Archive for the ‘Snowboarding’ Category
Friday, January 8th, 2010
Dawn rising over Mount Blackburn, elevation – 16,390 feet (4,996 M), winter, Wrangell – St. Elias National Park, Alaska. Click the image to see a larger version and to browse the rest of the gallery.
Hey Folks,
I thought I might make a blog post, the first for the new year, with a quick presentation of my favorite images from the past year. Not necessarily a “best of”, but just a collection of 12 images, one from each month, each of which mean something to me. Some of these have appeared on the blog before, some have not.
The first one is my favorite image of Mt. Blackburn I’ve taken so far, taken one cold morning a year ago. One of the primary reasons I wanted to spend winter in the McCarthy area was this particular scene. I knew the mountain would get great light in the winter, though I’d only viewed it from here in the summer previously. During the summer the great light is on the northside of mountains here in Alaska, so I’d never really viewed this scene in the great alpenglow you see here. A couple of winters in a cabin in the woods rewarded me in many ways, and I consider this image a nice memory of those days. Good times.
The 2nd photo (more…)
Tags: 2009 review, Alaska, bears, Birds, Carl Donohue, Moose, National Park and Preserve, photos, scenics, Wildlife, Wrangell - St. Elias National Park and Preserve, Wrangell St. Elias
Posted in Adventures, Alaska, Glaciers, Katmai National Park, Landscape features, Mountains, Musings, Photography, Reviews, Skiing, Snowboarding, Wrangell - St. Elias National Park | 14 Comments »
Thursday, May 21st, 2009
A winter sunset over the Mentasta Mountains, Wrangell – St. Elias National Park, Alaska.
Hey Folks,
“The effort to clarify our sight cannot begin in the society, but only in the eye and in the mind. It is a spiritual quest, not a political function. We each must confront the world alone and learn to see it for ourselves”. So says Wendell Berry, one of my favorite writers, in his book “The Unforeseen Wilderness”. The book, a dearly needed plea to save Kentucky’s Red River Gorge from a nefarious plan to dam it, was written nearly 40 years ago. I haven’t read the book completely yet, as I just bought it this afternoon. But I glanced at it, and this passage caught my attention. Berry continues on:
“the figure of the photographic artist – not the tourist-photographer who goes to a place, bound by his intentions and preconceptions, to record what has already been recorded and what he therefore expects to find, but the photographer who goes into a place in search of the real news of it”.* (more…)
Tags: Alaska, Art, artist, Carl Donohue, Guy Tal, Landscape features, photographer, Photography, photos, scenes, scenics, snow, Sunsets, The Unforeseen Wilderness, Wendell Berry, Winter
Posted in Abstracts, Alaska, Elk, Fall, Forests, Lakes, Landscape features, Mountains, Photo business., Skiing, Snowboarding, Travel, Web Stuff, Winter, Wrangell - St. Elias National Park | 3 Comments »
Thursday, April 16th, 2009
Hey Folks,
I’ve been practicing this one a bit. Trying to get a snowboarder’s eye view of snowboarding. It’s pretty hard. Well, I’ll be honest – for me, it’s really hard. Really, REALLY hard. I fell over more times than I want to admit. Certainly more times than I wanted to fall over. And the slope is a good bit steeper than the image appears, so I was moving pretty fast. What’s hard is lifting the camera to the eye without making a turn. On a snowboard, like a skateboard or surfboard, one turns the board by turning the head and torso. Every time I’d lift the camera up, I’d unconsciously turn my torso a bit, and the board would go with it, doing a ‘heelside turn’ effectively. Then I’d realize I was turning too far left, turn back the other way, doing a ‘toe-side turn’, over-correct, catch an edge and bust my ass. Trying to hold my camera so it wouldn’t hit the ground as I wiped out was a bit of a mission, but I’ve so far managed to do it OK. I practiced a bit on some gentler slopes, but there’s no substitute for the real deal. I’m rippin’ along here at probably close to 75 miles an hour or so. Maybe. 
Cheers
Carl
Tags: Alaska, Carl Donohue, mentasta mountains, outdoors, photos, recreation, snow, snowboard, Snowboarding, Winter, Wrangell - St. Elias National Park, Wrangell St. Elias
Posted in Adventures, Alaska, Landscape features, Mountains, People, Snowboarding, Travel, Winter, Wrangell - St. Elias National Park | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, April 15th, 2009
Hey Folks,
Do I look just wicked bad in my orange jacket, or what? You need sartorial advice, you ask me, OK?
Cheers
Carl
Tags: Alaska, Carl Donohue, mentasta mountains, outdoors, photos, recreation, snowboard, Snowboarding, Winter, Wrangell - St. Elias National Park, Wrangell St. Elias
Posted in Adventures, Alaska, Landscape features, Mountains, People, Snowboarding, Winter, Wrangell - St. Elias National Park | 2 Comments »
Tuesday, April 14th, 2009
Hey Folks,
Don’t look down. Snowboard champion, Carl Donohue, self-portrait. Or maybe that should be ‘Snow Bored Champion’? Either way, I set about trying to get some photos of myself riding my snowboard. You can see how steep this run was. One way to tell how good a snowboarder someone is in photos is how much snow is on their pants .. from this clean pair of Marmot Liquid Steel Gore-Tex XCR pants, you get an impression of someone who doesn’t fall down much. Well, you might get that impression .. then again, you weren’t out there watching me, were ya?
Cheers
Carl
Tags: Alaska, Carl Donohue, outdoors, photos, recreation, snowboard, Snowboarding, sports, Winter, Wrangell - St. Elias National Park, Wrangell St. Elias
Posted in Adventures, Alaska, Landscape features, Mountains, People, Snowboarding, Winter, Wrangell - St. Elias National Park | 2 Comments »
