dozen alaskan espressos

So tonight I was feeling kinda down with me being gone for so long. My 12 days in Alaska have been action packed, but I am ready to head home tomorrow at 11:30pm. I decided I couldn't sit my Anchorage hotel room any longer and had to get out. I gave myself one fixed-focal length camera lens and no tripod and set out on a self-prescribed creative project. I noticed this town lives on espresso. Dinky drive through-espresso are scattered here and there, sometimes in predicable places (like vacant lots on major intersections) and sometimes not (behind barbed wire in a Bail Bond parking lot). They have color to say the least. Considering this town experiences the midnight sun in the summer (thus, the need for coffee) and practically no sun in the winter (thus, the need for coffee), I find my urban Alaskan experience illustrates the land of the extremes. Twilight lingers for hours, but I gave myself one hour to photograph as many of these things as I could.

77 minutes later, I found and photographed 12. Here's how I saw them >>

Happy zooming!