In September 2024, Carrie and I took a cruise to Alaska. We took over 650 pictures (certainly could have taken many more), and divided the 29 we dedicated to our Etsy Shop into 6 groups: Out to Sea, At Sea/Mendenhall Glacier, Skagway, Glacier Bay National Park, Ketchikan, and Return to Vancouver.
Our final group consists of Alaska – Untitled #148 through #151 and this narrative will serve all four pictures based on their similarity.
It was a very low, overcast sky. It was quite chilly and windy; uncomfortable for taking pictures but the views were compelling.
I was on the 17th deck, the highest available for guests, and to take these pictures I had to steady both my head and the camera against a radome (a radar dome) because of the high winds.
The sense of the sun filtering through the clouds in the image was ethereal and enchanting as we passed along the coast heading back to our point of disembarkation, Vancouver, BC, Canada.