Paul Roberts: Return to Adak, Alaska 2000, the Medium Format Page.

Photographer: Paul Roberts. Scanning & Web Page (including captions) by Michael Gordon.

 

Click on the <LEFT side of each thumbnail (tiny picture) for a medium size view (512 pixels wide), click on the RIGHT> side of each thumbnail for a large view (1024 pixels wide).

< Left Column

  1. View south from Candlestick Bridge.
  2. View southwest from Candlestick Bridge.
  3. View southeast from Toothpick Bridge.
  4. An old building near the place from which photo 3 was made.
  5. Another view of the old building.
  6. The northeast shore of Lake Andrew, Mount Moffett in the background. Continuing on the road at the right brings you to the Lake Andy seawall, a narrow strip of rocks that separates Lake Andy from the Bering Sea.

Right Column >

  1. Lake Andy almost to the east end of its seawall.
  2. View of Command Car Hill (on the near right), looking southwest across Kuluk Bay. In the distance, white painted Kuluk Housing can be seen.
  3. From the same vantage point, a view southeast. Zeto point is on the left side, and if you were to follow the curve of the bay to the left, you come to the entrance to Clam Lagoon and crossing that entrance is Candlestick Bridge.
  4. Horseshoe Bay on the northeast tip of Adak. View is to the west, with Mount Moffett visible in the background.
  5. View of Adak Town, from a position on Mount Moffett northwest of town about three or four miles, the view is (of course) back to town, or southeast. Razorback Mountain occupies the far right horizon.
  6. Shagak Bay, as seen from the hills that formerly occupied the tropospheric communication antenna, "White Alice". A long time ago, military vehicles and many four-wheel drive Broncos, Jeeps, Chevy Blazers and various pickem-up-trucks, primarily affiliated with the Adak 4-Wheeler's Association, attempted to drive all the way down to Shagak Bay, right here. It is not certain that they all came back up. A deep bog exists at the bottom of this hill which swallowed up a small bulldozer once which was itself on rescue duty trying to pull out another vehicle. The U.S. Fish & Wildlife service eventually put a stop to offroad and unmaintained backroad driving.

These are the medium format negatives made with a Mamiya camera. Dark streaks appearing in many are on the film itself. To get them to the web, the negatives were rephotographed with a Nikon 990 digital camera in XGA mode, then the images were reversed (made positive) in Corel Photo Paint version 9 with some gamma, tone curve and color corrections. Earlier attempts to scan with an HP-6350 scanner and transparency adapter produced inferior results. Doing it with the Nikon 990 was fast and easy, and produces good results.

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