Justin Birchell
@justin-tonation.bsky.social
Doctor of #Music, #Nature #Photographer, #Singing Buffoon, #Arctic Dweller, Music Teacher
If you like wacky farcical comedies you gotta come out and see Anchorage Opera’s Gianni Schicchi!!! #anchorage #alaska #anchoragealaska #alaskalife #ak #anchorageak #travelalaska #eagleriver #photography #downtownanchorage #explorealaska #alaskaadventure #thealaskalife #art
October 31, 2025 at 5:54 PM
If you like wacky farcical comedies you gotta come out and see Anchorage Opera’s Gianni Schicchi!!! #anchorage #alaska #anchoragealaska #alaskalife #ak #anchorageak #travelalaska #eagleriver #photography #downtownanchorage #explorealaska #alaskaadventure #thealaskalife #art
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#anchorage #alaska #anchoragealaska #alaskalife #ak #anchorageak #fairbanks #alaskaphotography #wasilla #travelalaska #fishing #travel #eagleriver #photography #downtownanchorage #explorealaska #nature #alaskaadventure #thealaskalife #salmon #art #mountains
#anchorage #alaska #anchoragealaska #alaskalife #ak #anchorageak #fairbanks #alaskaphotography #wasilla #travelalaska #fishing #travel #eagleriver #photography #downtownanchorage #explorealaska #nature #alaskaadventure #thealaskalife #salmon #art #mountains
October 30, 2025 at 6:06 PM
The Medium is a spooky scary opera, and Anchorage Opera’s production ratchets up the creepy to 11. Come see it! Nov 6, 8, and 9 at the PAC. #anchorage #alaska #anchoragealaska #alaskalife #ak #anchorageak #wasilla #travelalaska #downtownanchorage #explorealaska #thealaskalife #alaskasky
October 29, 2025 at 5:57 PM
The Medium is a spooky scary opera, and Anchorage Opera’s production ratchets up the creepy to 11. Come see it! Nov 6, 8, and 9 at the PAC. #anchorage #alaska #anchoragealaska #alaskalife #ak #anchorageak #wasilla #travelalaska #downtownanchorage #explorealaska #thealaskalife #alaskasky
Anchorage Opera’s The Medium | Gianni Schicchi will be a treat for the eyes and ears. Spooky, funny, with gorgeous singing. #anchorage #alaska #anchoragealaska #alaskalife #ak #anchorageak #wasilla #travelalaska #eagleriver #downtownanchorage #explorealaska #alaskaadventure #thealaskalife #art
October 27, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Anchorage Opera’s The Medium | Gianni Schicchi will be a treat for the eyes and ears. Spooky, funny, with gorgeous singing. #anchorage #alaska #anchoragealaska #alaskalife #ak #anchorageak #wasilla #travelalaska #eagleriver #downtownanchorage #explorealaska #alaskaadventure #thealaskalife #art
If you’re in Anchorage, you cannot miss Gianni Schicchi and The Medium, a fantastic double bill of two one-acts on Nov 6, 8, and 9. #anchorage #alaska #anchoragealaska #alaskalife #ak #anchorageak #wasilla #travelalaska #eagleriver #downtownanchorage #explorealaska #thealaskalife #art
October 24, 2025 at 6:59 PM
If you’re in Anchorage, you cannot miss Gianni Schicchi and The Medium, a fantastic double bill of two one-acts on Nov 6, 8, and 9. #anchorage #alaska #anchoragealaska #alaskalife #ak #anchorageak #wasilla #travelalaska #eagleriver #downtownanchorage #explorealaska #thealaskalife #art
Just Anchorage things!
October 21, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Just Anchorage things!
“She’s dancing, Justin, she’s dancing!” #auroraborealis #northernlights #aurora #northernlightsphotos #auroras #nature #photography #nightphotography #nightsky #night #naturephotography #travel #sky #travelphotography #arctic #northernlight #aurorahunting #beautiful #winter #art #alaska
October 14, 2025 at 7:05 PM
“She’s dancing, Justin, she’s dancing!” #auroraborealis #northernlights #aurora #northernlightsphotos #auroras #nature #photography #nightphotography #nightsky #night #naturephotography #travel #sky #travelphotography #arctic #northernlight #aurorahunting #beautiful #winter #art #alaska
It’s an honor just to be nominated. (But then I won). #halloween #spooky #horror #halloweencostume #spookyseason #happyhalloween #october #trickortreat #fall #scary #autumn #halloweenparty #photography #costume #goth #ghost #creepy #gothic
October 14, 2025 at 6:58 PM
It’s an honor just to be nominated. (But then I won). #halloween #spooky #horror #halloweencostume #spookyseason #happyhalloween #october #trickortreat #fall #scary #autumn #halloweenparty #photography #costume #goth #ghost #creepy #gothic
October 11, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Bruins look good. 24-7 lead over Mich St coming back from halftime. Let’s go Bruins!! #ucla #losangeles #uclabruins #la #uclafootball #hollywood #bruins #gobruins #westwood #uclabound #uclaalumni #college #california
October 11, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Bruins look good. 24-7 lead over Mich St coming back from halftime. Let’s go Bruins!! #ucla #losangeles #uclabruins #la #uclafootball #hollywood #bruins #gobruins #westwood #uclabound #uclaalumni #college #california
Has any opera singer ever radiated villain energy more effortlessly than Sherrill Milnes? #opera #operasinger #music #classicalmusic #operasingersofbluesky #theatre #art #singer #blueskyopera #operalife #operalover #operasingers #operalirica #puccini #baritone #musician #lirica
October 10, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Has any opera singer ever radiated villain energy more effortlessly than Sherrill Milnes? #opera #operasinger #music #classicalmusic #operasingersofbluesky #theatre #art #singer #blueskyopera #operalife #operalover #operasingers #operalirica #puccini #baritone #musician #lirica
October 9, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Can’t believe huge upset, Bruins beat Penn St yesterday. Sad that, having already written off the Bruins, I didn’t even bother watching what sounds like it was an amazing game. Sounds like Jerry Neuheisel was the hero as interim offensive coordinator. Go Bruins!
October 5, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Can’t believe huge upset, Bruins beat Penn St yesterday. Sad that, having already written off the Bruins, I didn’t even bother watching what sounds like it was an amazing game. Sounds like Jerry Neuheisel was the hero as interim offensive coordinator. Go Bruins!
Core memory: the smell and feel of the air in one of these Crew Quarter rooms, when it is wintry outside but warm within, and the air inside the room smells like coffee from the hot cup thereof you’ve brought in. First experienced that exact sensation 12 years ago, and it’s very distinct.
October 3, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Core memory: the smell and feel of the air in one of these Crew Quarter rooms, when it is wintry outside but warm within, and the air inside the room smells like coffee from the hot cup thereof you’ve brought in. First experienced that exact sensation 12 years ago, and it’s very distinct.
Aurora reflected
September 26, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Aurora reflected
Travel back to my remote home: 3.5-hr flight from Seattle to Alaska. 2 days of waiting while we wait for some transport to become available out to the lodge. Ride up on day 3 with the grocery run: about a ~9hr truck ride.
September 23, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Travel back to my remote home: 3.5-hr flight from Seattle to Alaska. 2 days of waiting while we wait for some transport to become available out to the lodge. Ride up on day 3 with the grocery run: about a ~9hr truck ride.
Got hired to write music for a documentary about the Republic of Georgia 🇬🇪. Went to my first ever MLB game the other night, with oyster appetizer!
September 11, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Got hired to write music for a documentary about the Republic of Georgia 🇬🇪. Went to my first ever MLB game the other night, with oyster appetizer!
Currently in Seattle, role with Vashon Opera (in Cendrillon). Home base still AK (work tourism, dig wilderness, practice music). Rn reading Pynchon’s “V.” & McPhee’s “Coming Into the Country” (try to read 1 fiction + 1 nonfiction at any time).
September 11, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Currently in Seattle, role with Vashon Opera (in Cendrillon). Home base still AK (work tourism, dig wilderness, practice music). Rn reading Pynchon’s “V.” & McPhee’s “Coming Into the Country” (try to read 1 fiction + 1 nonfiction at any time).
Excited for college football to return (shocking any person who knew me prior to like the last 3 years of my life). Let’s go Bruins tonight vs the Utes.
August 30, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Excited for college football to return (shocking any person who knew me prior to like the last 3 years of my life). Let’s go Bruins tonight vs the Utes.
If your Twin Peaks fandom does not make room for both Windom Earle and Chet Desmond, if your Twin Peaks theory does not weave in both Desmond, Earle and the events of the Mark Frost Books, your fandom is not truly intersectional and you are at best a partial ally #dobetter
August 21, 2025 at 10:39 AM
If your Twin Peaks fandom does not make room for both Windom Earle and Chet Desmond, if your Twin Peaks theory does not weave in both Desmond, Earle and the events of the Mark Frost Books, your fandom is not truly intersectional and you are at best a partial ally #dobetter
Traveling Canada’s Dempster Highway was a hoot and a half 7/4/25-7/6/25
July 10, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Traveling Canada’s Dempster Highway was a hoot and a half 7/4/25-7/6/25
April 21, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Best time-lapse of the eclipse you’ll see today. Eclipse + growing&moving Aurora—captured above the Arctic Circle in interior Alaska. #alaska #alaskasky #alaskan #eclipse #lunareclipse #totallunareclipse #totaleclipseofthemoon #arctic #astrophotography #timelapse #insearchoflosttimelapse #prolapse
March 14, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Best time-lapse of the eclipse you’ll see today. Eclipse + growing&moving Aurora—captured above the Arctic Circle in interior Alaska. #alaska #alaskasky #alaskan #eclipse #lunareclipse #totallunareclipse #totaleclipseofthemoon #arctic #astrophotography #timelapse #insearchoflosttimelapse #prolapse
A moody sky reflects in a slough of the Koyukuk River. #naturephotographer #landscapephotographer #photographer #photography #photograph #photo #alaska #alaskan #alaskasky #mountain #mountains #river #becomeriver #arctic #tundra #forest #summer #cold #beautiful #publiclands #federallands #blm #nps
March 10, 2025 at 7:35 PM
A moody sky reflects in a slough of the Koyukuk River. #naturephotographer #landscapephotographer #photographer #photography #photograph #photo #alaska #alaskan #alaskasky #mountain #mountains #river #becomeriver #arctic #tundra #forest #summer #cold #beautiful #publiclands #federallands #blm #nps
Walking high on a sun-kissed mountain tundra in Northern Alaska’s Brooks Range. #hiking #climbing #hikers #climbers #mountainclimbing #tundra #beauty #alaska #alaskan #alaskasky #landscapephotographer #naturephotographer #photographer #photography #photograph #nature #mountain #mountains #summer
March 9, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Walking high on a sun-kissed mountain tundra in Northern Alaska’s Brooks Range. #hiking #climbing #hikers #climbers #mountainclimbing #tundra #beauty #alaska #alaskan #alaskasky #landscapephotographer #naturephotographer #photographer #photography #photograph #nature #mountain #mountains #summer