Photography Friday!

Welcome to the Photography Friday Blog hop! This is a blog linkup that focuses on Photography, at any skill level or experience. Each week we want to encourage you to get out and take some photos! It doesn't matter what Camera you have - an iPhone, a DSLR, a film camera, an instax - Just get out and press that shutter! Blog about your photographic awesomeness and link up here to share it every friday. If you'd like feedback on something, leave a comment asking what you'd like to know and your host will be happy to provide you with some.


I'm stepping up my game this week since I'm co-hosting and all!  Last weekend we were blessed with a blanket of white, so I got my dslr butt out in the freezing temps and took so pretty fun pics!  Still no editing software so these are au natural!  I hope you enjoy the beauty of the Last Frontier as much as I do!

Ok, so this one was edited with my iphone... sue me!  But don't- k?

I hope you enjoyed my photos!  Don't forget to check out the links below and follow along!

Until next time...   ** Don't forget these gems aka pictures are mine, please do not use them or take them without proper citation.  Thanks!!**

Each week we will choose a new Photographer to be featured! To be considered for next week, please link up your photography post below and make sure you are following your hosts & co-hosts. These two things will qualify you for being a featured photographer!

Lisa from Ameliorer la vie shared her three-day trip to Jo'burg last week, and she had some incredible photographs! Look at those beautiful Lions! Stunning. Thanks so much for sharing, Lisa!

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Sobriety Festival

There is an amazing festival put on by the Native Village of Eyak each year called Sobriety.  It focuses on the joys and gifts sobriety gives us all.  It's amazing time when native dance troops from all over come and celebrate.  There are crafts galore and can we just talk about the FOOD for a second?!  OMG it's amazing.  There are local vendors that make delicious treats and a huge potluck at the end of the celebration for everyone, for free!

*Proud wife moment* My husband and his father went out and actually got the moose for the village and this celebration.  D has never been so sexy as when I received this picture:

I mean seriously people, how could you NOT swoon?  Hunter, provider- yes, please!  The moose was first divided up amoungst the elders with the liver, heart and kidneys.  Then, the moose was butchered for this celebration for the whole village to enjoy.  Every part of this animal was used!  It. was. amazing!  Huge kudos to the cooks!

While I tend to focus on food because, well I love food, there is so much more to this celebration.  There were vendors selling native fur art, native jewlery and so much more.  It's a shoppers paradise and this deprived shopper took full advantage.

 

 

The dance troops and other preforming groups that came in did not disappoint.  There were groups from all over the came to strut their stuff and celebrate sobriety.  All of the details on the clothing are beyond amazing.  The dances preformed took my breath away at their beauty and storytelling.  The Kodiak Drummers that preformed (all kids mind you) were seriously inspirational! 

I am so blessed to live in a place so cultrally rich!

 

Until next time...