Lower Kalskag. Canon S500

Another scanned image from the archives. Taken in the Alaska Range during a trip up the Moose's Tooth. The mountain just to the left of center is Mt. Barille. To the right of Mt. Barille, lost in the mists is the Ruth Amphitheater. Some maps call it the Don Sheldon Amphitheater. Minolta XG-1. Scanned with the Canon Canoscan 8400F.

Minolta XG-1

Misty morning in Seward. Canon S110

Minolta XG-1

The harbor at Kodiak, taken yesterday afternoon. When the weather's nice on Kodiak, there are few places that can compare. Canon S500

A view of Kodiak. Canon S500

Kodiak panorama, yesterday afternoon.

Scanned from a slide. A bike trip on the Denali highway. Minolta XG-1.

This is a scanned slide from Katmai, a sunrise on Naknek Lake. It was taken with my Minolta XG-1, Fujichrome Provia 100, and a polarizing filter.

Lower Kalskag. Canon S500

Lower Kalskag. Canon S500

King Salmon

Canon S500

Canon S500

The old Russian Orthodox Church in Lower Kalskag. Canon S500

Looking up river. Kuskokwim River near Kalskag. Canon S500

Travelling again tomorrow. I'll hopefully be backposting Wednesday.

Lighthouse at Point Reyes. This is a scan from a slide. Kodachrome 64, Minolta XG-1

The Anchorage schools held a cross-country running 'jamboree' yesterday at Russian Jack Park. It was a nice day (for a change) and my daughter was running in the 3rd & 4th grade girls mile run. So I thought I'd post some photos of yesterday's events.

My daughter getting ready to run her mile at yesterday's cross-country jamboree.

The start of the 3rd & 4th grade girls run at yesterday's cross-country jamboree.

Finishing her mile run at the cross-country jamboree

After finishing her mile run

Naknek Lake, Canon S500

Anchorage International Airport, Canon S500

Unalakleet, last week before the big storm decended. Canon S500

Resurrection Bay, Minolta XG-1

This was taken at Brooks Camp two weeks ago. The building in the background is the ranger station. This guy was just on his way to the lake and wasn't too concerned about us. Still, this is about as close as I want to be. Canon S500.

Here's a photo from just moments before, when I spotted him on the knoll, by the time I took this, he dissapeared in the grass. It's amazing how something so big can be so silent and unobtrusive.

Above are two photos taken in Elim. It was so windy and rainy that I didn't take too many photos. Some of the photos blurred because I couldn't hold the camera still in the wind gusts.

Looking down the bar at the Board of Trade Saloon, Nome.

A Cessna Caravan on a scheduled stop to Selawik. These are great aircraft. We later flew another Caravan form Selawik straight to Nome.

While Iwas waiting at the airstrip, this barge came upriver to unload some equipment This is the only way materiel that is too heavy or bulky to fly in gets out here. This barge was unloading some equipment for a construction project for the FAA. Typically, it'll sit on solid ground (near the airstrip) until the ground freezes enough to support the weight of the equipment and then the drill rig will drill the holes for the piling foundation. One of the crew told me that they came up on this barge from Seattle specifically to deliver this equipment, with stops in Anchorage and Nome. They then planned to go to Kotzebue and St. Lawrence Island before heading home. He said it's pretty tough, but I wouldn't want to be on it in the middle of the Gulf of Alaska in bad weather, but that's just me.

Kids playing after school. If you're wondering what the metal piping is, it's a surface run sewer system in arctic pipe. This is necessary because of the permafrost. That's also why the structures are off of the ground.

This was posted in the store in Selawik, so no moaning about how much you have to pay for gas.

Selawik and one of the more unique lawn ornaments that I've run across in a while.

The main grocery store.

This building is the Selawik City Hall and State Troopers headquarters

The Selawik Tribal Clinic

The village of Selawik.

Fridaynight playing around. Here's a panorama taken from Glen Alps 9/10/05. I've just begun playing with panorama images and am posting this for comments/criticisms. One thing I noticed taking it, is that a rock steady tripod is an absolute must. I'll post more western Alaska photos tomorrow morning.

Back home (and loving it). I and my coworker had the slam bang tour of NW Alaska the last few days. First up to Kotzebue on the Alaska Airlines jet. Then a scheduled flight to the village Selawik. Due to incoming crappy weather and the vagaries of bush travel, our connection back to Kotzebue never happened. Fortunately, a hunting party had a chartered a Caravan directly to Nome. They were pilots, so all of a sudden transportation became easy. They offered us a ride to Nome, so we took it since we were going there the next day anyway. Well the weather caught up with us in Nome. There were major storm warnings about a bad storm front stretching from St. Lawrence Island to Hooper Bay. Nonetheless, we made it out to the village of Elim, where we overnighted. The temperature was in the low forties, not bad. However, the rain coupled with the high winds that brought the rain in horizontally made for a somewhat nasty day. I couldn't take too many photos as we couldn't see too much. However, the area around Elim is beautiful and had the weather cooperated, would have been outstanding. This photo was taken in Elim, on our walk to the store to supplement our meager rations. Canon S500. I'll post more tomorrow.

I have to go out of town again for a few days, so I'll leave you with this photo from Katmai. I'll be out Kotzebue & Nome way. Work ya'know. I don't know if I'll get any pictures, but I always take the camera, just in case. Canon S500

Sunrise, Naknek Lake, Katmai. Canon S500

Fall coloring along the shore of Brooks Lake, Katmai National Park. Canon S500

Just another day at the beach. Canon S500

It's always good to get home. Even when you've been someplace as mind-blowing as Katmai Nat. Park. Here's the main mode of transportation in & out. Canon S500

Like our 8-legged friend above, I too must toil incessantly and this week that toil takes me out of town. With luck, I'll be back here by Friday. I'm taking my digital and film cameras though. Wouldn't leave home without one or both.