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Photo of the day 2/24/2012 – “Untitled”

“Untitled”
After giving out some tips to someone today about what to see and do in Alaska, I wanted to revisit what was the highlight of my trip…A two and a half hour flight-seeing trip that included landing on a glacier in the Sheldon Amphitheater at the hiking basecamp.

There is so much to tell about this photo. It’s probably worth at least a couple thousand words. I’ll have to save those for another time.

In the photo:
The 50+ year-old plane we flew in.
Huge glacier (name unknown)
Mount McKinley

Above Denali National Park & Preserve
Alaska
June 7, 2010

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Bonus Photo of the day 4/19/11 – “Contrast”

“Contrast”

It probably doesn’t jump right out at you, but the black mass on the right side is a glacier. It contrasts from the glacier on the right not only because it really is black, but because it is two miles wide and is receding, whereas the glacier in the left is white, one mile wide and is advancing.

Margerie Glacier (left) and Grand Pacific Glacier (right), Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska
June 5, 2010
In celebration of National Parks week

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Photo of the day 4/19/11 – “Chipping Away”

“Chipping Away”

By time you hear the crack as loud as thunder of the glacier calving, you probably missed it. You really have to pay attention to catch it.

Unfortunately the photo doesn’t do the grandeur of this amazing place and justice. One easily gets lost in the enormity of it all. To give some perspective, the ice you see above the water is about 250 feet high, which makes the part that calved about 20-30 feet high with the resulting wave about 5-10 feet high.

Margerie Glacier, Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska
June 5, 2010

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Photo of the day 3/13/11

‘Nice ice’
After a nice nap following a 3.1 mile snowshoe hike in which I sought out to get a photo for today, I went out to my vehicle to retrieve my camera. I was watching the sidewalk carefully, as much of it was covered with ice from the melted snow, when I noticed this pattern reflected in the light. Of course I had to get the tripod out and attempt to get a shot. Tired from the hike, my patienc

My sidewalk
Kimberly, Wisconsin
March 13, 2011

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Photo of the day 1/16/11

No photo of the day yesterday due to my moving jeffasman.com to a new host.

Kelli and I got the snowshoes out again today and headed down to 1000 Islands Nature Conservancy in Kaukauna for a late day, 2.5 mile hike. I haven’t been down there in a long time and forgot how nice it is. Was wishing I brought the 7D, but only had the pocket cam with us.

Fox River
Kaukauna, Wisconsin
January 16, 2011

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