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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 image represents the incredibly affectionate and extremely tight mother-and-cub bond that exists in all species of bears. Happy Mother’s Day! This image has quickly become a favorite and is available ...

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 Mark Kelley calendars after the cruise ship season was called off in 2020. I wondered out loud if I could give away calendars to all Juneau elementary school children. She was all in and developed art ...

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 and daily temperatures in the 60’s to low 70’s and I am thinking we are living in an alternative universe. All good things must come to an end, and the weather people are predicting that ...

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 possibility of shooting the lights two nights in a row. I shot this image of the aurora borealis over the Mendenhall Glacier between 11:30pm and 12:30am and was in bed by 1:00am dreaming about a sunny ...

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 the still calm waters of Echo Cove with Lions Head Mountain in the distance, on Friday night. Thank you for visiting and be well; this image is available as a print - Camera: #Nikon #D850, Lens: # ...

Sunset, Juneau, Alaska #3390

Juneau has been blessed with several clear weather days with clouds coming and going. Last Sunday it was mostly sunny while turning cloudy just in time for the sunset to light up the sky over Shelter Island and the Chilkat Mountains. The sky appeared to be on fire. Thank you for visiting and be well - Camera: #Nikon #D850, Lens: # Nikkor 80-400mm, Digital Capture, Handheld, ©Mark Kelley

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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...