One interesting find during our two day stop in Sitka was the Russian Cemetery. It’s situated on a forest-covered hill just outside the town center...
A lone angler fishes from the shoreline in Sitka, Alaska on the morning of September 9th, 2023.
Our first stop yesterday morning was the Alaska Raptor Center in Sitka. The center rescues and rehabilitates injured birds from the local area and farther...
A section of the K’alyaan Pole in Sitka National Historic Park, Alaska. This totem pole was commissioned in 1999 by Tlingit Kiks.adi clan leader...
This image was grabbed during a salmon fishing trip back in 2015 from Sooke on Vancouver Island. Our captain was annoyed by the fact that the orcas were...
An abstract image of trees and sky reflected on the rippled surface of a lake near Pagosa Springs, Colorado.
It’s time for some abstracts again. This is the first of a short series of images made of reflections on a lake just outside Pagosa Springs in Colorado....
Other countries have national parks too. We were fortunate to visit Plitvice Lakes National Park in Croatia last summer so here’s some rowing boats...
The Thomas Alma Moulton (T. A. Moulton) Barn on Mormon Row is definitely one of the two most well-known buildings inside Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming....
Texas only has one National Park but it’s a doozy. Big Bend National Park covers a vast and spectacular area in the far west of the state, and has become...
Staying in my NxNW 2016 archive today, here’s another image from Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming. This was taken before sunrise at one of the park’s...
Time for another dive into the archives. I was looking through some pictures taken in National Parks this morning so thought it would be fun to post a few of those...
We’re heading home today after our week in Huntsville. Here’s a picture I took on the way up last weekend during an overnight stop in Louisiana....
The last of this series of images of the US Space and Rocket Center’s A-12 shows the front of the aircraft. The Oxcart is on static display in front...
A detail of the rear of the A-12 Oxcart at the US Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama showing the afterburner exhaust and some control surfaces.
I did a bit more reading about the A-12 after posting yesterday’s image. It was a slightly shorter, slightly faster version of the aircraft that...
I was delighted to see what I thought was an SR-71 Blackbird in the static display at the US Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama. On closer...
This Apollo command module, nicknamed “Casper” by its crew, was launched on April 16th, 1972 and took Apollo 16 crew John Young (later to command...
The nose of a Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Booster (SRB) and portion of the external tank as seen at the US Space and Rocket Center, Huntsville, Alabama...
