Alaska Direct bus ride from Fairbanks Alaska, USA, to Whitehorse Yukon, Canada, along the Alcan highway. An amazing journey, with an surprising driver.
David profile on Flickr says it all about this amazing human being:
Canadian born and partly raised… (It’s a long story) … But … floated down the Yukon River for 3 months in my younger days and got trapped in Alaska for 25 yrs. Mostly in a remote Yupik Eskimo village, 600 miles from the nearest road. Spent the last few winters travelling in SE Asia, but missed the Northern Lights and am now back in the Yukon Territory, running the only transportation link between Alaska and the Canadian Yukon.
Borders irritate me …I prefer to think of myself as “Civis Mundanus”… a citizen of this beautiful WORLD.
I love to do amateur astronomy with my 5 inch refractor, read voraciously (history, science, Latin & Greek Classics) and play with all my ancient film cameras, especially in the dark of night.
I also love scouring the mountains of Alaska, the Yukon and Northwest Territories for the fossil remnants of ancient worlds … My next Flickr project is to photograph my fossil collection, if I ever get around to it.
I really don’t care for contests, prizes, etc…. am kind of turned off by all that ….. What I love about Flickr is the marvel of being able to share my love of nature with people all around the world……. As well as to see nature through their eyes….. As the last great American President , Thomas Jefferson,once said ….” There is not so much as a blade of grass, anywhere in Nature, that does not interest me”
In doing photography, I use a variety of interesting old film cameras and , most recently, a Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ1 digital w/ 10x Leica Zoom.
While I’m in awe of the art created by photographers using Photoshop, etc. I don’t really think of what I do as art …more like a loving chronicling of Nature, to which I like to maintain a certain fidelity. I like my images to be as true as possible to how they were experienced, especially my Northern Lights pix (all film shots), to which end i will occasionally mess with the brightness and contrast in Windows Photo Gallery, if Walmart doesn’t do a great job printing, but that’s about it.
I’m happy to share … anybody can use my images for anything they want,
My gratitude goes out to all who share my impressions of nature here….. I enjoy comments largely ’cause they take me to YOUR sites, where I am constantly amazed and inspired.
I’m Male.
Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada
His photos are amazing. He deserves full exposure, I’d love to see his pictures in a book or several ones. During the 10 h drive we stopped many times, to take pictures and film, and in beaver Creek, shortly after having picked up the only other passenger, we saw an Aurora. It wasn’t like the one in the picture above, but for me it was magic. The first Aurora I’ve ever seen. Congratulations David, keep it up, never stop chasing those wide wild horizons and those unique light shows above Yukon’s and Alaska’s wilderness.
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