Alaska – Day 46 Yukon Territory

We’re currently sitting on the side of the road in Haines Junction, Yukon and very happy to see that we have WiFi so a little catching up ...

We left Homer Friday June 27th headed to Tok Alaska. We spent the night in Glacier View Park (Matanuska Glacier) before heading into Tok last night. We decided to get an early start on the drive this morning and left Tok at the ungodly hour of 530 a.m. There were two reasons for the early start; first there’s an hour change as soon as we reenter Canada which was about 2 hrs away, and second we didn’t know just how long a wait we’d have at the Canada border. Turns out we actually had no wait at all at the border and got into a nice conversation with the customs official there.

We hadn’t driven but an hour before Sandy spotted our moose feeding inside a small lake. We stopped and set the 1Ds III with the 400 DO lens and 2x converter on top of a tripod and started snapping. The distance was well over 200 yards however the moose appears to have been sharp (at least on our small laptop).

Speaking of moose – we were just turning into a gas station in Seldovia AK (just north of Homer) when we spotted this moose on a side road just happy as could be eating some sweet grass or other such stuff. Seeing as how we really haven’t seen too many moose on our trip we just had to stop and see what we could do. Don really is all that close to the moose the angle that Sandy took it just makes it look that way.

Edit Note: We're in Dawson Creek BC (Wed July 2nd) where we have great internet - took us a couple days to get the images loaded.


Sandy & Don

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Alaska – Day 43 Final return to Anchor Point

It is now Thursday, June 26th and it’s our last full day in Homer; we leave tomorrow morning headed back to Tok then onto the Alaskan Highway for the return trip home. We’ve been in Homer for 10 days; longer than anywhere else this trip. We’ve met some very nice people who have helped us get some fantastic images. We want to once again thank Hallo Bay for their excellent service to Katmai National Park and getting us close to the bears and a very special thank you to Millie Jeakins who told us about the gathering of eagles in Anchor Point. Millie is starting out as a photographer and has done some fantastic work herself – THANK YOU VERY MUCH Millie!!

We decided to return once again today to Anchor Point to see and photograph the eagles.

As we said before, this is our last full day in Homer. We’re headed home to Tucson but the ride isn’t over yet as we have a trip planed to the National Bison Refuge in Montana. While we’re not sure when the next update will be, it will happen so please stay tuned.

We’ve shown you samples of the work we’ve done in Alaska – they may look okay but they aren’t the pick of the litter. Once we get home and back in the studio the real work begins. Once we have the “keepers” sorted and placed on our regular website they will be for sale. We are still thinking about a DVD slideshow but want feedback on that before we decide to do it. Thank you for all you comments both public and private.

Just a little landscape

Enjoy the samples.

Sandy & Don

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Alaska – Day 42 Return to Anchor Point

We had such luck in Anchor Point earlier this week that we decided to return there this morning. The last time we were there the tide was out allowing us to walk along the beach for several yards before nearing the surf line; this morning the tide was in covering much of the beach. We also noticed a difference in the amount of eagles in the area as there were less today with the tide up. Even though there were fewer eagles than the other day we nevertheless were able to capture quite a few good images. We only used one camera today that being the Canon 1Ds III along with the 400 DO lens; we also decided to shoot slightly different using the different extenders or no extender at all; the focal length for the images range from 800, 560 and 400mm. We started out with an ISO of 200 and by the end of the shoot had moved to 250.

Returned to Homer feeling hungry so we decided to stop at Frosty Bear on Pioneer Ave where we met the new owner Aaron. Aaron opened Frosty Bear about a month ago and serves great hamburgers and ice cream among other goodies. If you want something simple, fast, and, good in a 50’s atmosphere stop by.

Enjoy the samples.



Sandy & Don

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