Inlet Views; Seward Highway, December 18, 2019
Turnagain Arm and Cook Inlet constantly change. The view from the Seward Highway is rarely the same on consecutive days. Variables include big tides (30-foot range), light, wind, and precipitation. As a result, foreground comes and goes as tides rise and fall, and reflections depend on how much tideland is uncovered, and whether the sun (or moon) is visible. This has been a low-snow winter so far. As these pictures reflect, eight days ago there was no snow at all below about 500 feet and cloud cover dramatized, rather than obscured, the early-morning light. (Near the Solstice, "early morning" here means before 9:30.)
The view has now totally changed: several days of sea-level snow and wind and actual winter conditions on Christmas Eve and Christmas day made for flat-light driving and slippery roads. The conditions on December 18 (dry ground, highway, no snow) are not likely to recur until April or May.
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After a lifetime of mainly expressing myself with words, my postings here will mainly rely on images. They will speak for themselves to some extent, but I'll usually add a few comments of explanation. I've taken photographs for decades, since the 1950's, inspired in part by my father's photographic skill. Four years of photo assignments and quality darkroom time eventually gave way to decades of casual and family picture-taking. I re-immersed myself when I left film and turned to digital.