Alaska Photography and Photo Tours: Specializing in Wild Lands & Wild Life
I am happy to announce a new tour offering for this coming winter. It is part of the Wild Lands & Wild Life Series, and is called “Aurora Borealis & Winter Landscapes”. Join me at a remote lodge for 8 days and 7 nights where we will focus on the beautiful light and landscapes that [...]
Wow… it has been a while. Haven’t had an update in a while here, but I wanted to post a quick image from just a few hours ago. We’ve been having beautiful weather up here in south central Alaska – lots of clear skies. But little “dramatic” light to be seen. This past week, we [...]
Here are a few more images from last Sunday, taken out at Eklutna Lake, between Palmer and Eagle River, Alaska. Stay tuned…
Ok, this is rather embarrassing. I spent a good hour today at lunch writing today’s post. I’ve been trying out a “desktop WordPress publishing” program for the last couple of days (Ecto). It was going well. I’m gonna go ahead put a little stress on the word “WAS”… I wrote a nice little essay on [...]
Finally made it to 100 posts. I’d like to thank the academy and my parents of course. Now where is my Kanye West moment? I’ve covered a lot of things on this blog/journal and it has been fun to watch it grow and build momentum. I started slowly. The first post was back in February [...]
I used to love sleeping in. I could easily hit the 10:00 mark (or later) when I was younger. But now that I am “older”, I have a hard time making it past 6 or 6:30. Especially now that I live in Alaska. It seems like a sin to sleep in and miss the possibility [...]
Here’s a few more images from Sunday – hope you enjoy them! Stay tuned…
I apologize for revisiting “Sir” Vanilla and his seminal “musical” score… Anyway, less talk and more images. Here are two more images from Sunday’s trip “down south” to the Kenai Peninsula. Stay tuned…
I spent most of today’s daylight hours waiting to join the polar bear club. Same ol’ routine. Got up early, well… relatively early as compared to the sunrise time. Sunrise today was at 9:57 am at the location I planned to shoot. That’s the great thing about landscape photography in winter – sleep in and [...]
Just a quick image post from this morning. I checked the weather last night for this morning, and it looked favorable. So I set my alarm (thank you, iPhone) and ran out the door this morning hoping for the “Holy Trinity of C”: color, clouds, and composition. I’ve got a new “highly secret” location well [...]
I’m always looking for ways to get my images out there. Paid, or otherwise. A great way to display images is as a desktop/background on a computer screen. Now, I can’t take credit for this concept – incorporating a desktop picture with a monthly calendar. Fellow photographer Younes Bounhar has been offering something similar for [...]
Just a quick post today, sorry for the lull in activity lately. I’ll have some more content up asap, as well as a few announcements. Before I forget, don’t forget to take a look at the recently announced workshop: Alaska’s Southern Coast, June 11-18, 2010. This panoramic was shot yesterday morning at sunrise. I was [...]
Just a quick post from my drive home this evening. Sunset has definitely been moving earlier and earlier in our Alaskan evenings. Soon “evening” will be replaced by “afternoons” for sunset time. But for now, it’s awefully convenient to have sunset at this time. Don’t need to stay up late to catch it (unlike summer [...]
Not gonna get long winded on this one – just wanted to show some pics from Homer in March. My final trip there of the year, and likely the last time I will witness eagle feeding there. Unless they change the rules. In short, I hope they don’t. I do think it would be better [...]
I can’t touch my toes. Heck, I can’t even get close. Knees, sure I can get to those. But below the ankles, not even on a good day. Oh look, we’re only 4 short sentences in, and Dave’s already lost it. I would counter that it is difficult to lose something when you didn’t have [...]
I have had many dreams over the past several years, since moving to Alaska. And, since moving to Alaska, many of those have come true. I have seen more amazing scenery and wildlife in the past 4 years, than most will see in a lifetime. For those of you who have been following along, I [...]
Just a quick shot from Saturday evening. Again, taken just outside of Talkeetna from one of my favorite locations – the Talkeetna Alaska Lodge. Tens of thousands of people have seen this view from the lodge deck – during the summer anyway. In the winter, I’ve never seen anyone else out here. It is always [...]
The Iditarod is over 1150 miles long. 1150 miles. That’s like driving from Chicago to Orlando. Let that sink in, just for a minute… You know when your parents told you to stop complaining; that they had to walk to school, in 0 degrees (and colder), in the snow, uphill, both ways… Well imagine riding [...]
When I returned to do some more photography of the Alaska Range/Denali on Monday, the alpenglow never appeared like it did on Saturday morning. So I worked on other options, one of which was this attempt at a b&w conversion of a 4 image panoramic. I arranged the mountains along the bottom of the frame [...]
Every time I am blessed with close encounters of wildlife, I feel blessed. Whether it is a brown bear named Peaches, a Dall sheep ewe and lamb, or a group of birds at a feeder – it is an acceptance of trust by a wild creature. As photographers, birders & wildlife watchers we have an [...]
I’m starting a new type of Journal entry: “The Making Of”. This series will explain my preparations, photographic method and finally post production for a specific image. I hope this will prove insightful, and get you thinking about how you “get ‘er done”. Please, comment below! If you have questions about any post – ask. [...]
As a preface, most people can’t believe how many eagles are in one location… this is untouched footage, no video trickery:) This video was made on a typical morning shoot in Jean Keene’s yard, back in 2007, shot from a point and shoot camera in movie mode. The person with their back to Tim in [...]
What, you thought I didn’t have any more? HA! In fact I just confirmed my reservations for the end of this month in Homer, goin’ back again for some more fun. And I’m taking some new gear this time… no, not a new camera (out of the budget for now). I was lucky to be [...]
Well, this is my last morning with the eagles for a couple weeks. I’m just heading out the door to The Spit to wrap up this shoot, and then in a few hours I’ll be heading back up to Wasilla. Here are a couple more images from this weekend. I’ll be posting more images from [...]
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