9/28/04:
"Hey Dave, how's it going? I check every other day to see if you
have changed the picture of the week. I'm glad to see you got a chance to put
up a new pick. That is a pretty cool picture of the glacier.
I
have a new web-site I started. It's http://michaelshakes.blogspot.com.
It's a blog site, which is just like a place to type random things for people
to read or comment on. I can post pictures up and change the look of the
webpage. Well I hope you had a good birthday. I posted a your
picture up with some other people that had the same birthday, but there wasn't
too many people that I new.
Julie
made one recently made a blog after seeing mine. Hers is http://alookintoaraven.blogspot.com.
I
also put a link your webpage on my site (it's the camera gif. under the Links
to Others.
Talk
to you later. Your brother Mike
p.s.
I am going to be the photographer for two wedding coming up. One this Friday
the 1st, and one on the 16th. Just a couple of people I know from work and
someone's friend of someone at work.
Michael
Sheakley / Erie, PA
9/24/04:
"I thank u for this wesite it makes me feel very proud of being a native American
and all the photos are beautiful"
April
Stone / San Diego, CA
9/23/04:
"I like the pics and wanted to get some info in traveling to Alaska
because it is very nice land to photograph"
Sean
Bradford / Arizona
7/16/04:
"The Wonderful & Lovely Picturer are to given in website I am really
enjoy & usefel to me."
P.
Mani / India - Coimbatore
5/17/04:
"Thanks a million for sharing these pictures. I am from Alaska and been
down here in WA now since 1996. Good to see some Alaska pictures."
John
Williams / Federal Way, Washington
5/16/04:
"Great photos. Hope to visit Haines in Jan. 2005. I'm a relative of
Solomon Ripinsky (Mt. Ripinsky)."
Eric
Juda / Chapel Hill, N.C.
4/29/04:
"Thank you for sharing your wonderful photos. I am a teacher in Louisiana
and I made copies for my students to use in making a project. Thanks."
Penny
Kendrick / Baton Rouge, Louisiana
4/5/04:
"Dave it's your sis Jewel, I just wanted to say that I love this weeks
pic of the "fire water"!!! it is gorgeous! I constantly check
back at the site and it is on my outgoing emails at the bottom for everyone to
check out. I am so proud of you and the pictures really are beautiful. awesome
job! keep up the wonderful photography...I love to check it out weekly. miss
ya . . see ya soon..."
Julia
/ Penn State, Pennsylvania
4/5/04:
"Just came across your website from browsing! Love how dignified and
proud the people in your photos appear. Very very nice! Thanks for
sharing!"
Rhonda
Williams / Juneau, Alaska
3/8/04:
"Greetings from Klamath Falls Oregon. (Where?!) Lived and worked up on
the North Slope in the 80's. Website is incredible, love the pictures. Would
love to see more mountain pics, Mt. McKinley especially. Sure am homesick,
your photos make me miss this great state even more. There is simply no place
like it on earth. Oh yeah, to the woman who thought the bikini woman picture
was "tacky"-the contrast between the snow and skin says it all. Get
a life!"
Danielle
Kerek / Klamath Falls, Oregon (B.F.E.)
11/6/03:
"Your photos of the Northern Lights have been the first to really remind
me of home since I came to PA three months ago. Living in New Hampshire,
we saw the Lights often, but it was rare that we saw them as brightly as you
depicted in your photography. The few nights that we have always seemed
to be a special occasion, and seeing your photos reminded me of those
extraordinary winter nights. Thank you for the much needed reminder of
home!"
Carrie
/ Wakefield, NH, but attend college at Penn State
10/22/03:
"As a member of the Air Force I was stationed at Eielson for 2 years and
Galena for 1 year. Love the photo's, still miss Alaska. I now live in Rome,
GA."
W.
Love / Rome, Georgia
9/14/03:
"This homesick Alaskan loves your photos. I grew up on FAA Stations (Kotzebue,
Yakutat, Talkeetna, Cape Yakataga, and Cordova. I lost my albums in a flood in
1982. Wandering through your site is like a little trip home. I am buying a
piece of land this year, hoping to move in about 5 years. Moving 4900 miles is
expensive. Thank you for posting your photos. If you have any photos of Mount
Saint Elias to sell, please e-mail me."
Mary
Alice Surface / Charleston Heights, SC
8/24/03:
"Hi there! I work at the winery you guys stopped at in Pa on your vacation
just checking out your website. It's great beautiful pictures!!"
Rhonda
/ North East, PA
8/5/03:
"I was born in Dillingham, and was raised in Alaska all fourteen years of
my life. I recently moved to Las Vegas with my dad and younger sister. I
thought that moving to a city would be cool, but it doesn't have near as much
to offer as Alaska did. In any part of Alaska you'll find that your like
family to everyone, and the outdoors are great to. I hope to return someday
soon. Your pics help ALOT with the homesickness. Thank you."
Danni
/ Las Vegas
6/14/03:
"Gosto de conhecer outras culturas!"
Ed
/ Brasil
5/29/03:
"This is an amazing site Dave. You definitely capture the true
beauty of Alaska in all of your photos!! Love your work!!!"
Amanda
Green / Juneau, Alaska
5/16/03:
"The pictures are great. I miss Alaska so much and looking through your
pictures made me miss it even more. I grew up in Anderson and now live in
Syracuse, NY. Whenever I go home to visit I take at leas 12 rolls of film. My
third grade students enjoy seeing what I capture on film from each trip."
Christine
/ Syracuse, NY
4/15/03:
"I like your pics. of Alaska they are beautiful."
Rita
Alcorta
4/9/03:
"Haa waa! Gunal'cheesh! for being at these Alaska Native events and
celebrations. Your pictures are wonderful. I do want to purchase the ANS
picture."
Kaats
saa waa Della Cheney / Kake and Juneau, Alaska
3/22/03:
"Hi!"
Mr.
Postman / Scranton, PA.
3/18/03:
"Great pictures . . . MORE!"
Adalina
Coelho / Singapore
3/4/03:
"David....just beautiful. Thank you for your site it is pleasant to see
home again. I have been gone for 5 weeks but it seems like 5 months. Again
thank you so much!"
David
N. Miller / Bellevue, WA; for now.
3/3/03:
"I love it! The views and perspectives are as I remembered from growing
up there. Thank you for the memories. I'll be sure to pass on the
beauty."
Richard
A. Whitcraft, Coho Chauffeured Services / Seattle, Washington
3/3/03:
"What talent you have David, I've forwarded your site to some friends who
will be traveling to Juneau and wanted a sneak preview. Take care and continue
to show us "Juneau" in a photographer's eyes."
Barb
Whitcraft / Juneau Alaska
2/26/03:
"Hey Dave, WAZZUP!! Anyways, I enjoyed all the pictures in your website.
I especially love the "wildlife" pictures, it tells a lot about the
beauty and power Alaska has to offer to the world, especially to my friends
& family back home in Guam. I sent them several websites of Juneau,
including yours, and several of my friends are convinced and they will soon
visit me before I transfer out of here (Juneau). Keep up the good work and say
hello to Abby and Steph for me and a kiss to the newest addition to the
Sheakley family, Clarabella."
Klaudio
'Bong' Idelbong /Juneau, AK/Guam
2/19/03:
"Hi, I'm 27yeas old, im from oman bat, im in burundi, i have 4yeas
experiyans, im god cook and wash and ino some in beznes and ihave 6 language
french and englich and swahili and kirundi and arabic and some hindi."
Said
/ In
Africa in Burundi Bujumbura
2/5/03:
"We just moved to Louisville, KY from Alaska, where we had lived for the
last 12 years. Not realizing how much we would miss it (Alaska), we failed to
acquire enough pictures to help us over the homesickness...this sight is so
much help...thank-you!"
Valerie
Woosley/Louisville, Kentucky
1/29/03:
"Hi cool pics!"
Bean
/ Airdrie,
Scotland
12/26/02:
"I was born in Juneau, AK in 1990 and live in Kansas now. I hope to
return one day to see the beautiful places you have shown in your awesome
pictures. I am Tlingit and want to learn more about my heritage one day. Thank
you."
Jullien
Williams / Kansas
12/6/02:
"David, We're friends with your wife's family. My mane is Mike &
Christine Wyrich. We knew your wife when she was a little girl! Pease send our
regards to her thank you. We enjoyed the pictures best wishes."
Mike
Wyrich / North East PA
11/25/02:
"cool"
ratz
/ Bronx
10/31/02:
"HI, I enjoyed the beautiful pictures on your website, especially the
"NATIVE ONES" of people in regalia. I am also a native. Hope to see
more of your great work, I plan on forwarding this info to friends in the
lower 48. Keep up the good work."
Rachel
Nickerson / Klawock, Alaska
10/21/02:
"Congratulations to you, Stephanie and Abby on the newest addition to
your family :) wow a lot of hair already lol very cute little girl Congratulations
again."
Wayne
M. / Anchorage Alaska (Sitka)
10/7/02:
"Dave the pictures are great.... thanks for putting pictures of Steph and
Abby on there. I can't wait to see the new baby."
Trina
/ Erie,
PA
9/11/02:
"Need More pictures of the elder natives in South East Alaska. We are
loosing them so fast."
Annette
Osborne / Juneau, Alaska
8/14/02:
"Good Job on your Photo's. No Place like home!"
Grace
Hillman Villarreal / The big Town of Hoonah, Alaska
7/4/02:
"Your pictures are great. I have traveled the Canadian Northwest
Territories been to all the communities and have enjoyed the living with
people I have taken a lot of pictures of the Inuit people and landscape I've
enjoyed traveling up there, I have never been to Alaska some day I might get
there."
Floyd
Lobash / Golden Valley, Minnesota
6/27/02:
"Great pictures, gives me a chance to look and reflect over the beauty
that I miss,Joanne Hinchman McKibbin grew up in Hoonah live in washington
state."
Joanne
McKibbin / Sedro Woolley, WA
6/25/02:
"Hey David, Great Website. I'm glad your doing so good!"
Norma
Sheakley / Prince Of Wales Alaska
6/8/02:
"It looks wonderful cant wait to come in july 2003."
Shirley
Barrette / Austaralia
6/7/02:
"Hi I am 8 years old my state report is on Alaska your pictures helped me
alot on my poster thanks a million."
Nathan
Malone / Norfolk, MA
4/23/02:
"HI."
Jessica
Bru / USA
3/26/02:
"Originally. From ELY/MAGILL, NV...The picture make me home sick for out
west. Lived many places. Your work makes me think Alaska's next on me list.
Great stuff. But for those that may never get there, they can always just gaze
at your work. THANKS.
G.
/ Erie,
PA
3/24/02:
"I really like the pictures, but why do you have to exploit women? The
picture I'm talking about is the one of Mendenhall Glacier. I would have
just liked to see the glacier without the woman in the bathing suit. I think
that's plain tacky."
Mary
Martin / Colorado
2/28/02:
"Your work just captures what I miss in my home state. Absolutely
wonderful. Thank you."
Christina
McGilton / Kennewick, Washington
2/21/02:
"Keep up the good work My Name Is ( TLOON'EESH ) These pics remind me
of home in Sitka Kinda miss home Glad to have come across your site and will
be back from time to time."
Wayne Marvin / Anchorage, Alaska
2/15/02:
'I love your web site. I was raised in Juneau and miss it every second I'm
away and one day I will be back I think I love Alaska. There is no better
place in this world. I spent time in Juneau, Haines and Klukwan and
the best experiences I can remember were the Tlingit dances, totem poles,
tribal houses and the basketball games. My birthday is also Alaska
Day. Your pictures help bring me back. Nice job! I would like to
see more native scenes."
Tracey
Delfino/Timberlake, North Carolina
2/1/02:
'Hello; my name is Brenda and my twin sister Linda Hayes carried the torch
for north pole AK. I would like to see the pictures you have of her to buy
some. her #was 29 and she was in the second leg. You have some beautiful
work and thank you.' Brenda
Brenda
Williams / Clarkson, KY
1/28/02:
"Goonesh cheesh! Thank you. I am also Tlingit and grew up in Juneau.
Your outstanding photos and warm commentary were a great comfort to a
homesick Alaskan Native. Keep up your excellent work and may God grant you
every success!"
Jessie Scally / Saudi Arabia
1/19/02:
"Just wanted to comment on your great web site. Your pics are
beautiful. Julie sent me to this site and now I make it routine to
view your pictures frequently. You have great talent. Be proud!"
April Cortes / Erie, Pennsylvania
1/18/02:
"Hey love your pictures. I was hoping to get a hold of you long
time ago. I wanted you to take pictures for my wedding. Shoulda been
there it was beautiful! Love your Cousin"
Jennifer
/ Craig,
Alaska
11/16/01:
"WOW nice pics!!!! WE MISS YOU GUYS!!!!!! When you coming home to
visit???? I wish we could afford to visit you sooner than later. We love you
Hope and Ty Alec Leah and Mya."
Mr.
and Mrs. Tyson Papucci / Erie, Pennsylvania
11/16/01:
"WOW, I cant believe what wonderful pictures you have taken of Alaska.
I used the pic of you and Steph on your wedding day for wallpaper on my
comp. We miss you so much and are hoping to visit you guys soon. We can only
hope!!!! Alaska is beautiful and you need to work on Ty to get us to move.
SOONER THAN LATER (HEHE)"
Hope
Papucci / Erie, Pennsylvania
11/6/01:
"I Have enjoyed to see photos from celebration 2000 and the dancers and
singers, I hope to be able to attend it in 2002, check out my site
at:www.tsimshian-gallery.com , any questions or comments welcomed. Dim
al gik niigm"
Ed.E.Bryant (Hagwil-gáa) / Bensheim, Germany
9/4/01:
"David, Very good work!! I enjoyed looking at the pictures. I was
searching for a picture to apply as wallpaper and selected one of yours.
You're as good as Mark Kelley. Are you planning on doing calendars and
other items? I had a family member (and her children) utilize your talent's
during Celebration 2000. It is great to see an Alaskan Native with such
talent. Keep up the great work. Your dad and family members must be proud of
you! I am very pleased."
Esther
/ Juneau
Alaska
7/9/01:
"It would be neat to see some more pictures of Prince of Wales and the
town and city's on the Island, I lived there for six years. and looking at
the pictures they have don't tell much. thanks for your time
yaak
/ MT
7/7/01:
"Dave, great web site and even more so -great pictures."
Rich
Zmijewski / Erie, Pennsylvania
6/19/01:
"I think that you should have more pics of sceneries without humans or
citys."
Scott
Zeidlik / Corona CA.
6/8/01:
"When I saw your site with all the pics of AK, it sure made me home
sick. I lived in Juneau for 18 years, and miss it terribly, thanx for the memories."
Terry
/ Arizona
5/28/01:
"I have been delighted to discover this gallery. I show my students the
beauty of Alaska, where I lived for 14 years."
Sophi Zimmerman / Houston Texas
4/29/01:
"I was just searching the net in looking for a part for one of my
cameras, my favorite camera, and I spotted your site and just thought I'd
stop and take a peek. And I am glad I did, you're a very talented guy.
Your pictures are just so beautiful. Well that's about all I wanted to say
and since I am here
should you know of where I might find a battery casing for 1984 model,
35mm. Just kidding, anyhow all the best of success to you."
Olivia
/ Southern
California
4/22/01:
"Abby is cute. You have a beautiful little girl. Your sister sent me to
your page."
Wil
M. Kornegay / Tallahassee
4/20/01:
"Checking out your site. I live in Georgia and lived in the
Fairbanks area for four years. I too am a professional photographer
and in the military. You have a great opportunity ahead of you by living
there. I truly would love to head back to Alaska after retirement.
Maybe you would like me to share some of my photographs I've taken
throughout my many travels."
John
/ Warner
Robins, Georgia
4/3/01:
"My name is Linda. I live in Erie, Pa. I think your site is pretty
cool. Your pictures of your little girl are wonderful. Keep up the good
work. Can't wait to see everything in person."
Linda
Maloney / Erie, Pennsylvania
2/7/01:
"Hey man this is Ty from Pennsylvania. I must say you sure do
have a pretty cool site here.
Hope it does good for you, seems like you got a good thing going on."
Tyson
Papucci / Erie, Pennsylvania
2/1/01:
"Nice glacier picture. Maybe give each photo page a title,
credits, and an
e-mail link. All in all, good going on it, though, it's nice to see
nice photography on
the web - and by people I know too!"
Jeff
Brown / Juneau, Alaska - www.jeffersonbrown.com
1/24/01:
"I traveled to Alaska with my husband two years ago and I think the
pictures on your site are great! We visit this site often to remind us
of our trip. You're lucky to live in such a beautiful place all the
time."
Mr.
and Mrs. Peterson / New York, New York
1/3/01:
"Hi, my name is Meghan. I am from Harrisburg, PA. I was
looking at all of your
pictures to get an idea for Alaska day at my school. I am on student
council."
Meghan
/ Harrisburg,
Pennsylvania
