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October 2023 : Thursday
Oct 2023 : Thursday
Cloud Strands
Daily Photo – Cloud Strands
Some epic strands of clouds from Alaska. Sometimes it’s the simple things in life that are the most pleasing…
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March 2023 : Friday
Mar 2023 : Friday
The Endless Skies
Daily Photo – The Endless Skies
I captured this on the last day of a Disney cruise a bunch of years ago. I’d taken to getting up early each day to capture the sunrise and this was one occasion it really paid off!
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March 2023 : Tuesday
Mar 2023 : Tuesday
The Earthly Lines
Daily Photo – The Earthly Lines
The waters went suddenly calm all around the ship and the sky stretched out forever. I had just seen a pod of whales and we were weaving around new areas of the fjords. I knew I was in Alaska then!
Into the Wild Islands of Alaska
Grizzly Man
Has anyone seen “Grizzly Man” — that documentary about that crazy dude that lives with the grizzly bears in Alaska? It was the first Werner Herzog docu I had ever seen. Now I’m hooked on that guy’s voice. Here is a spoof of him reading Where’s Waldo
Daily Photo – Into the Wild Islands of Alaska
We floated by about 100 of these little islands in the fjords. I kind of felt like I wanted to jump off the boat, swim over, and explore them all! I always wondered if there were bears and stuff behind some of those trees… a bear there just kind of owning that island and killing anything that comes there. That seems like the kind of awesome thing a bear would do…
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November 2013 : Monday
Nov 2013 : Monday
The Endless Skies
Teaching my little girl to ride a bike
I just did this yesterday and decided to record it with Google Glass. I wish I had this for my Ethan when I taught him about five years ago!
Your Desktop Wallpaper
I actually liked this photo so much I made it my new background, but I change it out at least a few times per week. How often do you change yours? (your wallpaper, that is)
By the way, you are of course welcome to grab any of my photos and use them as background photos. Just pop through to the SmugMug site and select Download. Enjoy! 🙂
Daily Photo – The Endless Skies
I’ve only taken two Disney cruises, but I’ve developed one good habit. Note it is only one. Anyway, it is getting up around 4 AM on the last day to take photos as we roll into port. I woke up extra early and took out both my cameras (the NEX 7 and 6) to collect as many photos as I could. I took a ton! In fact, I blew through an entire card and had to pop in a backup!
The Mighty Walls of the Glacier
Unsolicited Jet Lag Advice
This gentleman gave a comment here that I did not want to go unnoticed! It was so strange… and I have not actually tried this yet. Has anyone tried this trick? I’ll paste it here:
David Stickney
Yesterday 7:11 AM+Trey Ratcliff the vodka jet lag remedy works like a charm. The shot before you go to bed produce enough lactic acids in your blood as an entire day’s muscle usage. The vitamin c help kick start the liver and the extra water and salt help with the metabolism. Getting outside while the sun is still coming up resets the Circadian rhythm of your sleep cycle and get your penal glands set to the time.
Try it next time, I used to take 2-3 days to get into a new location using this method the next full day I feel adjusted.
the science behind it is pretty well documented http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase_response_curve
Daily Photo – The Mighty Walls of the Glacier
This Alaskan was a very pretty glacier to see after seeing the rather dirty glacier near Mount Cook in New Zealand! I mean, the NZ glacier was awesome because we were out in a zodiac and pretty close, but this one was so clean and blue… just exactly how you would imagine a glacier to be!
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September 2013 : Saturday
Sep 2013 : Saturday
The Mighty Glaciers of Alaska
Meet Your Neighbor!
Haha this made my kids laugh when it appeared in the local paper. So, I now live in a small town of like 30,000 people here in Queenstown. I love it, of course, but I’m just not used to the smallish-town nature of it… that is actually why I like it! So the Mountain Scene, which is the local newspaper, sent a nice guy (Paul Taylor) over to my home to interview me. I guess he found me to be “charismatic”! hehe… anyway… most people that come to the blog a lot already know most of this stuff, but thought you’d like to see and maybe read a bit more… You can download the PDF yourself to catch up on all the local news on the Mountain Scene page — get the August 8, 2013 edition.
Daily Photo – The Mighty Glaciers of Alaska
Here’s another photo from our family trip to visit the fjords of Alaska. We got in pretty close to this glacier. Any closer can get a bit scarier… but it was lovely sitting in this spot, watching the ice float around in a smooth brownian motion…
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September 2013 : Tuesday
Sep 2013 : Tuesday
Clouds Pulled Like Taffy
Using the NEX-7 Handheld
After using the NEX-7 during the daytime countless times off the edge of the boat, I’m now less tripod-centric for daytime shots. I don’t shoot a lot during the day, but now when I do, I’m going to not worry so much about whether or not I have a tripod. Auto-align is so good now in Photomatix… it makes me so happy. I still use a tripod a lot in low-light conditions, but it was great to shoot a bunch from the ship so I could become more comfortable with this camera in these conditions.
Daily Photo – Clouds Pulled Like Taffy
I stood on the edge of the ship as we weaved in and out of the great Alaskan fjords. This is my first time ever sailing through fjords like this (other than just one fjord in New Zealand), so it was really cool to see not only the landscape, but how the steep mountains moved and pulled the clouds into different shapes.
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August 2013 : Wednesday
Aug 2013 : Wednesday
The prismbleed sunset
Tablets… Your thoughts?
I’m seeing a lot of reports of the Google-Android tablets really becoming a lot more popular. I do have one of the new Nexus 7’s — they are truly great. But the rest of the family still has iPads… so I am kind of on the fence right now. If you use a lot of google services and use the major apps, then the Nexus is the way to go. One thing I still like about the iPads is for the kids… there seem to be more/better apps on the iPad, but I think that advantage won’t last long. What do you think?
Daily Photo – The prismbleed sunset
Wow we got some great sunsets during those late Alaskan nights! When I looked out across the sea, there were so many kinds and temperatures of moisture, so that must have contributed… there was the cold ocean, warm mists, rolling fogs, low and high clouds, plus a mixture of a lot of moisture in the atmosphere. All together, it made for a great cocktail of prisms for the light.
Cruising through Tracy Arm
Time Lapse
I met a guy on the front of the boat that had his tripod set up and he was taking a cool time lapse as we turned this way and that through the fjords. I can’t seem to find it online… maybe he hasn’t published it yet, but I’ll share it when I can find it.
Daily Photo – Cruising through Tracy Arm
We had a nice unexpected treat when we entered the Tracy Arm fjords during the Alaskan cruise. A woman came to our table one night and invited us to the the front of the ship, which turned out to be the perfect spot to take photos! I spent most of my time hanging off the edge of the boat in dangerous ways… but I did turn around at one point to take this photo… you can kind of see the setup.
