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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 the vibrations of the boat. When photographing seals, it is often best to stay at a distance using long lenses moving very slowly in a larger boat. Often the seals don't seem to react with alarm to the ...

Cover of Alaska Watchable Whales Book – Image 2778

Last year, I came out with a new redesign of my very popular whale book. After six years, I changed the cover and added 40 plus images from Jay and Jayleen Beedle. I entered the book in three different national book contests. It placed in all three contests including: the Benjamin Franklin Awards (second place for best redesigned book), the International Book Awards, (2nd place in the animal/pet category), and the IPPY Awards (third place in the animal/pet category). The IPPY Awards had ...

Alaska’s Tracy Arm-Fords Terror Wilderness, South Sawyer – Image 2777

Tracy Arm-Fords Terror Wilderness features three tide water glaciers: the two Sawyer Glaciers and the Dawes Glacier. In 1880, when John Muir first explored Tracy Arm, he found only one Sawyer Glacier. By 1990, a photo taken by the USGS showed the Sawyer Glacier had split into two. The north arm is called the Sawyer Glacier and the southern arm contains the appropriately named glacier: the South Sawyer. Both glaciers flow out of the Stikine Icefield, and both are retreating. The South ...

Alaska’s Tracy Arm-Fords Terror Wilderness, Book Cover – Image 2776

Last fall, I decided to update my Tracy Arm book that I published in 2004. A lot has changed in Tracy Arm in the last seven years, and the book needed a revision. I added 20 pages, gave it a new name, a new cover and kept the same price. When the book first was published almost all of the boats cruised up Tracy Arm exclusively. But starting shortly after the book's publication, the two Sawyer Glaciers started a very rapid retreat. I once heard it referred to as "glacier collapse". Because ...

Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah – Image 2775

Last fall, my wife and I visited seven national parks in and around southern Utah in three weeks. We enjoyed all of them, and this photo was taken at sunrise from the rim above the hoodoo filled canyon. The lone woman sitting on top of the rock just happened into this scene right at sunrise. Sometimes there is a God in heaven. Anyways, I entered this photo in the annual Alaska Airlines Magazine photo contest. It was one of the ten finalists published in the May 2012 issue. There were ...

Alaska Marine Highway, Malaspina, Lutak Inlet, Alaska – Image 2774

A long time ago, I did a photo book on the Alaska Marine Highway System for Epicenter Press. The 5,000 book press run sold out. The book never got reprinted. A client needed some ferry shots, so I scanned a few images used in the book for the submission. Most of the ferries have been around a really long time. I shot this image of the ferry, Malaspina, from a helicopter with the door off to give me a big unobstructed view. The ferry was approaching Skagway with the sun just setting behind ...

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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...