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Bull Caribou, Denali National Park, Alaska #3051

For the past several years a bull caribou has been consistently hanging out around the northern end of Wonder Lake in Denali National Park. I was working my way up a small hill to get an advantage point overlooking the lake. The brush and clumps of small spruce trees can be very thick in this ...

From UAF to the Smithsonian

The University of Alaska Fairbanks, my alma mater, invited me to spend four days this week with students in the Communication and Journalism Department. I will be giving a lecture on my journey as a photographer and this has given me time to reflect on how lucky I am. My work has allowed me to ...

Denali, Denali National Park, Alaska #3050

While morning fog is clearing my friend, Ryan O’Keven, photographs Denali. Ryan and I were traveling under a Denali National Park photographer’s road permit which allowed us to travel the park road in our personal car. We were up before dawn and traveled much of the morning in fog. As the fog ...

Boogey Boarding, Lena Cove, Alaska #3049

A growing number of surf enthusiasts are hanging out on Juneau, Alaska, beaches looking and waiting for just the right waves. This winter has been full of clear windy days, which has been really good for our local surfers. I have seen as many as ten riders at a time at Lena Cove here in ...

Northern Lights, Mendenhall Glacier, Alaska #3048

In early November I spent two cold nights on a northern lights watch in front of the Mendenhall Glacier. I logged four-hours each night and got two ten-minute opportunities of actual shooting time, and what a great twenty minutes! I posted the first image from this shoot during the holidays in ...

Humpback Breach, Chatham Strait, Alaska #3047

A whale breach usually comes out of nowhere, and everything happens so fast that it is almost impossible to frame and capture the breach with your camera. The good news is that a whale will often breach multiple times after its first breach. So if you missed the first jump do not put the ...

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