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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 ...

Nanny and Kid, Tracy Arm-Fords Terror Wilderness – Image 2780

Photography is about moments. This moment between a nanny (mother mountain goat) and her kid (mountain goat baby) is just so sweet. My first trip to photograph Tracy Arm was in 1980 and since then have probably made over 60 trips to the area. Only once have I seen mountain goats on the steep ...

Harbor Seals, Endicott Arm, Tracy Arm-Fords Terror Wilderness – Image 2779

This image of harbor seals resting on an iceberg was shot last August, and is a new edition to the my newly redesigned book on Tracy Arm just released this May. I shot the scene from a slow moving boat with my 500mm F/4 lens cradled on a bunch of towels on top of some life jackets to absorb ...

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