Wow!. I didn't expect to create such a heated debate, but am thankful for all your suggestions. I will take each into consideration and I expect we will find a solution that works best for our group. Thanks to all of you again for contributing to my question.

I have opened an account, created a file, and uploaded a couple of photo files. When I click on a photo to view it, I see no options to make a comment or critique while viewing the photo. Am I missing something, or is that option not available?

Outstanding work and a beautiful subject. I need to get this place on my bucket list - and be there at the right time. Thanks for sharing.

I belong to a camera group which has a monthly topic for shooting and we then view everyone's work for comments and mild critiquing. We have been using email for sharing and it has shown to be a cumbersome, unreliable method. I am looking for a sharing website that would allow for this. I have checked out Facebook, Shutterfly, Photobucket, Picasa Web Albums, and Flickr. I find Flickr to be the best for our purposes, but in the Groups portion of the site that I have created, there is no option to have separate folders or albums that we could use for each monthly submission. In order to use Flickr, we will have to delete each previous month's work. Is there a site similar to Flickr that would allow for the monthly separations within a private group? Thanks in advance for any helpful commentary.

Interesting video, your trip makes mine look tame. You saw a lot of places in the RV that were were never close to. Thanks for sharing.

LR?? Light Room? I don't typically post process any of my photos, except for some cropping. For me, what you see is what you get. I would prefer to spend my time in the field with my camera rather than at the computer post processing. With as many digital photos that one can take in a single trip, I imagine it takes a lot of time after the fact at the computer.

We took the combined land and cruise tour through Alaska. The photos included today were all taken from a train or a boat and show some of the landscape (also waterscape). I think it is a good combination of some of the many beautiful sights to see in Alaska.

On the train from Fairbanks to Denali - Note Yellow Aspens on the Mountainside


Boat Tour Around the Kenai Peninsula


Near Sunset on an Alaskan Fjord


Sunset on a different fjord


Glacier fed lake near Haines, Alaska

While I was in Denali National Park, I put on my brave boy cap and climbed into a small single engine plane for a flight into the mountainous area between the national park and Mt McKinley. I took many images from the plane, all through the glass windows, trying to keep the wing and wing struts out of the viewfinder. I found it quite a rush and it seemed there was one beautiful sight after another. I am not usually one to take these kinds of expensive side trips, but I can say this one was worth every penny. I have included a few of the many I took, just to give you a feel for what can be seen from a low altitude just above the mountains. Note the quote on the last image - this is a quote from the pilot as we landed safely back on Mother Earth. Hope you enjoy.

Landed on a glacier on the side of Mt McKinley


Mountain top view, more follow:








Pilot/Owner of the 1960's restored Turbo Beaver

I took a 8-hour round trip bus trip into the park (bus looked like a re-painted school bus, maybe a desert tan, and the tour was run by the National Park Service). Yes, we used the clock system for all on the tour to call out the animal by name and clock hour location. Considering all the stops to view game and other viewing sites, I couldn't begin to estimate the length, however it was named the Tundra Wilderness Tour, you can see a short description of it at this website:

http://www.nps.gov/dena/planyourvisit/bus-tours.htm

Forgot to mention - the landscapes and vistas are also magnificent there, be sure to have something in teh way of a wide angle lens too.

It was actually Sept 2 when I took these photos, I'd recommend that relative time period for anyone traveling to Alaska. Colors were very nice and the daytime temperatures were comfortably cool (50's and low 60's) but ran into some rain too.

I think now it was probably a 55-200 kit lens, but now I have a 70-300mm Tamron lens - if I had this trip to take again, I would definitely take the 70-300.

I am continuing to show off some images I took while in Alaska, most of these wildlife photos were taken in Denali National Park and were taken from a bus. As fortunate as we were with seeing both the twin peaks of Mt McKinley, we were just as fortunate with the wildlife. We saw most of the major species wile on this day trip through the park. As can be seen in a couple of the photos, fall colors were bursting out, especially the ground cover in these particular shots. As you can probably tell, most of these are cropped to show the animals up close. Most were taken with a 70-200mm Canon kit lens

Mr Moose Grazing


Grizzly Bear Foraging


Wolf on the Prowl


Dall Sheep


Caribou


Another Moose


Sea Lion


Tufted Puffin


Of Course, the Bald Eagle

You could be absolutely right, I was not aware of the travel distance, although it took the whole morning and into the afternoon to get there - with several photo stops along the way. I was restricted to how close we could get due to the kind of tour we were on, an 8-hour bus trip into Denali National Park, this was at the turn-a-round end of the trip. I have seen on the internet and other places where one could see the twin peaks and a reflection of the mountain in Mirror Lake. I wold have loved to have that opportunity, but I am told you have to be a professional to get back in there that far, or have the ability and the nerve to camp out at you own risk back in the wilds - I was neither.

Thanks for the comments.

I saw a post a couple of weeks ago showing Mt McKinley, or Denali and it reminded me I needed to review my photos of an Alaskan trip I made in 2010, my initial significant usage of a DSLR (Canon Rebel xSi). We were told by our guide that only about 10% of all visitors to Denali National Park ever got to see both peaks of Denali at the same time. We were extremely fortunate to see both peaks at several times of the day from different locations as we traveled into the park (lighting was different as you can see as these were not post processed and I was using Auto White Balance). I have included a few of the ones I took to document our good fortune.

Denali - Mid Morning, Location 1


Denali - Late Morning, Location 2


Denali - Just After Noon, Location 3


Denali - Mid Afternoon, Closest Location


Denali - Stitched Pano, Mid Afternoon