Seeing is Remembering

Some,
  blessed with keen eyes,
  need only look, to see.

Some,
  blessed with photographic memories,
  need only look, to remember.

The rest of us?
We squint endlessly through lenses!

So the rest of us took lots of pictures.

  Glaciers,
        humpbacks,
              orcas,
  fjords,
        bears,
              icebergs,
  seals,
        sea lions,
              eagles...

We remember seeing the Alexander Archipeligo through the camera lens.

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Major Stops

Sitka
Risky Strait
Chatham Strait
Red Bluff Inlet
Le Conte Bay
Petersburg
Icy Strait
Glacier Bay
Inian Isles
Georges Island
Elfin Cove
Endicott Arm
Ford's Terror
Dawes Glacier
Juneau

Ice and Snow

The gunwale of a Zodiac often afforded an interesting perspective.

Glaciers

We saw many of the tidewater glaciers of Southeast Alaska from the deck of the Sea Lion.

Fjords

The diminutive Sea Lion slipped into some narrow fjords.

Amateur Photography

Except where otherwise noted, all of these pictures were taken with my Nikon Coolpix 8800 or my older Nikon Coolpix 950. Both were chosen for their portability and rapid adaptability. Portability because they are more characteristically carried in my rucksack or even on my belt. Rapid adaptability because I have never developed that patience displayed by real nature photographers.

Digital photography seems to have removed many of the taboos of film. Into the sun, too much contrast, too little contrast, no tripod ... whatever. Embarrassments that can't be cleaned up in Photoshop can just be discarded, with no apologies to the pocketbook!

Alaska

"The Great Land" is our land.

Keep it so --
that our children may see it in more than photographic memory.

          Sunset across Stephens Passage

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