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Klondike Highway, Skagway, Alaska – Image 2636

This is another image I waited for years to get. The Klondike Highway reputation for stunning fall colors is epic. The road is hard to access from Juneau. To get to the road , I need to take a ferry ride from Juneau to Skagway. Trying to predict the good weather and peak fall colors from Juneau is almost impossible. Many previous attempts all fell through until the fall of 2006. The weather changes so fast, my previous attempts either missed the good light or the peak of the colors. ...

Iceberg Fall, Mendenhall Lake, Juneau, Alaska – Image 2635

I have been waiting 30 years to nail this photo. I previsualized a wonderful shot of an iceberg in great light surrounded by a blast of autumn foliage. It took me a long time to realized I needed to do the shoot from a kayak and not from the shore using telephoto lenses. I waited for years for the peak of the fall colors to align with the perfect blue bird day and a lake filled with large icebergs. It rains alot in Juneau and especially in the fall. Many years it rained everyday ...

Geese, Auke Lake, Alaska – Image 2634

September marks the start of autumn and the fall bird migration in the Juneau area. Probably one of my most photographed areas in Juneau is Auke Lake just nine miles from my downtown home. A new image of the lake appears in almost every year of my Juneau Calendar for the past 21 years. The mirror reflection is stunning, and I have shot it maybe too many times. This time, I got lucky again. I set up the tripod to shoot the reflection, and all of the sudden something flushed the geese ...

Humpback tails or flukes, North Pass, Alaska – Image 2633

Over the water, it is hard to tell just how big adult humpback whales are. An adult female (larger than the males) will measure up to 50 feet long and weigh in around 40 tons...about the size of a city bus. A good size whale tail or fluke will be 15 long. Basically a Volkswagen Bug could balance on a whale tail-tip to tip. This image illustrates the month of June in my 2010 Juneau Alaska Calendar. Enjoy the photo and thanks for visiting.Nikon D200, Digital Capture, Nikkor 80-400mm-Mark Kelley

Bear Belly, Mendenhall Glacier, Alaska – Image 2632

The bear viewing along the 100 or so yards of raised boardwalks at the Mendehall Glacier boggles the mind and the view finder. I shot a book on the black bears at the Mendenhall Glacier in a months time essentially never leaving the boardwalks. I shot this photo with well over 100 other people on the viewing platform with me. This large female bear had just finished her salmon supper and reclined on a willow sappling to scratch her chest and lick clean her claws. I have never seen such ...

Fishing Bear, Mendenhall Glacier, Alaska – Image 2631

My favorite time of the year for bear viewing is the month of August in Juneau at the Mendenhall Glacier. The salmon have arrived in Steep Creek and historically up to a dozen or so black bears are there to welcome the returning salmon. Black bears live all over the world, but the only place I know where you can show these animals in a glacier environment is at Steep Creek in front of the Mendenhall Glacier. The icebergs collect in the lake downstream from the creek and as our former ...

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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...