Something Old, For good times' sake

Now, while I'm busy with my next project, I thought that I'd give you some oldies, taken with my predigital camera (see the last photo) from our very first trip to Alaska (and Canada). Even though they may not be as photographically quite as sophisticated as my later ones, there's still something to be said for them, and it is the reason we went back.

New Year's vote, Part Eight (archives)

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Well, this time I've raided my archives, and found photos from the age of film, before the digital era, when taking pictures was a much riskier business. For you would always be in danger of running out of film, with a long trip ahead. In this exercise, as in the last one, I'm asking you to rank the photos from 1 - 4. The variety of subject matter was just too much for the simpler choice of 1 - 3, but still not too easy.

New Year's Vote, Part Seven

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All right folks, it gets difficult now. There are more photos in this collection, so you may vote for your favorite four pictures from this set. Have fun, and good luck!

New Year's Vote, Part Six

Well, this time it's perhaps a bit easier, though I don't know. We're going to be voting for the best three from this portion of our trip to the Canadian Rockies. The first photo is from Waterton Lake in Alberta. The next two are from an excursion down to Glacier National Park in Montana. The next two are from Canada again, with the solar flare over the water at Many Glacier Lodge, looking out toward the lake, and the next one is from Banff. The second to last photo shows the view available on the Canadian Pacific Railway, as it rumbles through the mountainous terrain. And the last one is the always photogenic view of Moraine lake, in the morning air.

New Year's Vote, Part Five

All right, then. It's back to work. And this time we're going back to Alaska and the Yukon, with a particularly difficult set of choices (at least for me). Now, in this set, taken with my other camera, we have a series of scenic shots, some of which are quite similar, and I'm asking you the same question - to rate your favorite three pictures, and I'll tell you, I struggled with these ones.

Tryst with the Shutter Bug!!: Samaleswari Temple

Tryst with the Shutter Bug!!: Samaleswari Temple

Cape Cod and Newport

OK, it's time for a little break. This is a collection of vacation shots we took at a long weekend in Cape Cod (at a medical fiction writers' course). In our time off we explored Cape Cod, and later we went to Newport, Rhode Island, and while there toured one of the Vanderbilt mansions (The Breakers), which was absolutely astonishing - to think that some people actually lived like that. Of note is that, in the second to last photo, we have the "humble" guard's quarters visible in the foreground, with the mansion itself in the background.