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Fall 2008 Denali.

Cold temps brought us a lot of Ice Fog and Hoar Frost. When the sun

broke though, which was not often for a while, we got these

incredible sundogs. You can actually see the airborne ice crystals

reflecting light in this picture. We lived in an entirley white

world for about a week. Edges of Street signs, telephone wires, and

every single delicate branch on every single tree. It was

spectacular. Please, comment.

Hanging on with a little help

This is a high altitude cloud (usually ice crystals) that just happens to have the other cloud in the foreground. I am not sure exactly which phenomena it is, but here is a great link for you look it up at: http://www.sundog.clara.co.uk/halo/chaim2.htm

Almost summer in Alaska (June)

Nice shot. This place is amazing isn't it? Refreshing to not see the shot take at dusk or dawn. The snow shows the texture in the tuffas. Cool.

A rare moment on the turnagain arm

Unreal! What a great capture of an incredible winter scene!

BURRRR, but oh so worth the cold night out waiting for those first

few rays of sun.

Thanks for the feedback. Yes it was featured on the cover of the "Nature's Best Photography" magazine for the international photo contest issue. For a change it wasn't even that cold that night!

Wish this season was like last years. Single exposure, timer.

Comments apprecitated.

I always liked this shot. We are so lucky that our hobby takes us to

such beautiful places!

Awesome. Makes me miss the place!

Hiking up Bird Ridge in the fog I almost turned back many times due

to lack of visibilty and fear of bears. As I got higher, I realized

I would come out of the fog and wondered if the conditions would be

right for this optical occurence...it was!! This is not PS'd except

to enhance the contrast. It occurs with low angle back light and the

casting of ones shadow on cloulds or fog. It is called a Brocken

Spectre. Comments appreciated and welcomed!

A day old wolf kill taken by a Sow and her 2 cubs in Denali National

Park. A magpie sits on top of the antlers waiting to get it's turn

feeding.

Amazing that such creatures roam within the actual city limits here!

Fall is almost here and soon the velvet from his antlers will be gone

and he will be ready to rut. I watched him for about a half an hour

taking a bunch of photos. This is one of my favorites from the

morning. How do you like it?

Peyto lake in the Canadian Rockies. If you haven't been there you owe

it to yourself!! Comments and suggestions welcomed and appreciated!

I am working on a website and scouring through my archives and found

this one that I remembered but couldn't find until now. I took it a

while ago on Vacation in AK, before I moved here. It was a cold foggy

moring in September 0f 2000. The foreground was relatively clear but

the background had a nice fog that hid the horizon and mountains. It

also difused the twighlight colors beautifully. I had to pump up the

reds on my calibrated monitor to get it not to display cyan and blue

on my uncalibrated Web devoted laptop. Sorry for those with a

calibrated monitor. The slide has a great pastel hue to it that is

hard to display with the limitation of web standarization. What do

you think??

I wonder what the original looked like. Usually that river can produce some nice relections of the light if it's not windy. Could you post it?

Surprisingly, this shot was taken at ISO 800(!) on a 10D with an f1.8 lens wide open and it still needed a 2 second exposure!!! So yes I did use a tripod, and yes, my friend got sick of me yelling "cool! Stay there, don't move!!" Thanks for all of the comments. As for the left side, I actually did crop off quite a bit from the original and come up with this after much experimentation. I guess I liked that the dark area makes it more obvious that the headlamp is the sole light source.

Winter, winter, winter... that is my portfolio so far (what do you

expect living in Alaska!). I went into my archives and, wha-la, a

beach! Washington state for anyone who has not been there is a

photographic jackpot!!! Mountains, rugged coastline, wildlife galor,

and even rainforests. I lived there for a while and it really hooked

me into photography. This particular photo was taken on a side trip

during my drive from NY to AK. Comments as always appreciated and

enjoyed!

I shoot film and digital. I just got a 10D which is awesome! I haven't shot 35mm film since the purchase, but there is a post processing learning curve for sure. I got great results with my point and shoot Minolta S405 prior to this purchse. My beef (a small one) is it seems like I often need to do post exposure adjustment on the digitals to get faithful color and tonality rendition. I liked that slides left you with a color "proof" to color correct too. In short; if I exposed with my point and shoot (using ND filters if needed(easy to see with the LCD for proper placement on point and shoot cameras))and my film camera - generally I could match the color of digital to film. It just took some more work with levels and at times multiple layers. I don't miss paying for film and processing, and I love the high ASA/low noise that you get with a quality DSLR! Go for it! (by the way, great shot) Your digital image looks like it would've been saved with a ND filter. Be sure to check your histogram for loss of the highlights.

Thanks for your input and comments. Here is a "full moon version" It is what it would have looked like with more of a moon (which there wasn't). The original is probably between the original post and this one. That gets into the whole "how much manipulation is "ethical?"" thing, but it's art right!?

The Chugach Lights photo is a little darker on this site than it was on my calibrated monitor(but with no moon at 1:30am thats the way it is...even with the snow). I'll try to brighten it up and resubmit it. As for the green sky, that is the dominant color of the northern lights (Aurora Borealis). The main body is the arc, but there is also other diffuse glows around the sky and over a 10-20 second exposure it can be in a lot of places. Even without it to the eye half of the sky can be green.

Love the winter!