Pictures From Alaska

I’ve just returned from a week long vacation cruise to Alaska. It was some much needed R&R for TourSpecGirl and I. We’ve never been on a cruise before and it was a great experience. A bit too relaxing for me as I usually like to be out and about with my feet on land but none the less I’m recharged and ready to get back to work just in time before Tario aka Gocchin leaves for his Vacation to Canada.

Alaska is a beautiful place, the scenery was some of the most breathtaking I have seen in all of my travels.    We started in Seattle then on to Ketchikan for some salmon fishing where I caught a 25lb king and TSGirl showed me up with her 30 pounder.  We moved onward to Juneau to see the glacier then skagway to travel the white pass by train.  Our final day was spent relaxing in Price Rupert Canada.  Below a wide angle image of the forest in Juneau Alaska using my new Tamron wide angle 10-24mm f/3.5 lens.

The wide angle lens was very useful for landscape and scenery shots but the most valuable during my trip was the recently voted #1 lens of the year by Japan’s Photo Society the Tamron 18-270mm F3.5-6.3 Di II VC LD. It’s got serious versatility and very good stabilization qualities. I’ll be posting a review of this lens later.  I’ve been shooting golf clubs for nearly 8 years now and no expert by any means. I am only now getting into more mainstream photography subjects, It’s a new hobby of mine that I’m diving right in to often with the help of Gocchin’s advice.  Here are some of my images taken in the last week.

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