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Summer at the Beach

06 Thursday Sep 2018

Posted by danielwalldammit in Alaska, Bad Photography

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Alaska, Beach, Ice, Ocean, Photos, Pics, Sea Ice, Summer, Water

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I have papers to grade. So, I guess summer is really over.

I was planning to take it easy this summer, but it didn’t exactly work out that way. A move across town took up a lot more time than Moni and I expected. Our trip to Valdez is still the  highlight of the season for me, but I also made it down to Montana on a work-related trip and down again to Fairbanks to help put on the Motif Film Festival. When I wasn’t traveling or taking boxes upstairs, I was busy working on class materials and whatnot. Suffice to say, it was an interesting summer.

One of the most interesting things about this particular summer is just how long the sea ice seemed to remain intact, and how long much of it stuck around shore. It seems like this last winter got started late (snow didn’t start sticking here in Barrow until well into October), so I suppose it’s fitting in some sense that the remnants of that winter would linger a bit. It certainly made for some beautiful views. Few sites compare to the midnight sun shining down on an entire ocean served on the rocks, so to speak.

Yeah, people do swim in this stuff, usually just for a minute or two, just long enough to say they did it.

Other people do this.

Not me.

(Click to embiggen.)

 

 

 

 

 

Mid July
Mid July
Okay, this might not be sea ice
Okay, this might not be sea ice
A touch of yellow
A touch of yellow
Clear and peaceful evening
Clear and peaceful evening
This little guy really wanted me off his beach
This little guy really wanted me off his beach
Lotta Blue
Lotta Blue
...and the world gets diagonal
…and the world gets diagonal
The cloud here steals the show.
The cloud here steals the show.
Hadda zoom a bit for this one
Hadda zoom a bit for this one
A little sea life in the fog there.
A little sea life in the fog there.
Looks like I tweaked this pic a lot, but I really didn't tweak it much
Looks like I tweaked this pic a lot, but I really didn’t tweak it much
Just Cold!
Just Cold!
Icy Reflections
Icy Reflections

 

An ice bow, some sea ice, and an annoying little blue dot.

 

 

Sorry, for the poor quality of this video, and in particular for my very shaky hand.

 

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Actually Wordless this Wednesday – Fog and Sea

15 Wednesday Jan 2014

Posted by danielwalldammit in Bad Photography

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Arctic, August, Blended, Fog, Ocean, Photography, Photos, Pics, Sea

Fog and Sea

Fog and Sea

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The Village of Wainwright, Alaska

26 Sunday May 2013

Posted by danielwalldammit in Alaska, Bad Photography

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Alaska, Boats, Flying, Ocean, Photography, Photos, Pics, Wainwright

Wainwright Street

Wainwright Street

As I’m away from the North Slope at the moment, I find myself looking at photos and such. This afternoon, I am looking at pictures of pictures of the village of Wainwright. I have been there a couple times, in the late summers of 2011 and 2012.

Wainwright is located on the coast (of course). It has a population of a little over 500, but the first time I visited the place I could have sworn it was a ghost town. I literally couldn’t see anyone on the streets. I learned later that folks were probably out hunting, and in any event people began to show up on the streets that afternoon.

I always think it’s fun to just zoom out from these little maps one click at a time. If it doesn’t show, then hit refresh.

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You may of course click on a pic to embiggen it.

Bush planes, you never know who or what will be in the next seat.
Wainwright from above.
Wainwright Street

Another Street Scne
Church
Old Boat

Driftwood in the rain.
I was looking for walruses, worried about bears, and this is what I actually found
Another Old Boat

Boats eye view
Old House
A Dew Liine defense station

Yep, that was my ride home.
Apparently, the school is a rug free zone.
Patriotic Dumpster

Edited Sign
Serpentine Dumpster
Dumpster Gotsa Tude!

Coast
Looking the other way up the coast.
Tundra from the flight in.

…and of course the flight out (not the best video, but it’s kinda neat to see the tundra from above).

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A Couple More Murals and a Squirrel from Denver, no the one is not a Self Portrait

19 Sunday May 2013

Posted by danielwalldammit in Bad Photography, Street Art

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Ar, Colorado, Denver, Photography, Photos, Pics, Street Art, Travel

I call them Love and Peace

I call them Love and Peace

As it happens Denver becomes Vegas and my mind is still on a few things. One of them was an angry squirrel (evidently I was supposed to donate peanuts or something). I really miss the mild temperatures, because Vegas has grown more cruel since I moved to Alaska. Denver was perfect; Vegas is sweltering. Seriously, could someone please turn down the sun?

In any event, I am not well away from the Rocky Mountains and looking over my cache of photos. I thought I’d post a few fun ones, mostly street art. The parks and the mountains were gorgeous. It’s also funny how fascinating trees become when you don’t see them for half the year, but I’ll spare the bulk of these photos. Mostly, you get the art.

Never did get a chance to order from Sexy Pizza.

…dammit!

Here we go… (Click to embiggen!)

Hello!
He was a bit angry as my Squirrel etiquette was lacking (no food)
Top of the World

3-Stories of Mural
Car Mural
Japanese Restaurant

Don’t drink and squid!
Gypsy Place
Sunlight, Trees, and Puddles

Street Art Taken to 11
Escher-Bumper!
Um…

The wacky guys at Whole Foods!
Vines on the front.
Patriotic Mural

School Mural
School Mural 2
School 3

Alley Art
Alley Art 2

Christmas theme?
Lovely Lady!
Diggin it!

er…
I call them Love and Peace
Long View

Happy Fellow
Everyone has critics!
Lotta pastels

Central Theme
Tree and a Mural
Earth Face

Purple Place at Twilight
Mountains
Some day I will get a good pic of this damned horse.

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Spring in Barrow and the Sudden Onset of Southitation!

07 Tuesday May 2013

Posted by danielwalldammit in Alaska, Bad Photography

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Barrow, Denver, Ice, Ocean, Photos, Pics, Spring, Travel

Sun Dogs 2

Sun Dogs 2

The last couple weeks have been a bit of a blur, what with the end of the semester, several work-related projects, and plenty of random events.

The ocean has been unusually interesting this Spring. By ‘unusually interesting’ I mean ‘rather disturbing’. As mentioned in a previous post, the ice pack had shorn off rather early this year and very close to the shore. That isn’t entirely unheard of, but it is very unusual. It’s particularly problematic for the whaling crews as they hunt from the ice in the Spring. It didn’t take too long for the ice to flow back in and begin bonding with the shore-fast. It even piled up a bit at the meeting point, but the overall effect was a little thin. And by ‘thin’ I mean ‘dangerous’. I understand the ice was still fairly solid out North toward the point, but all-in-all folks seemed a little hesitant this year. As I left Barrow, the whaling crews had begun the hunt, and people were out on the ice.I can only hope they stay safe.

…and bring home the muktuk.

One day, I saw the most amazing ice-bow. It lasted only a minute or so, and I didn’t have my camera or my phone, …cause I suck. But I took my camera the next day when a sun halo came out, complete with a pair of perfect sun dogs. I caught those pics from the school van.

So, here I sit on the 14th floor of an apartment complex in Denver. I’ve finally slept off the jet lag, and I’m starting to think about stuff to do for the day. My head is still in Barrow, not the least of reasons being that I brought unfinished work with me. I miss my cats, but I’m waiting for someone wonderful.

Civilization is beginning to seep into my thick skull, and I’m taking in the new setting. I’ve seen more people in the last day than I have all winter. Plus a fly! I saw a fly. It flew right past me, as if to say; “yes Dan, we still exist.” I don’t miss bugs, really I don’t.

On the other, hand last night’s chicken satay was amazing.

Ice Build Up
Build-Up Close-Up
I seem to be really fascinated with this one.)

Ice and Open Water
Ocean
The Ice returneth!

More Ice
This was the ice a couple days before I left.
This slogan was big on the North Slope in the days of the Duck In

Sun Dog
Sun Dogs 2
Sun Dogs 3

The Sun at 10:30pm. By the end of this month, it will cease to set.
Barrow Graveyard
The place was messier than usual toward the end, but the kitties didn’t seem to mind

Denver
The View from Above
Koi

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