Quick Stop, Juneau (Part One); July 2019
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It was only a quick stop in Juneau, but still visually enriching. There was barely time for a moving memorial gathering for a popular classmate, Mendenhall Glacier, fireworks, the tail end of Juneau's Fourth of July parade, and Skip Wallen's waterfront humpback whale. Haze from northern fires softened the sun.
The haze is obvious in the approach over Auke Bay and the airport flyby before landing to the north (actually the northwest). And a first: very distorting plexi layers in the A seat window degraded the airborne images.
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The downtown harbor is dominated by the massive and ugly - as ungainly as an Airbus 380 - Bliss.
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Haze aloft over Admiralty Island
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There was time for a restorative visit to Tracy's Crab Shack
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and to Mendenhall Glacier, for ice shots, lupin, tree moss, and reflections
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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.