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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 ...
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 ...
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“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…