THE Traveler: Charles Freiss of Marshall, Minn.
The scene: With a glacier shimmering blue in the distance, a gull glides over Glacier Bay, Alaska, an inlet that is part of Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve in southeast Alaska's Inside Passage. It is rimmed with mountain peaks and several stunning glaciers.
The trip: Freiss and his wife, both retired, took a two-week cruise to Alaska in June that included many stops. "Glacier Bay was by far the most beautiful," Freiss wrote in an e-mail. "After more than an hour in the bay we headed out to sea. That's when this tour ship headed up to the glacier with a gull flying above, which gave a great visual perspective to how huge this glacier really is," he wrote, adding, "I believe a trip to Alaska, our 49th state, should be on everyone's travel list; Alaska is beautiful."
How he got this shot: "The gull was more or less a stroke of good luck," Freiss wrote. He used a Canon T5 camera with an 18-135mm Canon lens fitted with a polarizing filter.
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