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Sharrie Shaw
{K:944} 3/12/2006
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Truly a magnificent sight (& site)!
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Betsy Hern
{K:12872} 11/16/2002
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Thanks for the info, Steve. It makes your photos come to life. I got so "into" your photos I had to build a fire to warm back up.
http://www.usefilm.com/showphoto.php?id=27378
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Deb Mayes
{K:19605} 11/16/2002
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Just beautiful. I can feel the cold ...
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Steve Kaufman
{K:2748} 11/16/2002
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Another photo that I posted here of a Arctic tern http://www.usefilm.com/showphoto.php?id=20619 was also shot from that same porch. When I was inside the cabin working on the computer, or something else, I'd leave my 600 mounted on a tripod on the porch. When the terns would come by hunting small fish, I'd rush out to photograph them. For the tern, I also used a TC-14 (1.4X teleconverter, giving me an 840mm). It was extremely difficult to find the terns in the viewfinder, and get focused on them before they went past me. I shot quite a bit of film to get some success. When I'd see some interesting clouds or fog in the mountains, I'd turn the camera that way, and shoot. It's rather decadent; often I'd sit outside by the camera in a comfortable lawn chair with a beer, waiting for something to happen. The Pacific loons http://www.usefilm.com/showphoto.php?id=23722 were nesting 30 yards off that same porch. The terns were nesting on a peninsula of land about 50 yards from the porch.
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Steve Kaufman
{K:2748} 11/16/2002
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In reply to Betsy: If you'll take a look at this photo: http://www.usefilm.com/showphoto.php?id=26974, you will see the top of the ridge, which this photo isolates. This was shot with a 600mm lens; the top of the mountain was about 5 miles from where I was when I shot the photo. In fact, the photo was shot from the same point; both were shot from the front porch of the cabin where we spent the summer. It's in the Alaska Range a couple of miles from the border of Denali National Park (but about 35 miles south of the park entrance). The unnamed mountain in the photo is part of what most of us call the Talkeetna mountains.
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Antonio Díaz
{K:2710} 11/16/2002
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wooooow! beautiful! as usual!!
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Mary Sue Hayward
{K:17558} 11/16/2002
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This one made me gasp. Really beautiful.
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John Myers
{K:4308} 11/15/2002
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i can't describe what i see here...
this is just so perfect. this is why i am saving for a trip to alaska. great job steve, for making a farfetched dream seem that much closer to truth.
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Betsy Hern
{K:12872} 11/15/2002
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What a wonderful place to take photos -- Homer, Alaska, "Where the Land Ends and the Sea Begins" -- your portfolio is wonderful and so peaceful. I can tell that you enjoy the shoot as much as the shot. How did you get up so high to take this glorious pic and what time of the day was it taken?
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Terrence Kent
{K:7023} 7/21/2002
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Mmmmm, shades of Shackleton, great dreary mood steve.
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William R Eastman III
{K:2141} 7/21/2002
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Lovely image. I like the atmosphere, the color, everything
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