Photography-Life in Alaska-Random Thoughts
Photography highlighting Alaska, the most beautiful place on earth.
I’m always amazed at this time of year as the days get longer and all of a sudden, boom, it’s light out at 10pm and it comes as this big, wonderful surprise. We had an incredibly mild winter and early spring this year, but you still sit out on the deck on a night like this and think “we made it through another one”.
Looking west at Sleeping Lady.
and looking north towards the Alaska Range and Denali.
Mount Foraker, Hunter & Denali were spectacular this morning. We’ve had a nice long stretch of seeing the mountains every day.
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So we’re sitting at the dinner table tonight when my wife looked out the window and saw this young lynx headed down the neighbors driveway. I was able to grab the camera and grab a couple of shots as it headed towards us. As I got to the top of our driveway, a snowshoe hare came blasting out of the bushes right in front of me, followed by the lynx, who honestly just wasn’t putting that much effort into a pursuit :) I’m pretty sure this is the same young one that was laying in the sun in our backyard earlier in the week. Fun to see them around the neighborhood this spring.
Haven’t seen this one around in a while. There’s only one pair that I’m aware of that lives year-round in Bear Valley, so it’s always a treat. Not nearly as many Bald Eagles here as there are along the coasts where there’s a much better and easier food source in fish.
Finally had some Aurora early this morning here in Anchorage. It’s been over a month since I’ve had the chance to shoot any, so this was a nice surprise. The display itself wasn’t terribly strong; but we’re rapidly heading towards the end of aurora shooting season. Another 30 days or so and it will be too light out at night to shoot them. But wow, the stars were just thick!
