Totem Pole

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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

Posted on September 8, 2011 by admin

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!

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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

Posted on September 1, 2011 by admin

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?)

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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

Posted on August 20, 2011 by admin

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…

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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

Posted on August 5, 2011 by admin

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

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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.

Flooding @ Mendenhall Glacier, Juneau, AK, July 2011

Posted on July 21, 2011 by admin

Strange happenings at the Mendenhall Glacier! Apparently a lake in/on the glacier burst and released a lot of water into the lake and caused a lot of flooding. Read more here.

Enjoy the photos!

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Mendenhall River rushing fast and high!

Flooded Steep Creek.

Almost over the footpath.

Paddling where you normally don't paddle!

High waters.

Sunny skies at the glacier.

Bluesy.

Waterfall.

Mendenhall Glacier with a little extra water.

This squirrel loves his cottonwood all over his nose.

View from East Glacier Trail.

Fungus amongus.

Flooded trail to Nugget Falls.

Daisies.

Stairway to nowhere.

Peekingatchu.

Well hi there.

Butterfly and fireweed.

A Day Around, On, & Under the Mendenhall, Juneau, AK, July 2011

Posted on July 4, 2011 by admin

All I have to say is, “WOW.”

I’ve been to the face of the Mendenhall Glacier, but I’ve never been lucky enough to discover a glacier cave until now and I definitely understand why people get so excited about them.

It was amazingly bright no matter how far from the entrance you got. Light somehow found its way through the mass of ice above, which filtered out all but the blue light and gave an eerie glow everywhere you looked. I had a field day snapping photos and constructing makeshift camera platforms from rocks. These are the best in my opinion – enjoy!

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