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Brown Bear, Pack Creek, Admiralty Island, Alaska…Image # 2889

Brown Bear, Pack Creek, Admiralty Island, Alaska…Image # 2889

My three favorite places to photograph brown bears in Southeast Alaska are Glacier Bay National Park, Anan Creek near Wrangell, and Pack Creek on Admiralty Island near Juneau. I photographed this brown bear coming over a rise from the beach as it was heading toward the visitors at the sandy ...
Brown Bear, Pack Creek, Admiralty Island, Alaska…Image # 2888

Brown Bear, Pack Creek, Admiralty Island, Alaska…Image # 2888

I call this image my “Polite Bear”.  I was photographing brown bears from the sand spit overlooking Pack Creek. This four year old bear walked up, sat down about 15 feet (5 meters) away, folded its paws, stared at us, laid down, and started rolling around in the grass.  How cool was that!  I ...
Killer Whale Breach-North Pass, Juneau, AK – Image # 2887

Killer Whale Breach-North Pass, Juneau, AK – Image # 2887

A large 30-foot (9 meters) male killer whale, or orca, with a 6-foot dorsal fin jumps out of the water. Also referred to as breaching, many theories exist about what makes a whale breach and in reality no one really knows.  What I do know is that this breach happened right after this orca’s ...
Humpback Whales, Bubble-Net Feeding…Image # 2886

Humpback Whales, Bubble-Net Feeding…Image # 2886

Humpback whales are engaged in a spectacular cooperative feeding activity known as bubble-netting.  Rare elsewhere in the world, bubble-netting is fairly common in Southeast Alaska waters. Working together, the humpback whales exhale bubbles while encircling a school of small prey fish, such ...

“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…