Alaska Celebrates our 50th Anniversary!

Alaska is celebrating their 50th year of statehood as on January 2009. Festival Fairbanks put on a wonderful fireworks display last night in celebration of statehood. Here are just a few. I'll upload the rest to my Flickr site and Facebook.

Happy New Year 2009

A family relative gave me a call and asked me to drive over to her son's hockey game to take some photos with the indication she'd like to buy some prints. Well that means they better be up to my normal standard of picture taking. This is quite a challenge with indoor lighting and reflections of the light off the ice. Needless to say, I've heard of how hard it is to photograph hockey....people are not kidding. The white balance on this picture had to manually set and reset, along with the exposure but I think these turned out acceptable, all things considered. Oh and the outside temperature was -42° at the time I took these pictures. Thank goodness for indoor ice rinks!