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Black Bear, Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska – Image 2515

Black Bear, Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska – Image 2515

I love photographing bears in the spring. I wait for an evening high tide and go to one of my favorite bear spots. I ride the tide into the sedges and can get fairly close to the bears. The bears do not get too upset when approached quietly in a small skiff. So consequently most of my bear ...
Humpback Whale Tail, Alaska – Image 2514

Humpback Whale Tail, Alaska – Image 2514

In Alaska, after being underwater for awhile a humpback returns to thesurface to breath. When the whale decides to dive deep (what whaleresearchers call a terminal dive), it usually flicks its tail into the airand heads down. An average stay underwater before surfacing in Alaska isfive to ...
Humpback Whale and Seagull, Alaska – Image 2513

Humpback Whale and Seagull, Alaska – Image 2513

A seagull escapes the open mouth of a humpback whale lunge feeding on the backside of Douglas Island. Both these animals were feeding on the same prey, herring. This whale was with a number of other whales bubble-netting or cooperatively feeding. Often, circling seagulls overhead mark the ...
Glacier Trekking, Alaska – Image 2512

Glacier Trekking, Alaska – Image 2512

Tourists off the cruise ships visiting Juneau go glacier trekking with Northstar Helicopters. The four–plus hour tour lets visitors crampon up like real mountain climbers and explore the ice realm of the Juneau Ice Fields. This image illustrates page 73 in my new book on Alaska called ...
Haines, Alaska – Image 2511

Haines, Alaska – Image 2511

Haines, Alaska sits at the top of Southeast Alaska Inside Passage and has one of the two road connections out of northern Southeast Alaska. The town boasts a human population of 2,400, dog population of 1,800 and an eagle population every fall of over 4,000. This image illustrates pages ...
Float Plane over Misty Fiords, Alaska – Image 2510

Float Plane over Misty Fiords, Alaska – Image 2510

Misty Fiords, Alaska is a boat and/or plane accessible wilderness located at the southern most portion of Southeast Alaska near Ketchikan. Islands and deeply carved fiords are the hallmark of the area. I shot this photo from the open window of another plane. This image illustrates page 12 ...

“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…