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Cover, Wrangell Summer Guide, Alaska #3394

Cover, Wrangell Summer Guide, Alaska #3394

My good friend and proud new owner of the Wrangell Sentinel, Larry Persily, chose my photo of two black bear cubs at Anan Creek as the cover of the newspaper’s 2021 Visitors Guide. Wrangell is the gateway community for most anyone wanting to see the bears at the Anan Creek Wildlife ...
Happy Mother’s Day

Happy Mother’s Day

Anan Creek near Wrangell, Alaska, is one of my favorite places to photograph bears. This black bear cub found itself separated from its mother, so it climbed a tree and started bawling. The mother bear was at the creek catching pink salmon and came running when she heard her cub’s call. This ...
Calendar Giveaway, Juneau, Alaska #3395

Calendar Giveaway, Juneau, Alaska #3395

Nancy Lehnhart, the Juneau School District’s Elementary Art Specialist, created this wonderfully whimsical, hand drawn instruction sheet to accompany an art kit project built around my 2021 calendars. The project came out of a conversation I had with her about having an overabundance of 2021 ...
Full Moon, Juneau, Alaska #3393

Full Moon, Juneau, Alaska #3393

The locals in Juneau, Alaska, have been feeling like Bill Murray in the movie “Groundhog Day.” The past twelve days we have seen the sunrise at 5am. Meanwhile, the moon changed from a small sliver to a full moon setting over the Chilkat Mountains by this morning. Add in about six nights of ...
Northern Lights, Mendenhall Glacier, Juneau, Alaska #3392

Northern Lights, Mendenhall Glacier, Juneau, Alaska #3392

I had a wonderful shoot on Friday night (see previous posting), and the northern lights’ predictions were strong as well for Saturday night. To tell the truth, I have not had much luck shooting the aurora for the past year. Understandably, I was overjoyed but a little skeptical with the ...
Northern Lights, Echo Cove, Juneau, Alaska #3391

Northern Lights, Echo Cove, Juneau, Alaska #3391

This past weekend was dreamy. My nights were spent shooting northern lights into the wee hours of the morning. My days were spent skiing Juneau’s Eaglecrest Ski Area under blue bird skies and 70-degree temperatures. Life just doesn’t get much better. I shot these northern lights, reflecting in ...

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