Grizzly Bear

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Grizzly bear at sunrise, Lake Clark National Park, Alaska.

Grizzly bear at sunrise, Lake Clark National Park, Alaska.

We had some wonderful light on my trip last week, and the warm glow on this brown / grizzly bear was no exception!

Fishing Bear

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Brown bear sow looks intently for salmon, Lake Clark National Park, Alaska.

Brown bear sow looks intently for salmon, Lake Clark National Park, Alaska.

We had great weather during last weeks bear photo tour!  It was such a treat, I really had fun.  The nice weather did make for some long days, but for light like this, it was well worth it!

Bears

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Brown bears, Lake Clark National Park, Alaska.

Brown bears, Lake Clark National Park, Alaska.

I have a brief minute so I thought I would share a quick photo from this morning.  We are having a great trip!

Update

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I had hoped to be posting wonderful bear photos from my tour all this week – but – given the wonderful weather we have been having, we have been going from early morning sunrise to late evening sunset – we take about enough time to download card and grab some sleep and doing it again.  Getting lots of great stuff and having a blast, but probably won’t have time to share any photos until I get home.   Can’t wait to share!

Party of Four?

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Sea Otters, Resurrection Bay, near Seward, Alaska.

Sea Otters, Resurrection Bay, near Seward, Alaska.

Our trip last weekend couldn’t have started off any better after finding two extremely cooperative sea otters.  After spending a bit of time photographing them, we watched as two other otters (say that fast) came swimming from near shore and joined the first two.  The four of them put on some show as they played silly otter games.  🙂

This was captured with a Canon 7D with only a 70-200 and 1.4 converter at f/6.3, 5ooth a second and ISO 400.

Aialik Sunrise

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Sunrise over Aialik Glacier, Kenai Fjords National Park, Alaska.

Sunrise over Aialik Glacier, Kenai Fjords National Park, Alaska.

I photographed this from the boat during last weekends Alaska photo tour into Kenai Fjords – this is where we anchored for the first night!  And if this view wasn’t enough – we could spot bears on the nearby beach!  This is the same beach we went to shore on and photographed bears and icebergs.

Unlike the cruise-ships, my tour doesn’t offer a formal night – that is unless jeans and xtra-tough boots count as formal ware. 🙂  But, I think this kind of view more then makes up for it!