This was a wonderful trip to Alaska for two weeks in early July 2008. There was a lot to see and probably could have spent a whole month there and still not seen it all. Unfortunately it was cloudy for most of our trip, but we made the best of it. I was able to shoot 2500 pictures, but it is going to take a while to get them all edited. Here’s what I have done so far, check back occasionally for more updates to this posting.

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Kenai Peninsula

Kenai Fjords National Park Tour

Fairbanks

Denali National Park

Anchorage

Alaska Panoramas

It’s been raining for the last few weeks. So I thought I would experiment with rain drops…

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For Mothers day we went to visit my mother in law. I snuck out a couple of times to get a couple of pictures around Knife River & Two Harbors…

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I had such good luck with my last still life, I thought I would try again. These are the roses Jill got for Valentines day…

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It’s too cold outside, so I thought I would experiment while playing hooky from work…

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We went to the Minnesota Iron Range for a wedding, I got a little time to stop for some pictures. Since it was outside tourist season, everything was closed. Here is what we did see…

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We played hooky on a Monday and spent the Day at the Minnesota Zoo. Unlike summer days there, it was nice and cool, and all the kids were in school. These are the animals we saw…

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I spent some time on the “North Shore” of Lake Superior, just at the start of Fall and here is some of what I saw…

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Since the temperature is out of the 90′s, we decided to get out of the house for a while and visit the Como Zoo in St. Paul…

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A storm blew through on Saturday with an incredible lightning storm. Here is my first stab at photographing lightning…

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Over the July 4th weekend we spent some time on the North Shore of Lake Superior…

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These are from Gooseberry Falls State Park & Duluth, MN…

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These are from the Louisville Swamp, part of the MN Valley National Wildlife Refuge…

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