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Klondike Highway, Between Skagway, Alaska and Whitehorse, Yukon – Image 2686

The Klondike Trail of 98 International Road Relay starts in Skagway onFriday night,the 10th. The 6 to 10 person team/10 leg relay features an allnight run ending up in Whitehorse sometime around noon on Saturday.Although I do not run in the relay, the run for me marks the start fallshooting season in Southeast Alaska which usually lasts only about twoweeks. By the first of October it is over. The month of September alsoushers in the fall storm season so getting a great autumn shot is ...

Sea Lions, Little Island, Alaska – Image 2685

Depending on the season, sea lion haul-outs come and go. The sea lion haul-out on Little Island just north of North Pass on Shelter Island lies unused most of the summer. Come late August for some unknown reason, the sea lions show up in large numbers. September starts the fall storm season, and I am unable to get out to Little Island. But by May of the following year, they have deserted this haul-out until sometime in August when they return again. The object lesson of this photo is ...

Black Bear Cubs, Mendenhall Glacier Recreation Area, Juneau, Alaska – Image 2684

The Mendenhall Glacier area has a large population of black bears. Salmon start running up Steep Creek next to the visitors center in late July or early August. Once the salmon arrive in the stream, about 10 to 14 black bears come down from the hills to start feasting on the sockeye salmon. These two cubs were born to a mother bear that has had three sets of black and brown cubs that she has raised along Steep Creek. Black bears are not all black, they come in many color phases including ...

Humpback Whales, Bubble-netting, Stephens Passage, Alaska – Image 2683

Mid-summer in Juneau is the peak of the humpback whales bubble-net feeding. Bubble-net feeding is a cooperative feeding behavior done usually by humpback whales involving as many as 24 animals. The whales find a large school of prey fish (usually herring) and swim in circles underneath the school blowing bubbles. The bubbles act like a net and corral the prey fish into a dense mass. As the whales swim up, the school of fish swim toward the surface in hopes of escape. Once at the ...

White Pass & Yukon Route Railroad, Skagway, Alaska – Image 2682

The 2011 marks the 17th edition of the Southeast Alaska Calendar. As a challenge to myself, I try to put a new photo of the White Pass train in each edition. I think I may have missed only one year. I often shoot aerials from a helicopter (like this image). Three years ago when I rented the helicopter for the shoot, the helicopter rented for something like $1,500 per hour. Since it's so expensive, I try to get three photos for three different calendar editions in this one hour shoot. ...

Black Bear, Steep Creek, Juneau, Alaska – Image 2681

As referenced in last week's photo, I took the photo of this black bear gingerly carrying a salmon out of Steep Creek in the exact same spot as the photograph of the great blue heron. I had watched the bears over the summer and had noticed they regulary moved through this section of stream. I decided to stake the area out. After ten hours of waiting and shooting, I was rewarded with two quality calendar images. The salmon enter Steep Creek sometime in the last week of July or first ...

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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...