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A coyote poses in Denali, Alaska.
We traveled to Denali National Park on our bear search. On the way, we saw a pretty coyote sitting along the road. So, of course, we screeched to a halt and went back for some shots.
Fireweed grows everywhere in Alaska.
You can drive 12 miles into the park and then you have to take a converted school bus the 89 miles to the end of the road – unless you know somebody. Walter has a client doing road work past where the buses go. So we are going in with them tonight at 6 p.m. It is a four hour ride, then Walter will shoot some photos of them working for a couple of hours and then we’ll ride back out.
A gull sits on our car roof in Denali National Park, Alaska.
We drove the 12 mile route a couple times this afternoon. It was a rainy day so we decided not to do any hikes. We’re also saving energy since it will be a sleepless night. We are amazed at the number of gulls in Alaska. They are everywhere, including Denali which is hundreds of miles from any major body of water. At one of the pulling off spots on the 12-mile drive, a friendly gull lands on car roofs. It seems like it his gig, being cute for food. I’m sure it works way too much.
Be sure to read more at Walter’s blog.
Tags: Alaska, Animals, Bird, detail, flowers, humor, Scenic
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My new moose friend mugs for the camera.
What a first day in Alaska. It started with arriving at the Anchorage at 2:30 a.m. and then catching a 6 a.m. flight to Fairbanks. That meant catching a few winks in the airport, very few.
Walter and I hit the ground running, heading right out to shoot in the beautiful weather. Our plan was to head to Copper Center near Wrangle-St. Alias National Park, the nation’s largerst and least visited. We stopped in North Pole on the way to make fun pictures with all the Santa stuff, then it was down the Richardson Highway. We stopped for lunch along a river and then met our first big animal. A moose who was happy to pose for pictures. The rest of the day featured big mountain ranges, following the Trans Alaska Pipeline, watching a loon family and ending along the Klutina River.
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Read daily details at Walter’s blog.
Tags: Alaska, Animals, humor, moose
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Frustration shows on the guy behind me in line at McDonald's.
I was sitting in a slow line at the McDonald’s drive-thru for what seemed to be 20 minutes. Yea, before you ask, I was there for a salad. I wasn’t in a big hurry, so it didn’t really matter how long I was sitting there, but the guy behind me wasn’t taking the wait too well.
Tags: Bridgewater, humor, People, reflection
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Sadie had a rough day.
I had some dog photo sessions today at The Hungry Hound. English Setter Sadie looked like I felt all week!
Tags: Animals, Dogs, Hungry Hound, NJ, Somerville
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Flies sit on the eye of frog in Pomfret, Vt.
I went back to the big pond on the property I visited yesterday. It was the perfect day and place, the air was warm but not too hot, the scenery was beautiful and the only sounds were frogs, birds and wind. It is a place of total relaxation, I’ll be spending a lot of time there.
Blooms are just appearing at the edge of the pond.
Tags: detail, flowers, Frog, humor, Pomfret VT, pond, Scenic, Vermont, Water
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The classic Jeep grill is reflected on a parking deck wall.
As I pulled into a parking spot this morning on the parking deck’ second level, I notice a reflection of my grill on the wall. The sun was shining brightly on the front of my Jeep and it made a rather ghostly reflection of the classic Jeep grill.
Tags: Jeep, reflection, Somerville
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A bicycle rack in a Somerville park.
There’s a bike rack I go past every night when taking the dogs for a walk. It is a cool metal sculpture in a small park near a kiddie pool. I’ve never seen any bikes parked at the rack but I’m usually there at night. I’m assuming there is some heavy message with the arrow, since this weekend I’m doing a two-day 170 bicycle ride to raise money for MS. I’m in shape to ride about 40 miles, so I’m going to need some arrows to help me stay focused and point the way.
Tags: Bicycle, night, sign, Somerville
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Penny, left, and Robin in downtown Somerville.
I had dinner tonight with Robin and her sister Penny at our favorite restaurant, Chao Phayo in Somerville. We call it “cheap Thai” because we can get out of there about as cheap as any place and the food is always good and plentiful. We go there at least once a week.
The only thing Robin doesn’t like about it is they have small wine glasses. She likes those big ones that fill up your hand. Robin hasn’t seen a wine glass that was too big. So she started taking her own wine glass to the restaurant. The owner, Apple, thought it was funny, so I suggested that the restaurant keep the glass. So now when Robin sits down, a large wine glass appears on the table.
Tags: Friends, humor, Robin Gaby Fisher, Somerville
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My class shows off their prize balloons.
Today was the last day this semester for the multimedia reporting class I teach at Rutgers. The first day of class I promise the students they will learn a sure-fire way to make money. In these times in the journalism professional, that makes them take notice. So today I broke out the long balloons and showed them how to make animals.
They thought it was pretty cool, except for Christina. It turns out Christina is a balloon tying expert, works for Disney as Snow White and makes big bucks getting dressed up and twisting balloons for kids parties. She is good. She taught me a few new designs. It was a fun end to the class.
Tags: multimedia, New Brunswick, Rutgers
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A horse poses outside of Ringoes, NJ.
Yesterday I photographed the strange horse statue, today it is a real horse. I was on a grueling bike ride with Kathy Johnson through the Hunterdon County countryside. We are training for the upcoming MS Coast the Coast ride in three weeks. Please donate! It was over 95 degrees, which I’m not acclimated to and we were planning on doing 35-40 miles but I could barely make 25.
The horse had an interest in my camera.
As we were heading back to the cars, I saw two horses in a field. They looked nice, so I stopped to photograph them. I took some shots of them grazing and they came over to the fence. One was very friendly and it posed for a photo. It was a curious horse and wanted to check out the camera.
The horse had an interest in my bicycle
Then it obviously had an interest in carbon fiber and it went over to my bicycle to give it a lick.
Tags: Animals, Bicycle, farm, horse, humor, macro, pets, Scenic
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A redwing blackbird sits on a horse statue in a Readington, NJ field.
When I first saw it, I almost crashed my bike. I was riding along a backroad, not really sure what town it is, I’m guessing Readington. Out in the middle of a field, nothing else in sight, is a statue of a horse rearing up. I’ve gone past it many times since that first sighting, and when others see it for the first time, they have the same reaction. Why would someone put that in the middle of a field? I thought the light might be good to get a picture of it today, so I drove over to see how it looked. When I got out, there was a redwing blackbird sitting on the horse’s nose. Life is good.
Tags: Bedminster, blackbird, horse, humor, statue
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Domino, a cocker spaniel
I had another day in the photo studio at The Hungry Hound. Today I photographed Domino, a black and white Cocker Spaniel. Most Spaniels are nuts, rather hyper and Domino wasn’t much different. I always give dogs time to acclimate to the studio, do their sniffing and calm down enough to After shooting for 20 he finally calmed down enough that I could get in close and tight with my macro lens.
Tags: detail, Dogs, humor, Hungry Hound, macro, pets, Somerville
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Sophie relaxes after a hard session of obedience training.
We now have two Bernese Mountain Dogs, Sophie and new addition Zian. They are both about 85 pounds and our house only has room for 90 pounds of dog. It is tight in the house, everywhere I walk I run into dog. The biggest problem is training, Robin and I aren’t trained.
So we called in the expert. Kristian Hammermueller used to work for The Seeing Eye, that great place in Morristown that trains dogs for blind people. Kristian has been out on his own for several years and has a spa and grooming business in Lebanon, It’s A Miracle.
Our two dogs have recently decided to kinda attack each other every other day. It ain’t pleasant and that is the main reason we called in Kristian. Luckily while he was here for their first training today, they went at it and he had the pleasure of breaking it up. He made sure they weren’t going to do it again, today anyway. He gave us pointers on teaching them not to scrap. We’ll see how well we learned.
Tags: Backyard, Bernese Mountain Dog, Dogs, humor, pets, Somerville
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Close-up photo of an aluminum TV dinner tray.
I don’t have many prized possessions. I have a lot of possessions, just not many of them are prized. When I worked at the newspaper in Marietta, Ohio, in 1985, the Swanson company sent one of those goofy promotional items that companies send out for publicity. It was an aluminum TV dinner tray in a frame. It had a little card that explained the lifetime of aluminum trays. It was like it belonged on a museum. The microwave oven had eliminated the aluminum because of all the sparks. I learned that one quick.
The aluminum TV tray that hangs in my basement office.
So there it was. A framed TV dinner tray. How cool. I grabbed it and it has been hanging on a wall wherever I have resided ever since. Of course, it doesn’t hang in my living room. It is on the wall in my basement office and attracts questions when friends first see it.
Tags: detail, macro, Somerville
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I photographed Dash last Saturday. I love the way he paid attention.
I talked to kids at a local high school career day this morning about being a photographer. It was a small group of kids brought together by Middle Earth, run by Dan Puntillo, who I went with on the bicycle ride across America. The other speakers were a nurse, radiologist, police officer, attorney and dancer, who performed with Up With People for five years in the 1980′s. I only knew she was a performing artist when started talking but I was amazed by her pep and positive nature. It was easy to believe she was touring the globe with Up With People that long. She now works for the YMCA and does dance and music programs for kids. I wish I made a picture of her, she’s all smiles. It was a good group, it hit me that they all had jobs that make a difference in other people’s lives every day. Even the lawyer.
From there I went to Trenton with my boss. We were honored by the New Jersey Council on Developmental Disabilities for the newspaper’s annual Wish Book project that tells the story of people in need and then we raise money to purchase the items. I got the Wish Book going 20 years ago and it has raised nearly $1 million. I was humbled by the other honorees and the difference they make daily. These people are in there fighting for people who can’t. We sat with a group of high school kids with developmental challenges who started a club that anyone could join, whether they were challenged or not. For most of them it was the first time they had been to a large banquet or luncheon. They were proud to get their award.
Tags: Dogs, humor, Hungry Hound, pets, Somerville
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Loren Fisher has been a professional photographer for over 35 years. He has published books on Pope John Paul II and Branson, Missouri. He is completing his latest book on the 109 covered bridges of Vermont and is founder and editor of 
