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Surfing Yakutat, Alaska
Surf in my Alaskan hometown is a seasonal event. Seven months of the year our surfboards would sit collecting dust if we chose to sit and wait for the weather patterns to shift and the swells to surge our way again. This spring with a long summer of no surf approaching, I was excited to [...]
Read moreTogiak commercial herring fishery
It’s summer time in Alaska, and I’ve been busy enjoying the season. With so many great photo shoots this summer, the ScottDickerson.com blog hasn’t been getting much attention. It’s August now and I’ve found some time to write about a photo shoot that took me out to Alaska’s Bering Sea this spring. For the last [...]
Read moreSurfing Alaska in winter
Surfing in Alaska What comes to mind when you read that? I bet there are a wide variety of reactions. Air temperatures well below zero (typically -5 to 30 Fahrenheit), water temps from 36 to 45 Fahrenheit and ideally, a nice offshore wind. Some of you will think it’s reckless endangerment of life, some will [...]
Read moreSitka herring fishery
I just returned from an amazing trip to Southeast Alaska. I traveled there on self assignment to photograph the last half of a very unique commercial fishery – Sitka Sound herring sac roe. Each spring millions of Pacific Herring return to the waters of Sitka Sound to spawn, and along with them come a fleet [...]
Read moreSnowkiting Alaska
This is my first trip report, shoot report, adventure story, not sure what to call these. Please let me know if there is anything in particular you want to hear about. Just back from a weekend ‘up the road’ where I shot photos of some new friends snowkiting. The Windzup team from Utah is visiting [...]
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