Sea Reflections

by Jeanette French

Title

Sea Reflections

Artist

Jeanette French

Medium

Photograph - Photography

Description

Sunset is a magical time when the day begins to shift to mysterious night. On the West coast, one often sees people called forth near sundown, to stand as silent witnesses to this daily transformation when the sun disappears below the horizon with astonishing speed. The same is true for those who travel by sea. I photographed the setting sun’s reflection alongside our ship’s wake on a calm evening in the Inside Passage of Alaska.
A beacon in the darkness of a wild land in a modern world, and a nature laboratory, a United Nations biosphere reserve, and a world heritage site, this is Alaska.
The name, Alaska, comes from the indigenous peoples known as the Aleut, meaning the object towards which the action of the sea is directed. An Aleut word from the same root, Alyeska, means great land. Indigenous peoples have occupied Alaska for thousands of years. The first peoples are thought to have come across a land bridge, between what is now Siberia and the Aleutian Islands, before the continents fully separated. Approximately half of the total state population lives along the coast, where the subarctic climate is moderated by the proximity to the ocean
Purchased from Russia in 1867 for about 2 cents per acre, Alaska was originally thought to be a big mistake and was nicknamed “Seward’s Folly”, after the then U.S. Secretary of State, William Seward, who negotiated the purchase. This 49th U.S. state is unusual and valuable in many ways. The gold rushes began in the 1890’s and brought thousands of miner and settlers to Alaska over the next 30 years. Today, it is the black gold of crude oil that fuels the economy. The North Slope has vast energy resources, massive reserves of crude oil and natural gas and coal. It is the largest state in the union, twice the size of Texas, though it is the least densely populated.
It is considered the northernmost state, bordering the Arctic Ocean to the north, and the most eastern and western state, due to the extension of the Aleutian Islands into the eastern hemisphere. Alaska also has the longest coastline, longer than all of the other states combined. Tongass National Forest is the largest in the U.S. Alaska is blessed with 3 million lakes, marshlands, permafrost and glacier ice. Half of all of the glaciers in the world, over 100,000, are in Alaska.
Jeanette French, paintings, photographs, canvas prints, framed prints, metallic prints, acrylic prints, greeting cards, gift cards, fine art.
Creating portals of light, love, joy, beauty, compassion, hope and gratitude is my lifelong passion and gift for the earth, hence the name of my art business, For the Earth. My mother painted in oils when I was young and encouraged my own drawing, painting and handcrafting in all forms. My father, the photographer, gave me my first camera at age 8. As a result of these loving influences, I am a lifelong student of both mediums. I am grateful to my wonderful Pacific NW painter teachers, Stan Capon and Edi Olson, for training my eye and technique. I hope you will enjoy this image as much as I enjoyed its creation. More gifts for the earth can be found at these websites: jeanette-french.artistwebsites.com and jeanette-french.pixels.com.

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September 18th, 2020

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