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N. America-Viewed from and of Planes, Trains, Boats, Cars & Trucks-2023.1.24.

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AK-SPss-2015.6.24#2. A modern Inupiaq Eskimo camp viewed from the Nome to Council road on Safety Sound. Seward Peninsula Alaska.
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AK-SPss-2015.6.24#2. A modern Inupiaq Eskimo camp viewed from the Nome to Council road on Safety Sound. Seward Peninsula Alaska.

  • AK-NSHR40-2009.6.13#185.2. The end of an adventure up the Haul Road. Nearing the end of the dirt portion in the Fox Hills.
  • AK-SEWARD 2011.4.30#023.2. About as Alaskan as it gets. Exit Glacier Road, Alaska.
  • AK-SEWARD 2011.5.8#033.4. The F/V Cape Cross ran aground for the final time on July 26,2010. It was built in 1943 for the US Navy as a transport vessel. Designated USS APc-25, APc-1class. It was sent to the Solomon Islands where along with transport duties it did search and rescues. It survived numerous attacks from Japanese war planes. After World War II it was transferred through over a dozen different owners, mostly Canadian serving in fish packing fleets. It's final home port was Seattle Washington until it hit an uncharted pinnacle in Main Bay, Prince William Sound Alaska and ran aground. All of it's oil and fuel were pumped off before it became an environmental disaster. It was towed to to it's final resting place. Viewed now from Nash road near Miller's Landing in Resurrection Bay. Alaska.
  • AK-SEWARD HIGHWAY 2016.7.18#083.1. The I.R.B.I. Knife shop and his neighbor the wood carver along the highway above the south end of Kenai Lake on the way to Seward Alaska.
  • AK-SEWARD PENINSULA,T 2015.6.24#320. Commonly known as "The Last Train to Nowhere". Viewed from the Nome to Council road between Safety and Solomon Alaska. In 2001 the trains and flat cars and everything else you see here were added to the Nat. Register of Historic Places.
  • AK-SEWARD PENINSULA,T 2015.6.24#322.3. Commonly known as "The Last Train to Nowhere". Viewed from the Nome to Council road between Safety and Solomon. One of the main attractions people fly to Nome to see. Alaska.
  • AK-SEWARD PENINSULA 2001.6#4714.3. Unknown Dredge. Viewed off the Nome to Teller road. Seward Peninsula Alaska.
  • AK-SEWARD PENINSULA 2015.6.21#118.4. The Safety Roadhouse. The last checkpoint on the Iditarod Trail before the mushers reach the Burled Arches in Nome. Viewed from the Nome to Council Road. Alaska.
  • AK-SOUTH EAST Alaska 1995.5.10#201.4. Mount Edgecombe Volcano. It is located just east of the Queen Charlotte fault that separates the North American and Pacific Plates. I shot this image from a Boeing 727 flying over Kruzof Island. Alaska. It is scanned and repaired from old filmstock.
  • AK-SPa-2015.6.21#115.2. A view of the Tropospheric Antennas at the White Alice site on the summit of Anvil Mountain road. This is one of only a couple of White Alice sites that haven't been dismantled by the Dept. of Defense after the end of the Cold War Era. Summit of Anvil Mountain near Nome Alaska.
  • AK-SPns-2015.6.24#126.2. An Inupiaq Eskimo hunting & fishing camp viewed from the Nome to Council road along the shore of Norton Sound. The native people here fish both for subsistence and commercially. Seward Peninsula, Alaska.
  • AK-SPns-2015.6.24#358.1x. A traditional Inupiaq Eskimo hunting and fishing camp on the shore of Norton Sound viewed from the Nome to Council Road. Seward Peninsula Alaska.
  • AK-SPns-2015.6.24#361.1x. An Inupiaq Eskimo hunting and fishing camp. My favorite image of the hundred or so camps along this spit. A modern contemporary frame building honoring our country, with a display of a traditional Walrus/Sealskin boat frame with a mockup of an Eskimo hunter standing in front of it. The Inupiaq people hunt and fish both for subsistence and commercially. When my wife and I first visited here I was overwhelmed how friendly these people were, especially outside of Nome. Every single vehicle we passed, everyone was waving to us. A lot of the happiest most well adjusted people I've ever met. Viewed from the Nome to Council Road. Seward Peninsula Alaska.
  • AK-SPns-2015.6.24.1. I've seen the historic Route 66 signs in my travels all over North America. Many far off the original old route 66 wagon road, but this is the farthest north and west I've ever seen one. Viewed off the Nome to Council road on the Seward Peninsula in Alaska.
  • AK-SPss-2015.6.24#2. A modern Inupiaq Eskimo camp viewed from the Nome to Council road on Safety Sound. Seward Peninsula Alaska.
  • AK-SPss-2015.6.24#120.1. A pretty sturdy Inupiaq Eskimo Fishing and Hunting camp viewed from the Nome to Council road along Safety Sound. Seward Peninsula, Alaska. The native people here fish & hunt commercially and for subsistence.
  • AK-TURNAGAIN ARM 2005.8.6#0249.1x. I was heading south down Turnagain Arm when I looked out on the Inlet and couldn't believe my eyes. That guy with the orange aircraft lost power and had to ditch it in Turnagain Arm. A miracle he didn't flip it over. Turnagain Arm has the second most dangerous plus minus tides in the world after the Bay of Fundy in eastern Canada. I don't remember the details but I heard they got it going and was able to fly it out of there. Viewed from the Seward Highway just south of Anchorage Alaska.
  • AZ-2007.2.25#0003.2. A view of the Superstition Mountains from an Alaska Airlines jet flying over Arizona.
  • AZ-2014.5.24#149.3. Camelback Mountain behind Sky Harbor Airport in Phoenix Arizona. Viewed from a Boeing Aircraft.
  • AZ-2017.5.26#920.2. Smokey Bear sign. Mingus foothills, near Prescott Valley, Arizona.
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