Ketchikan, Alaska
Tuesday, September 30, 2014
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Thursday, September 25, 2014
23 Things That Look Totally Bizarre Under A Microscope
This is fine salt under an electron microscope
From Buzfeed:
23 Things That Look Totally Bizarre Under A Microscope
Wednesday, September 24, 2014
Tuesday, September 23, 2014
Go Takes Over Seoul Streets
American Go E-Journal:
Go Takes Over Seoul Streets
"Hundreds of people gathered to play Go in Korea’s Gwanghwamun Square, on September 21. The event was part of Seoul’s Street Without Cars 2014.09.21_Simultaneous-Go-Games-Seoul-550x367Festival and Learn Go Week"
Would have loved to attend this event.
Monday, September 22, 2014
Sunday, September 21, 2014
200 year old cabinet. See what it can do
The Roentgens' Berlin Secretary Cabinet
“This antique cabinet is over 200 years old. For a long time it was owned by King Frederick William II and you can find it now on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. It is by far one of the finest achievements of European furniture making. Watch what it can do and then remember this was all done with hand tools.”
Impressive!
See jets from Rosetta’s comet up close
Emily writes a nice piece on her blog including a close-up picture of cope Churyumov-Gerasimenko (Wikipedia) from Rosetta (Wikipedia) where you can see jets from the comet.
Maven arrives on Mars today!
After 10 months travel time, the Maven probe (Wikipedia) arrives in Mars orbit to test the composition of the planet’s atmosphere.
http://www.space.com/27185-nasa-mars-maven-spacecraft-arrival.html
Isn’t science grand?
Saturday, September 20, 2014
Ketchikan Airport
A place I always wanted to see was Ketchikan Airport (Wikipedia). I had “visited” it many times in Microsoft Flight Simulator, flying in and out of the place and around the beautiful Misty Forjds National Monument (Wikipedia) in SE Alaska.
When you have the excellent add-on by ORBX for Ketchikan Airport (link) the fidelity and reality is astounding. Even down to the docks and the sloped taxiways.
When we took the cruise to Alaska earlier this month, one of the stops was in Ketchikan, It is a nice little town (see my photo gallery) and as the airport is in another island, just in front of the town, we passed close enough for a good look. The weather as usual in a rain forest, was of course rainy, but I still shot a good set of photos of the airport, the famous sloped taxiways (needed because of the lack of space in the place), and the ferry that passengers have to take to cross in and out of the airport.
Tower and terminal
General view
The ferry (you can see the sloped taxiway coming down from the runway)
The floatplane section (very common in Alaska)
Friday, September 19, 2014
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Wednesday, September 10, 2014
Photo of the Day
Another view of the Sawyer Glacier in Tracy Arm Fjord (Southeast) Alaska, between Ketchikan and Juneau.
The weather in Ketchikan was rainy as always so the colors are subdued due to the clouds and mist. They call the area the "Misty Fjords" for a reason!
Tuesday, September 09, 2014
Photo of the Day
Celebrity Solstice
Too close and too big to take a whole-ship photo.
This was when docked in Victoria, BC, Canada on our trip to Alaska.
Monday, September 08, 2014
Sunday, September 07, 2014
Alaska!
Last week we took a cruise to Alaska!
We went on the Celebrity Solstice, from Seattle to Southeast Alaska.
The photos you saw here last week were pre-posted, from photo outings earlier this year.
I came back with lots of images from the trip, which will be showing up here in the future (and always all of them in my website of course).
This is the Sawyer Glacier in Tracy Arm in Southeast Alaska, between Ketchikan and Juneau.
The weather did not help in Ketchikan, rainy as always (no wonder they call the area the Misty Fjords!).
Saturday, September 06, 2014
Thursday, September 04, 2014
Wednesday, September 03, 2014
Tuesday, September 02, 2014
Monday, September 01, 2014
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