Doug Lhotka

Technical Storyteller

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Doug Lhotka

Revisiting Denali

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Since it looks like we won’t have an adventure this year, I’m using the time to go back and revisit some images in the archives – and to use them as a new weekly zoom background!

Only about 1/3 of the visitors to Denali get to actually see the mountain.  When we were there it was foggy and socked in most of the time.  But on the last day, as we were driving back to Fairbanks to head home, we stopped for a quick break and saw this scene.  I live in Colorado, so majestic peaks are part and parcel of a weekend in the mountains, but there’s something different, something special about Alaska.

Classic Teton’s – Schwabacher at Sunrise

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I saw my first version of this images when I was a kid and another group of scouts got back from a backpacking trip.  That was back in the celluloid days, long before computers, instagram, or selfies.  It’s been on my bucket list to go shoot, even though it’s now incredibly cliche’.

Last fall my dad and I did a workshop with Jack Graham (highly recommended), and one morning he took us to get ‘the shot’.  Jack guided us there, so that when we arrived there were only a handful of other folks.  I’d been surprised at just how early that was, until, right before sunrise, the serene silence was broken by the sound of – not kidding – almost 100 camera shutters.

It’s still magical and amazing to see, but somehow sharing it with dozens of my new friends just wasn’t the favorite part of the trip.  We got other classic shots too, and I’ll share some of those in future posts, but the best parts of the trip were when Jack took us to non-classic locations.  For now, that’s one off the bucket list.

Combined Interests

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Here we are at the end of 2019, launching the new blog, that combines three of my professional and creative interests: cybersecurity, photography, and 3D modeling and printing.

I thought I’d share something from that last category to launch the new blog.  The image here is a lithophane of my 3D logo.  I took the original vector file, converted it to jpg, then used Photo2Mesh to convert the file into a 3d model.  Slicing via Cura, and then printed on the Lulzbot Taz 6 using white HIPS.

Have a Happy New Year, and I’ll see you in 2020!