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Best Alaska photos for February 2009 . . . |
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James Poulson of The Daily Sitka Sentinel earns News Photo of the Month and $150 for his shot of Mt. Edgecumbe High School students and members of the public holding a candlelight vigil on the Crescent Harbor dock in Sitka, Monday, Feb. 9. The vigil was organized by Amnesty International student groups to promote peace, urge an end to violence and call for reconstruction in Gaza, on the eve of the parliamentary elections in Israel. |
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Erik Hill of the Anchorage Daily News wins Feature Photo of the Month and $150 for capturing John and Norma Daniels, of Sterling, listening and relaxing as therapeutic musician Dr. Liu-Hsiu Kuo plays for them in their room Wednesday Jan. 28, at Providence Alaska Medical Center in Anchorage. |
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More great Alaska shots for February 2009 . . . |
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Dall sheep cluster together on a lower portion of a Chugach State Park mountainside along Turnagain Arm south of Anchorage on Tuesday, Feb. 3. |
AP Photo/Anchorage Daily News, Marc Lester |
 AP Photo/Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Johnny Wagner |
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Hockey players test out the ice on the first day of public access to the Chena River Ice Skating Park on Saturday, Feb. 21, in Fairbanks. |
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Gov. Sarah Palin poses for photos with members of the Army's 4th Brigade Combat team (airborne) 25th Infantry Division during a deployment ceremony in Anchorage on Tuesday, Feb. 3. The 3,500-soldier brigade from Fort Richardson was being sent to Afghanistan for 12 months. |
AP Photo/Al Grillo |
 AP Photo/Al Grillo |
Army specialist Jeremy Hill holds his daughter Ioimigen, 3, during the invocation at the deployment ceremony for the brigade. |
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Wasilla racers Todd Minnick and Nick Olstad on Polaris snowmobiles won the 2009 Tesoro Iron Dog snowmobile race in February. The 1,750-mile race follows the Iditarod trail from Big Lake to Nome, then takes entrants east to Fairbanks. The team crossed the finish line on the Chena River in Fairbanks at 11:55 a.m. Saturday, capturing the $25,000 first price.
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AP Photos/Peggy Fagerstrom |
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At left, racers Tyler Aklestad and Tyson Johnson leave Nome in blizzard conditions on Thursday, Feb. 12. |
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An orbital boost vehicle sits in a Fort Greely, Alaska, building Thursday afternoon, Feb. 5, outside Delta Junction. The missile houses an exoatmosphereic kill vehicle which, once in orbit, intercepts and destroys enemy ballistic missiles. |
AP Photos/Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Johnny Wagner |
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AP Photo/Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Johnny Wagner |
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Harsh winds blow snow over a barrier near the front gate of Fort Greely, Alaska, on Thursday afternoon, Feb. 5. The army post is home to part of the Ground-based Midcourse Defense program. |
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Please respect AP and individual photographer copyrights. Prepared Feb. 28, 2009 Refer comments to apseattle@ap.org |