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Bright Moon and Aurora Borealis
Aurora shining in the bright moonlight
Sea otters exiting an iceberg in Columbia Bay, Alaska.
Near the horizon the oranges were dominant. You can see a bit of that cool arctic blue/green in the sky.
The northern lights just a few yards away from our cabin.
Autumn in Denali National Park
Mountains south of the Park Road in Denali National Park and Preserve. "Rivers" of yellow wind through the red foliage and "lakes" of green spruce dot the hillsides. I have yet to find a place that I would prefer to be in autumn, even though the season here is incredibly short. The splendid colors only hang around for about a week before the deciduous leaves fall, followed shortly by the snow.
An early snowfall fell in September of 2013 in Fairbanks. The foliage was just coming into peak and the oranges and yellows were beautifully covered in a bit of white. I would not mind if snow fell every year on autumn leaves.
One of the brightest, albeit brief displays I've seen over Fairbanks, Alaska.
A musher sets out for a cold evening run on the Tanana River. All I can see against the setting Sun is the silhouettes of the musher with his dogs and the trees in the distance. The fog around the dogs is actually from their breath - the air was 40 below.
Here are more waterfalls into Prince William Sound near Valdez.
On the Black Rapids Glacier in the Eastern Alaska Range. Eventually the slushy blue streaks in the snow from a few days before this gave way to water channels in the ice beneath the surface. Sometimes they find old channels from previous years, sometimes they don't. In the summer of 2014 we spent two weeks camped on the glacier and had to cross many of these streams. It was still early in the melt season which meant that there weren't any moulins yet to drain the water for the surface. This meant that to get across the glacier we had to jump over many of these streams, a handful of which were quite wide. My knees would often be swollen and sore at the end of the day. I was always more comfortable jumping to my dominant, right leg, but when I didn't mix it up I paid for it later. I started jumping all the small streams to my left leg, and only to my right if there were consequences for missing a jump.
Grizzly Bear - Denali National Park
The brown bear paused from eating soapberries to look around before returning to the river. I can't believe how beautiful, almost human, it's eyes were. This really wrapped up a fantastic bus trip into Denali National Park.
Aurora borealis over the Chena hills from the Angel Rocks Trail. Chena River Recreation Area, Alaska
Taken at 12:30 in the afternoon one fine December morning. Around the winter solstice we don't see the Sun from our house. It stays just below the base of the trees. There is enough light that we do get some fine "tree glow" for a few hours though.
A small stream in the ice on the Castner Glacier in the Eastern Alaska Range.
At the Solomon Gulch Hatchery in Valdez, Alaska.
Iceberg from the Columbia Glacier in Prince William Sound near Glacier Island.
An early snowfall for Fairbanks covers the foliage around Smith Lake in Fairbanks.
Very cool, dynamic light on Mt. Kearsarge in New Hampshire.
Suspended - Limited Edition Print
Rocks on the surface of College Glacier.
The last bit of alpenglow disappears in the Alaska Range.
Waterfalls along a cliffside looking up at the Worthington Glacier
Looking over the edge of a beaver dammed pond on Rock Creek along the Granite Tors Trail.