September 26, 2006

Stunning Alaska Photo Album

Last week, we received another modest email from a guest.  Here's an excerpt: "My husband and I took an Alaskan Inside Passage Cruise with Cruise West in August 2006. We've put our photos from our trip on our website..."  Turns out, the photos are from Patty & Bill Hankins.  In the interest of full disclosure, you should know that they are professional photographers.  That said, they were not compensated in any way by Cruise West for the trip and in fact, we didn't even know that they were onboard.  It really is a compliment that they would even choose to travel with us!

Here's what the landing page on their photo site says:

 We chose this particular cruise for a couple of reasons. The Spirit of Endeavour is a small cruise ship,with a capacity of 102 passengers. This allows the ship to go where the big cruise ships can't, and generally to get closer to the wildlife and the scenery. Also, we went in August on the cruise that stops at Hyder, AK, in the hopes of seeing bears as they fed on the salmon heading upstream to spawn. It was our first trip with Cruise West - we had a great time, and Captain Mike did a fantastic job getting us close to the wildlife.

They've also provided a nice page on tips and tricks for photographing Alaska from a Cruise Ship.  I was definitely inspired! 

Thanks to Patty & Bill for sharing their work with us. 

Posted by Leigh on September 26, 2006 9:17 AM

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