Stanton Lanier December Peace Cover
Sticking with a music theme, we just received a bundle of our mail and in it was this CD by Stanton Lanier. As I sit here in the desert in shorts and sandals, I gotta admit seeing my snowshoe tracks in winter is a little hard to relate to, but a fun reminder of our wonderful home!
For the many new followers to the blog – don’t worry, I won’t post every time we make an image sale – that would be boring. But, I do like sharing covers because, well, I think they are fun. So I post them from time to time under the category Shameless Self Promotion.
To Stanton – we weren’t able to get through to you on email for some reason, so just in case you see this – the cover looks great – thanks a lot, and thanks for the autographed copy. We look forward to listening to it soon!
To learn more about Stanton, check out his website: Stanton Lanier.
by Ron on January 13, 2010
California History The Journal of the California Historical Society.
I wasn’t sure what I would write about today until I made my daily walk to the Post Office and found this in the box! It is a thrill and honor to be on the cover of such a wonderful publication.
This photo was captured along the California’s Central Coast near Big Sur a few years ago – I would love to spend some more time along the beautiful stretch of coastline.
by Ron on November 30, 2009
The mountains of the Chugach National Forest barely emerging from the clouds last weekend, near Seward, Alaska.
Again today it is blowing and snowing hard outside. I thought it might be a good time of year to share some older posts on winter photography.
First, I think anyone who may be doing any photography in cold, winter weather should find this post helpful: 8 Winter Photography Tips.
For those in the Northern portion of the Northern Hemisphere, this can also be a great time to photograph northern lights. Scientist have reached a consensus that last December was the low point of our current solar cycle, so the northern light activity will probably continue to be slow, but hopefully improving. The next solar maximum is estimated to hit in 2013.
Even during bad years you can see the occasional northern lights (aurora borealis). With that in mind, here are two more older posts that may be beneficial: Finding northern lights / aurora borealis and another post on photographing northern lights / aurora borealis.
by Ron on August 31, 2009
2010 Alaska Wildlands Calendar
I have tried to keep the shameless self promotion to a minimum, but I have always kinda liked this photo of Harriman Glacier in the Chugach National Forest, so I was excited to have it selected for the cover of next years calendar.
I believe these are available at most National Park visitor centers in Alaska. Here are some more Chugach National Forest photos.
Welcome to Las Vegas sign, Las Vegas, Nevada.
Sorry to disappoint – I don’t have some crazy story about a late night last night!
You see, on June 5th, Warner Bros. is releasing a major motion picture with that name. Like with most movie releases, the actors perform endless promotional interviews telling everyone just how funny the movie is, and how awesome everyone got along during filming. But unlike most motion pictures, this time, the actors will be doing their interviews while sitting in front of a collage of Las Vegas photos, including our above photo of the Las Vegas sign! I think that is pretty cool.
Hopefully it works out better for them then Viva Laughlin!
This year, I'm very excited to report that we have the cover image for all three Bell's Travel Guides!
In my last post, in response to a question I shared information about our top grossing photos. I would be remiss if I didn’t mention the above photo. The boxing bear cub image you see on this travel guide hasn’t been used in an advertising campaign, this kept it off the top grossing list, but in terms of total number of sales, it has to be our most popular image. [click to continue…]
Cover of the Kenai Peninsula Tourism Marketing Council Travel Guide (KPTMC), Alaska.
This is actually a composite of two of our images combined by KPTMC. You see, they really liked this photo from Harriman Fiord in Prince William Sound. Problem was, even though it looked like it could have been captured in Kenai Fjords on the Kenai Peninsula, savvy viewers would certainly recognize this as part of Prince William Sound which is outside the Kenai Peninsula. So they replaced the background with an image of ours from Kenai Fjords. They did such a good job that when this arrived last week, I forgot it was a composite – it even fooled me!
A self portrait from a solo backpacking trip along the Harding Icefied, Kenai Fjords National Park, Alaska
Well I’m sure that title got your attention, and my friends are probably laughing and rolling their eyes – I better quickly explain.
Evidently, CBS has a daytime TV show entitled The Bold and Beautiful. It was explained to us that one of the characters on the show is this guy who does a lot of adventure travel. Well, CBS contacted us last week and purchased 7 prints of adventure activities to decorate the set that will make up this characters office. These pictures will appear to be personal photos of the character during his travels and adventures. The photo of me above is one of the seven. So star is a big exaggeration – but someday, somewhere, a photo of me just might be visible on the Bold and Beautiful. lol
It doesn’t happen very often, but every now and then we get a request in which we know we have the perfect photo – like for this book!
This is a publication of “True Tales to make you Laugh, Chortle, Snicker and Feel Inspired”. I haven’t had a chance to read the whole book yet, but I just sat down and read one of the first stories: To Alaska (Without Pants). It was hilarious! I now look forward to reading the rest of the stories!
This is pretty exciting – this image is on the cover of a couple different versions of AAA’s magazine Via, including the Mountain West and Oregon editions. We have a series of photos to go along with the story about Southeast Alaska on the inside as well.
Long time subscribers might remember when I captured this image from this post on the Skagway Railroad.
Now that we are home and going through our mail I may subject you to a bit more shameless self promotion.
by Ron on December 10, 2008
We found these teepees driving around the backroads of Moab this Fall.
Here are some random news items that I thought I would share. Since these aren’t interesting to most readers, I figured I would put them all in one post and bury them after the jump. [click to continue…]
by Ron on November 7, 2008
Chugach National Forest Guide
Here is another cover I hadn’t had a chance to share. I think the Chugach National Forest is an amazing region that rivals most National Parks in beauty and diversity.
by Ron on November 6, 2008
Ulysses Travel Guide
Now that we are back home, you may be subjected to a little bit of shameless self promotion. 
This is the cover of a French version of a new Ulysses Travel Guide for the Western United States. This is a bend in the Colorado River near Page, Arizona.
by Ron on September 25, 2008
Sunset Magazine cover, October, 2008.
This just arrived in the mail a few minutes ago, and I gotta admit, it is a really cool to have the cover of a magazine like Sunset!
We had two Zion images being considered as finalist for this cover, the other one was this image of Temple of Sinawava in Zion. That photo ended up being used as a full page in this months issue of Via Magazine – so now both photos are happy!
Here are more Zion National Park photos.
Last winter I shared the original version of this photo in my Seward comes to Los Angeles post, and talked about how it was going to appear on billboards in the Los Angeles area over a 12 week period – this is how the actual billboard looked.
What I didn’t know; this was a test market, and fortunately the test went well. So now Nature Valley and their ad agency liscended the image for unlimited billboard use nationwide for one year! It will appear primarily in hispanic markets in major cities across the U.S. Pretty cool.
American Road cover.
This image has been on a bit of a roll lately by also appearing on the cover of this year’s The Milepost.
This photo was from our trip to San Diego a little over a year ago.
Magazines and books often select more then one photo to mock up for cover consideration. We had been on a bit of a losing streak lately missing out on what could have been exciting covers for National Geographic Adventure and Via Magazine. Maybe now our luck is changing!
I think I posted this photo on the blog last October the day after I captured it – well this month it is on the cover of Fort Wayne Living! Here are more of our Las Vegas photos.
Well I haven’t subjected you to my shameless self promotion in awhile, but this one is too excited to pass up. For the second year in a row I have a photo on the cover of The Milepost!
As I wrote last year, this is a special cover for me, as I remember growing up, every traveler through Glennallen carried a copy of this extremely valuable travel guide. To this day, I still make sure I have the current Milepost with me as I travel around Alaska and Canada as it has detailed mile by mile descriptions of anything you may encounter – not only the mountains and rivers, but the restaurants and campgrounds as well. If you are driving to Alaska, you must have the latest copy of The Milepost!
The photo was taken in late September at Tern Lake, part of the Chugach National Forest, about 35 miles out the Seward Highway from Seward. Wait a second, a quick peak at The Milepost tells me this lake is 37.2 miles from Seward.
by Ron on February 10, 2008
Hidden Falls, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming.
This photo is also part of the Nature Valley ad campaign for Los Angeles and Orange County, California - this image will be appearing on bus shelters in the area over the next couple of months.
You might remember this images from last summer, it was from the Hidden Falls Trail in the Grand Tetons.
by Ron on February 8, 2008
This image was captured within the city limits of Seward, Alaska – looking out at Mt. Alice and the Chugach National Forest.
If you are in Los Angeles or Orange County, California over the next 12 weeks, you might see this image on a billboard promoting Nature Valley products. Pretty cool!
by Ron on January 11, 2008
If you have followed this blog for long, you will remember the wonderful time we spent around the Grand Tetons this past June. It is nice to have images from that trip already in print – from pond to print in less then 6 months!
This is one of the advantages of digital. During the days of shooting slides, a trip like the one we took to the desert southwest last winter would just now be making it to market. With digital, that trip paid for itself within just a few months!
These trips may pay for themselves quicker, but they won’t begin to pay for any of the homes in this catalog!
Here you can read more about our travels to the Grand Tetons on the photo blog.
by Ron on December 3, 2007
If you are looking for some last minute gift ideas, you might consider our 2008 Alaska Calendar. We don’t actually have any left, but I learned last week that ANHA still has a few left. Here is a link to the calendar at their on the on-line store; ANHA. They sell for $10.
by Ron on September 22, 2007
I thought I would share our most recent cover – this just arrived in the mail. Not only is it fun to have a cover, but this Explorer’s Guide to Arizona looks like a great guide – it could come in very handy this winter. We are planning to spend some time in this warm state this winter.
