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Calving Lamplugh Glacier, Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska  – Image 2007

Calving Lamplugh Glacier, Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska – Image 2007

I had been at Lamplugh Glacier all day and had missed a number of good calving photos because of bad luck and poor timing. Finally as evening light approached, I decided to stop all activity and wait for the calve. About an hour into my wait, the best calve of the day happened and I got it on ...
Kayaker, Scidmore Bay, Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska  – Image 2018

Kayaker, Scidmore Bay, Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska – Image 2018

This photo was shot in the last week of May 1998 on an Alaska Discovery kayak trip. I had gotten up at 4:30 am to shoot the morning light. I found one other client up and stirring around. I returned to this same spot exactly one year later in May of 1999, and I found two feet of snow on the ...
Black Oystercatcher, Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska  – Image 2019

Black Oystercatcher, Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska – Image 2019

The black oystercatcher, with its clown face and beach antics, is one of my favorite birds. This close-up of the oystercatcher face was taken after I had played cat and mouse with the bird for about half an hour. Oystercatchers are well known for their broken wing routine and fake nesting ...
Backpacking the Beaches of Glacier Bay  – Image 2004

Backpacking the Beaches of Glacier Bay – Image 2004

The rain had poured down on us all morning. Finally at break time the water pregnant clouds lifted their bellies off the beach and I shot this photo. I have a reputation of only shooting on the sunny days. But, for the book on Glacier Bay National Park I had to shoot the park in all weather ...
Biking the country roads of Gustavus  – Image 2003

Biking the country roads of Gustavus – Image 2003

Not many places in the world would one find a golfer biking to the course with his clubs on his back and his dog by his side. But Gustavus, and the Mt. Fairweather Golf Course, is not your ordinary golf experience. Dogs are allowed on the course. I shot this photo while on assignment for Golf ...
Morgan DeBoer golfs with Mount Fairweather as a backdrop  – Image 2020

Morgan DeBoer golfs with Mount Fairweather as a backdrop – Image 2020

Owner of the Mt. Fairweather Golf Course, Moragn DeBoer, putts on the 5th green with the Fairweather Range in Glacier Bay National Park as a backdrop. Gustavus is the gateway city to Glacier Bay National Park. I shot this photo on assigment for Golf Journal Magazine (the official magazine for ...

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