Alaska

B.E. Coyote

I have been spending quite a few hours on this site lately as I am taking the leap from point and shoot to dslr.

Amazing pics in this forum and I don't by any means think the quality of mine stand up to the others but I thought some might enjoy a photostory of my trip from Va. Beach to the Arctic Ocean by motorcycle.

It includes mountain goats, wild horses, moose, caribou, deer, rein deer (in a pen) a blue fox, a musk ox, grizzly bears, halibut, salmon, killer whales, humback whales, seals, sea lions, bald eagles and a big overweight bald guy.

It is hosted on youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiKjnO9QGIU

flygirl

B.E. Coyote wrote:

I have been spending quite a few hours on this site lately as I am taking the leap from point and shoot to dslr.

Amazing pics in this forum and I don't by any means think the quality of mine stand up to the others but I thought some might enjoy a photostory of my trip from Va. Beach to the Arctic Ocean by motorcycle.

It includes mountain goats, wild horses, moose, caribou, deer, rein deer (in a pen) a blue fox, a musk ox, grizzly bears, halibut, salmon, killer whales, humback whales, seals, sea lions, bald eagles and a big overweight bald guy.

It is hosted on youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiKjnO9QGIU

Very cool and what an adventure!! Well done!

Maestro

Looks like the adventure of a lifetime. I really need to get up there. I'm glad your wife could join you eventually. That was your wife, right? D

Seriously, great video documentary. You had some beautiful landscapes and the wildlife was awesome, whales, bison, puffins, eagles, foxes, etc... Hope you start posting photos here soon. Welcome.

Edit: Great music too.

B.E. Coyote

Maestro wrote:

Looks like the adventure of a lifetime. I really need to get up there. I'm glad your wife could join you eventually. That was your wife, right? D

Seriously, great video documentary. You had some beautiful landscapes and the wildlife was awesome, whales, bison, puffins, eagles, foxes, etc... Hope you start posting photos here soon. Welcome.

Edit: Great music too.

Thanks! The trip really was amazing. It was also one of the things that made me want to learn a lot more about photography.

I do have some nice pics but the pics just don't do justice to what i was actually seeing.

borrowlenses.com

Excellent Mash-up. Were these taken with a P&S and that's what prompted you to start exploring the dSLR world?

Max

Froggy

Very cool, I have done several trips like yours, I ride a different bike than yours, love BMRS, I can relate to your experience, those are times you never forget.

I just got back from there myself, I drove most of the time took puddle jumpers into the wilderness to get to the bears we wanted to see.

Your right, you cannot capture the scenery the way you see it when your there, the majesty of it all is just to big and beautiful even with a DSLR.

You can see some of my images of Alaska here http://froggy.smugmug.com/Alaska

Thanks for sharing

Steve

Giselle

Looks like you had an amzing time, it brings back memories of my trip there last year.

B.E. Coyote

YIKES, FROGGY! That first bear shot would be a little too close for me.

We also took a float plane in to secluded lake to see bears. Pretty lucky for me I crossed paths with a rider on advrider.com who was going to be out my way and I offered him a place to stay. Through the course of the night talking about AK and having a few beers. He invited me and my wife for a ride when we got there.

Incredible! We flew in and he had a jon boat stashed in the weeds. Very lucky for me because I never could have swung what they were asking at the commercial places.

We were about 30 ft. from the bears most of the time. They didn't pay any attention to us at except for right after I took this picture.


She got up on her hind legs and I stared right at me. She took a couple of quick steps towards the boat and dissapeared under the water. I was expecting her in the boat in a few seconds but she popped up farther away from us than where she started.

This trip and the year before really gave me the bug for a better camera and to learn more about photography.

I took this pic on the trans-labrador highway (highway is used very loosely) the year before. We saw the Northern Lights that night but I couldn't get any kind of picture to prove it.


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