In Search of Robert Service

More from Marshall - Grabbing a shot of the Hand of God touching the landscape, Denali Ceiling of the Salty Dawg, Homer, AK Campground, uh Marshall might have to help on this ID... Uh, this one, too OK, that makes three

Well, not exactly; however, Marshall has just sent me some of his photographs (from on the road, somewhere in Colorado), and I still have a number of my own to wade through.... Bynum, MT - dinosaur country If some of them look familiar, well, duh, we were traveling together. However, they tend to provide something of "the rest of the story." Fort Nelson, B.C. Crossing into Alaska (northern access)  Masonic Lodge, Dawson City  Bradford Washburn photograph of The High One in the Eielson Visior Center, Denali Park  

Sometimes, I really wonder about Idaho. I mean, I drive out towards "Craters of the Moon" National Monument, about ninety miles east of where I live (and believe me, it is exactly what the name describes), and I have to go through Arco. One thing: when you go through Arco, eat at Pickle's Place. and have the fried pickles. The Park, in front of "Numbers Hill," across from Pickle's Place. The relevance is due to the long-time nuclear energy research done at the Idaho National Research Laboratory, 100 miles southeast.

Marshall and I poked around Valdez, walking the streets and visiting the docks....and decided to have a beer before returning to our campground, which was about twenty miles from the city. We stopped in the bar of a restaurant that overlooked the harbor - and the Boise State - Virginia Tech football game happened to be on.... I overheard a guy at the table next to us, talking about the game - and he was clearly a Boise State fan. I asked him if that was the case, and he enthusiastically asserted that was the case, as he was attending school there (although originally from Cordova, AK). He told me that he thought I might be a fan - because of my orange hat.....which is actually from the Sun Valley Gun Club, which is no longer in existence - I picked it up for a buck at one of the thrift stores....(For those of you who don't know, Boise State's colors are blue and orange - they're the football team with the blue astro turf at home...Matthew Barney, married to Bjork, grew...

Steward, B.C. Dawson City (catty corner to Jack London's cabin and a half block from the cabin of Robert Service) On the Road, outside Glacier (west side) in Montana

Ken Josephson is a very cool photogapher, who also has happened to be an influential photographer and important educator.                                The photo of Denali (below) is an homage to a series of works that he made in which he held postcard views against the site of the original place (as it was, the "new view" did not necessarily match that reality of the postcard - he made photographs of "images within images" for over fifteen years).  http://www.tfaoi.com/newsm1/n1m693.htm http://www.berk-edu.com/RESEARCH/ken_josephson/index.html                                                  ...

Bynum, Montana - where me missed a pig roast by a couple of days. The Salty Dawg in Homer, AK - which could provide the basis for an entire art exhibition (ideally it would be an installation, not just photographs).