Old friends returning for a visit to Fairbanks make a great excuse to get outside. In this case, it was a reason to escape for an overnight cabin trip into the White Mountains National Recreation Area north of Fairbanks. The…
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…
Today, I thought I’d start a new series for the blog on some of my favorite places in the world for photography. And very close to the top of that list is the remote, Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan. Bhutan is…
The shortest days of the year have brought along a solid cold snap here in Fairbanks. Yesterday morning temperatures in town hit -48F. Ice fog engulfed most of town in a stinky, choke-inducing haze, and I did my best to…
Fairbanks is experiencing the first decent snow storm of the winter right now. We received about 4 inches yesterday and another 10, at least, have fallen so far today. It is beautiful, and the trees are drooping with snow, until…
There are nights when things just go right, and for two reasons, last night was one of them. Reason #1: After thinking it wouldn’t arrive after all, my brand new Canon 5D Mark III complete with a 14mm f2.8 lens…
I’ve recently been spending some time going through old images, processing images that for one reason or another I haven’t ever looked at in detail, discarding images, and generally conducting some house-cleaning in my Lightroom Archive. This is an image…
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…
Winter in Alaska has unquestionably lovely light. The main problem is that there isn’t a lot of it. We are down to a mere six and half hours of sunlight per day and dropping at a rate of 6 minutes…
It’s going to be a lot easier to face the cold and dark of the coming winter if that darkness continues to be filled with auroral skies. It went off again early last night. The clouds rolled in and obscured…