Comments on: Portrait of Alaska

Portrait of Alaska

hortense — Wed, 29 Dec 2004 01:19:14 -0800

Portrait of Alaska Norio Matsumoto's unspeakably beautiful photographs. Mountains,lights,forests. tiny remote island in big ocean.

By: teece

teece — Wed, 29 Dec 2004 01:47:26 -0800

Wow. Thanks for that link. The description of how he lives is rather impressive, too (months at a time in the wild, summer and winter). He says that it gets to be -40 F sometimes. He also says that his snow cave is 20 F warmer than outside. So in the really nasty stretches, his home in the winter is a cozy 20 below zero. Ouch. Beautiful photographs. The northern lights shot make me want to go to Alaska and see them myself.

By: rooftop secrets

rooftop secrets — Wed, 29 Dec 2004 02:11:40 -0800

Really great pictures. Hard to believe some of the northern lights pictures aren't digitally altered. Also a very clean functional layout to display them. In summary: [this is good]

By: thedevildancedlightly

thedevildancedlightly — Wed, 29 Dec 2004 02:33:24 -0800

Anybody know of how to get a hardcopy book of that stuff? Or even prints? Maybe I'm a moron, but I can't find any sort of "buy me now!" link. It shows integrity to his work, but I also think it's good stuff and I'd love a print for my cube. I second that the interface is great.

By: snwod

snwod — Wed, 29 Dec 2004 02:54:15 -0800

I third the interface comment. I wish there were more webpages out there constructed like that. Awesome pictures too!

By: whoshotwho

whoshotwho — Wed, 29 Dec 2004 03:14:05 -0800

thedevildancedlightly, on his "contact me" page, the photographer says that you can request print ordering info directly from him. These photographs are simply amazing, I hope he can keep his job. Does he bring a friend along with him? In one of the photographs, there is a picture of him with a camera and tripod. To me, this seems silly.

By: moonbird

moonbird — Wed, 29 Dec 2004 03:27:25 -0800

beautiful.

By: hortense

hortense — Wed, 29 Dec 2004 03:33:28 -0800

he saw a book,became inspired,moved to alaska,bought a camera,became nature photographer. I am quite mesmerized.

By: taz

taz — Wed, 29 Dec 2004 03:54:21 -0800

Lovely. Here's a University of Alaska exhibit of the photographs of Michio Hoshino, the photographer whose book Norio says inspired him.

By: premiumpolar

premiumpolar — Wed, 29 Dec 2004 04:15:40 -0800

I've never seen my state captured so beautifully before. It would be nice to be able to meet this guy and have a conversation with him. He sounds very interesting. Whoshotwho: I don't quite understand your comment about keeping his job. ?

By: geekyguy

geekyguy — Wed, 29 Dec 2004 04:21:27 -0800

These are amazing and beautiful and wonderfully presented. Nice find, hortense. I have lived in SE Alaska and still have family that lives there. Although I was only there for a year I would encourage anyone considering a trip to go. Like many beautiful places it is just like the pictures but more. The sky, the air, the mountains, the sounds. I don't mean a cruise either, find a travel agent who is familiar with Alaska and can arrange for you to travel throughout the state. You can do it for a little more and have a much more amazing Alaskan experience.

By: googly

googly — Wed, 29 Dec 2004 06:37:12 -0800

Beautiful. Thank you.

By: odinsdream

odinsdream — Wed, 29 Dec 2004 08:00:34 -0800

This is amazing. It's like a dream of mine that I know I probably would never go through with, but this is just enthralling. He flew in to the glacier on a little plane? I see no indication that he's accompanied by anyone. The self-portrait could easily be with another tripod, and he mentions that the lonliness isn't too bad. Simply incredible.

By: hpsell

hpsell — Wed, 29 Dec 2004 08:20:16 -0800

im glad that somebody wanted to sit around in negative 50 to capture those pics. ill gladly enjoy the work from the warmth of my office cube a trip to the adirondacks in the fall will fulfill my need to get back to nature. maybe one day when i am a bit older ill do a summer trip to alaska. but for now, i like going to places where i will see good looking women. hence my trip to latvia and estonia last year.

By: MotherTucker

MotherTucker — Wed, 29 Dec 2004 09:30:36 -0800

Beautiful pictures. MotherTucker wants to go to Alaska and dance under the northern lights.

By: jeffmshaw

jeffmshaw — Wed, 29 Dec 2004 11:08:19 -0800

Terrific post, thanks.

By: rhapsodie

rhapsodie — Wed, 29 Dec 2004 21:48:46 -0800

I saw the exhibit at the UAF museum (this spring I think?) and fell in love with them. It would be nice to be able to meet this guy and have a conversation with him. He sounds very interesting. He does sound very interesting; too bad he died in 96. I wonder if his family is still living in Fairbanks. i like going to places where i will see good looking women Careful... there may be good looking women on MeFi who live in Alaska.

By: [expletive deleted]

[expletive deleted] — Thu, 30 Dec 2004 00:11:16 -0800

These pictures are absolutely beautiful. This is what MeFi is all about. A perfect post, my thanks to you hortense.