Images from Wrangell St. Elias National Park
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I crossed the River Styx, and lived…
For me, summer is a time of chaos, long hours, travel, and moments of serenity found in nature. These are a sampling of images that tell a story of the first half of my summer field season. As a geologist for the State of Alaska I was fortunate to explore the Western Alaska Range’s Styx River and Kuskokwim River regions by foot and by helicopter. There really is no better way to see the state. We were based out of the historic Rainy Pass Lodge, one of the oldest lodges in the state and also one of the first checkpoints on the iconic Iditarod dog sled race.
glassy puntilla lake
Long exposure of puntilla lake
4th of July fireworks at Rainy Pass Lodge
Volleyball at Rainy Pass Lodge
Float plane taking off out of Puntilla lake
Radio repeaters and solar setup
Rainy Pass Lodge looking South
Glacial lake swimming
Solo morning traverse
Any sheep?
Never ending mountains
Brightly colored slope
The beckoning slope
Ridge worker
The ponderer
Alpine flowers
Sun spot
Tight landing
Helicopter fieldwork
Glacier recession
Foggy morning
Summer weddings
These last few weeks have been very busy and exciting. I had my first two weddings of the season in the beginning of July and have been busy processing and editing all of the images for the happy couples. It has been refreshing meeting so many wonderful people at the weddings and I couldn’t have asked for a more fun group of people! Thank you to both of the families as well who were so excited and helped to make the days unforgettable.
Since the bulk of my image work is done I thought I would share with you all some of my favorites. These are by no means all of my favorites but it is a good selection none the less.
If you are interested in a photographer for your wedding, please contact me
champagne glasses
brides shoes hanging
groom talking with guest
wedding couple getting prepared
bride composing herself
preparing for the ceremony
wedding rings in hand
brothers walking bride down the aisle
couple getting married at Wedgewood resort
mother fixing dress at altar
couple portrait on the grass
at the altar
man and wife
reception celebrations
tossing the bouquet
the complete wedding party
a toast to the couple
first dance
The New Look
Well I have finally gotten around to integrating my blog and my website. The idea will be to keep everyone informed in a way that won’t require looking at multiple sites. I used a round about method called simplepie, because it is as simple as pie of course, but let me tell you for an amateur self taught web designer like myself, it took me all day to set this one up. Although it turned out the real problem was that feedburner.com and simplepie do not get along really well and so in order for me to get full text rss I had to send my feeds through a 3rd party rss full text creator.
For anyone looking to create a website with no background knowledge of how to do so, and simply trying to do it on your own with no help/classes, I would recommend having a lot of time on your hands. And occasionally putting on some nice music and grabbing a glass of wine when you are really hitting a bog.
All that aside I would really like to hear what you all think of the new look. Do you like it more? Is it easier to navigate the site? What would you like to see to make it better? Let me know, all of your comments would be appreciated.
I hope you can all get out and enjoy what we have left of summer
Erik