Alaska

A long time ago, I said Alaska was the one place I never wanted to visit.

Since then, I have genuinely fallen in love with the wide skies, the people, and the tender vanilla-colored light that seems to lasts forever.

I’ve had the privilege of traveling the state quite extensively, both on the road-system here in South-Central and in the interior, and out in rural communities and villages. Let’s just say, if you give me an opportunity to travel, we will make that happen!

Winter

Winter in Alaska is a chapter unto itself. The winter of 2016-2017 has been my first time experiencing several feet of snow that stick around for months and months. It got incredibly cold, with an ice fog that would cover everything around it with inches worth of frost (on top of the existing layer of snow).

Light

While harsh, the Alaskan winters are also incredibly beautiful. The lower part of the sky turns vanilla, and then yellow, and vanilla again closer to spring. In the same way, the snow is never just white: it's blue, yellow, green, and even pink some times depending on the angle of the sunlight and the surroundings.

South-central Landscapes

The Turnagain Arm, outside Anchorage, AK, has some of the most substantial tidal changes in the world. When the tide is out, it creates mud flats that are as beautiful as they are dangerous. This inlet is also one of only two places in North America to witness a bore tide.