This is the fourth post in a row about photographing the aurora borealis, but it will be the last one for quite a while. The posts have been about progressively better displays, but there’s nowhere to go after this one. I haven’t seen any reports from scientists yet, but...

We’ve had some extremely optimistic aurora forecasts that turned out to be duds lately, but the night of October 7th-8th was very good, and the aurora was seen way down into the States. I was out shooting it twice. I wasn’t feeling well on the 7th so went to...

Yesterday morning, the aurora put on a good show for several hours, and I went out for two hours of shooting that really felt good. My internal aurora alarm got me up at 01:10. I looked outside and was soon out with my gear. The first photo was shot...

I haven’t been aurora-ing much yet this season, but need to get to work on it, because we’re nearing the solar maximum and it could be a very good season. Last night the forecast showed pretty much no chance of a show but it turned out to be quite...

Over the past couple of days (Tuesday and Wednesday, September 17th and 18th), I finally completed a project that I began in August 1991. Well, it wasn’t a “project” in 1991, that was just the first time I photographed some of the graves at the Atlin Pioneer Cemetery. In...

Sunday, September 8th was a very busy day for me at Atlin. After visiting the Pine Creek dredge and some other sites first thing in the morning, I came back into town for coffee. At about 10:20 I started another wander on foot and by car. I took many...

On Sunday, September 8th, I left my cozy cabin in Atlin with the plan of spending a long day exploring Ruby Creek and Ruby Mountain. But I got distracted, and this post is about the reason for that 🙂 I got an early start and was driving up Surprise...

Atlin has been on my mind a lot lately, and I’ve just spent another 3 nights there, from Friday, August 6th to Monday the 9th. I had two offers of accommodations, but it took me a while to give up the idea of taking the motorhome with Bella and...

This post is something of an experiment. Due to my brain injury, I have no memory of this significant adventure of my youth, only photos. My final neurologist said 2-3 years ago that the memories are still here, I just can’t access them. Sometimes various things will trigger a...

(and other stuff from the final 36 hours in Haines, and the drive home 🙂 ) Although we had no solid plans for our week in Haines, we really wanted to see brown bears along the Chilkoot River, and made several drives out to the river and lake. The...