Turnagain Arm

Sorry I haven’t been doing regular updates. These past few weeks have been “just a taaaaaad bit hectic”. Good hectic. Heck. Great hectic. For three weeks, a very special person came to visit me in Alaska. We had great weather and forged great memories. We even took a few decent images together. Heck. More than a few. She must have liked it a little bit, because she’s moving up here. It must be Alaska. I mean, I’m “ok” and all, but this state is pretty good at making connections. Connections with the land, the wildlife, and people. I’ve made so many great connections over the past several years living here. I made those connections on my own. That will be different now, and it’s a change I’m looking...

It has been a little while since my last post. The last two weekends I’ve spent a day each shooting with Scott Slone. Scott is the owner, videographer, host and producer of Alaska HDTV. He’s done fantastic work filming and producing in every corner, nook and cranny of Alaska. It’s always revealing to photograph along side another cameraman (or woman), you always learn something. If your eyes and mind are open, of course. It is even more revealing to shoot next to a videographer. I wasn’t fully aware of this, because of my fixation with still photography, but the world is actually “moving”. And that video thing? Well, it’s bound to catch on here sometime. One of these days, people will have picture frames in their homes...

I spent much of today on the road and shooting at a couple of my favorite “easy drive” locations. Although, with gas prices as high as they are… “easy” may not be completely true. $5.26/gallon in Seward for diesel and $4.62/gallon for unleaded! Regardless, there is so much variety in Southcentral Alaska, all within less than a 3 hour drive. At Potter’s Marsh, I photographed Mallards, Scaup, Arctic Tern, Red-necked Grebe, and Canada Geese with a LOT of goslings (several families). Then I moved down to the Portage Valley, wanted to check and see if there were any icebergs in Portage Lake… the water was choked with them near the visitors center. On the drive down the Seward Hwy, I passed a family of 3 moose as they crossed...