Cold Mountains; Girdwood, March 11, 2017
This is a startling contrast to my recent blog postings from Maui and Oahu. First hot, now cold. It is still chilly here. March so far has been very un-springlike. Two recent mountain scenes from the Girdwood/Alyeska vicinity confirm winter's grip.
Serrated ridges, sharp enough to cut and cold enough to freeze, here rise dramatically in late afternoon sun across the Inlet from Old Girdwood. The inlet remains clogged with ice plates despite tidal flows of 30 vertical feet and fast currents. Trees that died when the 1964 earthquake buried their roots in saltwater still stand, skeletons that refuse to fall.
Canon 5D Mark IV, 100-400 IS II at 300mm, 1/1000 at f/5.6, ISO 200.
While I waited futilely for the moon to rise over Alyeska a few nights ago, the mountain's night-ski lights came on. They and the post-sunset alpenglow lit the ski area, without noticeably warming it.
Same equipment, but at 100mm, .3 sec (handheld! braced on car window) at f/4.5, ISO 200.
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After a lifetime of mainly expressing myself with words, my postings here will mainly rely on images. They will speak for themselves to some extent, but I'll usually add a few comments of explanation. I've taken photographs for decades, since the 1950's, inspired in part by my father's photographic skill. Four years of photo assignments and quality darkroom time eventually gave way to decades of casual and family picture-taking. I re-immersed myself when I left film and turned to digital.