After a very busy fall, I finally had time to process my photos from Alaska. The results can be downloaded here, as a portfolio ebook with about 100 new photographs. There are autumnal landscapes and plants, mountains, glaciers, misty fjords and ocean scenes, and even some wildlife sprinkled in this new collection. I have included a small sampling of the photographs in this blog post but they will look better in the ebook.
As I mention in the ebook, the size, scope, and wildness of Alaska is difficult to articulate. A map provides an intellectual approximation of its size, but the emotional realization of how big a place Alaska is doesn’t really settle in until visiting in person and for several weeks. This is the perspective I have from driving around the very small slice of Alaska that is paved (or well graded) within a reasonable distance of its largest population center. Even that “less wild” part was incredible—imagine the overwhelming majority of the state which is inaccessible except by water or plane. Hopefully in the future we won’t have to imagine, as we plan on making several return visits.
Alaska felt like a mashup of some of our favorite places including Iceland, the Pacific Northwest, Acadia, and the Canadian Rockies. We enjoyed the diversity of the landscape, from spending hours on a boat photographing wildlife (in rain), glaciers (in rain), or photographing mountains (in rain), or photographing autumn plants (in rain), and seeing moose, bear, caribou, sea lions, bald eagles and more (in rain)—there was no shortage of things to enjoy, even if there was a shortage of sun.
While it is naive to assume this portfolio ebook will do any justice to this incredible place, hopefully it will do justice to our first, but not last, trip to Alaska.
