Below you'll find a list of all posts from June, 2011
Cynthia and Susan in the Chugach National Forest, Alaska.
Here is a quick snap from my phone of a couple of members from the film crew I worked with last week, and will be working with some more over the summer – we had a really great time! We spent time in Seward, Cooper Landing, Portage and Girdwood, hiking trails and photographing landscapes and wildlife.
Field of lupine, Chugach National Forest, Alaska.
Well I’m off for the next week to work with a video crew for a production on a place a know well – the Chugach National Forest. This morning at 4:00 a.m. I am beginning by taking them at this field for sunrise – could be beautiful! So, if you don’t hear from me in a week or so, you will know why.
Lupine, Chugach National Forest, Alaska.
I found a beautiful field of lupine yesterday I have said it before, but lupine is an amazing wildflower. I have seen it in some of the warmest places on earth – Death Valley, and in some of the coldest – Denali National Park.
To get the soft purple glow, I framed this between two other lupine which were very close to the camera and thus completely out of focus.
Helicopters taking on fuel over Resurrection Bay, Seward, Alaska.
I heard a fair amount of noise outside last week at about 10:00 in the evening – looked outside and was surprised to see a helicopter being refueled in mid flight over Resurrection Bay! I knew they did this with jets, but I’ll be honest, I had no idea they could do this with helicopters.
Since I have 3 Facebook friends who are former military helicopter pilots, I’m not about to try to identify these birds, but maybe one of them will know a bit more. The next morning I read in the paper about the beginning of the Northern Edge 2011 training exercises – I assume this was part of this training.
Update: These are HH 60 Pavehawks being areofueled by a KC-130.
Helicopter re-fueling as it flies over Seward, Alaska.
Brown bear cub, Lake Clark National Park, Alaska.
So this is huge, exciting news! Time Magazine is doing a short story on photo tours in the upcoming June 20th issue, and my Alaska Bear and Puffin tour is one of the featured tours – in fact, it is the only North American photo tour mentioned in the article! You can’t buy that kind of awesome publicity! Here is a link to at least part of the article: Time Magazine photo tour story.
All of my photo tours for 2011 are sold out, and although we haven’t put it on our website yet, we only have 3 spots left for the 2012 bear tour. Last night, we updated our bear tour page with the dates and pricing for 2012 – I wanted to share it here first because I have a feeling that when the 3 and a half million subscribers to Time Magazine read about it on June 20th we just might find 3 people to sign up for the last spots. It seems like a long ways off, but there is a lot of interest in this amazing tour, and very few openings during what I believe is the perfect timing.
Wildflowers and Indian Head mountain at sunrise, Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, California.
We have been working hard to edit, key-word and process the photos and videos from our winter / spring trip. I would like to have this material completely processed so that I will have the time to hit the beautiful Alaska summer hard! It is such a wonderful time of year here.
So in the mean time, I thought I would share a few new photos from this winter, images I hadn’t posted here on the blog before including this one from Anza-Borrego Desert State Park.
American Dipper chick, near Seward, Alaska.
Was out this morning looking for baby moose, but came home with this cute American Dipper chick – that is ok, these guys are a lot harder to find and photograph then moose.
I was told by someone watching the nest that this little guy fledged just yesterday. There is another large chick still in the nest that probably isn’t far behind. The adults were busy feeding the young, including this little guy in the photo. As soon as the adults would appear with small fish, this little guy would open his mouth real wide and began the begging which is what you see here – it was fascinating to watch!
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