Kollodge Gallery

About the Image:

This image was made with a Wisner 4×5 Technical field camera and 360mm Rodenstock Apo-Ronar lens on Velvia film in a 6×12cm roll film back.  The location is a short hike off the Denali Highway about 40 miles west of Paxson near the the bridge crossing the Maclaren River.  I had tried to find a clear view like this through the high brush for years and was parked up on the Maclaren Summit taking a break when along comes my friend and mentor Steve McCutcheon, the “grand daddy” of Alaska Photographers and a signer of the Alaska Constitution.  I told him of my years of searching and he told me exactly which gravel pit to turn into and which almost invisible path to walk out on.  Maybe I should have called it Steve’s View.