The pink streaks in the clouds reminded me of pink salmon swimming upstream to spawn. The salmon actually do swim upstream along the mountain range in the distance, from right to left.
Icebergs that have broken off of Portage glacier.
I love the patterns in the grass created by the by out going tide.
The sun setting over Lake Hood, Alaska.
Lowell Point recreational trailhead located in Seward, Alaska. The beginning of a awesome hike to south beach and the old military fort I have yet to take.
A view of Denali, formerly known as McKinley. I caught this as the last little bit of sunlight was left. That is what the brightness is behind Denali. It was only there a second or two before it dissapeeared and as the Northern lights were slowly making their way from the right of the image. Denali, northern lights and the sunset are all being crowned by the milky way.
Went hiking last weekend along Ingram creek. It was about 4 mile roundtrip hike. Along the way I took around 100+ shots of landscape and wildlife. I had to snowshoe the whole way. which if you have never snowshoed it is the equivalent of hiking in ankle deep sand with flippers on. Once I got home I transfered the pictures and begin working on them. Then I noticed that all my photos were in JPG instead of RAW. Some how when I did the update for my camera it switched it out of Raw+fine to JPG basic. DOH. In other words I had a camera full of images that I couldn't proccess. This was the best of the bunch. The rest were trash.
Another beautiful shot of the sunset. This was taken as I first arrived at Glenn alps. The color gradually changed from this brillant gold to the rosy red from previous post.
The golden city of Anchorage, Alaska. The thing that I liked about this image were the mountains in the background being illuminated by the golden lights of Anchorage.
Anchorage , AK small boat harbor
This shot makes me thinks of Little Red Riding Hood. Except along this trail there are pesky Alaskan mosquitoes. I had to wear my sweatshirt hood to keep them away.
Another one of my older pics. This one is from my favorite spot to photograph out near Ingram Creek
Taken at Bootlegger's Cove. The fiery sky appears to have dipped down onto the mudflats leaving small puddles of fire. I was fotunate to catch the sun's reflection in the tidepools before the tide returned.
A panoramic view of Anchorage, Alaska on the first day of spring. All winter we barely saw snow. The day before spring we get 7+ inches.
The is probably going to be the last night /aurora / milky way photo until this Fall. The nights are getting shorter and the days are getting longer. pretty soon we won't have enough darkness to take these beautiful night shots.
Found this little oasis of running water in the middle of a snowy forest. This was taken last Spring hiking along Ingram creek.
Capturing the sunburst reflection of of the incoming tide of Cook Inlet.
Night light for the Sleeping Lady
I was lucky to check my aurora forecast for last night. Last night the Kp got up to a 6 in the Anchorage area. This shot was taken at Point Woronzof over looking Cook Inlet. Across the water is mount Susitna, also know as Sleeping Lady. Right aboe the mountains are the northern lights and a butter yellow crescent moon
Just got back from a mini vacation with the family at Alyeska Hotel. I'm always amazed by the view that every room has at the hotel.
This is Ingram Creek. It eventually joins with Placer creek then with Cook Inlet.As promised this is the last of this series. Now onto my next subject. Whatever that might be.
Last one from Bootlegger's Cove. There wasn't much of a sunset due to the rain clouds that were gathering. I was luck to get this little biut of light
The last light of the night shining through the forest looking over the Cook Inlet of Alaska.
Capturing "Felix" and the other sailboats tied up at the docks of the small boat harbor in Seward, Alaska
The last bit of light coloring the sky and ice flow of the Turnagain arm.
Seward small boat launch. Seward has some of the best sunrises in South central Alaska. If you zoom in on the boat launch area you will see the two sea otters that were hanging out on the ramp. It is the same sea otter from my last post
Bears at the Alaska wildlife conservatioin center.
Abstract shot of the Potter Marsh Boardwalk located in South Anchorage, Alaska.
I was too late to capture the sunrise this morning. I was able to capture the sunlight just as it rose above the clouds. It created a soft hazy light as it sat on top of the Chugach mountain range.
One of the many planes parked on ]the banks of Lake Hood,AK.
Looking to the north while at the small dock harbor in Seward, Alaska.
Long disance panorama of Mt Redoubt volcano. As you can see from the plume this is still a active volcano. I used a Tamron 150-600 G2 to capture this from the seward highway near Mchugh creek. I had the shot cropped 1.2x 600. Mt Redoubt is roughly 108 miles from Anchorage!
Sittin' in the mornin' sun I'll be sittin' when the evenin' come Watching the ships roll in And then I watch 'em roll away again, yeah -Otis Redding
One of the male caribou displaying a very nice set of antlers. This was taken at the wildlife conservation center
corona showers and meteor showers. The auroras were so intense that you couldn't really leave your shutter open for long. You can tell because i was only able to capture a short blip of the meteor in the bottom left corner.
A couple sharing the quiet, peaceful sunset.
a school bus sized chunk of ice that has broken off from Portage glacier in the distance.
Spring time sunset at Bootlegger's Cove. The sun made a brief apperance before sunset
I decided to re-edit this photo of two planes at Lake Hood. There were too many things that I didn't like about the first submission.
The stars over Denali mountain were putting on a amazing show. The stars were shooting in every direction as if they were in a rush and had somewhere to important to be. This is a panorama of 10 vertical shots that were stitched together in Photoshop.
Spring time hike along the Ingram creek trail. The small bridge in the distance has railing that is about waist high. If you'll notice that the snow pack is all the way up to the railing.
The Potter marsh creek flows in the Turnagain Arm as the sun sets after a beautiful warm sunny day
I captured this image on the morning of April 20th. I had never seen blue auroras to this degree. I also was lucky to capture a meteor from the Lyrid meteor shower in the shot as well.
View of the sleeping lady across the waters of Cook Inlet