One of the highlights of living in Alaska during the winter are the amazing subarctic sunrises and sunsets that seem to last all day. Our trade-off for the beautiful, low-angle sunlight is that we only have a few hours of light during the day as the sun skirts along a few degrees above the southern horizon. Today (November 30, 2010) in Anchorage, sunrise was at 9:41 AM and sunset at 3:53 PM, giving us a total of 6 hours and 10 minutes of daylight. We’ll keep loosing a few minutes per day for the next few weeks until the Winter Solstice on December 21st when we’ll only have 5 hours and 28 minutes of light.

Here are a few pictures of today’s sunset and Mount Redoubt that I took from my home office window in Anchorage, Alaska:

Winter sunset view across Cook Inlet of Mount Redoubt Volcano (10,197 ft) in Lake Clark National Park from my home office window in Anchorage, Alaska, United States. © 2010 Ron Karpilo
Camera Gear: Nikon D300 Camera, Nikkor AF-S VR 70-200 mm f/2.8G IF-ED Zoom Lens, SanDisk Extreme III CompactFlash Card 16 GB
Camera Settings: Lens Focal Length 200mm, Shutter Speed 1/50, Aperture f/2.8, ISO 800

Winter sunset view across Cook Inlet of Mount Redoubt Volcano (10,197 ft) in Lake Clark National Park from my home office window in Anchorage, Alaska, United States. © 2010 Ron Karpilo
Camera Gear: Nikon D300 Camera, Nikkor AF-S VR 70-200 mm f/2.8G IF-ED Zoom Lens, SanDisk Extreme III CompactFlash Card 16 GB
Camera Settings: Lens Focal Length 70mm, Shutter Speed 1/40, Aperture f/2.8, ISO 800

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Thanks,

Ron Karpilo