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Bald Eagle, Old Growth Forest, Anan Creek, Alaska – Image 2730

Bald Eagle, Old Growth Forest, Anan Creek, Alaska – Image 2730

An adult bald eagle perches on a spruce limb in the old growth forest along the banks of Anan Creek. Pink salmon arrive in early July to Anan Creek which is one of Alaska's most productive salmon streams. The early arriving salmon get stuck at the lower falls and start to bunch up. As the season progresses the salmon are able to get over the falls and spread out along the creek. Likewise, the animals and eagles spread out along the river following the salmon. The best time for viewing ...
Black Bear Lounge, Anan Creek, Wrangell,Alaska – Image 2729

Black Bear Lounge, Anan Creek, Wrangell,Alaska – Image 2729

One of my new and most favorite spots in Southeast Alaska is Anan Creek. The US Forest Service has maintained a bear viewing platform and photography blind at Anan for years. I just visited Anan for the first time last year. I ended up going to this Anan twice last summer for a total of four days. I plan to spend almost a week there this summer. There are about 50 plus bears (both black and brown) that feed on the huge pink salmon run. The salmon get held up at the base of a large ...
Midnight Surfing, Cannon Beach, Yakutat , Alaska – Image 2728

Midnight Surfing, Cannon Beach, Yakutat , Alaska – Image 2728

My son,Owen, studies the surf break at Cannon Beach. My wife and two sons, Gabe and Owen, and myself spent Memorial Day weekend last year at Cannon Beach. Our sons surfed. My wife and I boogey boarded and sat on the beach soaking up the sun. It was 80 degrees (F). What is amazing about this photo is that it shows just how out there on the edge Alaska can be. On Memorial Day, Southeast Alaska is enjoying daily almost 18 hours of daylight and the night is not ever really dark dark. By ...
Alaska Airlines, Take-off, Juneau Airport, Alaska – Image 2727

Alaska Airlines, Take-off, Juneau Airport, Alaska – Image 2727

With the Mendenhall Glacier and surrounding mountains as a backdrop, an Alaska Airlines jet takes off from the Juneau Airport. I love this perspective. Jets on the tarmac look so large. But when you throw them against an Alaska-sized background they look so small and insignificant. Enjoy the photo and thanks for visiting. Camera body: Nikon d300, Lens: Nikkor 18-200mm, Digital Capture, ISO 200© Mark Kelley
Humpback Whale, Breach, Lynn Canal, Alaska – Image 2726

Humpback Whale, Breach, Lynn Canal, Alaska – Image 2726

A humpback breach is an amazing moment to watch and testament to the power of these mammals. As my friend, Nick Jans, wrote in my book on whales "Some great hand might as well have hurled buses from outer space." These mammals are huge ranging in sizes from 42-49 feet in length and weigh in between 25 to 40 tons...roughly the size of a city bus. Humpbacks are the sixth largest whales in the world. If you see a whale breach consider yourselves luck, it is behavior that is not rare but ...
Humpback Whales, Saginaw Channel, Shelter Island, Alaska – Image 2725

Humpback Whales, Saginaw Channel, Shelter Island, Alaska – Image 2725

The humpback whales are back. The whales are like the cruise ships visiting Southeast Alaska, they arrive in the summer, leave for tropics in the fall, and stay away for the winter. Leaving sometime in the fall, most of the Juneau area whales travel to Hawaii making a 3,000 mile journey to spend about six months in the tropics before returning to the northern waters in May. How the whales navigate this 6,000 mile round trip confounds the researches. There are many theories but no sound ...
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“As a kid in Buffalo, New York, I always wondered what it would be like to encounter a whale,” says Mark Kelley. Learn more about Mark...