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Fireweed, Chilkat Inlet, Glacier Point, Haines, Alaska – Image 2786

My thanks goes to my good friend, Skip Gray, for sharing this location with me. He was kayaking from Juneau to Haines and came upon this field of fireweed with the great mountain background. He called me on his cell and told me to get up to the area before the weather changed. The next ...

Gilkey Glacier, Juneau Icefield, Alaska – Image 2785

I jumped on a helicopter for a glacier trek with NorthStar Trekking which is a company specializing in taking people to the glaciers surrounding Juneau. Once the helicopter has landed on the glacier, their clients go on either a one, two or three hour guided treks across the ice. We went to ...

Coastal Brown Bear, Stan Price Wildlife Sanctuary, Admiralty Island, Alaska – Image 2784

Many people who know me, know that I do not usually photograph in the rain. Since I live in one of the more rainy places in Alaska, every once in a while I have to brave the wet and shoot. For this image, I was at the Stan Price Wildlife Sanctuary on Admiralty Island waiting for a bear to ...

Nugget Falls, Mendenhall Glacier, Juneau, Alaska – Image 2783

This is another lucky, found moment. I usually go out to photograph with an image in my mind. This day, I wanted to get a photo showing Nugget Falls and people interacting with the environment. I thought I would get a bunch of people standing around enjoying the amazing seen. I worked the ...

Glacier Calving, Dawes Glacier, Endicott Arm, Tracy Arm-Fords Terror Wilderness – Image 2782

WOW! Sometimes a photographer just gets lucky. I have shot a lot of calving glaciers but have never before got to include the human element to give the viewer a reference point on just how big everything is. This is the Dawes Glacier with a glacier face standing close to 200 feet above the ...

Small Crusie Ship, Tracy Arm, Tracy Arm-Fords Terror Wilderness – Image 2781

Tracy Arm is famous for its blue icebergs. Glacier ice is blue because of its dense crystalline structure created under huge pressure by the weight of hundreds if not thousands of feet of ice. This weight squeezes out all of the impurities and makes for ice many time denser than your ice ...

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