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posted: March 31st, 2022 |
This page begins with March 4th and a drive up to the Twelvemile and Eagle Summit Area in search of some Caribou (Rangifer tarandus) to shoot with our cameras. Following those photos there are a few shots from our day and night visits to the World Ice Art Championships here in Fairbanks. After that you'll see a few shots from around our home area. The final three images show some miscellaneous information. Click on any thumbnail to begin.
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These three photos were all taken close to Twelvemile Summit. The first shot shows Kazuya standing alongside a snow bank beside the road. The second shot shows some long shadows and beautiful mountain scenery and the third shot is the same - magnificent scenery.
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These three photos were all taken from about the same spot and each shot is increasingly more zoomed. We wonder how deep that one snow drift is.
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Rather suddenly, as often happens up here, the weather took a turn and the wind started howling like a banshee, the sky clouded up, and we watched the snow blowing around and sat there for a while (in the rig) and ate our lunch. Notice the third shot shows a sun-dog a bit left of center.
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Now we have moved back towards Fairbanks by about 5 miles and look at the difference in the sky. Inside the outlined area of the center photo is a small herd of caribou, only about 20 animals. The third shot is zoomed in to show them a bit better.
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These three shots are all zoomed in to the small herd of caribou which you saw just above. This was the only herd we saw today.
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Here is one final shot of the small herd of caribou. That is followed by two increasingly zoomed in shots of the road, mountains, snow, and interesting clouds.
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The first shot in this row is even more zoomed in than the previous one - very interesting clouds. Note the outlined area of the second photo, the next two shots are increasingly zoomed in to that area.
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Zoomed in to that cabin. It was not there 5 years ago, it appeared 3 or 4 years ago and more out buildings have been built every year. Who owns this?
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Now let's take a trip to the World Ice Art Championships here in Fairbanks. It was not as wonderful as it has been in previous years. For some reason (COVID?) none of the Chinese, Japanese, German, Danish or others came this year. The sculptures were pretty much all done by United States artists this year, though there were a few from Malaysia and Mexico.
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Here are a few more Ice Art Sculptures. Notice that the third shot is zoomed in to the head of the walrus seen in the center shot.
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This was an interesting one - we did not even notice that the bear is apparently pregnant until it was pointed out to us, I guess we're not very observant.
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The first and third shots in this row were taken at home. Under that snow hump is the septic-tank pump-out access. The culvert around it stands about three feet high, so the snow is at least three feet deep there. The third shot shows interesting tree shadows on the snow, we refer to it as "barcode in the snow". The center shot was taken just a little ways up the road from our house.
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Here are two shots of a Red-breasted Nuthatch (Sitta canadensis). This was just a short distance from our house. We have had these birds come to our feeders, but not recently. We're hoping that they will return and grace us with their presence.
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In this row are some miscellaneous images - the first one is the official snowfall numbers for Fairbanks through March 6. We are going to be replacing our 40 year old woodstove with a newer catalytic converter model. The center image is a schematic of the position of the new woodstove. Our present woodstove has many air leaks, and with the warming climate in Alaska, our present woodstove is too big for our house. It no longer gets down to 40 below zero and stays there for two weeks, like it often did in the 1980's. The third image shows images of the new stove we'll get. It is a Blaze King Sirocco 20.2 model.
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