Feb 17 2011
Alaska Photos
When I was in the Alaskan bush, I took something like a hundred and forty pictures. Most of them were either not that interesting or of such poor quality that they’re not worth showing. But I do have half a dozen gems, like the photo shown here.
I added eight more to those – pictures worth a thousand words, as they say – then had them all digitized. One became the cover of my Alaska narrative, Arguing with the Wind, in its latest incarnation. The rest can be found at a photo website called smugmug.com. Check them out.
Those of you who have access to my wife’s Facebook page already know about these pics. I’m simply making them available to everyone else – publishing them, you could say. I do not do this lightly. It’s bad enough that I bare my soul with my written words. Is it really necessary to do so with my images as well?
Alaska is one of those places that you either love or hate. I never got over my brief sojourn there, and to great extent it made me the philosophizing, woods-wandering wordsmith I am today. Once the wild gets in your system it stays there. So I offer no further excuses for who/what I am.
Check out these photos and see if you can relate. If so, then you are in more trouble than you realize, for the wild and the world that most of people inhabit are two entirely different things. Which do you prefer? Careful now. Think long and hard before you answer that question.
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