My name is Ron Gile. I was born and raised in SE Alaska. Except for a brief time I have lived in SE Alaska most of my life. I was raised in the small logging community of Wrangell. My interest in photography started out with a little point and shoot camera, a Kodak Instamatic 10 I think is what it was called. I got a little more serious in high school and moved into a Canon AE-1 SLR and learned the life in the dark room. The days of Dektol and spooling film onto a developing wheel in the pitch dark are over for me now. I have moved onto Digital although I do miss the dark room.

My life now finds me living in Juneau at the base of the Juneau Icefield. I am infatuated with glaciers. I work for a helicopter company which affords me a lot of flight time over some of the most beautiful landscapes in North America. From pre-dawn flights up at Devils paw near the border to over night boating trips to Tracy Arm and the Sawyer glaciers. It is just so beautiful in this area. A sparsely populated region even by Alaskans standards, its still a very wild and raw wilderness with photographic opportunities as soon as you step out the door. Alaska is what America was.

My father raised me to enjoy the outdoors and to notice the details. He was a geologist and he would always take us kids to some remote location to look for a reported crystal of some kind. Hes gone now but I still have the wanderlust and now its me exposing my kids to the best outdoor classroom in North America.