Dempster Highway - North Klondike Valley
Skylum Aurora HDR from RAF
Coming up are a whole bunch of pictures I took in 2017 [yes I'm that far behind with posting, yikes] on a trip up the Dempster Highway together with two of my sons. The weather was very wet driving up and quite mixed on the way down. Somber moods, although the landscape was very colorful and the timing for the fall colors was spot on. We managed to be at the Arctic Circle when the clouds broke, where others had returned south because everything was rained/fogged in. In memory this was the soggiest trip I had done up this fantastic road. We had numerous flats and when we stopped in Dawson, the last spare tire was slowly leaking air. There was also the adventure of me stopping in front of a washout, taking photographs and then forgetting about the gap, bottoming the van. Together with some tourists, my sons and I build up the shoulder of the highway [a major engineering project], filling in the washout with boulders and slowly raising the vehicle to get it free again. In 2019 I checked on that spot and our highway rebuild was still holding, but had a warning flag stuck in [which is the Yukon Highway Maintenance way].
Most of the photos came out too dull, but I'm surprised how well Skylum Aurora HDR handles these files.
On this trip I borrowed my daughters XC50-230 lens and used the newly purchased XF35mm f2 together with the excellent XF10-24 f4 lens.
A lot of the photos did not come out focused, a problem that I just recently solved by switching to back-focusing.
Dempster Highway - North Klondike Valley
Skylum Aurora HDR from RAF
Coming up are a whole bunch of pictures I took in 2017 [yes I'm that far behind with posting, yikes] on a trip up the Dempster Highway together with two of my sons. The weather was very wet driving up and quite mixed on the way down. Somber moods, although the landscape was very colorful and the timing for the fall colors was spot on. We managed to be at the Arctic Circle when the clouds broke, where others had returned south because everything was rained/fogged in. In memory this was the soggiest trip I had done up this fantastic road. We had numerous flats and when we stopped in Dawson, the last spare tire was slowly leaking air. There was also the adventure of me stopping in front of a washout, taking photographs and then forgetting about the gap, bottoming the van. Together with some tourists, my sons and I build up the shoulder of the highway [a major engineering project], filling in the washout with boulders and slowly raising the vehicle to get it free again. In 2019 I checked on that spot and our highway rebuild was still holding, but had a warning flag stuck in [which is the Yukon Highway Maintenance way].
Most of the photos came out too dull, but I'm surprised how well Skylum Aurora HDR handles these files.
On this trip I borrowed my daughters XC50-230 lens and used the newly purchased XF35mm f2 together with the excellent XF10-24 f4 lens.
A lot of the photos did not come out focused, a problem that I just recently solved by switching to back-focusing.