Photography-Life in Alaska-Random Thoughts
Photography highlighting Alaska, the most beautiful place on earth.
Aurora showed up around 12:30am with a nice hint of pink at the bottom of the display. Was hoping it might turn into a big display, but it never climbed much above the horizon, and was pretty much done by 1:30am. Fun shooting on a night with a bright half-moon.
Seeing some pink at the bottom of the lower band, hoping it’s going to blow up big!
Sadly, this is about as strong as it got.
Big day here in Bear Valley. It’s the first time since October that the sun has climbed high enough over the Chugach Mountains behind the house so that sunlight directly hits the house.
And my Gray Jay buddies are back. Haven’t seen much of them at all this winter.
It’s been a terrible aurora season so far here in Anchorage, we’ve been getting skunked by bad weather while those in Fairbanks and Delta have been getting some great shots. So last night, when the forecast was calling for potential big aurora and we had just a bit of ice-fog moisture in the air, I decided to drive the 70 miles to Hatcher Pass and see if I’d get lucky. I stayed from 10pm until 2am. Turned out to be an okay show, but far from great. Still, it was really good to see the first decent aurora display in months.
Sitting here watching the fog move up and down the mountains, one moment covering us in a soft blanket, the next letting in the beautiful sun. Playing with some black & white photography today.
Other than blowing focus on the entire event—and forgetting to charge all my extra camera batteries, so I kinda missed the entire second half of the show, it was a fun—and COLD—night to shoot this rare event.
