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Anchorage - This Weekend


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Friday Evening, sometime around 10pm somewhere in downtown Anchorage. Among other things Anchorage has self-christened itself the hanging basket capital of the world. Well, the hanging flower baskets abound this city, it very well could be the truth, but who am I to know.





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Same evening, at Ship Creek near downtown - urban anglers waiting for the salmon to commit suicide on their baits. After an hour watching the fishermen, a friend said, "watching paint dry is much easier".





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Saturday Evening. From AK-1, looking towards the super-expensive real estate of Hillside across the migratory wetland haven locally known as Potter Marsh.





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Sunday Evening. Coastal Trail along the Knik Arm winding up towards the Port of Anchorage - seen at a distance.







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Sunday Evening. Downtown. Horse-drawn carriages for the tourists. Its funny to think that you live in a place where people come on vacation or cruises. The pic above is kind of busy with too many details, but my intention was to give an idea of Anchorage through pictures, hope it worked.

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[info]tko_ak
2005-06-29 01:20 am UTC (link)
When Rick Mystrom was Anchorage's Mayor, he did declare Anchorage as the "City of Lights and Flowers." Lights in the winter, of course.

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[info]diffdrummer
2005-06-29 04:04 am UTC (link)
Hmm..now I'll have to google for Mystrom ;-P Well, compared to you 'am still a cheechako.

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[info]tko_ak
2005-06-29 04:09 am UTC (link)
Mystrom was a good mayor...a lot better than Tom Fink, George Wuerch, or Mark Begich. He's conservative, but much more moderate than Wuerch.

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[info]diffdrummer
2005-06-29 04:22 am UTC (link)
googled Rick Mystrom, guess what was the first line in the first link on the google search results?

The link ...*drum roll* and it says, "Thank you, Jamie" !!!!!

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[info]tko_ak
2005-06-29 04:25 am UTC (link)
Ha! Awesome.

I have liberals and conservatives who want me on the Anchorage Assembly in the future. :D

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(Anonymous)
2005-06-29 04:32 am UTC (link)
Quite a coincidence, eh.

Hopefully Arizonans won't get the same idea ;-)

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[info]smriti
2005-06-29 02:02 am UTC (link)
The clouds!! I totally love the way they look.

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[info]diffdrummer
2005-06-29 07:30 am UTC (link)
yeah kinda 3-dimensional, I overlooked my main subjects of interest so that I could get more clouds in to the pic :)

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[info]ssheidi
2005-06-29 04:49 am UTC (link)
wow! the first one is so good. i have never seen a thing like tht before. rest of the pics r good too.:)

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[info]diffdrummer
2005-06-29 07:31 am UTC (link)
Yep, I like that too, the color combination and the type of flowers in the hanging basket - looks real nice.

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[info]navina
2005-06-29 05:53 am UTC (link)
Nice photos

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[info]diffdrummer
2005-06-29 07:31 am UTC (link)
summer is nice here - tremendous photo opps. if you are not lazy ;)

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[info]rileen
2005-06-29 06:09 am UTC (link)
Nice, sleepy little town it looks like :-)

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[info]diffdrummer
2005-06-29 07:34 am UTC (link)
Ha ha, I am the sleepy one, by the time I get out, people are back home or in clubs or wherever, thankfully nowadays sun is out till 11 pm, so I can still take photos.

But yes, it is a small city by US standards, though more than half of Alaska's population resides here, then there is the magnanimity of the landscape, a few people here and there are almost invisible.

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[info]arunshanbhag
2005-06-29 11:25 am UTC (link)
The light and the clouds have come out just superb. Did you say 10pm? Nice long days!
All the pics seem to invite you to nature :-)
were the pics taken at wide-angle?

btw, saw a recent article in the NYT about the glaciers receding and snow melting away faster. You see that?

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[info]diffdrummer
2005-06-30 05:25 am UTC (link)
Yeah I like long days, suits my disposition of never being a morning person.

18-55mm lens.

Yep, did read that. Did you read/listen to Michael Crichton's State of Fear? (very interesting in this context.)

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[info]meghainclouds
2005-06-29 01:22 pm UTC (link)
Wandered in into your journal.

Nice pics. The sky looks beautiful in each of them. Different shades of blue.

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[info]diffdrummer
2005-06-30 05:27 am UTC (link)
Wandering is an artform I like and indulge in too ;-)

Appreciate you droppin' by.

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[info]parag
2005-06-29 01:50 pm UTC (link)
Can you see midnight sun in Anchorage or is it not north enough for that? Nice photos. like them all. Looks like you bought your new camera already, eh?

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[info]diffdrummer
2005-06-30 05:30 am UTC (link)
Nope, not midnight sun, the sun went down somewhere around 11:30-45 on June 21st and rose at about 4am or something, thats the most it gets in Anchorage. But the time from 12-4am the horizon is always shimmering with a glow, it is never quite dark ever in summer. Midnight sun is seen further north of Fairbanks.

He he..yep, new canon rebelxt, fits better my small hands and smaller pocket.

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[info]maxaud
2005-07-01 11:58 am UTC (link)
You got a Rebel XT!! *jealous and and all livid green..slowly purple...*

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[info]diffdrummer
2005-07-01 04:21 pm UTC (link)
Hehe...no need to get jealous ;-p after 4 years tottering 'round with a 1.55mp camcorder it is time justice prevailed.

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[info]shri
2005-06-29 03:37 pm UTC (link)
These pics certainly convey the feeling, the mood of the place. Nice!

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[info]diffdrummer
2005-06-30 05:31 am UTC (link)
summer(3 months from June-Aug) is a nice time here.

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[info]reformedvesper
2005-06-29 07:40 pm UTC (link)
sun at 10 pm? *drools*

do you know what sort of flowers those are? i recognize the marigolds, but those purple berry looking things?

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[info]diffdrummer
2005-06-30 05:44 am UTC (link)
yeah not bad, lots of energy too, though could be hard if you've to get up 7 or so.

No idea what those flowers are, the flowers I can identify would take the digits of just one hand :(

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[info]smiles_tina
2005-06-30 08:18 am UTC (link)
Lovely pics. I wandered into your journal while surfing. My dad has been to Anchorage and keeps talking about the place...and now I have a much better idea about it...thanks to your pics! :-)

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[info]diffdrummer
2005-07-01 04:15 pm UTC (link)
Hmm..seems like your Dad came here in summer :) It's a nice time here.

Glad to be of service.

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[info]deelight
2005-06-30 12:23 pm UTC (link)
Oh God! Is this heaven?

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[info]diffdrummer
2005-07-01 04:18 pm UTC (link)
this is just a blueprint, not the real one ;-p

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