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Chris W

@mountainshots.bsky.social

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Daily landscape and nature photography. Currently in Alaska with a Fuji GFX50SII. My other car is a locomotive.

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Chris W @mountainshots.bsky.social · Nov 13

The Four Seasons- A year at my favorite Alaskan alpine lake.

(Ok, it took more like 2.5 years, but don't tell anyone 😅)

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Chris W @mountainshots.bsky.social · 17h

I have eaten a bag of Matthew Watson popcorn in the cab of a WP locomotive more times than I can count hahah

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Chris W @mountainshots.bsky.social · 17h

This year, hardly ever 😭. Some years past, nearly every day rolling the Carcross White Pass train in.

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Chris W @mountainshots.bsky.social · 17h

The oldest store in the Yukon! (I think)

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Chris W @mountainshots.bsky.social · 1d

Traveling on my mind

Snow scenes from an Alaska Seaplanes flight down the Coast Mountains to Juneau 🏔️

#alaska #photography #mountains #travel

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Chris W @mountainshots.bsky.social · 1d

That's up the Slaughter Gulch trail. Some rain that day, but it made the sun break over the Landing all the prettier.

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Chris W @mountainshots.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, that's Black Top Mesa. That's a good hike from First Water trailhead, too 💪

Chris W @mountainshots.bsky.social · 2d

That dang mountain just has the perfect cliff line leading straight towards the distant spire of Weavers Needle 😵‍💫

Chris W @mountainshots.bsky.social · 2d

Smile for the camera 😁

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Chris W @mountainshots.bsky.social · 2d

I can bring a medium format camera, two lenses, and a tripod on long hikes. (This theory is crumbling fast, though)

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Chris W @mountainshots.bsky.social · 3d

Battleship Mountain in the Superstition Wilderness

The view south down the fin of Battleship towards Weavers Needle

#mountainmonday #landscapephotography #arizona #hiking

A 12 mile r/t hike from the First Water trailhead in the western Superstitions

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Chris W @mountainshots.bsky.social · 4d

A sunny autumn day in the North

Lake Bennett, stretching from NW British Columbia into the southern Yukon on a beautiful autumn day.

#yukon #beautifulbc #photography #autumn

Chris W @mountainshots.bsky.social · 6d

(I agree. The clouds and shadows are almost a reflection of each other 🙌)

Chris W @mountainshots.bsky.social · 6d

Yuuuuup. You're antifa if you get arrested 😎

Chris W @mountainshots.bsky.social · 7d

Ha! Yeah, the closest I got to skating was realizing my boots were freezing into the edge of the lake.

Chris W @mountainshots.bsky.social · 7d

The wide shot ❄️🌄

This might have been more balanced if I had really centered the setting sun, but I HAD to include the fine detail in the foreground ice :)

#sunset #alaska #mountains #photography

This is the shot I ultimately made into a print. Sony a7iii with the 20mm G lens (damn that was a nice lens. I actually think it was secretly the best lens I've ever owned, and that includes 2 expensive gfx lenses)

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Chris W @mountainshots.bsky.social · 7d

Botox

Chris W @mountainshots.bsky.social · 8d

Whiskers of ice, and a mid-afternoon sunset.

A photo from an October 2023 cold snap that came on so fast it had the surface of Upper Dewey Lake looking like I'd never seen before :)

#alaska #landscapephotography #sunset #mountains

I took a series of photos here, with my Sony a7iii AND a Fuji X-Pro1. Halfway through, I realized that my boots were freezing into the edge of the lake 😅

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Chris W @mountainshots.bsky.social · 8d

Legendary Axe looked incredible in those initial US TG16 commercials.

Chris W @mountainshots.bsky.social · 9d

Autumn vibes at Lower Dewey Lake.
Skagway #alaska

The snow hasn't yet made its big move down, but it has definitely been cool and wet :)

#autumn #rainforest #photography

Birch leaves, strewn about on a forest trail

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Chris W @mountainshots.bsky.social · 10d

Never got the light I was hoping for 😭. This was about as close as it got-

Chris W @mountainshots.bsky.social · 10d

Along the ridgeline trail from Upper Dewey Lake to Devil's Punchbowl

In another day or two (or maybe this morning!), this entire section will be covered in snow :)

#alaska #landscapephotography #hiking #fallcolors #autumn

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Chris W @mountainshots.bsky.social · 10d

The full X-pan 🙌

Chris W @mountainshots.bsky.social · 10d

Man, they've been whack for almost my entire adult life. It's time for them to make a run 🙄🙏

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Chris W @mountainshots.bsky.social · 11d

Stunning autumn conditions for #stunday

Fresh snow on Mount Carmack, framed by fog and clouds.

#alaska #landscapephotography #mountains

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Chris W @mountainshots.bsky.social · 11d