– Faith and Family: A Snowy Christmas Play Experience

in the fall of 2025, our church that we attend, Clover Pass Community Church in Ketchikan Alaska, focused on presenting a Christmas paly, as many churches do around Christmas. Our play though was a little different from many others. Our worship director wrote a play that had had a woman and her niece trapped in a cabin because of a snow storm. The lady was training to be a lawyer and her niece was asking her “why we pray in Jesus name”. The woman then shared many of her favorite witnesses (from the Bible) of who Jesus really was. Verses like Matthew 9:1-8, Mark 5:21-43, Matthew 27:54, Isiah 7 and 53, Luke 2:8-20 and the last witness that was called was from John 4:7-42. Every time that a witness was called upon they presented their side of the story. In between the witnesses and the scenes of the cabin, there was a 5 level tree that had several local church choir member singing various songs. There also was a kids choir that sang a few songs also. Many many hours went into the practicing, from the choirs learning the songs to the people stranded in the cabin, to all of the behind the scenes work and people. It took a f ew days to build the tree, took another few to build the cabin. When it was all done, we had 5 performances that were free to attend. It was a successful outreach to our community and many people commented about it and were blessed by attending it. The link for the YouTube video is:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnUobA2VRDs&t=2s

– Totem poles near and in Ketchikan Alaska

My wife and I have lived in Alaska since 2000, we have lived in the SE part of the state in Ketchikan since 2008. Ketchikan has a large amount of totem poles. As a photographer I have enjoyed taking pictures of many of them. We recently compiled some of our pictures and placed them in both in a E-Book as well as in a hard copy. The book can be found on Amazon. If you like totem poles or are curious about them, please check it out. Thank you.

Digital download Ketchikan Totems

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– A Hawaiian E-Book

We are fortunate to have another of our books published on Amazon. Its a E-Book, we are still working on paper editions. My wife and I have traveled to HI several times while living in Alaska. These are some of our memories and pictures.  You can download a free preview of it on Amazon. Hope you enjoy, if you do please consider leaving a review of it. Thank you.

Digital copy of Hawaii (From an Alaskan’s viewfinder)

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Time for some games

While many of us have extra home time, it’s a good time to play some games, here are a few game designs with a few of our pictures. Please click on each image to learn more about it. Thank you.

 

Photowhoa overlays

There are lots of add ons and overlays that photographers can use to enhance/chance their pictures. One company that I have ordered a few things thru is “Photowhoa”. I am pleased with the results of the pictures. The overlays work easy and look good.

Here are a few pictures that I just did using overlays.SONY DSC

I added the colored reflection and the laser lights.

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I added the snow falling, and the sparkler.

Check them out, they also have really good customer service.

 

Anchorage Alaska

When someone mentions “Anchorage”, what thoughts go through your mind? Cold? Dark? Depressing? Igloos? Eskimos? Dog sleds? We just spent a week there, as we had some appointments that we needed to take care of. This was not our first time there, We have visited Alaska’s largest city many times over the past 19 years. For the most part, Anchorage is like many cities in the lower 48 states. It has fast food, it has some crime, it has some places that aren’t the best to travel after dark or alone. But it has so much more. Yes it receives snow some during the winters. In fact it snowed off and on for two days while we were there. They do not have 6 months of darkness, in fact there is no where in Alaska, that is true. Yes they have extended daylight in spring and summer, and decreased sunlight during  the fall and winter. They have beautiful sunsets, if you know where to look. This was before sunset

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This was as the sun was setting.

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Anchorage has a lot to offer, during any season of the year. It is the hub of Alaska and many flights start or end there. It’s the city that is most visited when someone talks of Alaska. It is not Alaska’s capital, Juneau is, which is in the SE part of the state. If your travels give you the chance to spend time or visit Anchorage, take it, it’s a place on many people’s bucket lists.