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Alaska and Beyond
Welcome to my wanderings in Alaska and abroad viewed thru my photography. Travel is the common thread in my images; I feel best inspired on the road. Most of my galleries highlight distant journeys exploring new and alternate cultural perspectives. The 'alaska backyard' gallery journeys closer to home among Alaska's natural beauty and wildlife, as well as some of my home state's other unique lifestyles and perspectives.
Wandering abroad I chart courses as I go, traveling by bus, motorbike, bike, foot, kayak, boat and train to best experience local culture. Home in Alaska, I add skiing to the list, along with the driving and flying it takes to get most places here and away.
Wherever I may be, I strive to get one step further as traveler rather than tourist. I prefer the offbeat to attractions overwhelmed by popularity, trying my best to move beyond the Lonely Planet. I travel light and relatively cheap, kind of upscale downscale, among the backpacking crowd where it’s easier to be more a part of 'there'. With no ultimate destination the journey itself is classically my goal.
Until 2005 I’d been bartender, wildlife biologist, bond salesman, and investment manager. Travel cranked up with my trip to Haiti. I’ve since traveled Trinidad-Tobago, France (bicycling), Indonesia (Bali and Sulawesi), Hong Kong, Costa Rica, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam and Laos. Previously I'd been to Canada, Mexico, Europe and all the US, but the developing world seems to now offer me the most inspiration. Asia has my current interest, elsewhere always beckoning. The journey is still young.
Captioned gallery images on this site sample these recent travels, with more past images and additional trips to be added. Another link will soon be added to follow future wanderings, journaling upcoming travels as they unfold, and adding further commentary to all my adventuring in life.
If you most like looking at the pix, I suggest choosing the 'smugmug' style in any gallery, in the drop down menu just beneath the p h o t o g r a p h i e i r i e sunset banner up top. You can click on the bigger pic on the right to make it bigger still and fill the frame, then use the arrow keys on your keyboard to move among the images. If you wish to dwell a bit more on the captioned narrative with each image, I suggest the 'journal' style choice in that same drop down window under the banner.
Where next? I'm heading back to SE Asia in late April, perhaps on the way to Myanmar, India, Nepal... The list just grows. For more places been, all the more to go.
Stay tuned and join my future journeys. Email me to help shape my travel. Tell me what not to miss.
Thanks for coming.
randy sears photographie irie
travel kit: canon 5d, 40d, 24-105L, 70-300DO, 50 1.4
and at home: 300 4.O L, 85 1.2 L2, 105 macro, 1.4X extender
too many lenses; never enough
copyright © randy sears p h o t o g r a p h i e i r i e
for licensing, info, assignments please click here to email me
thank you
Welcome to my wanderings in Alaska and abroad viewed thru my photography. Travel is the common thread in my images; I feel best inspired on the road. Most of my galleries highlight distant journeys exploring new and alternate cultural perspectives. The 'alaska backyard' gallery journeys closer to home among Alaska's natural beauty and wildlife, as well as some of my home state's other unique lifestyles and perspectives.
Wandering abroad I chart courses as I go, traveling by bus, motorbike, bike, foot, kayak, boat and train to best experience local culture. Home in Alaska, I add skiing to the list, along with the driving and flying it takes to get most places here and away.
Wherever I may be, I strive to get one step further as traveler rather than tourist. I prefer the offbeat to attractions overwhelmed by popularity, trying my best to move beyond the Lonely Planet. I travel light and relatively cheap, kind of upscale downscale, among the backpacking crowd where it’s easier to be more a part of 'there'. With no ultimate destination the journey itself is classically my goal.
Until 2005 I’d been bartender, wildlife biologist, bond salesman, and investment manager. Travel cranked up with my trip to Haiti. I’ve since traveled Trinidad-Tobago, France (bicycling), Indonesia (Bali and Sulawesi), Hong Kong, Costa Rica, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam and Laos. Previously I'd been to Canada, Mexico, Europe and all the US, but the developing world seems to now offer me the most inspiration. Asia has my current interest, elsewhere always beckoning. The journey is still young.
Captioned gallery images on this site sample these recent travels, with more past images and additional trips to be added. Another link will soon be added to follow future wanderings, journaling upcoming travels as they unfold, and adding further commentary to all my adventuring in life.
If you most like looking at the pix, I suggest choosing the 'smugmug' style in any gallery, in the drop down menu just beneath the p h o t o g r a p h i e i r i e sunset banner up top. You can click on the bigger pic on the right to make it bigger still and fill the frame, then use the arrow keys on your keyboard to move among the images. If you wish to dwell a bit more on the captioned narrative with each image, I suggest the 'journal' style choice in that same drop down window under the banner.
Where next? I'm heading back to SE Asia in late April, perhaps on the way to Myanmar, India, Nepal... The list just grows. For more places been, all the more to go.
Stay tuned and join my future journeys. Email me to help shape my travel. Tell me what not to miss.
Thanks for coming.
randy sears photographie irie
travel kit: canon 5d, 40d, 24-105L, 70-300DO, 50 1.4
and at home: 300 4.O L, 85 1.2 L2, 105 macro, 1.4X extender
too many lenses; never enough
copyright © randy sears p h o t o g r a p h i e i r i e
for licensing, info, assignments please click here to email me
thank you
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