Full Moon over Joshua Tree National Park, California.
How is that for an all inclusive post title? We are wrapping up our travels and looking forward to getting back to Alaska. This will be the last post until Monday, at which time I will be back in the home office. This has been a great trip, gee, Colorado seems like an eternity ago! I prefer multiple, short trips, but it has become so expensive and difficult to fly to and from Alaska these days, that I think two long trips a year will continue to be our strategy. We will travel again in February / March.
Our first order of business will be to process the back-log of print orders – we appreciate everyone’s patience. We hope to have them done and shipped by Thursday. This trip, we tried to keep up with print orders while on the road, but it just didn’t work out. If the orders for the week all came in on one day, it would be easy. But, we usually get one order a day, so trying to coordinate with our printer, and anticipate where we would be so they could send them to us, ended up being too much. We will have to work on a different solution.
After we get caught up on prints, we are going to begin advertising our photo tours for next summer. I’m am really excited to share the details for these tours because I think they are fairly unique, and are going to be a lot of fun. In short, they will be multi-day, boat based tours limited to 3 or 4 guests. I have a couple of options, both aboard great boats with incredibly knowledgeable captains – one will be in Kenai Fjords National Park, the other is based in Prince William Sound – two of my favorite places. I could go on and on, but I’ll wait. I will say this, if you haven’t spent the night in front of a dramatic tidewater glacier, then you are in for a treat! Engines off, the only sounds are that of the calving glacier, along with the soothing sounds of water lapping against the hull, or maybe the blow of a passing whale – Hoping to have the details here late next week.
In addition, I will also be offering a small group (limited to 4) coastal bear viewing tour – brown bears up close are definitely a peak experience that every photographer (and person) should experience at least once. More soon!
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goodbye to Colorado? It was really great that you brought us so many wonderful images!! Thank you. Safe journey to Alaska and looking forward to your next adventure and series!
The photo tours sound absolutely awesome! My problem is, my family would have a fit if I went back to Alaska without taking them too. And we can’t afford to all go back so soon! I hope they work out for you, and you can keep doing them for years to come — maybe eventually I can join you.
Looking forward to seeing what you have in store for the tours, Ron. That would probably be enough to entice me to go up to Alaska.
Good luck with the tours Ron. Maybe the next time I am in Alaska I need to spend a week with Carl and then join you on one of yours! 🙂
Don’t you think you ought to have an Alaska image on this photo tour post of yours? 😉
Hey Ron,
Great photo. I’m sure you’ll be glad to get home, once you chew up some off the office backlog.
What’s all this I hear about bear tours? 🙂
Cheers
Carl
Wow, you have really whet my appetite! Maybe, one day…
Noella from Oz
I’m definitely interested in your photo tours. My wife and I are planning our first trip to Alaska in late June–early July.
I am interested on what photo tour you might have available, if any, when I am in Alaska July 16-26, 2010.
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Thanks a lot everyone!
That would be great Richard!
Good point Mark.
Scott, Tom – I will keep those dates in mind as I try to finalize the schedule just in case it works out.