The road chose me

When I made the trip out to the Arctic Ocean I happened to meet a really cool guy, Ben Huff.
Ben is a professional photographer writing a book about the Dalton Highway and the people who are compelled to travel on it. He’s been travelling up and down the highway for a few years now taking photos and documenting stories for the book. He’s driving up in the middle of summer and the middle of winter, winding up in the ditch on one occasion, which actually turned out be a good thing believe it or not.

You can checkout Ben’s amazing work at his site http://www.huffphoto.com/ and his blog is really cool as well, http://www.huffphoto.blogspot.com/ 
Maybe one day I’ll be taking photos of that quality

Ben took a couple of photos of me with his super-cool camera – he likes to use real film as it gives a kind of life to photos that digital deos not.
Have a look at the two photos of me and I think you’ll agree.

Dan at the Arctic Ocean

Dan pondering life at the Arctic Ocean

-Dan

I had to try and get some good shots with the new camera. It’s a Fuji S6000FD.
I still havn’t gotten around to buying a tripod, so I had to resort to resting it on a park bench wedged on a crumpled up coke can.

Not bad for the first time I’ve really played with the camera.