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Rain, rain, go away

May 5, 2011 by John L. Dengler

I had collected quite a bit of mud and muck on my car during my recent trip to the Flint Hills prairie in Kansas. Chasing prairie fires on the dirt and gravel back roads left my car seriously encased in the stuff. With all the rain we have received here in Springfield, my car is just about clean. Just a few more trips to the post office should do the trick.

Despite Sunday’s rain showers, there was a non-stop flow of people at the base of the Table Rock Dam in Branson watching water being released from Table Rock Lake. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has reduced the amount of water being released from the dam in an effort to reduce flooding on Lake Taneycomo, downstream of the dam.

The month of April has been a wet month in southern Missouri with some areas recording 12-15 inches of rain. In Springfield, 7.89 inches fell for the month making it the eighth wettest on record.

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Windy day on the Chilkat River

November 18, 2010 by John L. Dengler

It was a really cold and incredibly windy day today at the office. With sustained gusts of over 55 miles per hour barreling down the Chilkat River causing dust storms making the river valley of the Alaska Chilkat Bald Eagle Preserve look like it was enveloped in fog. I apologize if the video is a bit shaky and the sound not clear but the cold and wind made it hard to shoot with the little iPhone. I’m also not particularly coherent. Did I mention that it was really cold? My brain was getting numb from the wind chill.

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A sense of place – Chilkat River, Klehini River, Chilkoot Lake

November 16, 2010 by John L. Dengler

While these iPhone photos do not show the main focus of my trip to Alaska — photographing bald eagles, the photos do show some of places near my bald eagle photography locations. As the photos show, the rivers are not yet frozen, which is very unusual and not good for my bald eagle photography. When the Chilkat River is frozen, it forces all the eagles to feed on salmon in a mile and a half area that is slow to freeze. This situation is about to change. The forecast is calling for temperatures in the teens to 20s with winds 30-50 mph to 50 mph with gusts up to 75 mph. Needless to say I will be adding more layers of clothing.

The Chilkat and Takhinsha Ranges rise above the Chilkat River near Haines, Alaska. The Chilkat River is where most of my bald eagle photography is taking place. The above photograph is comprised of multiple iPhone images stitched together on the iPhone using the AutoStitch iPhone app.

The Klehini River is one of the rivers that flows into the Chilkat River where I am primarily photographing bald eagles. This photo shows the Klehini River near the U.S. – Canadian border near the abandoned gold mining district known as Porcupine.

Last year I did quite a bit of my bald eagle photography on the Chilkoot River near Chilkoot Lake (above). This year there were few eagles here.

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Reflecting on Mendenhall Lake

November 7, 2010 by John L. Dengler

Reflections on Mendenhall Glacier from John L. Dengler on Vimeo.

This is the first time I have tried a video blog posting from the field using only my iPhone to shoot, edit, and post the video. Unfortunately in this report from the Mendenhall Glacier near Juneau, Alaska, there is virtually no movement in the video due to the unusual lack of wind. (oh well, at least I tried)

Because these iPhone posts are not up to my usual quality they will not appear on my home page, but will appear on the blog.

I see this particular post as a short prototype for future posts of this type. Let me know what you think.

Tomorrow, I will FINALLY arrive in Haines.

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