I had brought up some photos that my mother takes here in Alaska and after much feedback and suggestions (Thanks CRG) I am posting this topic so everyone can take a look at some of Alaska if you have never been.
Please look at the following link.. and Enjoy
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sallyspics/
(http://i604.photobucket.com/albums/tt123/dbrown1_smoker/bye.jpg)
(http://i604.photobucket.com/albums/tt123/dbrown1_smoker/yawn.jpg)
(http://i604.photobucket.com/albums/tt123/dbrown1_smoker/northernlights.jpg)
Here is just a brief sampling
Thought maybe you all could share some of your photos as well...
Amazing pictures dbrown1
Thanks for sharing them.
Peter
Very cool!
AWesome db, glad you did it....CRG
Beautiful pictures!
Great pictures! I was up in your state for my honeymoon a fews years back and just loved it! If I knew I could find a good job up there I would probably move up there. Awsome state!!
Ole
Thanks for the look DB. Nice photos. Is your mother a nature photographer?
Your mom definitely has an eye for capturing Alaska...her photos illustrate her passion for the beauty of this state! Having been in most of the places she illustrates, I can say that her photographs have the real look and feel that prompts the taste, smell, feel of the views she has captured. ThanX for sharing what I never tire of seeing...well, EXCEPT for the cat pics ;)!
I'm not even HALF the photographer she is, but here's a few of my snapshots taken here in Alaska...
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v728/Kummok/IMG_1646.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v728/Kummok/HomerSummer03.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v728/Kummok/144-4442_IMG.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v728/Kummok/Sunrise.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v728/Kummok/Untangled.jpg)
Thank you both; DB1 and Kummok for sharing these beautiful captures of Alaskan wilderness.
HR
ArnieM, Nah she's just retired though I keep telling her she should try marketing some of those.
Kummok, great photos didn't know you was a salmon smoker extraordinaire and a bird charmer..
Thanks for all the kind words and I am glad I could share
Dbrown and Kummok!
What great pics of AK...wish I was there :)
Believe it or not I got married in Anchorage, AK, it was some crazy elopement idea we came up with :D
But it was a lot of fun!
Carolyn
We spent a week up there back in 2004.. Beautiful. BIG. I must have put 1300 miles on our little rental car.
Carolyn, you would appreciate our choice of lodging in Anchorage.
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Carolyn, the first thing I'd do is get a good lawyer ... ;D
Quote from: ArnieM on October 06, 2009, 01:39:34 PM
Carolyn, the first thing I'd do is get a good lawyer ... ;D
Arnie, I love your remarks....you are a hoot
Kummock great photos, thanks for sharing.
db again thanks and thank your mom. CRG
Quote from: ArnieM on October 06, 2009, 01:39:34 PM
Carolyn, the first thing I'd do is get a good lawyer ... ;D
:D :D :D :D
Arnie,
You are a hoot!
I think God trademarked "Caribou" long ago!
Squirt,
We rented a c-class motor home for a week and then hunted for 2 weeks.
I even got me my own caribou, too.
I should did up a pic. :)
Carolyn
Thanks all who posted the beautiful pictures, the only picts I have around me is corn or beans with what you guys would call small tree lines. ::)
Quote from: OU812 on October 06, 2009, 03:29:00 PM
Thanks all who posted the beautiful pictures, the only picts I have around me is corn or beans with what you guys would call small tree lines. ::)
Same view here. Nebraska must look very similar to Central Illinois..
Quote from: Caribou on October 06, 2009, 03:15:48 PM
We rented a c-class motor home for a week and then hunted for 2 weeks.
I even got me my own caribou, too.
We had a Dodge Neon. Not very spacious. Saw lots of caribou, Musk Ox, and quite a few bears in Denali. And one moose, standing in a ditch early one morning as we drove by... Scared the daylights out of me.
What is the green stuff on the bottom of the first trio of pictures? Pollen?
Quote from: squirtthecat on October 06, 2009, 03:35:57 PM
Quote from: OU812 on October 06, 2009, 03:29:00 PM
Thanks all who posted the beautiful pictures, the only picts I have around me is corn or beans with what you guys would call small tree lines. ::)
Same view here. Nebraska must look very similar to Central Illinois..
I think you have more trees squirt
Signs of life in Juneau:
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Is this a beautiful city or what?!?
Thank you to dbrown1, his mother and Kummok for sharing a view of your part of this world. All I can say, beautiful and thanks again. Oh, and I hope to see more! ;D
Great images!!! However.........
We may not have bears, and other critters but we do have BAUBLES.... ;D
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Baubles... did I say Baubles???
Ya I did!
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You should see ST. Pete Beach at Christmas...talk about jiggling ornaments~~!
Olds, that looks like a pretty wild critter! ;D ;D
Them are nice too, yep yep. CRG
DB1's mom is the real photographer....I just get exceptionally great opportunities to take snapshots...Alaska is full of such opportunities.....the following pics are proof....GREAT scenery in the background but a real photographer would have got a LOT more of the whale in these pics....all I ever get is the tail (DON'T touch that one Olds!! ;) ) Albeit I don't have that much invested in cameras... :-\ , I've learned that camera gear is only part of it....having the eye to capture the right photo is what separates photographers (DB1's mom) from snap shooters (that'd be me ;) )
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v728/Kummok/IMG_1977.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v728/Kummok/OrcaFin.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v728/Kummok/IMG_1985.jpg)
Whale "smoke" against the island in the background, just left of the bow......right about here..V
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very nice Kummock, I take out a camera and all I come home with is photos of feet. CRG
Quote from: classicrockgriller on October 06, 2009, 07:09:46 PM
very nice Kummock, I take out a camera and all I come home with is photos of feet. CRG
That happens when your to busy looking at the beauty in front of you and forget to elevate the camera CRG! ;D
Quote from: HawkeyeSmokes on October 06, 2009, 07:23:29 PM
Quote from: classicrockgriller on October 06, 2009, 07:09:46 PM
very nice Kummock, I take out a camera and all I come home with is photos of feet. CRG
That happens when your to busy looking at the beauty in front of you and forget to elevate the camera CRG! ;D
Actually I have a foot fetish. rofl
Quote from: classicrockgriller on October 06, 2009, 08:01:09 PM
Quote from: HawkeyeSmokes on October 06, 2009, 07:23:29 PM
Quote from: classicrockgriller on October 06, 2009, 07:09:46 PM
very nice Kummock, I take out a camera and all I come home with is photos of feet. CRG
That happens when your to busy looking at the beauty in front of you and forget to elevate the camera CRG! ;D
Actually I have a foot fetish. rofl
ROFL here to. :D
I got one decent whale shot from our trip up there... Crappy old Vivitar camera.
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We spent a day doing this... Rolling up/down the old mine roads, crossed a few streams/rivers. Great time.
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I love them pictures everybody.
Kummok I believe you have a picture of the Homer Spit in there from a distance. I think I was up on the same road and took a picture kind of like yours. I forget how far away it is and it brings back a lot of good memories!! :)
Ole
That's taken from the street on which I live....I have to suffer through this view every day :'( :'(
Squirt...your pic reminds me of the day I was dragging cannonballs through a dangerous rip point at slack, headed for a baitball when all of a sudden a whale breaches about 10 yards in front of me, having just scooped up a major mouthful of the same bait ball....he was so close that I could see the look in his eye as the baitfish was streaming out of his mouth, as if to say "Beat ya to 'em, buddy!!" When he splashed back down into the water, I had saltwater and half eaten bait fish all over my boat. That moment is forever burned into the film of my mind...wish I coulda got a photo of it but if I'd have had a camera, I woulda likely just thrown it at the thieving leviathan in anger for ruining my pass and scaring the Kings, (who were also in competition for the bait ball!). Guess I was too angry and dumb founded to realize at the time that he coulda come down on top of my little 24' footer! :o
Here is one of te wife from our trip to Alaska two years ago. Yup she fly fishes.
We were on Monatna Creek that day with a guide. Had a great time.
(http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a133/rmpearson12/Lisa.jpg)
Happy Wife, Happy Fish
Loved Alaska and we will be back.....
Both of them look to be "keepers," Ross.
That looks like a happy lady Ross. And, I could swear, it looks like the fish is smiling too. ;D ;D Is that a salmon? I couldn't tell. Mine come as fillets. ;)
Quote from: Kummok on October 07, 2009, 02:28:48 PM
your pic reminds me of the day I was dragging cannonballs through a dangerous rip point at slack, headed for a baitball when all of a sudden a whale breaches about 10 yards in front of me, having just scooped up a major mouthful of the same bait ball...
I have no idea what you just said, but getting that close to a breaching whale would scare the
cannonballs out of me..
Quote from: ArnieM on October 07, 2009, 05:11:24 PM
That looks like a happy lady Ross. And, I could swear, it looks like the fish is smiling too. ;D ;D Is that a salmon? I couldn't tell. Mine come as fillets. ;)
No not a salmon but a nice size Rainbow Trout.
Ross
These are some photos of db's mom that I liked.
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(http://i1004.photobucket.com/albums/af165/classicrockgriller/Alaska%20Photos/2375522463_6e1697937d_s1.jpg)
(http://i1004.photobucket.com/albums/af165/classicrockgriller/Alaska%20Photos/2465956184_0a5e335e36_m1.jpg)
(http://i1004.photobucket.com/albums/af165/classicrockgriller/Alaska%20Photos/2494455608_06a83bc4ab_m1.jpg)
Did an earlier post say that she was not a professional? :o
Or did I dream that?
RossP,
Mrs. P rocks! What a fish, I love to fish, too.
Woman who don't fish are missing out on a lot,
Carolyn
Carolyn, I do remember db saying he has tried to get his mom to market her pics but she has chossen not to.
She does have them copy righted thou.
I think at some point she may plan to go that way but for now she just enjoys traveling around with my dad to all parts of Alaska to find things to take photos of.
IMO she has the ability to become professional just not sure that's what she wants at the moment.
I think she could give Art Wolf a run for his money....she's that good!
Carolyn