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White Pass and Yukon Route, Skagway, Alaska – Image #2918

White Pass and Yukon Route, Skagway, Alaska – Image #2918

The White Pass and Yukon Route narrow gauge railroad links the port of Skagway with Whitehorse, the capital of the Yukon in Canada. The railroad has no direct connection to any other railroad and is one of Alaska’s most popular tourist attractions. I like photographing the train in early June ...
Humpback Whales, Juneau, Alaska – Image #2917

Humpback Whales, Juneau, Alaska – Image #2917

Humpback whale bubble-netting groups arrived in Juneau waters last week. There are two main groups of whales with a combined total of some 20 individuals. These two whales surfaced after finishing a bubble-net. Humpbacks are mammals that surface to breathe air and their lungs are the size of ...
Hummingbirds, Gull Cove Lodge, AK – Image #2916

Hummingbirds, Gull Cove Lodge, AK – Image #2916

Carly Lehnhart waits patiently for hummingbirds to come to the feeder. Our friends, Paul, Tami, Rick and Alice at Gull Cove Lodge have four hummingbird feeders sitting on the handrail on the lodge’s front porch deck. The hummers were so ravenous that the little thumb-sizes birds would flock ...
Mendenhall River Rafters, Juneau, Alaska  – Image #2915

Mendenhall River Rafters, Juneau, Alaska – Image #2915

Houstonia, a Houston, Texas city magazine, chose this Mark Kelley image for their June 2015 cover. The magazine is doing a story on great escapes and Alaska is part of their focus. The design director, Chris Skiles, discovered markkelley.com in his web search and found this cover image. How ...
Dandelion Bear, Juneau, Alaska – Image #2914

Dandelion Bear, Juneau, Alaska – Image #2914

A black bear along the Auke Rec bypass here in Juneau, Alaska eats the succulent spring stems of the dandelion flower. Black bears are omnivores and spend much of the spring and summer and sometimes all summer just eating plants to sustain themselves.  Lucky bears can fatten up on salmon when ...
Lena Cove Sunset, Juneau, Alaska – Image #2919

Lena Cove Sunset, Juneau, Alaska – Image #2919

These last three weeks we have been having the most beautiful weather in Juneau, creating wonderful sunsets. My wife Jan and I were in Lena Cove when a paddle boarder and kayaker cruised into view right at the peak of sunset. Sometimes I get lucky!  Juneau is on track for the warmest and ...

“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…