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Dawes Glacier, Endicott Arm, Tracy Arm-Fords Terror Wilderness, Alaska – Image 2625

I have staked out glaciers for hours waiting for a calving, and it almost never happens. The glacier usually calves when I least expect it and almost never when I am ready. Capturing the ice falling off the face of a glacier involves a lot of luck. What I have found is that my luck improves ...

Wedding at Brotherhood Bridge, Alaska – Image 2624

The wedding party from last week's image moved to the Brotherhood Bridge for another set of family photos with the Mendenhall Glacier in the background. I was photographing the bride and groom with the groom's brother and wife. They had very colorful umbrellas with them. I asked them to spin ...

Wedding at Photo Point, Mendenhall Glacier, Alaska – Image 2623

I have not shot a wedding for pay since Governor Hammond asked me to photograph his daughter's wedding in the mid-80's over 20 years ago. I usually always say no but this wedding seemed different enough to say yes to, in a moment of weakness. The couple was from Australia and family and ...

Big Goat Lake, Misty Fjords National Monument, Alaska – Image 2622

I photographed this image in early June while on assignment for my book on Alaska. Located just outside Ketchikan in southern Southeast Alaska, Misty Fjords is a huge land mass cut up by deep glacier-carved fjords and dotted with many high alpine lakes. The outlet for this lake is a very tall ...

Mt. Goat, Tracy Arm-Fords Terror, Alaska – Image 2621

I photographed this mountain goat billy in late May from a boat in Tracy Arm. May and early June are a person's best chance of seeing mountain goats near tide line. The mountain-top snows have not totally disappeared so the goats stay at the lower elevations waiting for the snow to recede. ...

Totem in flowers, Juneau City Museum, Alaska – Image 2620

It is finally flower season in Juneau. We had a long winter which just hung on and on and on. The totem pole next to the Juneau City Museum carved by master carver, Amos Wallace, is surrounded by three types of flowers at this time a year including Lilac, Mountain Ash, and Hawthorne. I used ...

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