Colleen Easley lives in Olympia, WA with her husband Dale and 2 cats. Photography has been her hobby for 40 years. Currently she is working on a 365 project which requires that she take at least one photo every day and publish it to her blog. You may follow her on Twitter and/or Facebook by clicking the links below. To see all the photos of her 2010 project, click the link below under LINKS.
03.21.10Today we saw the last musher cross under the burled arch in Nome to bring the 38th Iditarod Sled Dog Race to a close. Celeste Davis finished last and won the Red Lantern Award. This award carries over from the old days when mushers carried mail and supplies along the Iditarod trail from roadhouse to roadhouse. Any time a roadhouse manager knew a musher was headed in their direction, it was customary to leave a lantern burning in the window to help guide the musher in on dark, stormy nights. Today a lantern burns at the finish line in Nome throughout the race, and is not extinguished until the last musher arrives. This year we saw the fastest Red Lantern time on record. Usually we don’t have our last mushers in until Monday and sometimes even Tuesday, so having the race over by Saturday night was amazing.
During the day today I set up my tripod on the 2nd floor to attempt a photo of a stuffed musk ox that is encased in Plexiglas. I knew it would be a hard photo to make due to the terrible reflections from the glass. I ended up using a remote flash which I placed on the top of the case shooting down on the musk ox’s head. I used my wide angle lens and put it right up to the Plexiglas. It isn’t perfect; I still got reflextions, but of all the shots I got, this one is the best.
Nikon D90
with Tamron AF 10-24mm f/3.5-4.5 SP Di II LD Aspherical (IF) Lens AF with Built-in Motor
at 10mm, 1/60s, f/3.5, ISO 200
Musk Ox behind Plexiglas
