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Pictures of Southeast Alaska

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  • #81
This is a very nice thread. 'Glad you spent some time on the skunk cabbage, Dex. It's one of my favorite species. Too bad there's no way to post the smell, ha!

Thanks max. :)

Gah, I know right? I love the smell. There's nothing quite like walking down the road in spring and that odor wafting through the air mixed with cotton wood foliage and salmon berry blossoms... Ahhh I thought spring would never come. :-D
 
  • #82
I LOVE this thread! Thank you for taking the time and sharing. It's so interesting to see the landscape of a foreign country, especially when presented without cropping and photoshop, all natural.
 
  • #83
A fantastic thread. Beautiful pics and scenery.

I find the vegetation interesting. :p
 
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I LOVE this thread! Thank you for taking the time and sharing. It's so interesting to see the landscape of a foreign country, especially when presented without cropping and photoshop, all natural.

Thank you very much Maxima. :) I'm glad you have enjoyed it. I find that if something is beautiful enough it doesn't need to be cropped or photoshopped.

A fantastic thread. Beautiful pics and scenery.

I find the vegetation interesting. :p

Thanks Devon. :-D
 
  • #85
I need to visit this area sometime in my life. During summer, of course. I'd freeze instantly otherwise.
 
  • #86
I need to visit this area sometime in my life. During summer, of course. I'd freeze instantly otherwise.

There's not as much to see in the winter also... :lol:

Our Summers are usually quite cold as well, so no promises there.
 
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On my way home, this sunset...

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The next day we visited another island and I was so so so happy to finally find these in the wild. It was more exciting then all the archaeology to me.

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They were very hard for me to photograph. Calypso bulbosoma

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Not photoshopped! :lol:

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Just some ferns

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The town of Loring. What a place..

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Has an old ship wreck out front

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Est. 1895

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Aaaand yeah, that's pretty much what I got. I hope you enjoyed.

Oh, here:

N. spectabilis x talangensis. :p

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Nice Pics!!! I really enjoy seeing new places
 
  • #94
Cedar bark for basket making, Dex? I love moon snails, too. How can you not like a hard-shelled snail the size of a peach? As always very enjoyable stuff.
 
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More CP's from Nowhere

Me and my girlfriend got our first day off together all summer. We had planned on going over to Nowhere. The weather did not cooperate with us and was very rainy like it always is (big surprise). But we already made plans! So we went anyway. It was wet.

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It was pretty moist.

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Labrador tea was the first pretty thing we encountered.

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Shortly thereafter: D. anglica looking a little saturated.

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Not nearly as saturated as this one though.

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A rather dense patch of D. rotundifolia.

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There were also abundant P. vulgaris.

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Looking equally as soggy.

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P. vulgaris, D. rotundifolia living sympatrically.

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P. vulgaris, D. rotundifolia, and D. anglica living sympatrically.

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Just another patch of D. anglica.

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The only amphibian that we encountered. A deceased B. boreas. This dampened my spirits heavily.

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Lily pads.

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Could not get my little point and shoot to focus on these flowers for the life of me. Oh well.

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Bog blueberry blossoms.

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A rather funky and interesting lichen.

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It was wet.

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  • #96
Wow, nice! Has it been raining a while, or just that day? I love that calypso flower!

Try putting your hand behind the flowers - usually a point'n'shoot will want to focus on everything but a hand, so that's how I used to get mine to take smaller shots.
 
  • #97
Wow, nice! Has it been raining a while, or just that day? I love that calypso flower!

Try putting your hand behind the flowers - usually a point'n'shoot will want to focus on everything but a hand, so that's how I used to get mine to take smaller shots.

Ooo thanks for the tip! I have noticed that it wont focus on a hand, I will try that out next time I need to take a picture of a flower like that. I was very happy to find the Calypso orchids as well. :)

:lol: "has it been raining a while?" All my life thez, all my life. :lol:

To give you an idea here is a link to a ten day weather forecast for where I live:

http://www.weather.com/weather/tenday/USAK0125
 
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I know! I'm not arguing with that. Free water is a blessing.

Also everyone is having these heat waves, fires and crazy wind storms and stuff. Here it has just rained, constantly. Our warmest day yet has been 72 degrees. Every day is around 55 degrees upwards of 64 degrees on nice days.
 
  • #100
All very nice stuff, Dex. Beautiful plants are still beautiful in the rain. Your D. anglica shots make me realize that I should grow some of that in my mini bog.
 
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