Kayaker, Scidmore Bay, Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska – Image 2018

This photo was shot in the last week of May 1998 on an Alaska Discovery kayak trip. I had gotten up at 4:30 am to shoot the morning light. I found one other client up and stirring around. I returned to this same spot exactly one year later in May of 1999, and I found two feet of snow on the beach, and there was no green to be found anywhere. Scidmore Bay is part of the wilderness waters of Glacier Bay, and no motors of any sort are allowed in this area. I shot this photo with a Nikon F5 camera body with a polarized 35mm-70mm F/2.8 Nikor lens on Velvia film.-Mark Kelley