Different day, same flower.

Life in the front yard

School's out

Thursday morning rainbow, taken from the front yard around 6a.m. Canon S500.

View looking east, up DeArmoun road around 6a.m.

Well, it's summer soccer season again. Sarah and her best friend Emma are on the same team. This is from just before Tuesdaynight's game. Taken with my Canon S500, auto settings.

Warming up with a cup of coffee. Lower Kalskag, Minolta XG-1, Kodachrome64

More winterlight, Lower Kalskag, Minolta XG-1, Kodachrome64

Gassing up the sled. Lower Kalskag. Minolta XG-1, Kodachrome64

The village of Lower Kalskag, on the Kuskokwim River, upriver of Bethel approxomately 100 miles. Minolta XG-1, kodachrome 64.

Winterlight, lower Kalskag. Minolta XG-1, Kodachrome 64.

Lower Kalskag cemetery. Minolta XG-1 Kodachrome 64. One thing about winter in the far north, the winter daylight is this golden perpetual twilight due to the sun's being so low on the horizon, when it's above it at all.

A view of Turnagain Arm from Gull Rock

The power plant at Ft. Wainwright in Fairbanks , Alaska. This is a work photo I took. I typically take lots of photos, so I have something to refer to back in the office. This one just stood out on its own.

Both photos were taken with my Minolta XG-1.

Downtown Bethel

Between Whittier & Valdez from a 172

The approach to Valdez.

Sunrise from partially up Barometer Mountain on Kodiak. No this was not taken from a plane. One morning this past February, while working in Kodiak, a coworker and I decided to hike up the hills to the actual base of the mountain early before work. The mountain itself had too much snow for us to safely go to the top without equipment. Barometer mountain is near the airport(as you can see) and so was the place where we were staying. So we hightailed it into the hills at 6a.m. with headlamps and flashlights. I was cursing myself for not bringing a tripod. This totally untouched photo was taken with my Canon S500, on auto setting with the flash off and balanced on my knee as I huffed and puffed. SOmetimes you just get lucky.

A quiet cove on Anton Larson Bay on Kodiak Island. When the weather's nice, Kodiak, to me at least, is one of the most beautiful places on earth.

One of yesterday's photos was of American Beach. Presently an island in a sea of crackerbox development. Here's the history on it. Click to enlarge and read.

A photo of American Beach north of Jacksonville. This beautiful little spot is being closed in from both the north and south by runaway development of the ugliest sort. It was a little oasis and a reminder of how Florida used to be at one time.

Below is a view in color and BW, of the beach near Little Talbot Island State Park. This beach looks like it probably did when the conquistadors landed.

St. Augustine, Fla.

St. Augustine, Fla.

A view of Powerline Pass from yesterday's bike ride.

Looking west, back down Powerline Pass.

A view of Anchorage on the way home.

Dining out

The gals heading further up Falls Creek.

The two photos below are scanned slides. Taken in the Olympics, in Washington. An old friend Joe, and I had been hiking and stopped to rest at this spot, which had a fine view. We were above some low lying clouds. The clouds were moving in, up and over the mountains. A nice show.

Thankyou Stephen (http://www.vodkapundit.com/) for the very kind words. I see so many photoblogs by people with truely great talent and photgraphic skill. I feel very fortunate that I have Alaska to photograph to make up for my midling skill. Sometimes, when standing in the mountains on a beautiful day, I think that it would be more of a challenge to make a bad photo. But I love photography and sharing the images and I hope that I improve as time goes by. That's one of the purposes of this blog. Enjoy.

The top photo was a kodachrome slide taken withmy Minolta. The lower image was with the Canon S110.

Falls Creek

The old Nike missle installation overlooking Anchorage. Canon S110, handhald.

The 'Top of the world' highway, near the US/Canadian border. West of Dawson, in the Yukon. Minolta XG-1, 35-135 lense. Taken during a spring bike trip a few years back.

Kelly holding my bike as I take this photo, just after riding through the spot in the image above.

Taken with a Canon S110, auto settings, no flash

As promised, another remote strip approach photo. Don't ask me why I have a hangup on 'em because I don't know. THis is coming into Lime Village. A different trip from the the preceeding photo. This was in a twin. (insert audible sigh of relief, here)

This is flying through Merrill Pass in a 207 on our way to Lime Village, which is approximately 200 miles west of Anchorage. Personally, I prefer flying the pass in a twin. There are several wreckages visible on the mountainsides, where some poor unfortunate got caught below a dropping ceiling and couldn't turn around and get out or climb out of it. But itis beautiful.

Below are a couple of scanned images of Bettles. These were taken with the Minolta XG-1. Also below is an image from Port Heiden, also called Meshik on some maps.
More later today, hopefully.

The greater Bettles metro area.

Bettles. This has to arguably be one of the northernmost phone booths in the USA.

Port Heiden on the Alaska Penninsula. Hank's Hardware motto, "If we don't have it, you don't need it."

Sitka approach in a Cessna 207

St. Augustine Florida.

The two scanned images below were taken with my trusty old Minolta XG-1. These are old slides, Kodachrome 64 film, 35-135 lense with polarizing filter and scanned in with a Canon Canoscan-8400F scanner. For being a low priced flat-bed scanner, the Canoscan does a remarkablygood job, in my opinion.

The lower photo is of the Big Sur coast, the upper image is Frenchman Lake, about 50 miles norht of Reno and just across the state line, in California.

Another scanned slide image. Scanned with the Canon Canoscan8400F scanner.