The ExploreNorth Blog

Best images of each month from The ExploreNorth Blog

Dateline: January 12, 2024.

    It's common this time of year to look back at what happened during the previous year. For me, the photos on my blog are a good way of doing that, so I decided to pick out the best photo posted each month. "Best" doesn't mean photographically - images that I'd submit to a contest - merely images that I like because they show what we were up to, and that I connect with in various ways.

    In 2012, 122 posts were added to the blog, with a total of 2,233 photos. The longest post, with 62 photos, was "A day on the White Pass & Yukon Route railway", added on May 21st.

January 2012
I really enjoy photography in the deep cold, and posted 19 photos from an outing on January 19th - see "Life at forty below zero".

February 2012
On February 27th, we put our cabin up for sale. That was the first step in a major change in our lives - see "My Carcross cabin is for sale".

March 2012
March 27th was a marathon day of photography, from shooting the Northern Light at 3:30 am to getting home from the White Pass at 5:30 pm, and I posted 39 photos - see "A 14-hour day of photography between Whitehorse and Skagway".

April 2012
On April 20th, I posted 16 photos from a day with lots of variety - see "Whitehorse to Carcross - history, swans, and storms".

May 2012
On the Victoria Day long weekend, Cathy and I rode the train from Skagway to Fraser and back, and a blog post with 62 photos resulted - see "A day on the White Pass & Yukon Route railway".

June 2012
Normally I take few photos on Day 2 of an Alaska cruise (the 'sea day'), but On June 5th I posted 24 of the 152 photos I shot on this day - see "Sailing to Alaska, Day 2 - Grenville Channel".

July 2012
On July 22nd I posted 22 photos and a video from the end of another tour I was driving/guiding - see "Driving from Anchorage to Seward, and home to Whitehorse".

August 2012
In August I drove a 15-tour, and on the 14th posted 24 photos - see "Alaska Marine Highway, Valdez to Whittier".

September 2012
September 22nd was another South Klondike Highway exploring/photograph day, and I posted 15 photos - see "Fall colours, waterfalls and a ghost town".

October 2012
Most of the 20 posts in October were from a cruise on the Rhine and Mosel Rivers in Europe - there are 41 photos just at "Rudesheim, and cruising the Rhine River castles".

November 2012
On November 17th I went looking for bad weather. It didn't get as bad as I'd hoped for, but I posted 16 photos from 2 cameras - my old Fujifilm Finepix S1800, and a new Canon EOS 7D - see "Storm-chasing in a Yukon winter".

December 2012
Winter can produce some amazing colours, and a drive to Skagway on December 10th produced 32 photos and 2 videos worth posting - see "Mother Nature's amazing winter palette".