In March I spent five days in the Brooks Range above the Arctic Circle photographing the aurora borealis. I shot this image around 11pm while temperatures hovered around minus 20 degrees Fahrenheit. The lights lasted for about four hours and I was in bed by 2:30am. The elongated stars are caused by the combination of […]
Brooks Range Alaska
Aurora Borealis, Brooks Range, Alaska #3431
Getting to experience the northern lights is one of the unique pleasures of living in Alaska. One of the best places to watch the lights, also called the aurora borealis is in the Brooks Range above the Arctic Circle. I watched this amazing display on a frozen riverbed next to the Dalton Highway, the only […]
Aurora Borealis, Arctic Circle, Alaska #3376
Every March for the past five years I have headed up to the Arctic in search of images of the Northern Lights. I usually travel up the Dalton Highway, the road that was built along the pipeline corridor to support the building and continuous upkeep of the Alaska oil pipeline. My favorite place to photograph […]
Happy Holidays from Alaska 12-20-2020
This image just shouts “Alaska.” It has all the necessary ingredients: endless pristine white snow, beautiful mountains, northern lights, and a full moon lighting the whole scene. I took this photo of the Brooks Range along the Dalton Highway about 70 miles north of the Arctic Circle. Photographing northern lights around full-moon nights is especially cool […]
Snowshoe Hare, Alaska #3336
Over my forty-plus years as a photographer in Alaska, I have had the privilege of photographing and publishing thirteen books on Alaska. I love all my books, but my favorite and most fun book to work on was the kids’ book “Once Upon Alaska.” I so much enjoyed reading Nick Jan’s rhyming verses and letting […]
Grizzly Bear, Gates of the Arctic NP, Alaska #3120
A grizzly walks down the Noatak River in front of the rugged Brooks Range Mountains on a beautiful autumn evening in Gates of the Arctic National Park. The light in the image is the light that photographers dream of. Just minutes after taking this photo the light completely disappeared from the bear and the mountains. […]
Aurora Borealis, Brooks Range, Alaska #3100
I spent the last week of March along the Dalton Highway, mainly around an area 72 miles north of the Arctic Circle. I was traveling with two friends, and we were eager to photograph northern lights. We were lucky enough to be greeted by the northern lights three nights in a row. In this image […]
Aurora Borealis, Arctic Alaska #3099
I shot this photo while conducting an aurora photo tour for two photographers last week. This past summer I helped organize a very successful four-day whale watching tour out of Juneau in conjunction with the Maui Whale Trust. Two tour guests asked me to put together a private aurora photo tour so off to the […]
Grizzly Bear, Gates of the Arctic NP, Alaska #3073
Two weeks ago I spent eight days canoeing the Noatak River in the Gates of the Arctic National Park & Preserve with my wife and six other friends. In spite of the cold and rainy weather we had an amazing trip paddling and hiking our way through 50 river-miles of the Brooks Range. The Gates […]
Aurora, Brooks Range, Alaska #3052
In March I spent three days on a northern lights shoot in Wiseman, Alaska, located on the Dalton Highway about 63 miles north of the Arctic Circle. What I like about this location are the mostly treeless mountains blanketed in snow. Everything is so pristine white, and once you add the northern lights streaming overhead, […]
Pine Grosbeak, Wiseman, Alaska #3039
This is another image from my trip to Wiseman. After searching for and shooting the northern lights at night I would sleep most of the day. Upon waking I would drag my tired self outside to search around the cabin to photograph snowshoe hares and birds flitting around in the birch and spruce trees. It […]
Northern Lights, Meteor Fireball, Mt Dillon, Alaska-3038
I rented a cabin in the little town of Wiseman, population 11and about 250 miles north of Fairbanks along the Dalton Highway, for a week-long photo shoot of northern lights. With clear skies and a full moon I spent my nights driving up and down the road looking for great mountain landscapes and waiting for […]
Aurora Borealis & Shooting Star, Brooks Range, AK #2956
Last week I spent seven days in a cabin in Wiseman along the Dalton Highway (the Haul Road) in the Arctic. My friend and fellow photographer, Murray Cohen planned this trip a while back in order to shoot the northern lights up north. The trip had all the great ingredients for a wonderful photo: the […]