Northern Lights: Long exposures, a Satellite and a Satellite-Receiving Dish
The Northern Lights visited last weekend, thanks to a solar flare that sent charged particles towards Earth. In a news brief, alerting northern residents to the likely lights display, The Fairbanks...
View ArticleBicycle Beat: Welcome to Winter, Spring.
Crazy Fairbanks weather continues. That didn’t deter some friends and I from doing an art-show bike on Friday, May 3. Such an important part of photography is taking pictures of everything. I find it...
View ArticleMay Skiing and a Dog
I received a comment from a viewer that there’s overlapping issues when they view my site on Internet Explorer, has anyone else witnessed this or anything similar? Over the next few days I’ll be...
View ArticleDay Bike in Denali Nat’l Park
Saturday, May 25, a group of friends and I did an out-and-back from Savage River, 12 miles into the park. Completely clear skies allowed the sun and cool air to compliment each other nicely. We split...
View ArticlePost Number 100!
Above: Heidi in the Hood, a selectively-saturated portrait. It sounds and feels like a lot – this is my 100th post. Thanks to everyone who visits! I have spent a lot of time running Far North Light and...
View ArticleWeekly Photo Challenge: Mt. Rainier Horizions.
Above: A riverbed in late fall offers little more then a creek winding into Mt. Rainier. The horizon, like the end of a rainbow, is unreachable. Constantly changing – expanding and contracting,...
View ArticleDrone photos above Fairbanks
Above: Farmers Loop road cuts across the frame in this view of the hills north of Fairbanks. My friends and I are the three small dots almost in the center of the frame – as seen from Dog Mushers Hall....
View ArticleBeginning of Ski Season – Weekly Photo Challenge
Above: A quiet and foggy beginning to the 2013-2014 season at Skiland. December 7, 2013 at 10:12 a.m. December 7, 2013, marked the start of the downhill season at Skiland – the farthest-north chairlift...
View ArticleFantastic Weather, Fun Skiing in Fairbanks.
Above: Snow-covered spruce trees lead to a hill north of Fairbanks briefly blanketed by the golden glow of sunrise. While much of North America is recovering from the recent polar vortex, Fairbanks has...
View ArticleiPhone roadtrip: Fairbanks to Whistler
I recently returned home from a road trip through Canada, south through Washington, Oregon and California, then north through Nevada, Utah, Montanan, Washington and Canada again. Because of the...
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