I have been an Alaska resident for a while now and I have found that I have started to take this great state a little too much for granted.   Sitting in the truck driving across this state regularly I find myself more worried about getting somewhere than stopping and looking at what I am going by, so this weekend when Diana and I needed to make a trip to Valdez from our home in Fairbanks we stopped.  We stopped and got back to my routes of photography. I wanted to share what I came up within 4 days, 2 of which I only took a couple of photos due to a good amount of rain. 

To me this is why you visit Alaska.  If there is something inside of you that has to see the best mother nature offers make a trip once in your life to the far north.  This is 12 of my favorite photos from the trip, minus the duck photos.