(I’m at the Lee’s Summit Art Festival today, meeting more wonderful nature-lovers and displaying my artwork. If you live in the Kansas City area, please stop by and say “Hi”, and we can talk nature! In my absence, please enjoy an encore of my “Petersburg Small Boat Harbor” post, which originally published in October 2011)
Today’s post includes some images I made around the Petersburg small boat harbor. Not really nature photography, but another love of mine … shooting scenics around small harbors, but Petersburg has some interesting sights. So, I’ll share some images of this area today, then we’ll move on to what we really came to Alaska for … nature photography in Southeast Alaska!
Anytime I travel to a small harbor community, I like to check out the harbor area. I especially love to photograph the small boats and scenery at these locations. And often the reflections in the water are mesmerizing to me! But not much sunshine on my days at the harbor … rain was the order of the day for us, every day in Petersburg. In fact, you know it’s been raining a lot whenever you hear the locals complaining of rain! As I mentioned in an earlier post, the Southeast communities were setting rainfall records for the month of August. But all this “liquid sunshine” makes Alaska’s Inside Passage so green and luscious!
Here are a few images of small boats docked in the harbor:
By the way, note the lime-colored kayak sitting on top of the boat in the upper lefthand side of the above photo? This is the Delphinus, the 50-foot boat that I was on when I led the photo workshop.
In the above photo, you can see from the reflections that we managed to squeak out a few moments of blue skies between the frequent rain showers and low-hanging clouds! And the large, green building in the background is one of several large fish processing plants in Petersburg. Lots of fishing in and around Petersburg!
Above: The “old” part of Petersburg!
And just a short walk from the actual harbor, Petersburg has built a wonderful memorial to all it’s lost fishermen. Note the Nordish boat … Petersburg was heavily influenced via the Nordish people as the town was established:
A walk around the memorial conjures up thoughts of what these lost fishermen must have been like to know them:
And back at the harbor proper, a lone gull sits atop a post, as if it is the sentinel:
Tomorrow, we start our workshop via a “pre-trip” jetboat trip to the beautiful LeConte Glacier … don’t miss this epic journey of the glacier trip and the subsequent workshop … bears, whales, eagles, luscious scenery all await you!