Alaska Photo Question

[mabas9395]

I am heading to Alaska in two weeks to visit my sister who just had a baby. She lives about 45min north of Anchorage.

Now this may seem like a crime to some of you, but I will probably only have one full day to devote to photography. So I need some help on the best way to take advantage of the time I have. Where should I go? What should I do?

I love landscape and wildlife photography and would love to focus on that. I probably don't have the gear for wildlife. My longest lens is a 200mm with 1.4 extender on a 1.6 crop camera. And with my limited time, what if I don't see any wildlife? So I'm thinking landscape would be the best way to spend my time. I have a decent wide angle lens and good tripod, and I should be able to find the mountains well enough, but OTOH, if the weather is bad I would be out of luck too.

Denali would be a dream, but its over 200 miles away. Not sure if it would make sense to spend most of my time traveling if I only have one day.

I have never been to Alaska and probably won't be returning for a while (if ever) so I'll take any advice I can get.

Thanks.

 

[The Grays]

You may want to check with some local guides for some landscapes. I agree it would be a waste of time to spen most of the dat traveling to a location. See if they have a local tourist board that can maybe give you some ideas of great places for landscapes. Take the 200 and the 1.4 because as you are doing some landscapes you may run across some wildlife too as a bonus. Better to have it and not see anything than to see some local wildlife and not have it to capture it.