September 2006

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More Alaska Photos

[image:877:c:s=5] I’ve upload more pictures from Alaska. Believe it or not this blue is completely genuine and just like it was like down a glacier crevasse. I’ve not image processed this shot all all.

Dave

It’s Not About The Bike

Bought this book at Seattle airport and read it on the journey home and then finished it in the couple of days after.  I’d been meaning to pick it up for some time. For those who don’t know it’s the story of how Lance Armstrong beat cancer and recovered to go on to to win

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Image Recovery

Felt I should post having had a moan about it previously. Following our return from holiday I set about recovering some of the pictures I lost from the memory card that corrupted. The software I used was Zero Assumption Recovery which is does more than just flash card recovery but for images is completely free.

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Alaska Pictures

[thumb:832:l]I’ve chosen a selection of our Alaska photos and processed them to look their best (or at least as far as my photoshop knowledge allows). It’s a lot better than just dumping an entire set of photos onto the gallery as I’ve done previously. Used the Rawshooter program for the first time which has some

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Aurorarama

Day 10 – Today we’ve travelled to the Denali Lodge and gone on a tour 20 miles or so into the National Park. We managed to get a sight of Mount McKinley or as the natives call it, Denali – The Great One. It’s the highest mountain in North America and apparently the largest in

Holidays, Kathryn

Northern Lights

Day 9 update: Last night around 10 pm, our ranger told us that the northern lights were out. We went to look outside, couldn’t see much to start with but about an hour later we had a magnificant display of colour. There was no cloud in the sky and the view was breathtaking. We stayed

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McKinley Lodge

Day 9 – Today we are at the Lodge. Weather wasn’t great yesterday but much clearer today. That said we still can’t see the top of Mount McKinley/Denali which is 40 miles away. In a couple of hours we are going to an Iditarod dog sled camp – Kathryn is desperate to see some Husky

Holidays, Kathryn

Mt McKinley

Day 8 – Today we left our ship behind and boarded the train for our long journey to Mount McKinley. The train took almost 6 hours and we had some fantastic views along the way. We eventually arrived at the lodge early this afternoon and although we have been having some rain, we had a

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Glacier Bay

Day 6 – Glacier Bay – Yesterday we went here, its basically an inlet with a number of glaciers on either side. We got to within a quarter of a mile of John Hopkins’ Glacier. On the way out we spent 3 hours on deck watching for whales and managed a couple of small sightings.

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Alaskan Adventure

We haven’t blogged as much as we’d like but here’s how it’s been going. Day 1 – Vancouver – After arriving in Vancouver we had an overnight stay in a fantastic hotel – it was reall good. US Customs were backed up on the day we were boarding the ship so we ended up on

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