Pics from "The Great Land"

Hi all,
Theses were taken in Oct, 04 and the first 2 are very high compressed jpegs; the 3rd is 1/4 the of the original size. Enjoy!

That's not England!

I like the scale you get in the pics. Is the plane yours?

dewmuw wrote:
That's not England!

I like the scale you get in the pics. Is the plane yours?

Hi!
Thanks and this is why I call it the great land! It is most impressive.

Heck no, you won't find that in England which I left at the end of Aug, 04. I was off the forum as I took leave from most of Sept then get settled here and go for a training class then back here and try to get resettled, sort an internet provider and well moving is a hassle! This one took about 4 months start to finish!

Nope, the plan isn't mine unfortunately and it is out of my price range at the moment. The how flying works is cool, but I am really not bothered about flying. In the last few months I have logged a little over a day (25 hrs)! I am trying to figure out how to afford a 70-200 F2.8L IS lens at the moment. I am making about 1/2 what I did in bennies as it was in England. I feel so poor!

Are you wanting to see some UK pics? I have few of them I can show off.

Whereabouts are you?

I'm in England so I see plenty of it!

dewmuw wrote:
Whereabouts are you?

I'm in England so I see plenty of it!

PM sent. This is probably one of the coolest things I have ever seen! This is an incredibly wild and awesome place. I just hope it stays this way! I really enjoyed the UK whilst over there. I'd really like to go back but the cost is very probibitive these days. Extortion rate is $2 = 1 pound last I checked...good for Brits; bad for Americans!

Did you use any filters?

Canon 77mm UV on a Canon 24-70mm F2.8L on a 10D shot Lg/Fine jpeg.

dewmuw wrote:
That's not England!

I like the scale you get in the pics. Is the plane yours?

My guess would be Alaska, or somewhere in the Pacific Northwest of Canada
so instead of "where's Waldo" we can all guess "Where's Canuck" beautiful shots by the way, where ever you are.

Ok, South Central Alaska. Had it been clearer, pehaps I coulda saw Denali which would have been off to the left off the frame. These were taken in the Anchorage area.

The far right is the Chugach Mtns, centre is Talkeetna Mtns/Twin Peaks and I believe Pioneer Peak is in there somewhere, perhaps to the right of Twin Peaks. I'd be up for correction if this is incorrect.

The "A Great Land" comes from Alyeska, the Native American word for this place translated to English.

I had assumed you were referring to Alaska. Based on our visit there last summer, the plane, the mountains and particularly the cloudiness are really telling clues. Good shots.

We had a surprise today, not a cloud out there all day, or at least the whopping 5 1/2 hrs of light we get up here this time of year. There was only one problem, it was windy as all heck and in the below zero F windchill! Brrrr! It was the windchill that put me off. Canadian plane registries (regs) are C-XXXX where XXXX is a 4 letter code like England does, G-BOAG (this one happens to be a now redundant Concorde in Seattle).