Fur Rondy Celebration 2016
by Kyle Lavey
Title
Fur Rondy Celebration 2016
Artist
Kyle Lavey
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
Description
In the serene hush of Alaskan twilight, I found myself at Point Woronzof with a mission: to immortalize the Fur Rondy fireworks over Anchorage in a photograph. Having arrived an hour early, I busied myself with preparations, but as half an hour lapsed, a throng of onlookers began to gather, their presence encroaching upon the quiet solitude I had been enjoying. The onset of claustrophobia nudged me towards a decision—to escape the crowd and get closer to nature's boundary, where water meets land.
Navigating a precipitous 65-degree decline, I reached the water's edge in mere minutes. The landscape opened up before me, the mudflats stretching out into the distance, and the subject of my photographic pursuit, the impending fireworks display, beckoning from afar. The mudflats are notorious for their treachery, yet, compelled by the photographer's intrepid spirit, I ventured approximately 100-200 feet onto their deceptive surface, halting where the earth's frosty grip seemed to wane.
Camera in hand, I set up my tripod, framing the scene as the last rays of sunlight danced upon the majestic backdrop of snow-capped mountains. With the stage set against the dusky sky, anticipation hung as palpable as the cold in the air. As the hands of the clock synchronized with the start time of 6:30 pm, the night sky burst into an array of colors, the Fur Rondy fireworks illuminating Anchorage's skyline—a moment now eternally captured through my lens, a testament to the fusion of man's creation and nature's enduring splendor.
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March 20th, 2016
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