Canon S500

Halloween or Christmas ornaments?

Canon S500

The blades of a locomotive mounted snowblower. From the locomotive on display at Chugach State Park. Canon S500

Sunset and low tide, last night. Canon S500

Evening light, Turnagain arm. Canon S500

Kodiak. Canon S500

A scan of an old black and white from Bethel taken the winter of 82-83. THis was the old seawall. In the foreground are some test pilings for the new seawall that would be built in the next two years. Minolta XG-1

White Mountains, north of Fairbanks. Canon S500

Canon S500

Rock formation in Turnagain Arm scoured by the tides. Canon S500

I took this photo of 'Rick from Minto' this summer during one of my trips to Fairbanks. In the evening while I was walking around taking some photos. First I hear this voice yell, "you're no tourist." I look around and here's Rick, making conversation and wanting some money, but not coming out and just asking. After a while I give him my street pan-handler test and ask him what he wants. If he doesn't beat around the bush and says, money, I ask him what for. If he tells me the truth I'll cough up a dollar or two. Otherwise, it's no sale and I walk away. So Rick says, "I'm dry man, I need a drink." Fair enough, he passed the test and told the truth.

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.