TJ & EA in Alaska

Denali Wilderness Our current adventure is an Alaskan cruise tour. We fly into Anchorage and spend the day and the next morning take a tour bus to the Princess Denali Lodge in the Denali National Park. We were staying two nights in Denali, this would be our best chance of seeing the Northern Lights. They have a wake up service that if they see the lights, they text you. At two am the the first night we got a text, by the time we got dressed and got our bearings we only got a fleeting glance of the Northern Lights. What I was able to see was a Erie green glow off in the distance, it had a wavy curve to it. It didn’t last very long and was gone, not to be seen again. On our first day, we took a photo workshop in the Denali  wilderness and were able to sharpen our camera skills and get a few good photos. We mainly learned to shoot using aperture priority and use the histogram feature to adjust camera settings. We spent some time at a beaver dam and saw 4 beavers working...