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Our last few days was a total mixed bag as far as scenery, weather & adventures go. After I spent a couple of hours on the deck watching for any Aurora activity after leaving Juneau, we arrived in Skagway the following morning to a lot of fog, a lot of low cloud and about 6,000 cruise ship tourists in a town of 800 people. Thankfully, we stepped off the tourist trail 15 minutes and had the entire mountains to ourselves.
The next solid day and a half at sea was spent rocking around at the mercy of the Pacific Ocean. We missed our call at Ketchikan with gale force 11 winds – hurricane force winds! While there were a lot of people taking part in the whole sea sickness idea, I found the entire experience exhilarating! To me, there was nothing more exciting than watching from the windows, and from our balcony, the waves crash up against the front of the ship sending us up high to come crashing back down again! I was in love with every single moment of it! Except when the winds were gusting the 110 km/h and I couldn’t physically push our balcony door open! Hah!
While some of you have probably seen enough of Alaska from me to last a lifetime, I still haven’t and I know I’ll be back, probably next year, and the year after that, and the year after that. Thank you for the complete abundance of blog love for this entire series, it makes it all the sweeter to me! When we docked at 7am Saturday morning, I rushed off to second shoot a wedding with Jamie Delainey which is all prepared and will be surfacing on my blog here in a couple days!
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We're docked in Skagway!
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Scott & I opted not for any organized tours in Skagway, and explored the area through some solid hiking up to a region of lakes...
Sad sight leaving those Arctic waters for the Pacific again.
Let me tell you, the waters might not look like much here - but they were in fact pretty violent out there!
The Diamond Princess we were following home turning around!
Just a little on the rough side...
If only it was like this the other six nights...
14 comments
ashley folkema - What an amazing experience you were able to embark on. The trees….the snow….the glaciers….and the water. Wow! I can only imagine what was going through your mind as you clicked away on your camera. Stunning….just stunning.
Kristen - Gosh, I love Alaska. Amazing!
Brianna Phelan - Came back again just to see these. Just as awesome the 2nd time around!
Alexandra - Wow! These are awesome! Great shots. I LOVE the one of the deck. (the 14th to last one) Great work!
Rose - Oh-oh! Overload of stunning images!! You should post a warning before your post, dear! I am so so so determined to get to Alaska as soon as possible!
The 0505 is … well… how to put this… I want it on my wall!
And I consider moving there someday! ;;)
Ericha - OKay, seriously…NOT. FAIR. I have extremely way too many favorites. I love the ones where you really can’t tell the top from the bottom because of the beautiful reflections. The sun, the flare, the clouds, ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! GORGEOUS!!
VancityAllie - And now you’re going to France? Who ARE you and how do you get to travel so much?
Anna - I love that ship and the town shot and AMAZING flare!! Ahh! These are too good! TBC.
Carolyn Egerszegi - Oh, and I agree with Caitlin, you should be in contact with National Geographic.
Carolyn Egerszegi - Sigh. I love all of these. Beautiful work. Although I’m so corny… the really simple one of the handrail made my heart skip a beat. Such great memories I have from working on the ship!! I couldn’t possibly pick a favourite shot in this post. They’re all so terrific. The (fisheye?) in the forest with the sun flare is excellent. And I love the one of the two people and the dock. Wonderful composition. One thing though… that water was NOT ROUGH. Haha. Try sailing across the North Atlantic or in the Gulf of Tehuantepec (otherwise know as the birthplace of hurricanes). Yikes. 20-30 foot swells is rough. Sorry friend! ;-)
Brianna Phelan - Sean, these are awesome. I think we’ll have to make a trip out that way to see the beautiful world again :)
Michelle Kane - Yeah, I don’t know how you’ve narrowed down these images for post! They are all just so breathtaking… and that word really doesn’t do them justice. Are those cloud reflection images for real? And that circle reflection in the second to last image? You just capture the most amazing views and compositions. I’m floored once again.
Cindy - your work reminds me of Shawn Reeders. Have you seen his work? Another man with some serious talent. It just doesn’t matter if you are taking pictures of…. people, mountains, landscapes, details, you just rock it out with that camera!
Caitlin - Absolutely breathtaking, Sean. You should be in contact with National Geographic…..
:)