SA I've heard that Alaska is breath taking, and I have seen some pictures before, but thank you so much for sharing those...you really captured some of that natural beauty. You're very lucky to live somewhere which (from the looks of those pictures, at least...I have no idea what living in Alaska is actually like...
) is so pristine...I didn't see one piece of litter in any of those pictures. Some of the landscape looked somewhat like where I live...but of course it's all so much different in real life. The glacier was a really cool shot, too
does it make me a nerd if I genuinely think that glaciers are cool?
Anyways, I live somewhere that is relatively tucked into the backwaters of Nature still...but it seems like every year (and faster all the time, now...) it's becoming more and more exposed. Especially the main "city center". That city actually feels quite large...but only relative to the nothingness that surrounds it, and in reality, it is totally dwarfed by the sprawling wilderness which virtually makes up the rest of the province. There is lots and lots and lots of untouched wilderness left here, but much of that has been made almost totally inaccessible by the development that has taken place...and that development really shows no signs of slowing down (
yet heh
).
Some portion of the forested land is more or less continually being worked/cut down, as well; either for lumber or to make room for more farms and pastures. Agriculture, cattle farming and all things equine have always been "big industries" here. A lot of what was once dense, DENSE forest has been totally lost to farming. Lots of marshland that was in and around that forested area of the province is now totally inaccessable due to large scale farming
Besides that sort of stuff, there is lots of space...and once you've left the city it doesn't take long to end up nowhere. There's also lots of great Provincial Parks here. Much coastal astonishment...the ocean is one of my favorite things and SA like your inability to imagine leaving Alaska, I cannot imagine what it would be like to live away from the ocean...I'd be up for trying a different one some day, but I don't think I can shake my need for the salt water completely. I need waves...the noise cleans my brain
There's actually great surfing here as well, but the water is cold as ice that's colder than regular ice
super-ice! So you either need to have balls-o-steel or be able to afford a nice thick suit, gloves, a hood, and boots. The summer is not so bad; better when the sun is out, still cold as hell but not as bad as the winter...but the best waves are in December...so you know
well, winter and hurricane season obviously.
Uh yeah hell I'm absolutely rambling, sorry I forgot this isn't the spam thread...forgive me, I vaped a larger bowl than normal tonight, and I was smoking Js all day (whoops heh
) before getting home to my vapes...
I should see if I can borrow my sisters digital SLR to take some pictures...I could use my Rebel, but then I'd have to develop the shots and scan them and oh so much work for such a lazy stoner. It is a beautiful time to take some pictures though...seasons changing and all. Man, lots of inspiration floating around on this thread!! Thanks guys!
So anyway, after blathering on like an octogenarian for more time than I'd like to admit to, I'll share some art. SA, I'm sharing this artist tonight because two of your shots really reminded me of some of his work...in my books this is a huge compliment; he is generally a landscape artist, but one recognized for having a very novel perspective. I really love his work and I think it's cool that some of your panoramic shots have the same vanishing, ever extending (flattened, almost) perspective that some of his paintings do. I was thinking of the shots titled "panorama" and "panoramaSMALL", specifically. Okay, so after more blathering...here are the paintings:
Arctic, 1989
Takao Tanabe
Low Tide 1/94: Hesquiat Bay, 1994
Takao Tanabe
Tanabe is a Canadian artist, actually...he was born somewhere in BC (edit: Prince Rupert, BC). I've had the privilege of seeing some of his paintings in different museums in this country. They are mostly stunning...the landscapes are my favorites, but that's just me. They are so much larger in real life and it's a very immersing, surreal feeling standing in front of one... I couldn't find any of the paintings I'd really loved...they were all shore-lines/water scenes/sunsets and risings. Such colors, dragged like butter across the desolating flatness.