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This is Page 2 of 2 - the best of January 2023!
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This page begins with January 2nd and ends with the 27th. It includes several miscellaneous photos which were taken as the month progressed. There are photos of a cat, sunrises, a cake, another Red-breasted Nuthatch photo, several Aurora Borealis photos, including an animated GIF of them. There are photos from a visit to the Olnes Pond area of Olnes, Alaska, four sample pages from a 2024 calendar I plan to have printed locally, and then we end it all with a shot taken from our west window on January 27. Click on any thumbnail to begin.

Begin January 2nd - 27th
  This cat belongs to our neighbors (we think) who are about 150 meters away from us. It has made a path through the knee deep snow from their house to our home. It comes and sits quietly to wait for Red-backed Voles that scurry across our driveway from time to time, and then it grabs them. The first shot here was taken when we first turned on the porch light in the morning to see if it was snowing. The second shot shows it looking at us disgustedly, while saying "turn that damn light off, you'll scare the voles so they don't cross the driveway!" So cute!!
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  On January 4th we had a nice sunrise and Kazuya caught this first photo. The second image shows the same photo that has been converted to High Dynamic Range (HDR) in Photoshop. There are literally millions of combinations that can be selected, but this is the one I chose. The third shot shows the two shots side-by-side for direct comparison.
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  Here is a beautiful and also delicious Passion Fruit Chocolate Mousse Cake that Kazuya made for us to take to a friend's house when we were invited for dinner. Yummy!
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  Here is a Red-breasted Nuthatch (Sitta canadensis) on the "peanut-butter stick" again. You can see a bit of peanut butter in its beak. The peanut butter gets really hard in the cold weather, and the birds really have to work to get tiny bits of peanut butter like this.
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  Here is a January 12th sunrise and also the same image converted to HDR.
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  On the 14th we had an incredible Aurora display/show! These photos were taken with an iPhone 12-mini and absolutely nothing has been done to enhance them, these photos are all "as shot" - they have not been adjusted at all.
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  Once again, these photos were taken with an iPhone 12-mini and absolutely nothing has been done to enhance them, they have not been adjusted at all.
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  Here are three additional Aurora shots. Oh, you should know that I shot from a tripod and the exposure times are in the range of 0.5 to 1.1 seconds.
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  Please allow enough time for this animated GIF file to fully load, and then watch an animated GIF of 3 of the above aurora shots. Just for reference, things truly do change as quickly as it happens here.
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  On January 19th we took a drive out to Olnes, Alaska, Population 1, and took a hike in an area where we have never really hiked before - we just wanted to see what was in this area, and we found out. We walked on a TAPS (Trans-Alaska Pipeline System) access road. As you can see, nothing has traveled here except snow machines. There was nobody here on this day except us, it was quiet and -14°F, (-25.6°C), which is not terribly cold for us. Of course we got cold, but we were dressed for it, and it didn't truly bother us.
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  As we were getting close to our pickup truck to leave, it was closing in on high noon and we were shocked to see how long our shadows were while the sun was 7° above the horizon.
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  Here are two pages of a 2024 calendar that I am creating. I will have it printed locally and only sell it locally, so for everything that happens at specific times, the times are shown in Alaska Time. I have shown one month from each quarter year so that you can notice that the gradient background color on the different seasons is different.
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  Here are the two pages for July and October, note the background gradient colors.
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  Now we have come to the final shot for January - a photo taken from our west window.
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