The main regions of Alaska divided up, and special places
I’ve been photographing the World Ice Sculpting Championships in Fairbanks for 15 years. Throughout this time, many amazing sculptures have been created by artists from all over the world. One in particular stands out to me, and the numerous fist place medals to his name attest to his talents. Fairbanks sculptor Vladimir Zhikhartsev, originally from…
The Multi-block ice sculpting event is in full swing, and will end on Friday, March, 6. During a few visits, I’ve attempted to capture some portraits of the sculptors at work. While it is not challenging to grab a few token shots, it is difficult to create light, spontaneously, as the sculptors are working. Medium…
Single block ice sculptures at the World Ice Art Championships, Fairbanks, Alaska. Single block ice sculptures at the World Ice Art Championships, Fairbanks, Alaska. These are comparison shots of the same ice sculpture. The first frame shows the work in progress and the second frame shows the detail enhanced when lit at night with colored…
Where is your favorite place to photograph? I’m often asked this question, but find it very difficult to answer. Part of Alaska’s lure and fascination to me is found in its tremendous diversity of environment. Sampling from one makes the other’s uniqueness more prominent. I like winter because of summer and I like summer in…
As part of the Northern Alaska Environmental Center’s “Northern Voices”, I’ll be giving a presentation at the Noel Wein library in Fairbanks on Thursday, January 8 at 7:00PM. It’s titled “Visual Notes from Alaska’s Landscape”. If you are brave enough to buffet yourself against the minus 40-50 degree temperatures we have been having across interior…
We have added a few new polar bear photos to the website from a trip in October to Alaska’s arctic coast of the Beaufort Sea. Additionally, we made a polar bear gallery to supplement our polar bear information page.
A slow sunrise from the office of AlaskaPhotoGraphics, Fairbanks, Alaska 10:00 am This is the view from the window at AlaskaPhotographics on a wintry morning in Fairbanks. The sun is slow to appear this time of year, with winter solstice just a little over a week away. Sunrises are long and beautiful over the Alaska…
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…
Snow drifts, Barter Island, Alaska. Canon 1Ds Mark III, 500mm 4L IS, 1/13 sec @ f/32, ISO 400 This is the same scene as the previous post just looking at a 90 degree angle on the snow drifts. I used a super telephoto to compress and isolate the interesting linear dimension sculpted by the wind…