A Little Good News


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Sea kayaks in Valdez (Alaska) harbor early morning.

03/16/2010 Lance Mackey won the Iditarod of 2010 for his fourth consecutive win!!! Pulling into Nome at exactly 14:59 (2:59 PM) AKDT, Lance Mackey completed the race in exactly 8 days, 23 hours, 59 minutes, and 9 seconds. Part 1: www.youtube.com 0:00 Broadcast beginning 0:13 Summary of Iditarod 38 2010 2:05 Lance Mackey tracking into Nome ( drops ski pole at 2:43 ) 3:55 weather 5:45 Tonya Mackey interview 8:43 Dick Mackey interview beginning (continued on Part 2) Part 2: www.youtube.com 0:00 Dick Mackey interview ending 2:08 Sights and Sounds of the Iditarod 4:36 Lance tracking continues 6:00 Denise Michels (Nome Mayor) interview 8:00 Newscasters extras (about Lance) (continued on Part 3) Part 3: www.youtube.com 0:00 Newscasters extras (about Lance) continued 0:55 Lance turns onto the main street 3:35 Lance completes Iditarod final run 6:00 Bag content verification/dog feeding 8:00 “Officially here” signing 8:44 Lance’s shoutout 8:57 “I drew the right number, number 49, this is representing the whole state of Alaska and the people who believed in me.” 9:10 Lance meets with Denise Michels Part 4: www.youtube.com 0:00 Lance Mackey interview 4:00 Wells Fargo’s Joe Everhart presents k check 5:36 Anchorage Chrysler Dodge’s Rod Udd gives Lance “key” to new truck 8:00 GCI’s Gary Samuelson presents Lance with new smartphone and 1 year service Part 5: www.youtube.com 0:00 Lance Mackey meets with ExxonMobil’s Dale Pittman 0:41 Roses presentation begins 3:55 Dogs’ eating habits …
Video Rating: 4 / 5

Alaskan moon


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Almost a full moon shot somewhere near Juneau, AK in June 2011. Love the simplicity of the composition.

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Question by Jennifer H: Does a preacher or justice of the peace have to marry a couple in Alaska?
A friend of my husband and I wants to get married. Well we live in Alaska and he wants my husband to marry them. To preside over the wedding. He said it is legal?? Is it?
Well we looked online and it says if he is a commissioned officer in the Salvation Army. My husband is a commissioned officer but in the Army. Not Salvation Army. I don’t know. Alaska had alot of weird laws..

Best answer:

Answer by Benjamin W
It’s legal so long as he meets the state requirements. If he got ordained online, it’d be legal. There are other legal ways of doing it, but that’s the easiest that I know of.

Check out ULC.net, great source.

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Dreaming about Godiva chocolate (IMG_0985a)


Image by Alaskan Dude
Trinity is an aspiring model I had the pleasure of shooting with in November 2008 in Anchorage, Alaska. This was my first shoot with Trinity and also my first experience with Strobist lighting – I really liked both; I’d love to get better with Strobist and also do more shooting with Trinity.

Seeing one of the photographers with plumbers pants (IMG_0972a)


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Trinity is an aspiring model I had the pleasure of shooting with in November 2008 in Anchorage, Alaska. This was my first shoot with Trinity and also my first experience with Strobist lighting – I really liked both; I’d love to get better with Strobist and also do more shooting with Trinity.

Question by BREAD: What is the weather like early July in Alaska?
I am taking the Inside Passage Cruise to Alaska July 4, 2009. We are sailing on the Golden Princess. Has anyone taken this cruise?

Best answer:

Answer by dumbzaa
I haven’t take the cruise because I already live here. The weather changes rapidly in Alaska about 65 degrees ambiant temp is about normal in 2004 Juneau had 42 days of temperature over 70 degrees. Southeast Alaska is quite balmy compared to the rest of Alaska, it gets colder obviously the more North you go but you won’t be going that far North. just hope you don’ cruise up on a rainy or stormy day.

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Alpine Glaciers


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Peaks and alpine glaciers on the East side of Resurrection Bay, Gulf of Alaska . Viewing East from Mt. Marathon.

Seward, Kenai Peninsula, Alaska
Explore #492 September 22 2009

So sweet and innocent – just like me!


Image by Alaskan Dude
One of my co-workers asked me to take some photos of princesses participating in a local Philippine cultural event so we did. Ginger was one of the people there, in Anchorage, Alaska in April 2010, so I had a chance to shoot with her after the group shoot. She was an absolute sweetheart – and very busy with college – hopefully I’ll have the chance to shoot with her in the very near future – she’s incredibly photogenic.

A Total Lunar Eclipse will take place on 21 Dec 2010. It will be visible after midnight Eastern Standard Time on December 21 in North and South America. In the Western Part of USA, Western Part of Canada, Alaska and Hawai Islands the Eclipse starts on the night of 20 Dec and contiues till early early hours of 21 Dec. The beginning of the Total Eclipse will be visible from Northern Europe just before sunrise. The end of the Total Eclipse will be visible rising at sunset for Japan and Northeastern Asia. However it is not visible from India, Middle East and most of Africa apart from North West Africa. It is the second of two Lunar Eclipses in 2010. The first was a Partial Lunar Eclipse on June 26, 2010. Time of Greatest Eclipse at: 8:17 GMT Music: Run away with Me by Omar Akram
Video Rating: 4 / 5

Ginger showing off her natural beauty


Image by Alaskan Dude
One of my co-workers asked me to take some photos of princesses participating in a local Philippine cultural event so we did. Ginger was one of the people there, in Anchorage, Alaska in April 2010, so I had a chance to shoot with her after the group shoot. She was an absolute sweetheart – and very busy with college – hopefully I’ll have the chance to shoot with her in the very near future – she’s incredibly photogenic.

Nick Baker gets up close and personal with a mighty grizzly bear as it fishes for salmon just a few metres away. Amazing footage from the BBC Deep into the Wild series. Visit www.bbcearth.com for all the latest animal news and wildlife videos and watch more high quality videos on the new BBC Earth YouTube channel here www.youtube.com

Tamara standing tall


Image by Alaskan Dude
Taken during a joint photo shoot with several photographers and models in Anchorage, Alaska in May 2008. This model is Tamara, a lovely Russian student that is interested in pursuing a modeling career.

Question by KimberlyAnne.: At what age can a I decide which parent to live with under Alaska law?
I’m a 15 year old girl living in Anchorage,Alaska. I am having mom troubles and I NEED to live with my dad because he is the only one that does not call me a mess up and say how i should have died when i was a baby. Please can you tell me what age i must be to get away from this witch and live with my daddy?

Best answer:

Answer by rickinnocal
18.

Below that age a custody judge will take your wishes into account, but is not bound by them.

Richard

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Tamara – relaxing on a log cabin


Image by Alaskan Dude
Taken at a joint photo shoot in Anchorage, Alaska in April 2008. See the Set liner notes for additional information.

Heng Song says he wasn’t about to let an SUV that crashed into his Alaska barber shop get in the way of a good haircut. He was momentarily stunned, but with no one hurt, and a customer notifying police, the owner went back to finishing the cut. (Dec. 2)

Question by : Does it cost extra to ship to Alaska and Hawaii?
I am an eBay seller and use USPS Priority Mail Flat Rate boxes all the time. So far, no one has asked me to ship to Alaska and Hawaii, I wanted to know if it cost any extra to ship to these states. I live in Florida by the way.

Best answer:

Answer by scoutma53
How about you go on the USPS site and ask for the cost of say, a 5lb package to CA versus same to Hawaii?

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Early Winter


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Mt. Tiehacker, Seward, Alaska

Video impressionante di un ragazzo con una webcam sul casco travolto da una valanga mentre faceva fuori pista in Alaska, nell’aprile 2008. La webcam continua a riprendere le immagini anche quando lo sciatore è sepolto sotto la neve fino a quando (dopo circa 4 minuti) i compagni lo trovano e lo liberano. Penso che non farò più fuori pista senza un’imbragatura e un segnalatore GPS!

Humpback Whale – Tail fluke Identification – whale #3


Image by Alan Vernon.
The markings on the underside of the tail fluke of a humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) is as unique among whales as a fingerprint is among people. This particular whale was observed off Juneau Alaska on August 19th 2008.

Question by BC: Should we build large detention centers in Alaska to jail Illegal Aliens?
A gulag like Russia had would be a better deterrent for border control. Let them cross the border illegally if they want to do some time up North. I think it would be cheaper to carve them out of their recycle loop and let the enjoy the wilderness of Alaska.

Best answer:

Answer by scott b
Alaska??? That’s too far away from the Southern Border to be practical. Cost too much to ship them up there. Let’s build it in…..Arizona. In the desert somewhere…

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Celebrity Millennium. Ketchikan.


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Celebrity Millennium parked in front of the Infinity in Ketchikan Alaska. Since the ships are virtually identical on the ourside, special announcements were made reminding passengers to get on the right ship.

Millennium is part of the 4-ship Millennium class of vessels deployed by Celebrity. Other ships in this class are the Infinity, Constellation, and Summit.

Celebrity Solstice: www.flickr.com/photos/mascardo1/3249772830/

Todas las canciones del nuevo disco de Fangoria en www.youtube.com Con una nueva parte final hablada por Alaska esta es la nueva versión de Fangoria para su disco “El Paso Trascendental del Vodevil a la Astracanada: Antología de Canciones de Ayer y Hoy”
Video Rating: 4 / 5

Portrait of a vailed maiden of the Blue Court


Image by Alaskan Dude
Taken on the 2nd weekend of the Three Barons Renaissance Faire held in Anchorage, Alaska in June 2008.

Question by candle: How is it up there in Alaska?
I am a Marylander. I am becoming nostalgic about Alaska. Why? Well, that’s the way life is…
I’ve been given very sound advice about Alaska. It is becoming more and more like lower 48s. There’s nothing really different or special about Alaska. You’ll just end up living same life with same people except you’ll just be farther away.

I think there’s good truth in that advice, but anyone else know something else?

Best answer:

Answer by Klondike John
Hmmm…

I have lived here for 40 years, and don’t find any part of it like the lower 48! As for finding anything special about Alaska; well if you have to ask, you just won’t understand.

Alaska is a free spirit; will not be chained down by what the norm thinks. More and more people try to force their way of life, and thinking on us, and frankly, they are the ones who don’t last.

To be successful in living and enjoying life here in the last frontier, you have to remember it is the frontier; still. We have no significant manufacturing, we have few roads and highways (Rhode Island has more road surface than we do, yet we are more than twice the size of Texas); and we have a limited population base (670,000).

Not to say we don’t have the big city influence such as in Anchorage, our largest city; but it takes only a few minutes and you are in wilderness.

Winter is long and grueling for many; lasting from the first of October into the last of March and into April, one must adapt to the long hours of winter darkness. It is however at this time we see the Aurora Borealis.

Summers are sweet. Long hours of daylight (averaging 20 hours a day), yielding abundant fishing and wild life.

It’s the mountains that beckon. The adventure of the far north; and this time of year… Iditarod!

There is nothing the same about Alaska.

“…There’s a land where the mountains are nameless,
And the rivers all run God knows where;
There are lives that are erring and aimless,
And deaths that just hang by a hair;
There are hardships that nobody reckons;
There are valleys unpeopled and still;
There’s a land — oh, it beckons and beckons,
And I want to go back — and I will…”
-from The Spell of the Yukon -Robert W. Service

Camai!

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Lovely vailed maiden of the Blue Court


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Taken on the 2nd weekend of the Three Barons Renaissance Faire held in Anchorage, Alaska in June 2008.

Alex talks with Lindsey Williams, the ordained Baptist minister who went to Alaska in 1971 as a missionary where he learned about the secret agenda of the elite. Williams will talk with Alex about what the oil industry insider “Mr. X” told him before he passed away. www.prisonplanet.tv www.infowars.com {{{ CONFESSIONS OF AN ELITIST}}} Recorded December, 2010: this is the latest audio production from Lindsey Williams sharing inside information straight from the Ruling Elite. Also included is Lindsey’s advice on how to keep you and your family safe during the coming storm upon this nation. As Lindsey has expressed, there is no copyright so pick up your copy, replicate, and distribute freely to as many people as possible. This CD set is recommended only for those who have seen the 6 DVD set: Hope, Tragedy, Reality/The Elite Speak as it is in addition to those productions. CLICK HERE TO ORDER THE CD. www9.mailordercentral.com

daddy longlegs


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Anchorage, Alaska. This guy was just enjoying some evening sun on an Alaska spiraea.

Question by Doowackie: Where should I live in Anchorage Alaska?
I’ll be moving to anchorage alaska to attend the university there and was wondering what areas to avoid while still being fairly close to school. I really appreciate the advice in advance.

Best answer:

Answer by Spencer
compton and south bronx and harlem are dangerous. Yeah alaska is good.

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He was our bear, noone else’s…


Image by Steve Oliver Imagery
A typical encounter at the side of the road in Alaska. We came across this wonderful black bear nosing around in the dandelions. I took 150 photographs of him from inside the bedroom of the RV we’d hired. At the last minute he looked up at us in the van and I caught him…

Wendy Williams sings a happy tune, it’s glory hole galore on “Gold Rush Alaska,” and “Bridalplasty” makes one girl cry!
Video Rating: 4 / 5

Horned Puffin (Fratercula corniculata) 3-20110625


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Images from six hour wildlife cruise in Resurrection Bay, out of Seward, Alaska. The weather could not have been any better! Visit blog.rosyfinch.com

Question by <33: What was the importance of Hawaii during the 1950′s? and Alaska?
I’m really curious how Hawaii and Alaska impacted the 50′s time period. I’ve been looking in books and all over the web, but I can’t exactly find anything. I know Alaska had a lot of oil, and was a good spot to watch over Russia and the Soviet Union during the Cold War…but how else did Hawaii and Alaska impact the 1950′s?

Thanks in advance!

Best answer:

Answer by Socialist Patriotic Front USA™
Hawaii and Alaska were considered “First in the nation” as Bulwarks against Soviet invasion and threat, and were used for their strategic importance as locations for military bases.

to this day, many military bases survive in these areas.

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Kelcie at the American Gothique Fashion Show (IMG_0845a)


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My friend Lady Battikah (Anna) organized this American Gothique fashion show at Mad Myrna’s in Anchorage, Alaska in early May 2009. She described it as Techno Gothic and invited me to photograph it. I did so with some trepidation since I had no idea what I was getting myself into – but it was a blast. From what I can tell, Techno Gothic equates to Gothic with loud colors and attachments such as gas masks. I learn something new every day!

Madrid, 26 de junio de 2009.Presentación en directo de su disco Raphael, 50 años después.Colaboraciones con Alaska, Ana Torroja, Miguel Bosé, Ana Belén y Víctor Manuel,David Bisbal… etc..

Jolene (Dixie Rebel) at the American Gothique Fashion Show (IMG_0858a)


Image by Alaskan Dude
My friend Lady Battikah (Anna) organized this American Gothique fashion show at Mad Myrna’s in Anchorage, Alaska in early May 2009. She described it as Techno Gothic and invited me to photograph it. I did so with some trepidation since I had no idea what I was getting myself into – but it was a blast. From what I can tell, Techno Gothic equates to Gothic with loud colors and attachments such as gas masks. I learn something new every day!

Question by Jim: Why does Discovery Channel have a boner for Alaska?
4 Hours of Flying Wild Alaska and then FINALLY Mythbusters comes on and it’s ANOTHER “Special Alaska Edition”. Seriously? I used to be interested in the beautiful place until they showed every inch of it on TV all day. Why the sudden interest and obvious obsession?
By the way that starred word is spelled b-o-n-e with an r at the end.

Best answer:

Answer by Jeffro99518
Thats a very good question. I live in Anchorage, AK. I am very tired of hearing about it myself. I mean litterly turn on the TV and it shows my neighborhood all the time,, give it and us a break already.

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Kaylea at the American Gothique Fashion Show (IMG_0859a)


Image by Alaskan Dude
My friend Lady Battikah (Anna) organized this American Gothique fashion show at Mad Myrna’s in Anchorage, Alaska in early May 2009. She described it as Techno Gothic and invited me to photograph it. I did so with some trepidation since I had no idea what I was getting myself into – but it was a blast. From what I can tell, Techno Gothic equates to Gothic with loud colors and attachments such as gas masks. I learn something new every day!