Alaska: A Digital Odyssey

About the Book

Growing up in New York City, as a young boy your thoughts start to wander to parts of the world that you read and hear about. You wonder if you will ever get the chance to travel the world and see these great lands and their inhabitants for yourself.

I consider myself more fortunate than others, having traveled and photographed throughout most of the world including, China, East Africa, South Africa, Egypt, Israel, South America, Europe. The list goes on traveling almost all of the United States, including Hawaii. My dream was to travel through Alaska and to be among the famous Alaskan bears.

About three years ago, that dream came true. With my wife, Rosalie, we set out on a cruise of the Alaskan Inside Passage to view and photograph the wonders of Alaska while celebrating our 30th. Anniversary. One day into the trip and I was hooked (like a salmon swimming up stream) and had to have more. The following year (making reservations and paying a year in advance) we were back in Alaska except this year we were on a 15-seat seaplane heading for a remote section called Brooks Falls located in the Katmai National Park and Preserve. Brooks Lodge is in the heart of "BEAR COUNTRY". There are as many as 30 bears living along the one and a half-mile Brooks river during the salmon season. If it is Bears that you want to view or photograph, this is the place. My dream of being in Alaska was now a reality with over 10,000 digital images shot and edited into the 58 images seen in this book. Additional images can be viewed on my website at: www.girphotos.com.

In the pages that follow, you will view images of Alaska, photographed with digital cameras and taken with a variety of lenses, in various locations, set up as a primer that might hook you into "BEAR COUNTRY".

About the Author

In over 26 years of photography, professional photographer Gary I Rothstein has covered disasters, news events, sporting events, celebrity shoots, feature stories, space shuttle launches for NASA, Canadian Space Agency (CSA)and the European Pressphoto Agency (EPA) and the wonderful world of nature. His photography has appeared on the covers of THE ECONOMIST, Time Magazine, The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, The New York Daily News, The New York Post, Time Magazine Annual, European Pressphoto Agency Wire Service, The Associated Press Wire Service, REUTERS Wire Service, ESPN Magazine, Sports Illustrated, Sports Illustrated for Kids, People Magazine, Who Weekly, on the sides of Cereal boxes and in newspapers throughout the world. Gary, as a photographer currently covers news and sporting events for The New York Daily News and breaking news for The European Pressphoto Agency (EPA). After traveling most of the world in search of feature subjects and news stories, his passion for Africa took him to South Africa and the village of Nourivier. Over 5,000 images were taken digitally to produce this essay on the Village People, Nourivier, South Africa. To View Gary's other images visit his web site at www.girphotos.com Gary I. Rothstein, Photography gary@girphotos.com 561-767-0357