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Bald Eagle, Sawyer Glacier, Tracy Arm, Alaska Image 2989

Bald Eagle, Sawyer Glacier, Tracy Arm, Alaska Image 2989

Welcome to the New Year. Year after year I return to one of my favorite places in Alaska: Tracy Arm-Fords Terror Wilderness. I took this photo last year towards the end of May when eagles are hungry after a long Alaskan winter. Salmon have not yet returned from the ocean and the harbor seal ...
Mendenhall Glacier, Juneau, Alaska Image 2988

Mendenhall Glacier, Juneau, Alaska Image 2988

The clear ice of a frozen Mendenhall Lake gives us a mirror reflection of the face of Mendenhall Glacier. The people in this image are a bonus, serving as a reference point of just how big the glacier really is. I have only seen the ice this crystal clear a couple times in my forty plus years ...
Northern Lights, Shrine of St. Therese, Juneau, Alaska – Image 2987

Northern Lights, Shrine of St. Therese, Juneau, Alaska – Image 2987

Photographing northern lights usually means a very long night with little sleep. This image was taken on just such a night of chasing ghost lights that never really amounted to anything. When I finally got home at four AM with nothing to show, I saw this faint glimmer of green in the north ...
Spaulding Meadows, Juneau, Alaska-Image 2986

Spaulding Meadows, Juneau, Alaska-Image 2986

Untouched snowfields are a photographer's delight because they catch the light in the sky. The snow in this photo is picking up the colors of an outrageously beautiful sunrise. It is the light on the snow that makes this photo work. I captured this moment while winter camping in the John Muir ...
Oh What a Night! Juneau, Alaska – Image 2985

Oh What a Night! Juneau, Alaska – Image 2985

Two winters ago Juneau experienced an amazing show of northern lights in the beginning of March. After this particular shoot I knew I had a winner. Some years I struggle to find the right calendar cover image, but this image is a quintessential Juneau image and is featured on the cover of my ...
Humpback Whale Blows, Juneau, Alaska-Image 2984

Humpback Whale Blows, Juneau, Alaska-Image 2984

Wikipedia lists the origin of the word “photography” as follows: φωτός (phōtos), genitive of φῶς (phōs), meaning "light" and γραφή (graphé), meaning the "representation by means of lines" or "drawing", thus together the words mean "drawing with light".  The essential word is “light”.  The ...
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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…