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Kayakers and Whale – Image 2005

I spent four days with Alaska Discovery clients during their Icy Strait marine mammal trip. It rained the entire time. I spent my time under an umbrella in the small boat trying to line up kayakers and whale tails. I shot lots of film but had very few successes. I used a Nikon F4 with a 300mm ...

Sea otter raft – Image 2037

Sea otters float at attention watching my boat slowly drift toward them. I was on assignment shooting photos for my newest book on Glacier Bay National Park when I came upon these otters across Icy Strait from the park's entrance. I shot the photo using a Nikon F/5 camera body with a 300mm ...

Raft, Mendenhall Glacier, Juneau, Alaska – Image 2035

Mendenhall Glacier is Juneau's most popular tourist destination and Alaska's third most popular tourist attraction. Thousand of visitors take the raft trip starting in the Mendenhall Lake, traveling down the Mendenhall river and pulling out downstream some 5 miles at Brotherhood Park. I shot ...

Float plane, Misty Fiords National Monument, Alaska – Image 2036

I shot this photo of a float plane flying into Punchbowl Cove, Misty Fiords National Monument from a chase plane. Punchbowl Cove is remarkable for the 3,000 vertical wall that arises from the waters of Rudyerd Bay. Misty Fiords (just outside Ketchikan, Alaska) is a 2.2 million acre wilderness ...

Haines Harbor, Southeast Alaska – Image 2015

The city of Haines is located at the head of Lynn Canal about 70 miles north of Juneau. Fort Seward and Chilkat Mountains provides the backdrop for Haines harbor. Fort Seward was built as any Army post in 1903 and was named a National Historic Site in 1972. I shot this photo with a Nikon F5 ...

Alaska State Ferry, Lynn Canal, Southeast Alaska – Image 2016

I was leaving Auke Bay on a small boat on my way to Glacier Bay about 6am in the morning. It was kind of a blah, overcast, nothing-special day until the rain squall hit and the sun broke through a hole in the cloud. It was all over in about two minutes. I shot this photo with my Nikon F5 using ...

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