http://blog.carljohnsonphoto.com The varied exploits of a photographer based out of Anchorage, Alaska. Mon, 06 May 2013 02:11:45 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://blog.carljohnsonphoto.com/?p=5875 http://blog.carljohnsonphoto.com/?p=5875#comments Mon, 06 May 2013 01:50:09 +0000 admin http://blog.carljohnsonphoto.com/?p=5875 When I enlisted in the Navy in the summer of 1986, I really didn’t know much about what I wanted to do.  I thought maybe avionics would be interesting (my father, after all, had been a fire control technician in the Air Force for 20 years), but I would have to wait months for the [...]]]> http://blog.carljohnsonphoto.com/?feed=rss2&p=5875 0 http://blog.carljohnsonphoto.com/?p=5907 http://blog.carljohnsonphoto.com/?p=5907#comments Mon, 06 May 2013 01:30:22 +0000 admin http://blog.carljohnsonphoto.com/?p=5907 I’ve been submitting my photography to the Windland Smith Rice International Awards hosted by Nature’s Best Photography magazine for almost a decade.  I’ve had a mix of success, with several semi-final images and one photo selected as a category winner.  I have tried different ways of figuring out what images to submit, but I really [...]]]> http://blog.carljohnsonphoto.com/?feed=rss2&p=5907 0 http://blog.carljohnsonphoto.com/?p=5832 http://blog.carljohnsonphoto.com/?p=5832#comments Sat, 27 Apr 2013 01:04:53 +0000 admin http://blog.carljohnsonphoto.com/?p=5832 At the end of National Parks Week, when I have spent my busy week occupied with other thoughts, I had to force myself to slow down and think of how our National Park System has influenced my life over the years.  This is something we should all do from time to time, because it is [...]]]> http://blog.carljohnsonphoto.com/?feed=rss2&p=5832 0 http://blog.carljohnsonphoto.com/?p=5060 http://blog.carljohnsonphoto.com/?p=5060#comments Fri, 22 Mar 2013 06:09:36 +0000 admin http://blog.carljohnsonphoto.com/?p=5060 Sometimes things can take on a life of their own.  This is especially true if you are traveling with a group of photographers fresh from a sleep-deprived high of some spectacular aurora photos the night before – March 8, 2012.  With space weather forecasts suggesting another good night for aurora borealis displays, we headed out [...]]]> http://blog.carljohnsonphoto.com/?feed=rss2&p=5060 0 http://blog.carljohnsonphoto.com/?p=5656 http://blog.carljohnsonphoto.com/?p=5656#comments Fri, 22 Mar 2013 05:50:27 +0000 admin http://blog.carljohnsonphoto.com/?p=5656 It’s hard to believe that I have been listening to The Shannyn Moore Show since it first aired on KUDO 1080 in Anchorage.  Over the years, I have had occasional email, Facebook or even telephone conversations with Shannyn about everything from the aurora borealis to judicial selection in Anchorage.  But what brought me to my [...]]]> http://blog.carljohnsonphoto.com/?feed=rss2&p=5656 0 http://blog.carljohnsonphoto.com/?p=5772 http://blog.carljohnsonphoto.com/?p=5772#comments Wed, 20 Mar 2013 17:04:28 +0000 admin http://blog.carljohnsonphoto.com/?p=5772 I have been trying for a couple years to capture a good aurora borealis photo in the Portage Valley of Chugach National Forest, located just a few miles south of Girdwood, Alaska. I have always loved winter landscape photography in that valley.  It’s magnificent for sunrise photography in the winter because the sun rises right down the valley, [...]]]> http://blog.carljohnsonphoto.com/?feed=rss2&p=5772 0 http://blog.carljohnsonphoto.com/?p=5743 http://blog.carljohnsonphoto.com/?p=5743#comments Wed, 30 Jan 2013 22:42:18 +0000 admin http://blog.carljohnsonphoto.com/?p=5743 When we order from the menu or purchase from our local grocery store, we rarely think about the process that goes into place to get that food on our plate.  I use the term “we” to refer to those of us who do not catch, shoot or gather most of our foods, like many in [...]]]> http://blog.carljohnsonphoto.com/?feed=rss2&p=5743 0 http://blog.carljohnsonphoto.com/?p=5736 http://blog.carljohnsonphoto.com/?p=5736#comments Wed, 30 Jan 2013 20:02:06 +0000 admin http://blog.carljohnsonphoto.com/?p=5736 Aside from the challenge of funding for doing fieldwork on my Bristol Bay project is simply making connections with the right people at the right time of year to capture the images I need for the project.  (For background on my Bristol Bay project, visit the project’s Facebook page.)  For example, I have a specific [...]]]> http://blog.carljohnsonphoto.com/?feed=rss2&p=5736 0 http://blog.carljohnsonphoto.com/?p=5714 http://blog.carljohnsonphoto.com/?p=5714#comments Mon, 31 Dec 2012 00:30:30 +0000 admin http://blog.carljohnsonphoto.com/?p=5714 Mono Lake in the Great Basin of the Eastern Sierras in California is a popular photography destination.  With the bizarre tufa formations, created from the accumulation of numerous minerals over thousands of years, and the backdrop of the Eastern Sierras, it presents many opportunities for the landscape photographer to explore.  Like many photo destinations in [...]]]> http://blog.carljohnsonphoto.com/?feed=rss2&p=5714 0 http://blog.carljohnsonphoto.com/?p=5685 http://blog.carljohnsonphoto.com/?p=5685#comments Sat, 29 Dec 2012 15:41:43 +0000 admin http://blog.carljohnsonphoto.com/?p=5685 It is the largest national park in the Lower 48 of the United States, as well as the lowest, hottest and driest point in the United States.  Originally envisioned as a mining mecca, various mining operations quickly learned that it was not very profitable.  Instead, entrepreneurs focused their efforts on the economic opportunity of tourism.  [...]]]> http://blog.carljohnsonphoto.com/?feed=rss2&p=5685 0