by Kim | Sep 23, 2015 | Uncategorized
After sailing to Antarctica for 20 years (1993-2013) and seeing midnight ice like this, I decided to stay home and concentrate on writing books and keep my carbon footprint a little lower. I still don’t ride my bike as often as I should, but I enjoy a quieter life and having to deal with fewer airports and crowds between Alaska and Antarctica. Many of my friends still go to the deep south and I enjoy hearing their stories. Others friends are wanting to go. I don’t blame them. Antarctica is the ice age; it’s Alaska 20,000 years ago.
by Kim | Sep 23, 2015 | Uncategorized
Ethan came over to my house one September day and fed the chickadees at my feeder. It was great. Although the birds were active and hungry, they took awhile to warm up to Ethan. I wanted to get this shot when I did because Ethan’s parents, Laura and John, were about to cut his hair and I worried that it wouldn’t be this long again for months, maybe years. I also thought his hair would darken as he aged and I wanted it to be strikingly blond. This image was taken with a Nikon D7000 camera and a 70-200mm Nikon lens, shot at 1/1,250th of a (more…)
