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Spaulding Meadows Juneau, Alaska – Image 2754

The sunshine and fresh powder makes this photo. I love Eaglecrest, Juneau's ski area, but in the deep winter the ski area is in shadow all the way through February. When the sun is out in the winter, I want to be in it. So I go to Spaulding Meadows which is one of the best places to find sun all winter long. Because it takes on average about two plus hours and a lot of work to get to the upper open meadows, Spaulding does not get a lot of use. After a fresh dump and a clear day, I ...

Pump House, Sandy Beach, Juneau, Alaska – Image 2753

The historic pump house at Sandy Beach that pumped sea water to the Treadwell Mine is a quintessential landmark in the Juneau area. Last year, I self-assigned myself to get a new and different photo each year of the pump house (one good enough for the calendar). This image is my first installment. Hopefully each future calendar will feature a new image of this Douglas classic. During December and early January , the sun rises in the south directly down Gastineau Channel. It is the ...

Ice Skating, Mendenhall Lake, Juneau, Alaska – Image 2752

This is my brother , Michael, skating across the Mendenhall Lake in front of the Mendenhall Glacier. He was visiting us at Christmas so the image was taken during the height of the winter darkness. This time of year the sun comes up around 9:30am and is getting dark by 3:30pm. During the day, the sun never gets very high in the sky and bumps along the horizon just above the mountain peaks. Although the daylight might not last too long what is there is the perfect photographer's ...

Ice Climbing, Nugget Falls, Mendenhall Glacier, Juneau, Alaska – Image 2751

It was a beautiful sunny day, and I headed out to the Mendenhall Glacier and Lake to see what I could see. Since it was mid-week, the place was empty. On a sunny weekend there would have been hundreds of folks enjoying the ice, snow and views. I saw two people ice climbing the Nugget Falls. I went over to check them out and low and behold I knew them. It was Jill (on the ice fall) and her dad, Dave (not in photo). The father/daughter team have been climbing together as long as she ...

Mark Kelley’s 2012 Juneau Alaska Calendar Cover – Image 2750

The cover of my 2012 Juneau Calendar is the same shot featured in Patagonia's "Bitter Cold" catalog published this November. I shot the photo as a horizontal, and Patagonia cropped it to a vertical. Most of my shots are composed horizontally because my eyes line up horizontally across my face. If I was a halibut and my eyes lined up vertically, I would shoot more vertical images. Shooting horizontally seems more natural and most of my publications (books and calendars) lay out ...

Mark Kelley’s 2012 Southeast Alaska Calendar Cover – Image 2749

The field of fireweed in front of the distant Mendenhall Glacier in Juneau's Brotherhood Bridge Park has to be one of the most photographed locations in Alaska. I have published this location in the calendars many times. The issue becomes how do I shoot it differently than before. A good rule of thumb in photography is to shoot an image no one has seen before or shoot an image better than it has ever been shot. I am not sure if this shot is done better than ever before, but it is an ...

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