Capturing Alaska

  • The Kenai River at Cooper Landing

    Day Trips

    Have an extra day to kill around Anchorage? Not sure where to get the best shot? Magnificent shots are easy to be had within an hour or two of Anchorage.

  • The famous Kennicot Mine

    Multi-Day

    Want to visit McCarthy? How about driving the Denali Highway? Take a ferry from Whitier to Valdez? We can do any of that if you’ve got the time and the desire.

  • the Copper River

    Custom Adventures

    Float the mighty Copper River. Drive into the Arctic. Ride a dog sled across the tundra. Watch a glacier calve into the ocean. Everything is possible in the Last Frontier.

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Day Trips

We’re based out of Anchorage, so the idea of a day trip starts there. If you head north, you can stop at Hatcher Pass and check out the historic (and photogenic) Independence Mine, pick blueberries in the fall, or hike until exhaustion. If you keep driving, you’ll get great views of the Alaska Range, see a few glacial rivers, pass innumerable places to hike (which get you different views), and come to Talkeetna, which is home to several amazing FlightSeeing organizations which can land you on one of several glaciers in the Alaska Range (this maybe the single greatest thing to do in Alaska).

If you head north-east up the Glen Highway (which we think is in the top 3 for all drives on the continent), you pass several glaciers, a few lakes, a couple mountain ranges on your way out of the Matanuska Valley.

If you head south, the options are likewise numerous, even if the number of roads aren’t (there’s only one). You can stop in Girdwood and ride the tram. You go take a boat trip on Portage Lake. You can take a whale watching boat out of Whittier or Seward. You can drive to Cooper Landing, where flows the gorgeous Kenai River (during the salmon run, there are likely bears).

If you don’t feel like driving, you can take a flight (fixed wing or helicopter) to Lake Clarke, Brooks Falls, or any number of other places.

Regardless of how you choose to spend your day, we’ll ensure that it’s memorable (and photogenic).

Multi-Day Trips

The term ‘multi-day trip’ is a bit ambiguous. It can be a simple overnight camping trip to a local lake or a two-month hike across Europe. In this case, it means something between two and fourteen days, generally involving a bit of ‘roughing it’ because, well, the beauty of Alaska isn’t found in its refinement, it’s found in its rugged landscapes and wild, mercurial light.

So, where do we like to go when we’ve got a few days? Again using Anchorage as a launching point, there are several spots. The Kenai Penninsula is always fabulous, whether you spend all your time in Homer, camp out at Skilak Lake, or bounce back and forth, fishing all the while.

Another place is McCarthy and the Kennicot Mine. Now, it’s about a seven hour drive from Anchorage, but it’s well worth it (we actually think it’s one of the prettiest drives on the continent), a good chunk of which is a rough gravel road over several old train bridges. Once you make it to McCarthy (that’s the town), you can train your lens on old buildings, mountains, glaciers, rusty machinery, and wildlife, though this isn’t an exhaustive list.

What about driving over the Brooks Range into the Arctic? Ever seen the place where trees stop, giving way to scrub-covered tundra? It’s pretty interesting and well worth a photo.

What about flying over to Katmai National Park to watch the bears gorge themselves on late-summer salmon from the Brooks Falls Viewing Platforms? Flying into Wrangell-St Elias National Park? Floating the Copper River?

Maybe you want to spend a week’s worth of nights around Fairbanks, whispering sweet nothing’s into Mother Nature’s ear so that she’ll clear the skies and bring out the Northern Lights?

All of these things are well within reach.

Custom Trips

Maybe you want to document your drive from Bellingham, WA to Banff, heading further north and then driving the length of the Alaska Highway (dodging bison and bears and moose) and ending up at Prudhoe Bay? That would be epic.

What about sailing north on the Inside Passage? Leaving Bellingham, WA and ending up in Homer, AK? Visiting Vancouver Island, Prince Rupert, Sitka, and Glacier Bay National Park along the way?

Maybe you want to make a documentary about bike-packing the length of the Alaska Highway?

In all honesty, if you can think up some rad adventure, then we’re down to make it happen. After all, all that it takes to make dreams come true is a bit of imagination and a lot of perseverance.