Here the first video compilation from my Alaska trip.  This was all shot during one day.  We flew on a float plane from Nikiski to Crescent Lake.  In spite of raining the entire time we saw several bears, got some great images, and had a wonderful lunch including fresh caught salmon and trout. Most of the time I was shooting with my still camera, so there is not much video of the bears.  Since I love flying, there is a lot of flying footage.  I hope you enjoy it.  I may put together another video from some other parts of the trip.

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Jeff 

I recently returned from a photo trip to Alaska.  I had been to Alaska 11 years ago on a fishing trip and have regretted ever since that I did not spend more time photographing then.  This trip more than made up for it.  My friend, Larry Calof, and I have been planning this trip for about a year.  We met our group in Anchorage and then drove about a million miles. Actually it was "only" about 2000 miles of driving plus additional travel by boat, train and float plane.  Our group was led by Kristin Cole of Cole/Marr Photography.  She has been to Alaska many times and did a great job of giving us an introduction to it. We are already talking about another trip and where we want to spend more time.  We saw some fantastic scenery and lots of wildlife. In spite of 3 very wet days we had a great time. I came back with nearly 3000 images.  It has been quite a process to get that down to a manageable number.  I've posted about 50 of them in Alaska September 2009. I hope you enjoy them. When I get the time I will put together a book that includes these plus some others.  I shot quite a bit of video with the Rebel T1i and will next be working on editing and compiling that.

I also finally managed to get my images from the August trip to the Tetons posted in Tetons August 2009.

On a technical note: Larry let me use his Canon 300mm f/2.8 IS lens a couple of days while he was shooting with his 500. I used to think my 300 f/4 was close in image quality, but it's not. The bigger lens also focuses much faster allowing for some shots I just couldn't have gotten with the f/4.  Larry encouraged my wife, Vicki, to get it for my birthday.  Thanks to both of you!

Jeff

Denali North Peak wreathed in clouds 

I spent three days last weekend exploring and photographing the Grand Tetons National Park with three friends.  We had unusually cloudy and rainy weather which made us juggle our planned shooting some, but did present some opportunites to photograph the Tetons in less common settings.  I'm still working on some of the images from that trip, but I did shoot some 720p video with the Canon Rebel T1i that I recently aquired.  I've assembled some of those clips along with a few of my images into a short video showing our trip.  I hope you enjoy it.  I'll get the  images posted soon.

Jeff

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I occaisionally try to do some "housecleaning" on my computer to make sure things are organized.  During my last such effort I came across a batch of images I had taken in Monument Valley last year which had been overlooked.  I worked on them and added the landscape images to Monument Valley April 2008 in the Image Catalog and added those images plus a few shots of our friends on the trip to the family Web Galleries under Monument Valley April 2008.

In looking over my images from last month's trip to Yosemite I found myself drawn back to this image that I called "Enchanted Island".  The reason I keep coming back to it is that of all the images I came home with from that trip, it's the one that brings back the quiet, peaceful feeling of being in the back country of Yosemite (or many other similar places for that matter).  I like it so much I made it the image on the home page of my web site.  It can be found here, linked to a larger copy by clicking on it.

I'm off to Jackson, WY and the Grand Tetons at the end of the week with several of our friends.

I've just returned from a 5 day backpacking trip to the high country in Yosemite.  I had a great time and saw some beautiful country. I went with my friend, Steve Kossack, and several other new and old friends. I've posted my images from that trip in the Image Catalog under Yosemite Backpacking.

I also finally got around to working on my images from a trip in April to the Moab area.  Those images are also posted in the Image Catalog.  These are under Moab April 2009.  I also posted these images as well as pictures of Vicki and our friends in the Family Web Galleries under Moab April 2009.