When I saw Terri’s Monthly Color Photo Challenge was for the color Glacier Blue, I took the challenge literally and browsed through my archives searching for the blue in my glacier images from our 2013 Alaska RV trip.
I was amazed each time we saw one of these ancient, gigantic bodies of ice. We saw a few from the road, many from nature cruises, and even some from an airplane. Each one took my breath away. We could feel the cold each time we approached one for a closer look. Seeing all these images again brought back many happy memories.
The captain of our cruise from Seward took us close to the Aialik Glacier and shut off the engines so we could see and hear the glacier calving. There’s more about that amazing experience at Glaciers and Wildlife in Seward
Probably the most memorable day of our Alaska journey was the day we took a flight seeing trip from Talkeetna. We not only saw glaciers from the air, but our plane landed on one.
On a nature cruise from Valdez our boat navigated through the ice and in Juneau we saw Mendenhall Glacier up close.
While these images make me cold as I look at them they also make me happy. I feel so grateful we were able to make the trip when we did.
Many thanks to Patti for this week’s Lens Artists photo challenge Emotions.
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Hi Beth, and a warm welcome to the Sunday Stills challenge! I dearly love your glacier blues, such an amazing color and I will never get tired of seeing it. I’m jealous of your actual glaciers and hope to photograph my own someday. I post the themes for each month of my Sunday Stills page, so if you are so inclined please feel free to join each week, any day!
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Terri, thank you! I had fun with the challenge and I’m really glad you enjoyed my images.
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WOW!!
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Hi, Beth – What an awesome trip. I’m jealous (especially after the travel-less year that we’ve all just had). Your photos are absolutely stunning. Thank you for sharing them with us.
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I’m so glad you enjoyed the photos. Yes, it was an awesome trip. We are so fortunate we were able to go when we did.
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I’m most appreciative of your posting these photos — I’ve never seen this much snow. Absolutely beautiful!
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Thank you! I’m so glad you enjoyed the images.
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Sounds like a great trip. I love that glacial blue color. Great that you have these photos to help you remember the details about the trip. I’m so glad I took as many photos as I did once I started blogging. I’m writing some very new material right now and am incredibly disappointed in not only the quality of my images but also the lack. Guess I’ll just need to use what I got! I want to fill the 2 year gap from when we bought the RV to when I started blogging.
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Ingrid, I’m so glad you enjoyed the glaciers. I can still remember how cold it was when we were close to them on the boats. I started the blog to keep family and friends updated on our trip. Some days I took hundreds of photos! In most of my early posts I didn’t take time to do much photo editing. I had to post when we had decent internet. I’m looking forward to your new posts. Can’t wait to see the places you went.
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Alaska has always been on our to visit list but since we haven’t made it, I enjoyed your photos immensely. You guys have great memories of so many places. 🙂
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Judy, glad you enjoyed the photos. I’m so grateful we went when we did. We made the decision to go no matter what. I believe if we hadn’t gone that year we probably would never have had another opportunity. Still crossing our fingers about going back on a cruise one day.
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I liked your photo of the winding glacier seen from the air. It looks like an ancient frozen highway.
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Thank you! I thought so, too.
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Beautiful images Beth – we did a very similar trip and found the glaciers fascinating and beautiful. We also landed on the glacier which was really exciting! I’m sure our emotions related to the experience were very similar to yours. Tragic that the glaciers are melting away. It may only be a few generations before they no longer exist.
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Tina, thank you! As we traveled around Alaska each day was filled with “WOW” moments.
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The memories you have of this beautiful place are so incredible!
We loved the glaciers too. But you found the glacier blue! I love it!
Thank you so much for sharing… such spectacular captures!
Have a lovely day Beth!
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Nancy, that blue was so beautiful. I’m glad it turned out so well in the photos.
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Brrr….cold! Beautiful images, Beth. It looks like an incredible adventure.
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Patti, thank you! Brrrr… is right!
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Beautiful images!
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Anne, thank you!
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Wow moments…beautiful. The feelings of seeing this…knowing my grandchildren never will. Sad.
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Ann-Christine, thank you. They certainly were “Wow” moments!
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Beautiful photos. I’ve flown (not piloting) around Mt. Denali and the glaciers. They are incredilble.
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Thank you. We flew close to Mt. Denali (it was still Mount McKinley then) before landing on Ruth Glacier. Yes, they are incredible.
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Love the glacier blue. So crisp, bright, and translucent. Thanks for reminding me.
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Thank you! Seeing the blue in those glaciers was really amazing.
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Cruising from Vancouver to Seward was the first cruise we ever took back in the 1990s …. thanks for the memories. That glacial blue has a way of sticking with a person.
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We were thinking of a cruise to Alaska just as life for all of us changed. I know you are happy that you got your terrific photos of a memorable lifetime experience.
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