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Tracy Arm, Alaska  – Image 2555

Tracy Arm, Alaska – Image 2555

A catamaran pulls away from the looming face of the South Sawyer glacier. The South Sawyer glacier is one of Alaska’s most active glaciers. For most of the summer this glacier is unapproachable because of the dense ice pack. This photo appears in my book Alaska: A Photographic Excursion on ...
Tracy Arm, Alaska  – Image 2554

Tracy Arm, Alaska – Image 2554

Tracy Arm is one of my most favorite places in all of Alaska. If I had only one day in Alaska, I would spend it in either Tracy Arm or at Wonder Lake in Denali National Park. A Crusie West ship navigates around the blue icebergs that Tracy Arm is so famous for. This photo appears in my book ...
Sandhill Crane, Fairbanks, Alaska  – Image 2553

Sandhill Crane, Fairbanks, Alaska – Image 2553

The best and most accessible place to see wild sandhill cranes is Creamer’s Field Refuge, Fairbanks, Alaska in August. The cranes start migrating south in August, and Creamer’s Field Refuge is one of their favorite stopping-off spots. At the height of the migration there are hundreds of ...
Steller’s Jay, Juneau, Alaska  – Image 2552

Steller’s Jay, Juneau, Alaska – Image 2552

Many people ask me if this Steller’s Jay is really this blue, or did I enhance the color. This photo was shot on slide film, and the reproduction is true to the color on the slide. Photographing the bird on an overcast day in the shade helps accentuate the blue. Light is always more blue on ...
Black Wolf, “Romeo”, Alaska  – Image 2551

Black Wolf, “Romeo”, Alaska – Image 2551

This image was taken during the same shoot as the previous photo. This was my first and only time photographing "Romeo". I have seen the wolf several times but never attempted to photograph the animal before experimenting with my new digital camera. There is a lot of controversy around ...
Black Wolf, “Romeo”, Alaska  – Image 2550

Black Wolf, “Romeo”, Alaska – Image 2550

I have always shot film and started experimenting with digital in January 2007. This was my first shoot with my new digital Nikon D200. I wanted to see how well the digital would do balancing the white snow and black wolf. This wolf is a consistent visitor to the Mendenhall Glacier area in the ...
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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…