Glaciers, mountains and all things nature
Caribou traverse a mountain ridge in the Alaska range, Denali National park, Alaska.Canon 1Ds Mark III, 500mm f4L IS, 1/1000 sec @ f/5.6, ISO 400 Canon’s 500mm f4L IS lens vies for the position of my favorite lens. It is always loaded with a camera in wildlife country and its tremendous image stabilization capability enables…
Autumn rain storm over the Plains of Murie, Denali National Park, Alaska Canon 1Ds Mark III, 70-200mm 2.8L, 1/200 sec @f/8, ISO 100 Professional photographers who meet certain qualifications by the National Park Service are allowed to travel the Denali park road in their own vehicle for 10 days out of the summer. The only…
Meares glacier advancing, Unakwik Inlet, Prince William Sound, Alaska. In today’s age of a climate sensitive landscape, there are few advancing glaciers. Most are receding quickly. There is at least one in Alaska–that I’m aware of–that is advancing. Meares glacier flows out of the Chugach mountain range in south central Alaska, meeting tidewater in Unakwik…
Scott’s Peak, Alaska Range, Denali National ParkCanon 1Ds Mark III, 70-200 2.8L IS, 1/1000 sec @ f/5.6, 400 ISO Alaska’s interior, and Fairbanks specifically has seen a lot of rain in recent weeks. A welcomed stretch of clear skies has opened up the last week and I seized a spontaneous opportunity to go flying last…
Looking west at the summit of Mount McKinley reveals both the north and south peaks. One afternoon, it looked like the sky was clearing a bit so I waited and set up my camera for a time lapse sequence of the dissipating clouds. I used Canon’s intervolometer, which is a fancy electronic shutter release that…
Lightroom 2.0 was released three days ago on July 28. The upgrade is $99, and it has paid for itself already. There are a number of improvements, but the most important to me is the localized correction feature. These are non-destructive adjustments, meaning they do not modify the original RAW image data, and they add…
Alpenglow on the North and South peaks of Mt. McKinley on summer solsticeCanon 1Ds Mark III, 500mm f4L IS, 1/125 sec at f/4, ISO 400 I took this photo on summer solstice (June 20, 3:52am) as Mount McKinley’s summit was catching the morning alpenglow on the North and South peaks. I was just entering Denali…
Aerial of the Chena river and downtown Fairbanks, Alaska. Canon 1Ds Mark III, 24-105 f4L, 1/1000 sec @ f5.6, ISO 400(With adjustments to the raw file to balance exposing to the right) (shot with exposing to the right, the RAW file looks washed out but can easily be correct to look like the file above.)…
Rainbow, Denali National Park, Alaska. Canon 1Ds Mark III, 500mm f4L IS, 1/320 sec @ f8, ISO 400 The mountain landscape of Denali National Park is conducive to scattered rainstorms during the summer months. This results in many rainbows, but this particular one continued to grow in intensity. It was so bright that it seemed…
Fishing on Summit lake, Alaska range mountains Canon 1Ds Mark III, 100-400mm 5.6L IS, 1/1600 @f8, ISO 100 Alaska’s summer nights are unique. The light hangs into the late hours and extends recreation and work opportunities into unreasonable hours. Then we all need the darkness of winter to balance out the over amped summer. I…