Homes along the southern outskirts of Ketchikan in the early morning. Airplanes - particularly float planes - are an important part of life for many Alaskans, and there's 1 airplane for every 78 people in the state (a total of 9,540 planes) - in the United States as a whole, there is 1 airplane per 1,270 people.

This photograph is © 2014 by Murray Lundberg, and is not to be copied without express permission.