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The Getaway, Hawaii, HI, May 2013

admin — Sun, 21 Jul 2013 20:15:35 +0000

This year’s big summer vacation was to Hawaii (the Big Island). Can’t say enough good things about the place… relaxing, great food, so much to do. It’s incredible. The photos below don’t do it justice, but I tried to include a little something different than the usual Hawaiian vacation photos.

Two highlights: driving 14,000′ above sea level to the top of Mauna Kea and hiking out to the southernmost point in the United States (coming within a year to the day of visiting the northernmost point in the United States!).

Hope you enjoy the photos!

Holy Coconut

Pink Hibiscus

Frangipani

Waiting for a bite...

On the Water

Butterfly + Frond

Yellow-billed Cardinal

Gecko

South Point Fishing

Alaskan Brewing Co. Represent!

Looking Up

Windswept

Southern Hawaii Grafitti

Southernmost Landfill?

Lost Sole

Green Sand Beach

Green Sand Surf

Broken

South Point Sunset

Grazing

Windfarm and Cows

Moo

Powerful Sunset

Wrapped Up

Peek-a-boo

Pencil Urchin

Partial Solar Eclipse

Maui from 14,000 Feet

Mauna Kea Observatories

Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope

Most Scenic Stop Sign Ever

Mauna Kea Fog

Hilo Alley

Hawaiian Zebra

Road Closed... Really?

PBR + Lava

Lava Field

Sunset + Clouds

New York, NY, September 2012

admin — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 05:32:08 +0000

Another year, another trip to New York City! I got to visit a few new parts of the city, including the Upper West Side and Brooklyn, and focused on non-touristy subjects. The colors, textures, and scenes you can find are amazing. Enjoy…

40th Floor View of Midtown.

Wet Paint!

Violinist.

Produce

You Are Here

Times Square Stop

Brooklyn Stairs

Red.

Cloud Porn.

Beautiful Central Park Day.

Pizza!

Amsterdam Ave.

Columbia Campus.

Barnard.

Architectural Abstraction.

Trash.

Don't walk.

Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine

I'm a Dreamer.

Sound Recommendation.

Reflection.

Apartments at Central Park West.

Imagine.

Bark Textures.

Alice in Wonderland.

Burlington, VT & Manchester, NH, June 2012

admin — Sat, 16 Jun 2012 05:59:47 +0000

Took a little trip to the opposite coast and visited a few states I’d never been to before – Vermont and New Hampshire. Both great places, full of trees, fireflies, and cheap maple syrup. Good times!

The Trees

Shelburne Farms

Lamb 007

Avalanche the Calf

Tag!

Playing Piglets

Donkey on Green

The view.

Canopy of Trees

Flowers

Big Bumble Bee

Oooooooooh. I see.

Tree and a path.

Downtown Burlington

Leggy Apparel

Manchester YMCA

Fallout Shelter

Door to nowhere.

It was a plain walkway for sure, but pedestrian is a little harsh.

NH Fisher Cats Baseball

...and the pitch!

Fisher Cats Baseball

Brew Fest 2012 @ Haines, AK, May 2012

admin — Sat, 16 Jun 2012 05:36:51 +0000

Whew. Haines. Brew Fest. Crazy!

There are not many photos from the event itself… it’s hard to hold a camera and sample at the same time. I did at least manage some nice “out & about” shots of Haines. Enjoy!

Brew Fest 2012!

Packed Dalton City

Battery Point

Yellow Daisy

Bemused Boxer

Honey Moon Hotel

MV Partner

Artsy boat.

Haines in black and white.

Lackadaisical Lab

Barrow, AK, May 2012

admin — Mon, 21 May 2012 18:54:27 +0000

What a trip!

Barrow, Alaska, is a pretty dynamic place this time of year – above-freezing temperatures and nearly 24 hours of sunlight kick starts the breakup of snow and ice that accumulated over a long winter. In just 3 days, lagoons that were buried beneath a layer of white ice suddenly burst into open bodies of water that some locals found irresistible (see the photo below of the snowmachine on the water!). Ditches that were empty were now nearly overflowing with meltwater and driveways turned from great places to park your car into front yard lakes. Again, all this happened in less than 72 hours. Incredible.

I did not have the (mis)fortune of encountering a polar bear, but I don’t think this will be my last trip to the “Top of the World”! Enjoy the photos!

Sun Dog

Naval Arctic Research Lab Housing

Pink Van

Post-Apocalyptic Playground

Two Boats

Bowhead Whale Jaw and Midnight Sunset

Umiaq

Furthest North Mexican Restaurant

Boxer Ocean and Sky

Discarded Bunny

Discarded Scout

Barrow Terminal

Discarded Muktuk

Duke on a Pink Bike

Common and King Eiders

No Kids in this Area

Barrow Snow Bird

Success

Snowbird in Flight

Rippie's Pull Tab

Snowmachine Crossing

Barrow Sunshine

Barrow Lake Fun

Enjoying the Sunshine

Whaler Love

Save the Whales... for Dinner

Polar Bear Escape Technique #23

Black Eye

No Cutting Corners

The Plane has Arrived

Totem Pole

admin — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 16:12:32 +0000

This is an oldie, but I stumbled across it last night and remembered working on it years ago, so I thought I’d share it… again! I shot this photo at Sitka National Historical Park (a.k.a. Totem Park) in Sitka, Alaska. This park is Alaska’s oldest national park, created in 1910 to commemorate the 1804 Battle of Sitka, and has dozens of totem poles and other totemic art lining its pathways. It’s really a beautiful park to walk through and I’d highly recommend visiting it if you ever find yourself in Southeast Alaska. The original photo was shot on medium format film with my old Yashica-MAT LMcamera, then I scanned it and added the color digitally based on the original colors on the totem, with a few artistic tweaks here and there.

Seattle, WA, September 2011

admin — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 16:00:50 +0000

Mostly Seattle, anyway! This trip was tacked on to the end of the trip to Washington, DC, and was done so for the sole purpose of taking my 80 year old grandma skydiving*. Oh, and it didn’t hurt that Bumbershoot was happening around the same time and had some bands on the lineup that I really wanted to see. (You can see what I thought of that over at juneaurocks.com!)

The first few photos below were taken during the drive to Portland, OR, and ultimately, Molalla, OR, home of Skydive Oregon, and the rest were taken in downtown Seattle. As you can see, it was sunny. It is hard to beat the Pacific Northwest when the sunshine hits and it warms up – these kind of days make up for so many gray, rainy days.

Enjoy!

Amber waves of grain?

Hit the road.

My heroes.

Brick Post Office

Silos

Space Needle and EMP

Funhouse?

MarchFourth Marching Band

Hugs and the Rotary Grocery

Holy mackerel!

Flying fish.

Pike Place

They put the edible in incredible!

Post Alley

There is no parking for past or present residents - sorry.

Westin Towers

Urban Waterfall

Palace Kitchen

Broken Social Scene

Rocking out

Neon

Last day...

Purple durple

Spicy scallop and shrimp ceviche. OH YEAH.

Western Ave

The fountain and the Space Needle. I can now say I have run through the fountain!

The Fremont Troll

Washington, DC, August 2011

admin — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 05:24:47 +0000

If you ever have the urge to be humbled beyond words, just head to our nation’s capital and take in as many memorials and monuments as you can. The scope and sheer size of them, combined with the deep meaning and everything they symbolize, will really bring into perspective everything that’s been done in our country’s history.

This was my second trip to DC, but the first time I really got to see the sights and have any amount of time to really feel the emotions these monuments command. I need to go back. I have a feeling I could spend a week in DC and not cover everything I want to, which is a good thing because that’s a pretty good excuse to keep going back, as if one is really necessary!

(Also… you’ll notice a photo of a veal chop below. That was taken inside Filomena Ristorante, right in Georgetown. Amazing food, amazing atmosphere, amazing amazing amazing. Did I say amazing?)

US Capitol

Clock inside Union Station.

Arches & Statues

Trains... Tickets

Atrium in Union Station.

Intricate ceiling.

Umbrella

DC sunset.

Navigating.

The... building.

Glassy skies.

Interesting fact!

Excellent veal parmigiana at Filomena.

Georgetown Park.

Iwo Jima memorial.

Capitol dome and Washington monument.

Jefferson Memorial

The steps to the Jefferson Memorial

Looks like the moon... or a UFO.

TJ was a tall guy.

Washington Monument via Jefferson Memorial.

At the Martin Luther King, Jr. memorial.

The Martin Luther King, Jr. memorial.

World War II Memorial

Alaska represented at the WWII Memorial.

DC intersection.

The US Treasury building.

1600 Pennsylvania Ave

Bank of America

Um.. yeah.

Outside Lands @ San Francisco, CA, August 2011

admin — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 21:15:23 +0000

I attended the Outside Lands festival in San Francisco for the second time this past week. What a blast! So many great bands and TONS of people. There’s a full review over at juneaurocks.com with some video and more photos. I’ll let the photos do the talking here…

Boats and boats.

Foster the People audience.

The Shins

Skull candy?

You see everything in San Francisco... A robot? Really?

OK Go rocking out.

People of all ages love Outside Lands!

Arctic Monkeys

The Black Keys killed it!

Huge crowd of festival goers.

Muse

Muse had an awesome stage setup... as usual.

Oooooh. Lasers!

More lasers!

The Decemberists

Arcade Fire in red.

Arcade Fire

Carpet of beer cups...

Boats and the Golden Gate bridge.

Row row row your boat!

To the sky.

Fisherman

These gulls were all aggro. Too many steroids.

Harbor Princess

Sailboat and Alcatraz

Barbershop Quartet

Mmmmmmm.

Southeast Alaska State Fair @ Haines, AK, July 2011

admin — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 18:37:09 +0000

Great music, great food, great beer, and great people. What more could you ask for!?

If you live in Juneau and have never been to the Southeast Alaska State Fair in Haines, you’re missing out. Even if you go for just one day, you’ll get it. You’ll see understand why Juneau is so quiet the last weekend of every July – everybody is in Haines!

This year’s musical talent was amazing and of course, the weather helped. On Saturday, July 30, the busiest day of the fair, the clouds parted, the sun shined, and ev

All aboard!

Made from 100 percent alpaca.

Floater.

Bubbly personalities.

Smile pretty.

Campfire.

Careful with that axe Eugene.

Great music all around.

Let the hijinks ensue.

Hillstomp

The .357 String Band

Beached whale?

Back to the ferry terminal.

Fireweed aplenty.

Chilkoot river.

Chilkoot river totem pole.

Lighthouse.