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Juvenile Raven, Anan Creek, Alaska #3018

Folks usually go to Anan Creek to photograph bears but on my last trip I really got into watching two juvenile ravens that were creating a ruckus. I find ravens incredibly hard to photograph. Every time I turn my camera to shoot they fly off. Of course the raven is an especially important and ...

Baby Black Bear, Anan Creek #3017

Last week I spent three days at the Anan Forest Service cabin in Wrangell, Alaska, with family and friends celebrating my birthday. I had a wonderful time photographing bears, but almost had more fun celebrating, eating chocolate cake, drinking mojitos, and singing a rousing rendition of the ...

Humpback Whales, Inside Passage, Alaska #3016

One can never take Juneau’s world class whale watching scene for granted. I just spent four days on the water with good friends hoping for some great whale photography. While the local humpbacks were pretty active the week before our shoot, they were hard to find these last four days. It was ...

Tufted Puffins, Pribilof Islands, Alaska #3015

Persistence and patience are absolutely critical components of being a successful wildlife/nature photographer. The wild card is luck and this image is a great example. I was hanging out with the puffin on the left on the sea birds cliffs of St. Paul Island in the Pribilofs. The bird was ...

Bald Eagle Conundrum, St Paul, Pribilofs, Alaska #3014

Last week, while visiting St. Paul Island in the Pribilofs, I captured an image of a very strange eagle with a gray head and white tail feathers. The eagle showed up in the Pribilofs this spring. Eagles are not common in the Pribilof Islands, and this odd bird is confounding the island bird ...

Parakeet Auklet, St Paul – Pribilof Islands, Alaska #3013

A Parakeet Auklet hangs out on the seaside cliffs of St. Paul in the Pribilof Islands. The Pribilofs are a small group of islands hidden in the Bering Sea encompassing some 77 square miles. The three hour flight in a small double prop plane from Anchorage covers 770 miles. The Pribilofs are ...

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