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Grotto Island, Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska – Image 2607

Grotto Island is on the outer edge of the Kenai Fjords National Park in Alaska. This island is a bird rookery and sealion haul-out. I was on an assignment for a book on Alaska and was exploring Kenai Fjords National Park on a commercial day-boat tour out of Seward, Alaska. I had never been ...

Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska – Image 2606

I am repeating this photo because I was preparing it for a recent contest entry. Upon revisiting the photo, I realized how much I like this amazing moment and how rarely for me everything comes together so well. All the elements of this photo work including the birds breaking into the sky, ...

Surprise Glacier, Prince William Sound, Alaska – Image 2605

I was shooting a book on Alaska and making aerial photos of Prince William Sound. When I left from Seward, Alaska in a small chartered airplane, the skies were clear. By the time I got over Prince William Sound (about an hour away), the area was shrouded in low lying clouds. The view of the ...

Iceberg Bird, Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska – Image 2604

Pigeon Guillemots spend their summers in Alaska and are a very common sight in Glacier Bay National Park. I was photographing a book on Glacier Bay National Park and generally placing the bird in the environment that helps define its habitat. The red-footed bird resting on a small iceberg ...

Rainbow Boat, Cross Sound, Alaska – Image 2603

I am repeating this photo because I was preparing it for a recent contest entry. Upon revisiting the photo, I realized how much I like this amazing moment. It was raining so hard for so long the world was soaked. I was in a skiff and had thrown my cameras in a Halliburton case in the bottom ...

Iced Tern, Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska – Image 2602

Arctic terns are the long distance champions of the bird world. They live in perpetual summer and almost perpetualdaylight: living one summer in Antarctica and then migrating to Alaska to spend another summer in Arctic. I shot this photo from my kayak while working on a book about Glacier ...

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