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"Bite your Tongue, don't make a Scene Dear"

"Beautiful War"

I am on christmas holiday in Madison, WI, far far away from any mountain on the horizon. How I feel? Completely naked. You know as a photographer you are suppose to find the beauty in anything and everything, and I know that a lot of people love the pictures I take. I often tell my mom that anyone could take a picture like that, if they just had the opportunity. I think that is true. I have been here in Madison for more than a week now, and my camera still sits on the table at W's apartment. Untouched. Why? because I don't know what to take a picture of. The town? The lake? The cloudy sky? I realize how extremely lucky I am to be living in Alaska. While flying in over the midwest and Madison my stomach crunched. I looked down and wondered how it would go, how a mountain girl could possibly like this flat part of the world. There are beautiful sunsets here too, but the buildings get in the way, and W's apartment is far away from the lake, or just far enough. And W has been working and I have been at his work with him, all day, for more than a week now. So, I guess I haven't really created any photo opportunity. But I think it can grow on me, the city. I am from a city, a large city, so it shouldn't be too hard to get used to it again. And we haven't explored Wisconsin yet, and I am sure there are beautiful places. We just haven't had time to go there yet. We have until the beginning of January, when I go back to Alaska. We got a lot of things planned until then.

But, since I haven't taken any pictures yet, I will show you some pictures from Alaska. Also because I may or may not miss my Alaska.... Enjoy.

And of course, a couple of iphone pictures.. [gallery type="rectangular" ids="1653,1652,1654,1655,1656,1657,1658,1659"]

Aurora again

I spent thanksgiving down south in Wasilla at my friends place. It usually doesn't get that cold down there but it got down to -10 F. We originally had plans to go out and get a christmas tree but decide to skip that because of the weather. The whole weekend was pretty relaxed and I really enjoyed just being able to hang out and not really do anything specific. My friends husbands family has an awesome house with a spectacular view. Truly mind blowing, and we went over there the other day and I took some pictures from their "yard". And of course if you know me, I love mountains so yeah, that is what I take pictures off, right of their porch basically:

Beautiful sunset:

When I got back to Fairbanks the temperature was around -29F, and I happened to see that the Northern lights were out again. So of course I had to take some pictures. Here is the cabin I live at with the Aurora, I have to admit it does look like a christmas tale, or what do you think?

Home sweet home:

Hope you guys had an awesome thanksgiving weekend too!

Posted on December 2, 2013 by Ann Rumbleinthearctic and filed under Alaska, Nature, Photography, The great wide open, Wasilla, Cabin Life and tagged Alaska Aurora Aurora Borealis camping christmas tale Happiness Light Magic night Northern Lights Outdoors Photography pink pink mountains snowy cabin thanksgiving view Winter Winter Adventures 2013 Cabin Life Sunset Snow Nature Mountains Cabin.

Friday Theme - Black and White Portrait

This Friday I am jumping on the Friday Theme train again. I haven't really done the Friday Theme in a loong time. Mostly because some of the themes have been tricky, and other times I just haven't had time. So todays theme is "Black and White Portrait", and I usually don't like adding pictures of other people on my blog (it happens every now and then but not today) so I figured I could turn a recent photo into black and white...or white and grey I guess, since that is how most editing programs make them, and yes I am sure there are some specific things you can do to edit the program filters but I like the greyscale black and white :).

This photo above was of course a "color" picture originally, and I actually took it yesterday while skiing to school/work, it was -34C and I felt really cold for once... I really liked my eyes in this photo and wanted to highlight them, so I decided to make it black and white and then use one of the "tools" in the picture editing program to "brush away" the black and white. Now I did this, and was thinking: Man this is bulls€%, it doesn't do its work correctly... So I changed my way of doing it and decided to brush in black and white on the whole photo, but the eyes. And then I realized that my eyes really are that blue in this photo. I thought the brushing out black and white didn't work because the eyes were so blue. My eye color is generally blue green and depending on what I am wearing, or the surrounding colors they shift between those two colors. So I guess that yesterday my blue side of my eyes was enhanced, and of course it's only a photo :).

Here is another black and white photo I made from a photo. A really good friend of mine took it with my camera when I was in Rome to visit her.

This photo below, W took last year in San Fransisco. Both of us were so happy because the weather in San Fransisco was so much better compared to Fairbanks. This was last December.

When we are at it, I want to share some of my other black and white photos I have taken.

This photo above is from Yellowstone. W's family usually go there every christmas/new year, and I love it. Below are some photos taken with my iphone that I made black and white [gallery type="rectangular" ids="1619,1620,1621,1622,1623"]

Happy Friday!!