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Harbor Seals, Tracy Arm, Alaska #3371

I am honored and pleased to announce my image of a pup and mother seal snuggling together on an iceberg in Tracy Arm is a winner in the National Wildlife Federation 49th Annual Photo Contest. The judges edited through 29,800 images submitted by 3,200 photographers to pick 17 winners in eight different categories. This image won second place in the Baby Animal category and will be featured in the December 2020 issue of National Wildlife Magazine. USA Today and the Daily News in the UK ...

Humpback Whales, Admiralty Island, Alaska #3370

Bubble-net feeding is a cooperative humpback whale behavior occurring mostly in Southeast Alaska waters. Humpbacks work together to locate and encircle schools of small bait fish, like herring, while blowing bubbles. The fish are corralled into a tight group while the whales’ vocalization frightens the fish to flee toward the surface. With mouths wide open the whales swim up and through the “net” to gulp down the fish. This photo helps to explain humpback whale biology, and here is my ...

Caribou, Wonder Lake, Denali NP, Alaska #3369

I arrived in Alaska in August 1974 to attend the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF). I showed up a week early to visit Denali National Park and immediately fell in love with the park. For the next four years at UAF I skipped the first week of classes to head to Denali for ten days. The first week of school always felt like a waste of time anyway and I knew I would catch up by the end of the semester. After getting my degree in photojournalism I moved to Juneau but returned to Denali as ...

Favorite Channel, Juneau, Alaska #3368

Juneau’s October weather is famous for being windy, wet, and mostly miserable. But, the last four days have been a sheer joy with cold, crisp and clear days with sunsets that seem to last forever. I was enjoying yesterday’s sunset but did not think it was going to go to the next level. Then luck and/or the photo gods brought in the gulls to add energy to this image. An average sunset turned into a rather wonderful moment. Be well and thank you for visiting - Camera: #Nikon #D850, ...

A Tribute to Sherry Simpson

One of my most favorite photos I have taken is of Sherry Simpson disappearing into the fog while walking along the wild outside coast of Glacier Bay National Park in 1999. I had decided to publish a book on Glacier Bay. The first order of business was to hire a writer, and I immediately thought of Sherry. I had worked with her when she was the staff writer for the Juneau Empire. She was the only writer that had ever brought me to tears with a newspaper story. I wanted the person whose ...

Lost Coast, Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska #3367

Along the outside coast of Glacier Bay National Park Rick and Alice Johnson, along with my wife, explore the sea arch at Astrolabe Rocks just south of Icy Point. The part of the Alaska coastline that starts at Cape Spencer and ends at the Alsek River is sometimes referred to as the “Lost Coast.” It is rugged, seldom visited, stunningly beautiful, and includes a glacier flowing into the ocean, the La Perouse Glacier. In 1999 and again in 2011 I backpacked the fifty-mile section from Lituya ...

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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...