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New Website Is Up!

Fall River Photography Webpage

The new version of the Fall River Photography Website is up!  We have a new look and for the up coming Holiday Season we are presenting several new releases.  The New Releases can be found under the New Releases link and with a NEW banner on the photograph.  We will be releasing these over the course of the next month so check back often.

We are also adding a new Print of the Month feature.  The Print of the Month will have a Special Introductory price that is lowered by 15% to 20% of our normal print prices.  This reduced price is only available for a month and is only available on prints.

Look forward to your visit.  To access the website click on the Fall River Photography Logo at the top of the Blog or click here http://www.fallriverphotography.com/

NOTE: If you are seeing some odd colors hit the reload button up in the URL bar.  One of the reasons that the current crop of web browsers is so fast is that they caches everything and so you are seeing old files on your machine combined with new files from the website.  Hitting Reload will cause the page to update all of the files.

Oct 03, 2009 | Categories: Website | Tags: , , , | Comments Off on New Website Is Up!

10 to the 15th power

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How much is that, 10^15?  A lot.  A new survey of the universe has been released and a map of that survey is shown above (Dr. Chris Fluke of Swinburne University of Technology).  The map contains 100,000 dots and each dot represents a galaxy.  A galaxy is thought to contain an average of  roughly 100 billion stars each.  So what you are looking at is a representation of a number of stars that is too large to comprehend, 10 to the 15th power.  The volume of what you see is 13 billion billion billion cubic light years.  Uh, that’s a lot.  For a better look:  http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/~cfluke/6dF/0001.tga.jpg

This the result of two years of work so far, the goal is 250,000 galaxies mapped.  For the information on how this is being done check out this article: http://asia.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=1981

Sep 29, 2009 | Categories: Anything But... | Tags: | Comments Off on 10 to the 15th power

Alaska Swans

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As we headed up the Parks Highway to our first location we saw these swans in a lake off the roadside.  The fall colors are in full bloom and the swans were cooperative so we took advantage and had a seat on the tundra, ate some blueberries and photographed the swans.  They cruised around for a little while then started feeding.  If you have seen water fowl feed it’s a bottoms up routine.  At that point we said goodbye and headed on our way.  The swans usually stick around until the ice freezes up the water so much they loose their take off runway so they will still be here for a while.

Sep 28, 2009 | Categories: Nature | Tags: , , , , , | Comments Off on Alaska Swans

Port of Valdez

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The Port of Valdez.  We pulled in to check out the ferry pick up as we have some designs on that coming up and strolled along the dock.  There were a couple of gents wetting a line and they seemed to be doing okay in the drizzle.  The gulls and waterfowl revel in this stuff of course.  Valdez has a population of about 4000 and I am pretty sure we met them all in about 2 hours.  It is a little town.  Note to RV’ers that there are probably more RVs in Valdez than residents during the summer.  We made some notes since we will be back but all in all it was a quick hit to town for some resupplies.  We were headed to Thompson Pass.  We will be back here though because we love the shore and this has some great potential.  Obviously Prince William Sound is dripping with scenery and wildlife.  We have an easier access to it via Whittier from where we live so this is the first time for us down here so far.  But we will be back, no doubt about it.

Sep 25, 2009 | Categories: Alaska | Tags: , , , , , , , , , | Comments Off on Port of Valdez

Keystone Canyon

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Continuing down the Richardson Highway took us through the Keystone Canyon.  Beautiful water falls and massive ornate cliff faces enthralled us.  We scouted some photographs for future reference and made a few quick ones.  The rain had been heavy for the previous couple of days so the water was high and a little muddy.  The water falls were stunning, Bridal Veil being the famous one on this stop.  I really liked the canyon walls against the water myself.  It was also interesting to note that a path, two horses abreast, was cut into these canyon walls as part of the trail from Valdez to Fairbanks.  Supplies from the port in Valdez were hauled by horse sleds up the trail that is now the Richardson highway to support the miners up there.

Sep 24, 2009 | Categories: Alaska | Tags: , , , , , , | Comments Off on Keystone Canyon

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