Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/12/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>Tom Kline wrote: ><snip>=20 >> Another Alaskan Lugger! Merry Christmas! I did that trick a lot when I= lived in Fairbanks when I had more Aurora ops than here in Cordova! I= usually left cameras set up on tripods with cable releases attached in the= entryway ready to go during auroral activity. > >Speaking of aurora photography. Every year I buy four Aurora Borealis >Calendars for myself and other family members from Todd Communications >in Anchorage. The photos in the 1997 calendar were taken by Tom Soucek, >Calvin Hall, Wayne Johnson, Cary Anderson, and Todd S. Salat. They are >beautiful photographs. Maybe some of you know some of these fine >photographers. > >I only wish they would give the photographic technical details on each >one. But I suppose that would be giving their secrets away. Dale >--=20 >$ dale-reed@worldnet.att.net Seattle, Washington U.S.A. $ Sorry, don't know them. There are bunches of photogs shooting auroras here= though. Know mostly 'togs in Fairbanks as I was an active member of a local= group called Camera Arts - a real mixed bag of shooters including a few M= shooters (named after a defunct magazine title that is now reborn). They= put on annual workshops. The last one I attended was with Bill Allard of= Nat. Geogr. who uses M's for a lot of his work. He had the 1st Aspherical= 35 when it came out. One of the members does aurora panoramics using= several C SLRs lined up and projects them with a row of projectors= reconstructing the event. He puts on panoramic slide shows for the tourists= in the summer at old theater. I have also seen an aurora shot on a postcard= done with a rotating panramic camera - don't know that guy. Students at UAF= often publish aurora shots in the school paper when they happen - one got a= good one with the trans-AK-pipeline in the shot. My personal favorite consists of a reflected Aurora on the sea taken down in= Katchemak Bay (near Homer, 3-4 hour drive S. of Anchorage on a good day) = not to long after sunset by me. Tom