Albatross retraced
If Harriman had been serious About 120 years ago the steamer Albatross conducted watershed surveys, interviews and salmon distribution studies…
2019; updated 2023 | Richard Carstensen | 60 pages
Repeat photography
Sometimes abbreviated RP, repeat photography is the art and science of precisely retaking historical photographs in order to document, analyze and understand change. We prioritize well-captured and reliably relocated scenes, offering opportunities to examine successional change in vegetational communities, and in some cases landform evolution.
Three reports from my 2004-&-2005 RP project with naturalist Kathy Hocker can be downloaded from JuneauNature. Two are daily journals, for 2005 aerial and ground-based missions, respectively. The third is a more comprehensive discussion of RP-art-&-science, with many examples from our archives. It includes before-after pairs from year-1 (2004) when we spent much of the project on home grounds of Áak’w & T’aakú Aaní, working out protocols before the more wide-ranging year-2.
Abandoned gold-rush town of Dyea, near Skagway. 2005 retake of 1899 photo, by Kathy Hocker and Karl Gurcke.
‘Construction’ note:
In the original 2014 version of this RP page we embedded an interactive map, hosted by ESRI’s ArcGISonline showing locations of historic photos—both ground-based (red triangles) and aerial obliques (black arrows)—Symbols pointed in direction each photo was taken. Clicking on an arrow opened a pop-up with info about the photo and a thumbnail. Clicking on that thumbnail opened a medium-resolution view.
Initially developed and supported by the Southeast Alaska GIS Library, that map portal was ‘unplugged’ in 2019. One of my goals for JuneauNature is a much expanded assortment of ‘arc-online’ windows, using ESRI’s extraordinary tools for cartography and storytelling. Sorry, for this lapse, and here’s hoping it’s only a brief one, soon to be remedied with even cooler displays.
In this section
Repeat photography Part-2: ground-based
Retakes field journals, 2005 season Summarizing the Repeat Photography Project for 2005, Kathy Hocker and I divided our field reports…
2005, 2nd ed 2013 | Richard Carstensen & Kathy Hocker | 40 pages
Repeat photography Part-1: aerials
Retakes field journals, 2005 season Summarizing the Repeat Photography Project, Kathy Hocker and I divided our reports into 2 parts:…
2005; 2nd ed, 2013 | Richard Carstensen & Kathy Hocker | 39 pages
Meadow fire at Eagle Beach
Burn succession, Asx‘ée, twisted tree On May 9th, 2020, some camper-kids with lighters ignited a pretty dramatic grassfire at Crow…
2020 | Richard Carstensen | 14-page journal, 6-minute slideshow
Seasonal re-photography
Repeat photography for study of seasonal change Until 1988 I abstained from cameras, content with pencil sketching and pen-&-ink illustration.…
2020 | Richard Carstensen | 3.5 minute video & 63-page pdf
2005 Spring newsletter: Then and now
Repeat photography as a naturalist’s tool Kathy Hocker wrote this Discoveries feature midway through our 2004-to-06 Repeat Photography. On completion,…
Spring 2005 | Kathy Hocker | 7 pages
Sydney Laurence in Áak’w Aaní
Part of a 2012 slide show for Juneau-Douglas City Museum on Alaskan landscape painter Sydney Laurence. I co-presented with Mike…
2012 | Richard Carstensen | 17 minutes
Historical aerials of Southeast communities
In 2011, Cathy Pohl and I received a drive with 22,000 scanned air photos taken by the Navy in 1948.…
2011 | Richard Carstensen | 35 minutes
1867-2017: 150 years of change
Background paper for 3 banners commissioned by the Juneau Douglas City Museum, showing changes to iconic landscapes of Áak’w Aaní…
2017 | Richard Carstensen | 41 Pages
Asx’ée (Eagle Beach) maps & historical series
I created an early version of this compilation while still living at the Scout camp at Asx’ée, twisted tree (Eagle River),…
2020 | Richard Carstensen | 38 pages
Repeat photography summary report
Documenting change through repeat photography in Southeast Alaska Carefully framed retakes of historical photographs documenting vegetation and landform change in…
2005: 2nd ed, 2013 | Richard Carstensen, Kathy Hocker | 39 pages