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Alaska 2015
  • Territory: Washington State, British Columbia, Alaska
  • Time: May - August, 4380 miles traveled
  • Vessel: "Teacup", Nordic Tug 37
  • Primary Activity: Create photospheres using flying camera platform.

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Introduction

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This year's Alaska expedition was dramatically different from those of past years. I've recently gotten interested in quadcopters and in a kind of photographic image called a "photosphere," and during this season in Alaska I used my quadcopter to create many useful, sometimes beautiful, aerial photospheres. Here's one reason why:

This new technology is a game-changer — it allows quick, inexpensive land surveys providing details that are inaccessible from the ground and unavailable from satellite imagery. On any number of occasions I found a new route through the rough Alaska terrain by examining these aerial photospheres.

Important: these articles cover only the best of my many Alaska photospheres. For a full selection including images from Canada and Washington State, visit my Photosphere Gallery page.

So this year, my "Alaska" article set is about ... Alaska? ... photography? ... ways to find new hiking trails? ... quadcopters and drones as camera platforms? ... new display technologies/formats like photospheres? Well, yes — all of the above.

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