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posted: September 30th, 2016 |
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This page begins where Page 2 stopped, on September 9th at about 11:04 PM, and still being entertained by the Aurora Borealis. After that we go to September 10th and our trip back home. Then there are two photos of sunrise colors, which were shot on September 11th from our porch. After that there are two photos which were taken on September 12th and then two from the 15th. On the 18th we went out to Angel Rocks again (we were there on July 14th). This time we went specifically to harvest Lingonberries (Vaccinium vitis-idaea). The final shots on this page were taken on September 20th, again in our yard, to show that the trees are virtually bare of leaves. Click on any thumbnail to begin.
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| September 9th Continues from Page 2 (at about 11:04 PM) |
Here are three more shots of the Aurora Borealis which were taken from about Milepost 4.5 of the U.S. Creek Road, which is accessible from Milepost 57.3 of the Steese Highway. The Aurora was not too active this night and there was just this single bright band of light which kept moving around.
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Here are three more shots of this moving band of Northern Lights at around 11:00 PM.
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Interesting, but not incredible.
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At about Milepost 32 of the Steese Highway there is an Osprey (Pandion haliaetus) nesting platform. We have no idea who built it here. These two birds appear to be juveniles or maybe the left one is a juvenile and the right one is a parent.
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Here is an amazing view of Denali (Mt. McKinley). At 20,310 feet (6,190 m) it is the highest peak in North America. These images were taken about 170 miles (273 km) away from the mountain, so it was an amazingly clear day! Of course there is some haze and the first two images have been manipulated to bring out as many details as possible without drastically altering the color of the photos. The second image is a two-shot panorama. The third image, one of the shots which makes up the two-shot panorama of the center image, has been very heavily manipulated in Photoshop to bring out as many details as possible with very little concern about keeping the original colors.
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Here are two shots of an amazing sunrise at our house. These shots were taken at 6:38 AM.
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Here are two shots which show you the progress of autumn and autumn colors on our land on September 12th.
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And, these two shots, also taken on our land, show the progress of autumn and autumn colors on September 15th. Note the difference in just 3 days.
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On September 18th we returned to Angel Rocks. We were here on July 14th and if you want to refresh your memory, those photos begin HERE. You may recall that the Angel Rocks Trailhead begins in a parking lot just off the Chena Hot Springs Road. The parking lot and trail are maintained by the Alaska Department of Natural Resources Division of Parks and Recreation, and it costs $5 to park there for the day. For $5 you get a parking spot, a well with a hand pump from which you can get good cold water, a few picnic tables and a fairly well maintained trail. Our purpose in going out there this time was to harvest some Lingonberries (Vaccinium vitis-idaea). We found lots of them at this location back in July and have been waiting all summer for them to ripen enough to be harvested. The first shot in this row is pretty much the first view one has of the actual Angel Rocks. The second shot is a zoomed-in version of the first shot and the third shot is included to show autumn color.
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The first shot in this row is a zoomed-in shot which includes a portion of the previous photo. The second image is a two-shot panorama looking down towards the Chena River and the third shot shows me looking up at Angel Rocks from about the first rock which one comes to on the trail.
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Here are three more shots of the Rocks! Note the person on the rock in the second and third shots.
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In the first and second positions are two nice autumn color shots which were taken from one of the first of the Angel Rocks. Then we picked Lingonberries for about an hour and each of us picked a 1/2 gallon container full. Then the third shot was taken as we descended and it was taken from approximately the same place as the first shot in Row 9, but under quite different lighting conditions.
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Here are three more shots which were taken as we descended back to our rig.
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The first and second shots here show some nice colors in a wild rose and the third shot shows Kazuya with a big smile on his face.
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Now we have arrived back at the level of the Chena River. Each of these shots is increasingly zoomed-in.
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After we got back to the rig and ate our lunch we continued on to Chena Hot Springs and spent some hours there in the Hot Spring "rock lake', then ate a second lunch, made a second visit to the "rock lake" and then we came home. Here are the two 1/2 gallon containers of Lingonberries (Vaccinium vitis-idaea) which we harvested at Angel Rocks. The going price for these at the Fairbanks Farmer's Market is $35 per 1/2 gallon. Remember that we also picked 1/2 gallon on Page 2.
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Now it's September 20th and here are some more shots taken right here at home to show the progress of autumn in our own yard. The first shot shows our west yard and the second shot shows the northeast yard. Notice that most of the leaves are now gone from the trees and are on the ground.
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Here is a photo from our porch looking south and then a shot from the driveway looking at the house.
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