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Dog mushing, Mendenhall Glacier, Alaska – Image 2630

The most expensive and outrageous shore excursion available off the cruiseships visiting Juneau is the helicopter flight up to the Juneau Icefield to go dog mushing. Most people have never flown in a helicopter, never seen a glacier, never walked on a glacier and never driven a dog sled. Well on this excursion you get to do all four ... how cool is that? I went to photograph the TEMSCO dog sled tour on the upper reaches of the Mendenhall Glacier. The company let me use a snow machine for a ...

Sitka, Alaska – Image 2629

Sitka, Alaska sits on the outside coast of Southeast Alaska facing the Pacific Ocean. Often the Pacific Ocean sea fog from the Gulf of Alaska blankets the town. The airport was closed, my flight canceled, and I was looking for a location to shoot. Sitka is blessed with a road to the top of a mountain, Harbor Mountain. I drove up the mountain and out of the fog. Off in the distance, I noticed the Fairweather Range peaks sticking above the fog with Glacier Bay National Park shrouded below. ...

Humpback Whale, Juneau, Alaska – Image 2628

I love to watch whales. The sea around Juneau is stuffed with these 50-foot, 40-ton mammals. Humpback whales are famous for showing off. Some of their showy behaviors include spy-hopping, bubble-net feeding, breaching, pectoral fin slapping, and fluke slapping. I love photographing the X-Games of whale behavior, but the majority of the time (95% or more) all I get to see is backs and tails rising in the air as they go for deep dives. This image illustrates the month of July in my 2010 ...

Bald Eagle, Auke Bay Harbor, Juneau, Alaska – Image 2627

Southeast Alaska is inundated with water. For me to properly photograph the area I need a menagerie of boats ... everything from my five kayaks to a 16-foot Lund to the "big boat", my 32-foot old Bayliner. I keep the Bayliner in Auke Bay about 10 miles from home. The Auke Bay harbor is full of eagles and is one of the best places in Juneau to regularly photograph eagles. Usually at least one eagle is perched on a piling on almost every trip I make to the harbor. This image illustrates the ...

Fireweed, Mendenhall Glacier, Alaska – Image 2626

It is the height of the fireweed season in Juneau. It has been incredible summer filled with more sunshine than rain and record setting temperatures. So far every day in the the month of July has been sunny (as of 7-14). This fireweed was shot along the airport dike trail several years ago. This year, I went back to reshoot the location only to find that the airport crew had cut this patch of fireweed for some unexplained reason. The lesson to be learned... work the great location ...

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 the longer I wait. The Dawes Glacier face is somewhere between 200 to 250 feet high. In this photo the blast from the falling ice almost covers the 250-foot height. This image illustrates the month of ...

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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...