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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 VW Bugs. When they surface, the water covering their two blow holes gets vaporized by the air they exhaust at an estimated 200 plus miles per hour. Their blows can shoot up ten to twenty feet in the ...

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 around and sometimes even land on a person’s finger. Thank you for visiting. Camera: Nikon D800, Lens: Nikkor 24-120mm f/4, Digital capture, ISO 400

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 cool is that! Thank you for visiting. Copyright Mark Kelley 2015

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 the fish return to the local streams sometime in late June and July. In the late summer and fall, our Juneau bears target the blueberries. Thank you for visiting. Camera: Nikon D800, Lens: 70-200mm ...

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 driest May on record. Weather forecasters are predicting more dry and hot weather through the weekend. After last summer’s soaker I am happy for the welcome change. Thank you for visiting. Camera: Nikon ...

In the Heart of Downtown, yet on the edge of Nowhere-Image #2918

This month my family and I are saying goodbye to our home of the past thirty years in the Starr Hill neighborhood in downtown Juneau. One of the things we loved most about our home is the less-than-five minute walk to downtown and the Mt Roberts Trail head just seconds away. We have had deer and bear in our yard, bald eagles soaring overhead, and the sounds of crashing avalanches echoing down from Mt. Juneau. What a wonderful mix of urban and wild. We were always excited knowing that we ...

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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...