Autumn Sunset

Mt. Redoubt with Mt. Iliamna on the extreme left.


For your Saturday night viewing, Spiderbait's Black Betty

Evening Light

Another photo from Tuesday evening's walk.  Last night, my daughter and I took another late evening walk to another vantage point to shoot some photos.  Had I read this I might have reconsidered. No wonder we didn't see anyone else out.

Evening walk in the woods

Taken Tuesday evening (10/23/12) while walking along the Potter Creek Trail at almost sunset. A three exposure HDR. I like the low angle 'sunset' light. The last week the weather's been clear and it's been beautiful. But once that sun went down it got cold, fast. I've always felt blessed to be able to live in Alaska. Evenings like this reinforce that feeling. 

Knik River From Atop Bodenburg Butte

Autumn Colors

Denali & Foraker From Anchorage

I took this two weekends ago. I was almost back to the trail-head and paused to record the view. Since then, it warmed up the following week and the snow is gone, but it has now gotten cooler and it's ready to keep the snow for a while the next time we get it. Foraker is on the left and Denali is on the right. That's Mt. Crosson in the middle I believe.

For your Saturday night viewing pleasure.
(Hat Tip to: The Other McCain)

Mood: Resigned

From this past January. This old fellow displayed how winter wears on everyone.

Dall Sheep

A photo of two Dall sheep. Not to be confused with mountain goats.
Though it can be very easy to do.

One Year Later, (Plus)

Last Friday (9/21/12) I posted a view from the porch taken a year earlier. My intention was to post a photo from exactly one year later. Oh well, I didn't make it. So anyway, here's another VFP taken this morning. Snow we accumulated a few inches, though it melted away after the sun came out later in the morning.

Clouds

Autumn Colors

This photo was taken on 9/28/11.  Next Friday it'll be one year to the day. I'll post the same view. Same image exactly one year apart. Here's hoping it hasn't been like the rest of this month, rainy, windy, & overcast.

Mt. Redoubt in the distance

On a sunny day. A closer view is here .

Heading Down

Wind Power

After all the bad weather, it was nice to have clear, crisp, and sunny days again.  there was a light frost this morning too, but it warmed up quickly. So, I grabbed my mountain bike and decided to take a little ride to a trail just a few miles up the road (and hill) from our home.  I took this along the way. This is the wind farm under construction on the south end of Fire Island.
I'll post more pics from today's ride in the next couple of days.

Big Wind

Tuesday, Anchorage had a huge wind storm. Much of town was out of power. Some areas still are as of today. We were out from around mid-night to 10:30 the following morning and we were lucky.
anyway, I took this during the big blow. Some areas on the hillside had gusts of 130mph.
It was shot at;
ISO: 200
Av: f16
fl: 27mm
Exp: 0.3sec.
Slow, yes. I was trying to somehow convey the force of the wind.

Fall Has Arrived!

A little early and with quite the fanfare. I took this on Labor Day. It was quite windy. This is a 3 image composite HDR and if you look, you can see ghosting on some of the branches. But I still like this photo, so I posted it.  Another front is blowing through today, up on the hillside up to 100mph gusts are forecast. Presently it's raining at our house and very windy. Expected crappy weather all week. But it makes for beautiful skies and lighting.

Speed

My daughter (45, Orange) finally caught the ball carrier, preventing a touchdown. Orange won the game.

Hands!

It's that time of year again. This is West High's JV girls flag football team against Chugiak. The West girls lost this game 13-0. I apologize for the somewhat blurry photo, but I had the aperture set too small and consequently slowed the image capture down. Even at 1000 ISO. But I liked this photo, so here it is.