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Possibly the inspiration for the Rolling Stones logo?

A Red-necked Grebe adult feeds a dragon fly to one of three chicks.  This family of grebes nested at my parents place - I stopped and saw them briefly at the beginning of my trip to Southeast this summer - they were so fun to watch, I could have stayed and photographed them for days!

This photo of the Clan House at Totem Bight in Ketchikan is a combination of a couple of exposures - one for the outside, and a much longer one for the inside.  If I didn’t combine two exposures, the inside would appear completely dark.  By combining two exposures, I was able to create an image that better matched what I saw with my eyes.

We are starting to convert, adjust and keyword our photos from this summer, so I thought I would share a few.  This is of the Takhinsha Mountains near Haines, Alaska. 

I posted at length this spring about a number of wolves in Denali - I was particularly attached to the Grant Creek Pack since I had been photographing the two adults for a number of years.  I first spotted the female in 2002 - she was a hunting machine.  I was thrilled to see her form a pack with one of the beautiful black wolves from the Tokalat Pack.  It was almost like having two good friends meet and then get married! 

On my travels through Denali this month I learned the alpha female had died. (more…)

Janine just completed another new section to our website - Grand Teton National Park photos.  These photos are almost all from our spring visit.  Again if you have followed the blog, many will look familiar.

One of our most recent covers - it is always interesting to see how a photo is used.

I’m not much of a network TV fan any more, but I must admit, I can’t wait to see the new CBS drama Viva Laughlin this fall - well at least the first 2.5 seconds.  Why?  Because they are using the above Laughlin, Nevada photo in the opening intro sequence.  I must admit it will be pretty fun seeing my photo on TV, but I’m going to need to be pretty quick with the Tivo pause button or I will probably miss it! 

Janine has just finish updating our page of Yellowstone National Park Photos from our spring trip.  If you were following the blog during that time, you will probably recognize many of the photos.

Sunset over Lynn Canal, near Juneau, Alaska.  This was the captured the same day as the last two posts. (more…)

The Mendenhall Glacier the same morning as yesterday.  The blue color in the glacier shows much better on cloudy days like this one.

Unusual fog patterns and icebergs on Mendenhall Lake near Juneau, Alaska a couple of weeks ago.  This is one of 4 similar images that will likely be combined into a panorama one day.

I have received a number of emails lately asking for more of the details behind each photo.  It is a good suggestion, and I have promised to do just that on occasion.  What I thought might be interesting would be to share my detailed thought process behind a single image.  I decided to do that with this photo from our spring trip.  I think some people might be surprised all that goes into just one photo. (more…)

Back to our spring photos - this was five separate photos of the Upper Geyser Basin, the Old Faithful Geyser and Inn and the other Park Service hotels in this popular part of Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming.

I began this blog one year ago today.  I was excited about doing a blog, but was concerned that after a few weeks I would run out of stuff to post.  Funny, that didn’t turn out to be a problem at all, I usually have 5 or 6 things to post about at any given time.  It has turned out to be much more enjoyable then I ever imagined, and the comments and emails mean a lot to me.  Can you believe I have received almost 30,000 comments already!  Unfortunately, about 29,500 have more to do with Viagra then photography, but at least they care enough to write :)  Seriously, this blog wouldn’t be possible without Akismet!

Why the bear photo?  This sow was along the Haines Highway a few weeks ago, and I just happened to be keywording it today when it came time to write today’s post and I thought it was kinda cool.

For part of the assignment I followed the train north from Seward in the morning and shot some exteriors.

Yesterday I did an assignment for the Alaska Railroad.  Whether it involves riding the train, or following it in a helicopter, Alaska Railroad assignments are always one of my favorites!  The scenery between here and Anchorage is so beautiful that it really makes my job much easier.  Now using multiple flashes in a dome rail car where reflections show up where you least expect - that isn’t as easy.

 Janine and I spent a very short night in Anchorage and then rode the train back to Seward today.  I think that is the first time I have been on board where I wasn’t shooting - now I can see why that trip is so popular - it was really fun and relaxing!

Here is another image from our spring trip.  This panoramic is made up of 3 separate images.  Unfortunately on the blog I am limited to 400 pixels in width which leaves it pretty small.

When Janine wasn’t with me on my Alaska travels, she was hard at work converting and adjusting photos from our spring travels.  She also got help from Jenessa who we hired part time.  When I’m traveling, my blog posts are usually photos that need little work.  I thought I would now share some other images from the spring trip - ones that required the combining of images to overcome either wide dynamic range, or for the creation of panoramic photo. (more…)

The top photo is of the real Dawson City, Yukon.  The bottom photo is a fake Dawson City; it is actually a movie set in Haines, Alaska leftover from the making of the movie White Fang. (more…)