept me busy but it felt good to venture into one of my favorite places over the weekend, the Brooks Range, a massive range that arcs across Alaska’s arctic. I was doing an assignment for…