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Kayakers watch a humpback whale in Icy Strait  – Image 2021

Kayakers watch a humpback whale in Icy Strait – Image 2021

I was on a three-day kayak excursion in Icy Strait with Alaska Discovery, Alaska's oldest guiding company specializing in sea kayaking. The area is well known for the many humpback whales that summer in these waters. With alot of patience and some luck, we were able to see plenty of whales. ...
Fairweather Range and Pacific Ocean surf  – Image 2022

Fairweather Range and Pacific Ocean surf – Image 2022

The view from Dry Bay encompasses the Alsek Glacier in the far left to Mount Fairweather on the far right all located in Glacier Bay National Park. Mt. Faireather towers over the park at 15,320 feet and is only 15 miles from the coast, rising abruptly from the Pacific Ocean at an average of ...
Halibut and boys in Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska  – Image 2010

Halibut and boys in Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska – Image 2010

Two of the three boys in this photo are my sons, Owen and Gabe, and the third boy is my nephew, Brian, from Michigan. This photo was taken during a trip to Glacier Bay in the summer of 1997. Before coming to Alaska, Brian had only caught blue gills, perch and bass. Brian's first fish in Alaska ...
Fields of fireweed grow at Brotherhood Park, Juneau, Alaska  – Image 2023

Fields of fireweed grow at Brotherhood Park, Juneau, Alaska – Image 2023

Mendenhall Glacier is the backdrop for the Brotherhood Park meadow. Fields of fireweed fill the meadow from July through early August. All summer the meadow blooms with wild flowers first starting with wild irises and chocolate liies, and then comes arctic cotton and Indian rhubarb and finally ...
Adrienne gets a glass of water in her Gustavus kitchen  – Image 2014

Adrienne gets a glass of water in her Gustavus kitchen – Image 2014

In her family-built Guatavus home, Adrienne pumps a glass of water fom the old-fashioned hand pump. It is the family's only way to get water in the kitchen. I shot this picture using natural light on Velvia film with a Nikon F5 camera and a 35-70mm F/2.8 zoom lens.-Mark Kelley
“Harnessing of the Atom” totem pole  – Image 2024

“Harnessing of the Atom” totem pole – Image 2024

Purple lilacs, mountain ash and red hawthorne flowers surround the totem outside the Juneau-Douglas City Museum in downtown Juneau. Every June there is about a week's time when the three different flowers reach their peak blooms. I shot this with a 300mm lens on Fuji 50 film with a Nikon F3 ...

“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…