Stealing the Sun – Ketchikan, Alaska – [06/21/2018]

You don’t always realize what a blessing sunshine is until you’re in an area that doesn’t get it every day. Don’t get me wrong, I adore Alaska, and I honestly do like the rain – but after a season of liquid sunshine, I swear we start to develop a little bit of vitamin D craving.

But Ketchikan is the last place you expect to see sun. In fact, we usually joke that Ketchikan gets 390 days of rain per year (see what we did there). But today proved to be the exception – it was gloriously sunny out, enough so that everyone was shedding their layers and walking around in short sleeves and light summer pants. Which was perfect timing for Amras and I to go up to the resteraunt on the hill – something the rain had prevented us from doing on previous calls (there’s not a lot of point in dining on top of a mountain if you can’t see anything but rain).

After lunch, there were totem poles to visit and trails to hike ,and art galleries to explore. No matter how many times life brings me, I never ever seem to grow tired of this place…

There are some days when you just don’t need anything else except a hand in yours and a good dose of sunshine.

Mum & Dad have loaned me their much higher-quality-than-mine camera for the duration of this contract, so I spent most of the day being a complete shutterbug, trying to figure out all the various settings. And then once we did get back, trying to figure out how to take the mountains of raw data (really, raw, as in the file format, and when you shoot in that format, it is supposed to be run through an editor program to bring it up to replicate what you actually saw) into something remotely resembling what I was actually looking at – this is proving to be a bit of challenge as photographer I am not, and photo-editor I am definitely not.

But I am relatively pleased with how the pictures turned out.

Great, just what I need another hobby Perhaps hobbies just come when you’re happy, as I seem to be accumulating them as of late.