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Black Bears, Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska – Image 2723

I love to photograph bears in the spring. The bears are eating the sedges in the tidal flats. Right after coming out of their winter dens, bears have a tough time finding food. These large animals survive the first months or so out of the den just on plant matter. The bears being out in ...

Shrimp, Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska – Image 2722

Spending months in Glacier Bay while shooting the book on the national park allowed for some down time to fish, crab and shrimp. We supplemented our food storages most often with halibut and crab. This images works much like the image #2720. I set-up the photo with the rope pattern as the ...

Chocolate Lilies, Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska – Image 2721

Chocolate lilies are beautiful flowers but smell like a sewer. Usually flowers smell wonderful but for some reason these flowers do not follow the pattern of smelling good. This image appears in my photo book on the park: "Glacier Bay National Park: Alaska." Enjoy the photo and thanks for ...

Paintbrush and Beach Pea, Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska – Image 2720

I like the contrast of the two yellow flowers of paintbrush blooming through a large field of green and purple beach pea. Photographically, images are usually successful when you can set up a visual pattern which gets broken by one or two contrasting elements. This image appears in my photo ...

Paintbrush, Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska – Image 2719

This incredible field of paintbrush was shot along the Alsek River by Alsek Bay. The large glaciers of the bay are just off to the right. Unfortunately there was no way to include them in this frame. I used a short telephoto to stack up the flowers and a shallow depth of field (wide open ...

Black Oystercatcher, Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska – Image 2718

I love the black oystercatcher's colorful face which seems more tropical than Alaskan. But, it is a common shore bird along the rocky beaches of much of the sub-arctic Alaska. This bird sits on its nest which are usually found at the high tide line consisting of not much more than a swallow ...

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