I’ve been sick for the past week and haven’t even felt like working on photos. But I’m finally on the mend and just finished working on my photos from snowshoeing at Chena Lakes with my friend Susan nearly two weeks ago.
On a beautiful Wednesday afternoon in just above zero temps that were unseasonably warm for mid-February, I headed out to Chena Lakes to go snowshoeing with my friend Susan. She takes the most beautiful photos and always has her camera with her so I knew we would be able to stop and shoot quite a bit. We took a different trail than I had done before and for the most part I could have done without my poles, but I was glad to have them for the couple times I decided to go into deeper snow off the trail. The entire time we were on the trail we saw moose droppings that were very recent, but we never caught sight of the moose. Based on the droppings we were pretty sure there were at least two, most likely a mom and a baby.
It was great to get outside in the fresh air, even if it was cold.
Sony a6000 with either a 70-210mm or a 6-50mm
Aperture priority
Healing Tool
Most of my photos have minor post-processing editing done to alter contrast and tint, but I just figured out how to use the “clone / heal†tool in Lightroom in order to pull out specks from photos due, most likely, to changing lenses in the field. In past I’ve thrown out so many good photos since there were specks or what look like fine hairs on the photos, but I was able to save the beautiful one with all the blue sky and clouds since I decided to figure out how to make that tool work. I still prefer to keep my images looking as natural as possible, which includes keeping power lines in when I accidentally capture them in my aurora shots, but this new skill will help me clean up messes I add to the pictures.
Sunburst. Neat effect Susan taught me.
Sign says “Venice Beach” Let’s go to the beach?
Everything in Alaska is hardy, even the moss refuses to die in winter!
Pretty birch trees surround the trail.
Birch trees.
Such blue skies.
Paper birch bark.
Nearly done! My friend Susan takes a rest…..
Stunning sky and wispy clouds. Photo saved by the heal tool!
Snow on shoes!
Trailhead in shadows….