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Alaska#34

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Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, Alaska, USA.  When a natural scene has geometrical patterns embedded, it excites visually.  Here you see how the pink flower laden foreground hill slopes right to the left.  The distant hills slope from the left to the right (two of them).  Finally the snow in the farthest hill slopes from the right to the left.  An alternating pattern here.  Finally, the clouds on top.  Nikon D4S loaded with the Nikkor 200-500mm f5.6 lens.

Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, Alaska, USA

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Alaska#33

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Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, Alaska, USA.  This scene was interesting for me firstly because of the pink flower laden hillside.  Secondly, there is a repeating pattern of ridges coming out of the clouds to the bottom right.  Nikon D4S loaded with the Nikkor 200-500mm f5.6 lens.

Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, Alaska, USA

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Alaska#32

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Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, Alaska, USA.  This scene intrigued me because of the pink flower laden foreground hill on the bottom right, followed by the shadowed ridge and then the lit mountains in the background covered by clouds.  The sharp ridge cutting the clouds in the top left anchors the shot along with the pink flowery hill in the bottom right acting as a secondary anchor.  Nikon D4S loaded with the Nikkor 200-500mm f5.6 lens.

Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, Alaska, USA

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Alaska#31

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Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, Alaska, USA.  On our second day trip to Brooks Falls, instead of seeing the bears for the second day in a row, we took a bus ride to the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, a great location within Katmai National Park.  This is one of several scenes I photographed there.  The low clouds helped add drama to this landscape.  An abstracted “Z” from the elements here.  Nikon D4S loaded with the Nikkor 200-500mm f5.6 lens.  People call this lens a wildlife lens.  For me, this is a versatile all round lens.

Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, Alaska, USA

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Alaska#24

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Mountain ridges, Katmai National Park, Alaska, USA.  Early last August, we went to Katmai National Park in Alaska, mainly to see Brown Bears.  It was highly successful and I am going to show you some of my images in the next several postings.  Getting to Katmai is a bit tricky.  You cannot drive from Anchorage to Katmai.  You have to fly to nearby King Salmon, AK.  Furthermore, we were specifically interested in the area around Brooks Falls.  One cannot drive or use other means to get to Brooks Falls.  You must use float planes from King Salmon.  Accommodations are another roadblock.  Since we could not get reservations for the limited cabins near Brooks Falls, we stayed at King Salmon and made day trips to Brooks Falls on float planes.  This image is a shot of Katmai National Park, taken from the float plane as it was close to landing.  Nikon D4S with the 24-120mm f4 lens.  This is my first keeper shot from Day 1 at Katmai.

Katmai National Park, Alaska, USA

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Alaska#23

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Mountains, snow and clouds, as seen from Delta Junction, Alaska.  This was photographed in early August, during a long lonely car ride from Fairbanks to Paxson lake.  Nikon D4S with Nikkor 200-500mm f5.6 + 1.4x teleconverter.  This view was very far from the road that I photographed this from, and I had to use a 1.4x teleconverter attached to this lens set at 500mm to accomplish this composition.  People think that a 700mm lens is only for wildlife photography.  Not true.

Hills, Delta Junction, Alaska, USA

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Alaska#22

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Ice detail, Matanuska Glacier, Alaska.  While still lodging in Anchorage, AK, we drove our rental car to Matanuska Glacier.  There are tour operators that take people on hikes on this Glacier.  In late July when we went, the weather was comfortable for the hike.  You do need to wear fitting boot spikes and for someone doing it for the first time, definitely a guided hike is the way to go.  It was a great experience for the family.  From a photographic perspective, the ice was pretty dirty with brown dirt on top.  For me, it did not appeal photographically and I got very few keepers.  This one is from a clean section showing ice detail on the glacier.  I like the diagonal ridges.  Mainly an abstract of graphical lines, without a sense of place.  Nikon D700 with Nikkor 24-120mm f4.

Ice, Matanuska Glacier, Alaska, USA

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Alaska#20

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Denali National Park, Alaska.  Shot under similar conditions as and just minutes after Alaska#18 and Alaska#19.  Nikon D4S with Nikkor 200-500mm f5.6 lens.

Denali National Park, Alaska, USA

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Alaska#19

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Denali National Park, Alaska.  Shot under similar conditions as and just minutes after Alaska#18.  Nikon D4S with Nikkor 200-500mm f5.6 lens.

Denali National Park, Alaska, USA

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