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  • New computer; back in action
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      Posted Nov 25, 2002 9:16 PM

      I think I'm back in action again, this time with a new computer. Hopefully everything is working.

      As some of you know, I took a trip to Alaska this last summer driving from the Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN area. I finally got around to getting some of my slides scanned, so I'm including one here.

      One evening at about the border of British Columbia and the Yukon, I stopped for the evening dead tired. The campground, however, rented canoes for only $6 Canadian for the evening and I couldn't resist taking one out for a spin. It was a tandem, but was heavy with a substantial keel and paddled just fine as a solo, although a bit clumsy and slow. As I was leaving the campground the owner suggested that I "not get to close to the moose, since they were particularly irritable." I assured her that I'd bring her canoe back in one piece.

      The evening was beautiful. Not a breeze blowing, insects completely missing, cool. A loon popped up not too far away and enriched Fuji films a bit more. Hearing a splash at the other end of the lake, about a mile away, I looked up and spotted a small bull moose munching rushes in knee deep water. I paddled across the lake, taking care not to get too close in the shallow water, and shot way too many photos of the little bull, and later of a cow and a calf.

      I'll be curious to see how this photo looks. My new monitor is a flat panel display and photos look different, sometimes much darker in some programs. Let me know if the contrast and overall exposure looks OK.

      I suppose it's pretty cold on Cotton Lake tonight, but I kinda wish I was there again. Back to reality...I think I remember how to attach a photo...Let's see if this works.

      Gordon Dietzman

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