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2011/12 Alaska winter

From low sunlight, plunging temperatures and massive snow fall, Alaska's winter are an extreme mix of beauty and danger. Post a photo of you how you live through it.

RSVP: January - 2012

Location: Sheraton Anchorage, 01/14/12 The Chenega Commercial Holdings, LLC team poses for a group photo at the 2011 Stars of the Industry event at the Sheraton Anchorage.  The Alaska Hotel & Lodging Association hosts this annual event to recognize and celebrate excellence in the hospitality industry.

Submit your photos from community projects and social occasions around town in January, 2012.

Cordova snowstorm

Location: Cordova, AlaskaThis was even before the final part of the storm!

Cordova residents are tunneling out after several snow storms moved through Prince William Sound.

January Valdez snowstorm

Heavy snow pounded Valdez and Cordova on January 6, 2012, after the town received 19.2 inches Thursday from the Prince William Sound blizzard, making for a season total of more than 20 feet. Meanwhile, Nome is having its worst cold spell since 1989.

Frosty Alaskans

Alaska is in deep freeze and it's not only the trees that are covered in frost. Send us the photos of you braving the cold.

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Ravens

A raven soars over west Anchorage on Tuesday, November 8, 2011.

Anchorage ravens in winter.

Swans

Swans in flight after taking off from Potter Marsh on Sunday evening, Oct. 3, 2011.  Over 35 swans, mostly trumpeter swans with some tundra swans, were seen gathered at the popular viewing area along the Seward Highway near Anchorage as they prepare to migrate south for the winter months.

Over 35 swans, mostly trumpeter swans with some tundra swans, were seen gathered at Potter Marsh on Monday evening, Oct. 3, 2011, as they prepare to migrate south for the winter months.

Cheney Lake

A duck prepares to land on Cheney Lake in East Anchorage on Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2011.

Flocks of waterfowl are making stops at Cheney Lake in East Anchorage as they migrate south for the winter.

Swans

A  group of swans at Potter Marsh on Thursday, September 14, 2011. The swans stop at Potter Marsh to feed on their migration south.

Swans at Potter Marsh.

Bird TLC Festival

Bev Cason shows Flame the Short-eared owl at the Bird TLC's Autumn Wings Festival at the center's property on Old Seward Highway on Saturday, August 27, 2011. Hal is the last surviving bald eagle rescued during the Exxon Valdez oil spill.

Bird TLC's Autumn Wings Festival.

Potter Marsh

Arictic Terns at Potter Marsh along the Seward Highway across from Turnagain Arm on Wednesday, June 29, 20111.

Potter Marsh Bird Life

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Ducklings Mirror Lake

A duckling wades in shallow water on Tuesday, June 28, 2011 at Mirror Lake.

Ducklings wade Mirror Lake's shore on Tuesday, June 28, 2011.

Deformed Beaks

Brian Wallace / Juneau EmpireA crow with a deformed beak eats a handout Wednesday, June 18, 2008, at Auke Bay.

Federal scientists observe the highest rate of beak abnormalities ever recorded in Alaska and the Northwest.