The chronicles and wanderings of a (mostly) nocturnal landscape photographer and light painter, and a landing page for adventures that couldn't find a home on my site. Enjoy!
This was the place at the heart of the famed “Klondike” gold rush in 1896, and is still filled with remnants from that rich history. Along the ‘Top of the World Highway’, 200 miles along a mountaintop from Dawson City, Yukon to Tok, Alaska, the artifacts are as plentiful as the amazing auroras. I also spent some time bushwhacking through Tombstone Territorial, and another trip back there is high on my list.
Amazing how much a few months can change a place. This is the same mountain pass from the previous post. Definitely a different feel from when its not encased in 10 feet of snow, and made for a much more enjoyable hiking.
Not sure where the pooch came from, but it was nice to have some company for bit til she trotted off down the mountain.
I found her people but she went off exploring the mountain on her own. I need a mountain dog…
This guy’s got alpine travel figured out. I think when my knee finally goes I’m gonna go this route.
Sketchy crossings, no problem for the slow and steady…
Autumn found in pockets amongst the pine. There were also entire mountainsides which were a blanket of yellow birch and spruce.
I’d been on the road for a week at this point, and hadn’t found a shower in awhile. This is me, debating whether to brave the cold and take a bath in this lovely little alpine lake… Frigid but completely worth it.
Nice little ptarmigan, funny little birds and not in the least bit shy.
A collection of images from the glacial outlet lagoons on Iceland’s southside, where calving faces of the Vatnajokull glaciers dump their ice into the ocean. Although it looks like a frozen landscape, it is ever changing, with the light and land looking drastically every time I visited. I love sitting around here at night, watching auroras dance over head and sounds loud as thundering from icebergs rolling and crashing into one another. This place has been on my bucket list since childhood, but its still on there because I’m going to have to go back!
This post is all about putting the ice in Iceland. Never have I seen such crazy snowstorms in all my life. While in the north near Akureyri, I got caught in a blizzard and was stuck in whiteout conditions for days. While most of the first day was spent digging my car out of a ditch i9 careened into, I braved the cold and managed to make the most of it. After the storms had passed, it was a whole new world, where what had been verdant hills days ago was now white stretching to the horizon. Glad I brought my snow shoes, because a few times when I went out without them I ended up buried chest deep after falling through snow banks. Anyway, it was brutal out there, so I hope you enjoy!
Iceland is a diverse and ever changing landscape of volcanic activity. Five geothermal plants generate a vast majority of the country’s heating and power need. The land is also rancid with volcanic features, such as fumaroles, hot springs, and the original geyser, Geysir. The red skies in some of the images below comes from the eruption of the Bárðarbunga volcano high up on the Vatnajökull, Iceland’s largest glacier.
Wish you could see the full res of this pic, its like a Where’s Waldo of Vietnamese fisherman, there’s dozens of people scattered about these boats at their daily grind. Even though this image is all about the details to me, still kind of cool as a long shot.
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