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“Once Upon Alaska” 8th Spread…Image 2867

“Once Upon Alaska” 8th Spread…Image 2867

I love this image!  Nick Jans just nailed the words comparing the blow from a killer whale to a “silver flame”. The backlighting coming through the killer whale exhale does look like a "flame”.  The flat calm water reflecting the spruce trees of the Tongass National Forest puts this ocean ...
“Once Upon Alaska” 7th Spread…Image 2866

“Once Upon Alaska” 7th Spread…Image 2866

These humpback whales are engaged in a spectacular feeding frenzy known as “bubble netting”. Working together, a group of whales uses exhaled bubbles to form a “net” to encircle schools of baitfish, like herring, to bring them toward the surface. The whales then lunge through the mass with ...
“Once Upon Alaska” 6th Book Spread…Image 2865

“Once Upon Alaska” 6th Book Spread…Image 2865

I moved to Juneau in the summer of 1979.  The following summer, I found myself photographing whales in a skiff off Point Adolphus in Icy Strait.  Before this time, I had not really ever seen a whale.  When the whale in this image showed up it started slapping its tail.  I slowly moved in to ...
“Once Upon Alaska”  5th Book Spread…Image 2864

“Once Upon Alaska” 5th Book Spread…Image 2864

This is my son, Owen, holding up a king salmon that his mother, Jan, caught from the back of our skiff at False Outer Point on Douglas Island in Juneau.  Owen weighed in around 50 pounds and the king salmon weighed in at 35 pounds. They really did catch a fish almost as "big as me”.  This is ...
“Once Upon Alaska”  4th Book Spread…Image 2863

“Once Upon Alaska” 4th Book Spread…Image 2863

Salmon returning home is an iconic Alaska event.  I shot this image of pink salmon through the window of the fish ladder at the Douglas Island Pink and Chum (DIPAC) Ladd Macauley Visitors Center.  Pink salmon, the smallest of the Pacific salmon found in Alaska, weigh on average 3.5- pounds and ...
“Once Upon Alaska”  3rd Book Spread…Image 2862

“Once Upon Alaska” 3rd Book Spread…Image 2862

My family and I were out visiting Paul Johnson and family in Elfin Cove.  It was Easter.  It was pouring...a full rubber suit day in Southeast Alaska.  In spite of the pounding rain, we all headed out on our skiff bundled up under a tarp for a beach walk.  In the middle of the downpour, the ...

“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…