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Field of lupine, Chugach National Forest, Alaska.
Well I’m off for the next week to work with a video crew for a production on a place a know well – the Chugach National Forest. This morning at 4:00 a.m. I am beginning by taking them at this field for sunrise – could be beautiful! So, if you don’t hear from me in a week or so, you will know why.
Lupine, Chugach National Forest, Alaska.
I found a beautiful field of lupine yesterday I have said it before, but lupine is an amazing wildflower. I have seen it in some of the warmest places on earth – Death Valley, and in some of the coldest – Denali National Park.
To get the soft purple glow, I framed this between two other lupine which were very close to the camera and thus completely out of focus.
Helicopters taking on fuel over Resurrection Bay, Seward, Alaska.
I heard a fair amount of noise outside last week at about 10:00 in the evening – looked outside and was surprised to see a helicopter being refueled in mid flight over Resurrection Bay! I knew they did this with jets, but I’ll be honest, I had no idea they could do this with helicopters.
Since I have 3 Facebook friends who are former military helicopter pilots, I’m not about to try to identify these birds, but maybe one of them will know a bit more. The next morning I read in the paper about the beginning of the Northern Edge 2011 training exercises – I assume this was part of this training.
Update: These are HH 60 Pavehawks being areofueled by a KC-130.
Helicopter re-fueling as it flies over Seward, Alaska.
American Dipper chick, near Seward, Alaska.
Was out this morning looking for baby moose, but came home with this cute American Dipper chick – that is ok, these guys are a lot harder to find and photograph then moose.
I was told by someone watching the nest that this little guy fledged just yesterday. There is another large chick still in the nest that probably isn’t far behind. The adults were busy feeding the young, including this little guy in the photo. As soon as the adults would appear with small fish, this little guy would open his mouth real wide and began the begging which is what you see here – it was fascinating to watch!
The tracks of the Alaska Railroad can be seen cutting through the valley heading south to Seward, Alaska.
I captured this from the plane on my way to the NAB conference in Las Vegas. It is fun to pick out places I have been from such a high altitude. Here I can see where the Alaska Railroad cuts through the Grandview area, hangs a right to Trail Lake, and off in the distance at the top of the frame is the very head of Resurrection Bay and Seward.
Seeing this from the air just reminds me of what an amazing place I live – from this elevation it almost look inhabitable, but of course I know otherwise.
After a number of long days in a huge, crowded conference, I am able to appreciate this even more!
The conference was really valuable, made lots of great contacts and learned a ton. James Cameron was interesting, and pretty much everywhere I looked there was something to do with 3D. There was 3D footage aired at every presentation I visited including during Cameron’s opening address, and pretty much at every vendor booth there was talk about how they are incorporating the capability. My head is still spinning with ideas as I try to process everything I learned and saw. I know one thing, I think I’m at the right place to mentally process all this information. 🙂 Now, I’m off for a quick, spring cross-country ski!
Aurora Borealis over Trail Lake, Moose Pass, Alaska.
Since I captured this early this morning and will be traveling on Monday, I decided to do a rare weekend blog post.
With a lot of packing and shipping to do, I really didn’t need to be running around last night looking for Northern Lights – but I just couldn’t resist and headed out for a couple of hours a little after mid-night. You see it has been another slow winter for the Aurora Borealis, especially in Alaska for some reason – they have been getting some pretty good shows in Norway. So when I saw things were looking good on the computer, I had to go for it!
It takes a very good show to reach us down here in Seward and unfortunately this wasn’t one of them. By driving North, I was able to watch them on the Northern horizon, but didn’t have the time to go any further – I probably would have needed to go past Anchorage and Wasilla. So I made the best of it as I watched them on the shores of Trail Lake and listened to the ice cracking on the lake – actually the ice was really loud – that made it kind of eerie on such a dark, moonless night!
Ok, back to packing!
For those who are interested, you might enjoy reading about how to find the northern lights, or how to photograph the northern lights.
Snowy trees in the Chugach National Forest, Alaska.
Here is another one from December, back when we had lots of snow. A warm rainstorm wiped it all out, and now sunny cold weather has kept us relatively snow-less – at the same time, it seems like much of the lower 48 has been receiving lots of snow. I think that is about to change, we picked up a few inches yesterday, and it looks like we should revive a lot more later this week. Fingers crossed!
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