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PhotoHound

02-04-2008, 11:12 AM

Hello All, :wave:

After spending the past nearly ten years in the sub-arctic frontier of south-central Alaska :snowcloud:, I have returned home to the great Beehive State. :amazon: Wow, what is all this crazy bright stuff here? :ne_nau: Oh yeah, I remember...LIGHT!!! My goodness, sunshine in the winter... :snowguy: Wow; this will take some getting use to. I think I like it though. :nod:

Born and raised in the "Top of Utah" :mrgreen: (hey, I didn't make that up!), more specifically Clinton, a small (yet feverishly growing) suburb between Clearfield and Ogden. Dang, there's even a Wall-Mart here now!?! :eek2: Anyway, although Alaska is a very nice place to visit, it's really great to finally be back home. :rockon:

I graduated from Northridge High in '94, and Weber State in '99 (BS in Geology :2thumbs:). I'm fairly deep into photography and anything involving the outdoors; if you want to see some of what I saw in Alaska you can check it out here (www.photohound-alaska.com). I used to be into all kind of crazy activities, such as ice climbing, rock climbing, hiking, biking, camping, running, snowshoeing, ATVing, snow machining, and lots of other things I can't even remember anymore, but a serious back injury several years ago has taken a serious bite out of what I can do anymore. But I still love to get out and see as much of the beautiful outdoors as I can.

I found this site by seeing a fantastic post on the photo site Fred Miranda (www.fredmiranda.com), from Bogley member/moderator CarpeyBiggs. (You can see that posting both here (http://www.fredmiranda.com/forum/topic/612136) and on Bogley HERE (http://www.bogley.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=10232).

Anyway, I was thrilled to find such a wonderful site as this existed, and signed up immediately. Not exactly sure yet how active I will be participating in discussions, but I will most definitely be lurking around :peepwall: and envying all the fun and exciting things that you all are doing. Hopefully someday I will be able to do them (again) too.

Well I think I've droned on for long enough :blahblah: so I'll sign off now. I look forward to possibly meeting some of you sometime. :wedgie:

'Til Then, Cheers Folks! :wavey:

Scott
(edited to make links look like links) :?

Mooseman70

02-04-2008, 12:17 PM

Welcome back from the Last Frontier! Glad to have you here! :2thumbs:

Sombeech

02-04-2008, 12:19 PM

Welcome to the forum, I also reside in Clinton.

Jaxx

02-04-2008, 12:19 PM

02-04-2008, 12:39 PM

Howdy :wavey: More photographers, that's awesome :2thumbs: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v654/Zukimog/17.jpg

PhotoHound

02-04-2008, 01:00 PM

Welcome back from the Last Frontier! Glad to have you here! :2thumbs:

Thank you much Mooseman! Hey, I like your knick-name (in Alaska knick would be pronounced ka nik for some strange reason :ne_nau: ). I used to have moose in my yard just about every day up there :popcorn: . They loved to eat the raspberry bushes and whatever they could strip off the trees :frustrated: ...

Thanks again for the welcome!

RugerShooter

02-04-2008, 01:07 PM

Welcome back to Utah and also to Bogley

Alex

02-04-2008, 01:13 PM

Hey welcome home and to Bogley, it is a great site for the outdoors in our fine state. Remember, we LOVE pictures here, so post as many as possible!

accadacca

02-04-2008, 01:21 PM

Welcome. :2thumbs:

Interesting. . .I don't see a link to Bogley in that Fred Miranda post? How did you find the site? :ne_nau:

CarpeyBiggs

02-04-2008, 01:25 PM

Welcome aboard Scott. :2thumbs:

Acca, I think he saw it on my webpage.

accadacca

02-04-2008, 01:30 PM

Acca, I think he saw it on my webpage.
Ah. Where at? :ne_nau:

CarpeyBiggs

02-04-2008, 01:36 PM

http://www.danransom.com/TripReports/?p=145

accadacca

02-04-2008, 01:43 PM

I see. Nice recruit. :cool2:

PhotoHound

02-04-2008, 03:20 PM

Welcome to the forum, I also reside in Clinton.

Wow, what are the odds for running into a fellow Clintonian? :2thumbs: I took a look at the myspace page; sweet video. I'm glad that kid that took a header was ok :eek2:

Thanks for the greeting. Maybe we'll run into each other at the local Wall-Mart or something! :five:

PhotoHound

02-04-2008, 04:36 PM

Welcome!
I don't know how people can live in Alaska in the winter. I would go crazy. During the summer would be awesome though. Another photographer is always welcome, we are getting to have quite the group of photographers on here. I can only dream of taking those kinds of pics. Your site is awesome, I will definitely pass some time at work on there.

What happened with your back? If you don't mind me asking

Hey there Jaxx, thanks for the welcome. Yeah, Alaskan winters can be tough. The only real benefit (to me at least) is having regular aurora photo ops, and having all the eagles congregate around condensed food source areas. Oh sure, some crazy people like to go skiing and snowshoeing and snow machining and such :cold: , but the only thing that I would do anymore in the -10 degree bleak days is get out of the truck for 20 minutes to watch and photograph the eagles... :popcorn: Oh yeah, the summers are beyond awesome though... :cool2: Thanks for the kind words about my photo website. I think I may have to change the name though, and just have a separate section for Alaska. Hopefully I'll be flooding it with a sm

accadacca

02-04-2008, 05:25 PM

Textbook use of emoticons PhotoHoud. :five:

PhotoHound

02-04-2008, 10:25 PM

Howdy :wavey: More photographers, that's awesome :2thumbs: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v654/Zukimog/17.jpg

Thank you JP. I can already see that there are several photographers here with some serious talent!

PhotoHound

02-04-2008, 10:38 PM

Welcome back to Utah and also to Bogley

Thanks davis! My amazing super duper observation powers :eek1: tell me that you might possibly be into Geocaching... Check out this cache: http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=6272bab5-370f-4e16-8063-6f8ea76d6d5c

:nod:

PhotoHound

02-04-2008, 10:49 PM

Hey welcome home and to Bogley, it is a great site for the outdoors in our fine state. Remember, we LOVE pictures here, so post as many as possible!

Alex, thank you. I will definitely be posting pictures here as I get settled in. I can still hardly believe that there is a site like this - perfect! :jump_nutt: The backpacking site from your link also looks like a fascinating place to explore... TOO MUCH TO DO, SO LITTLE TIME! :comppunch:

PhotoHound

02-04-2008, 11:03 PM

Welcome. :2thumbs:

Thank you. You've got some very cool shots on your flicker page :rockit: As a geologist, I absolutely LOVE Topaz Mountain...been there about 10 times :nod:

PhotoHound

02-04-2008, 11:10 PM

Welcome aboard Scott. :2thumbs:

Thanks Dan, and more thanks for leaving a trail of bread crumbs back to this site! :D

Acca, I think he saw it on my webpage.

That would be a big affirmatory! And more than impressed with your website at that. :nod:

PhotoHound

02-04-2008, 11:16 PM

Textbook use of emoticons PhotoHoud. :five:

Thanks; I've per-OBABly gone more than just a tad overboard...never really been on a site with sooo many emot-options! :mrgreen:

Alex

02-05-2008, 07:14 AM

PhotoHound

02-07-2008, 12:58 AM

Woah, talk about taking the time to brown nose and answer all the posts. I love this guy already! :lol8:

I looked through your photo gallery and loved the pictures, thanks for sharing them. I can't believe all the wild life you ran into up there in the frozen north.

:cool2: :mrgreen:

Thanks Alex. Yep, I've been fortunate enough to have been stuck in a place that's to say the least is a wildlife wonderland, where instead of chasing the wildlife it pretty much comes and sits right in your lap! :nod: Hopefully I'll have the same kind of luck down here...

:haha: