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Bear Cub, Anan Creek, Alaska #3344

Bear Cub, Anan Creek, Alaska #3344

Besides having so many adult bears roaming around at Anan Creek, there are usually a bunch of first year cubs as well. I counted six cubs one year, just hanging out around the viewing platform. As much as I love taking pictures, I use my passion for photography as a way to experience the ...
Black Bear and Cub, Anan Creek, Alaska #3343

Black Bear and Cub, Anan Creek, Alaska #3343

A black bear sow nurses its cub at Anan Creek near Wrangell, Alaska. The US Forest Service operates a viewing platform where I go to photograph and enjoy free-roaming bears going about their daily lives. This year will mark my 13th annual pilgrimage to photograph the bears at Anan. I am often ...
Black Bear, Anan Creek, Alaska #3342

Black Bear, Anan Creek, Alaska #3342

Anan Creek is known as one of the best places in Alaska to photograph bears. The creek is one of the most productive pink salmon streams in Alaska. Anan Creek drainage supports a population of 35-plus black bears and 12-20 brown bears. Visitors to the site walk along a half mile trail to a ...
Black Bear, Anan Creek, Alaska #3341

Black Bear, Anan Creek, Alaska #3341

While leaving the viewing platform at Anan Creek Wildlife Observatory, a group of wildlife photographers missed a momma bear and cub scooting by behind them. As a photographer I try to be constantly aware of everything around me. More often than I care to admit, I can be outfoxed by a sneaky ...
Inn with a View, Wrangell, Alaska #3340

Inn with a View, Wrangell, Alaska #3340

In the summer of 2019, I hosted six photographers for a five-day photo adventure based out of the Stikine Inn in Wrangell, Alaska. We spent five days photographing bears at Anan Creek, humpback whales in the Wrangell area, and icebergs and calving ice at the face of the LeConte Glacier. Last ...
Bald Eagle, Juneau, Alaska #3339

Bald Eagle, Juneau, Alaska #3339

After taking the image that I posted last week in the morning, I went back in the afternoon to see what else our local bald eagles were up to. I found this large group hanging out together in the spruce trees in Juneau’s Lemon Creek area, hiding from the bad weather. According to Google a ...

“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…