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Carl Johnson’s 2019 Aurora Calendar Available Now

If you’re a listener to the Around the Lens podcast, then you likely have heard Carl Johnson. He’s been a show regular since the beginning, speaking from his home in Anchorage, Alaska. Carl is a nature photographer with a touch of photojournalist. In 2016, he published the award winning and gorgeous photo book, Where Water […]

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An Aurora Named Steve

By Carl Johnson I first saw and photographed this phenomenon on August 21, 2014, while shooting the aurora borealis in Portage Valley of the Chugach National Forest with friend and fellow photographer CJ Kale of Lava Light Galleries in Hawaii. The nature of the phenomenon was notably different compared to the typical aurora borealis. It […]

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May Giveaway

Our giveaway for the month of May is three copies of the book by panelist Carl Johnson Where Water is Gold. The copies will be signed by Carl and it’s not three copies to one person, but wSe will actually have three winners! So you have three chances of winning. All you have to do to […]

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April Giveaway Winner

And the winner of the April Around the Lens giveaway for the Signature 13 camera bag from Think Tank Photo is…Paul Burbidge!!! Congrats Paul, thanks for playing and have fun with your bag. We look forward to hearing about your experience using the bag. For our month of May contest we are giving away not one, […]

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Congrats to Carl Johnson! Wins Gold for his book ‘Where Water is Gold’

Friend of the show and panelist Carl Johnson has just announced that his gorgeous and important book on Bristol Bay has just won Gold at the 2017 Independent Publisher Book Awards. Where Water is Gold: Life and Livelihood in Alaska’s Bristol Bay collects Carl’s photos from multiple trips to the remote Bristol Bay region in […]

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AtL Interview – Carl Johnson

This week we try something different. This week we’re going to spend out time interviewing just on panelists. This will be the beginning of a new interview series we’re trying out. For the first interview episode we talk to Alaskan nature photographer Carl Johnson. He’s been working on a long term book project Where Water Is Gold about the area would […]