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Double Rainbow, Brooks Range, ANWR, Alaska

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Rainbow over Brooks range, ANWR, Alaska

hey Folks,

This is another photo from my series of photos from ANWR.

This particular evening I was returning back to camp about midnight when this rainbow appeared. It had been a pretty long day, and I was actually ready to hit the sack. At first the rainbow wasn’t that special, and I kept trying to convince myself it was ‘just a rainbow’, and not worth heading over to photograph it.

As I got nearer my camp, the rainbow started to glow stronger, and then a second rainbow appeared behind it. I grabbed my polariser (filter)and started looking around for a composition to complement the rainbow. I loved the lichen covered boulder seen here, and spent some time trying to figure how to make a nice photo from a couple of scattered rocks. I ended up with a few compositions from here, and maybe I’ll post another tomorrow.

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Brooks Mountains, ANWR, Alaska

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Valleys and ridges, Brooks Mountain Range, ANWR, Alaska

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Here’s another image from my trip to ANWR. This particular afternoon was early in the trip, and we hiked up around some ridgelines in the Brooks Range, not far from the Upper Marsh Fork river. It was an awesome afternoon, and we spent several hours clambering around the hillsides. The wind picked up pretty strongly, after a while. I had carried a tiny little gitzo tripod with me, and it really wasn’t up to the task of holding up my camera gear in wind this strong.

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Brooks Range trip, ANWR, Alaska

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Arctic Lupine and an unnamed mountain, ANWR, Alaska

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Here’s the second photo from this series on ANWR. This photo was taken in the middle of the night. It doesn’t get any darker than this in the arctic north during the summer months, unless there’s serious cloud cover. I had camped near the junction of the Marsh Fork and Canning River, just north of the Continental Divide in the Brooks Range, ANWR. After dinner I set out on a walk to look around and to maybe make a few photos. I hadn’t gone far when the mosquitoes starting driving me crazy. My hiking buddy said he’d “had enough” and returned to the safety of his tent. I trooped on, and ended up having a nice walk.

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