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@ 2008-09-07 17:00:00
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Denali Highway
Denali Highway is the Route 66 of Alaska. Once the main thoroughfare through the untamed wilderness of Alaska, now virtually abandoned to hunters and wild-game after the new highways replaced it in the early seventies. Currently it is a gravelly pot-holed 135 mile road from Paxson to Cantwell, traveled by a few. It is closed(you can still travel, but at your own risk) from Oct 1 to mid-may.
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An 'Alaskan' pond. On the Denali Highway somewhere near Cantwell

This is not the most scenic part of the Denali Highway, it is just one of the numerous lakes/ponds that dot either sides of the highway. It just happened to catch my eye on one of our rest stops on the way. It is a beautiful road, a piece of real Alaska you can experience on four wheels, if you trust your wheels.

(Click here for a detailed mile by mile description of Points of Interest along the Denali highway. Not many guide books cover this road.)

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[info]tko_ak
2008-09-08 03:15 am UTC (link)
Pretty. The clouds make it dark, though.

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[info]diffdrummer
2008-09-08 05:00 pm UTC (link)
It was almost sunset, 7:30pm or so.

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[info]words_spoken
2008-09-08 03:45 am UTC (link)
Lovely! We might try to do this run next weekend. I'm excited about the roadtrip. :)

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[info]diffdrummer
2008-09-08 05:05 pm UTC (link)
Oh yeah must be fun, Denali is exploding with fall colors. I tried taking panos keeping in mind the tips you gave me and a borrowed tripod. From the results it looks like I should download the rebel xt manual and read it first :P

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[info]words_spoken
2008-09-08 05:14 pm UTC (link)
Did you use the software to merge the frames?

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[info]diffdrummer
2008-09-08 06:16 pm UTC (link)
Yes I did, CS2's photomerge, then sometime some manual adjustment inside the photomerge window. Because in some pictures although I had kept my aperture constant, camera used different shutter speeds like 1/22 and 1/20 and there is this diagonal line that appears in the merged picture, that's why I said I should have read the manual(will have to download it now) to keep both aperture and shutter speed locked. Not all pics though, some came out ok. But it was a good exercise :)

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[info]gops
2008-09-08 12:29 pm UTC (link)
deeptea.net is cool. :D

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[info]diffdrummer
2008-09-08 05:05 pm UTC (link)
:D that site is getting old.

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[info]navina
2008-09-08 02:08 pm UTC (link)
This is lovely. Would you mind if I used this photograph as a guide for a painting?

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[info]diffdrummer
2008-09-08 05:06 pm UTC (link)
Honored to be of assistance to an artist :)

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[info]rileen
2008-09-09 09:42 pm UTC (link)
Postcard hai bilkul, D :-)

How've you guys been? What's the little one up to?

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[info]diffdrummer
2008-09-12 12:18 am UTC (link)
hey Rileen, where are you these days? long time.

we've been doing good. little one not so li'l anymore, busy growing, unlike us :P

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[info]rileen
2008-09-12 07:11 am UTC (link)
Hmm, if you'd had a child who was growing while you were gorwing as well, life might have been a little too interesting :-)

So I say let the kids grow, and hopefully we can grow in other ways than the strictly physical.

I've been fine, just insanely busy, and also travelling a lot.

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