Canon 5d Mark III, Canon 24-105 f4L IS @24mm, f11, 1/250th, ISO 200 I’ve had a really busy summer, with one more trip to the Brooks Range coming up in a few days. I’m just back from a 17 day…
Noatak River
Kongakut River
Canon 5D III, Canon 24-105 f4L, ISO 50, f14, 1/10th sec, tripod. I’ve just returned from leading a basecamp trip for Arctic Wild to the eastern portion of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge along the Kongakut River. We camped for a…
My Favorite Places Part II: Arctic Alaska
Flowers bloom on the bench above the Sagavanirktok River. Alaska’s North Slope is a broad, rolling, alluvial plain. It sweeps down out of the Brooks Range in a long, descending ramp to the cold and icy waters of the Arctic…
Aniuk River Stone
This is one of my favorite images from my 17 day trip down the Noatak River in August. We’d paddled through days of bad weater (see my previous posts on the trip here and here), and then we arrived at…
Pop goes the Polarizer
If you encounter me in the field, you’ll likely find the lens of my camera uncovered by any filter. UV filters just add a layer of unneeded glass, warming filters have limited use, colored filters, in the rare times I’d…
Blue
For a trip that was dominated by gray skies, I find it ironic that many of my images from the Noatak are anchored in the color blue. It’s not the bright blue of a clear-day sky, rather it is the…
Return from the Noatak, Perspective, and Manipulation
After 17 days of canoeing, hiking, photography, rain and wind dodging, and wildlife watching in the western Brooks Range I’m back in Fairbanks. The trip was…. well the trip was… It was kinda… It was a bit of everything. The…