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Bear cubs playing during last years bear tour

This very popular bear tour filled 9 months ago, however last minute cancellations have suddenly created 3 open spots for my Alaska Bear and Puffin Photo Tour.   For those that like to travel on the fly this opens up a great opportunity to experience this once in a lifetime experience with the bears of Lake Clark.   This is a great time of year to see the bears.  As an added bonus, this is the best time to see and photograph puffin as the adults will be flying back and forth to the nest with mouths full of fish in order to feed their young.  If you have any questions, check out the website or give us a call:  Alaska Brown Bear and Puffin Photo Tour.

Sow and 3 cubs from 2012 Bear and Puffin Photo Tour.

Another unexpected medical issue has forced one of our guests to delay his June Alaska Bear and Puffin Tour back one year – so now we have one unexpected opening for both June and August trips.  Both these trips filled many months ago – so this is a unique chance to spend time with these amazing animals without having to book a year in advance!  Here is lots more information on the Bear and Puffin Photo Tour.

Brown or Grizzly Bear, Lake Clark National Park, Alaska.

My 2014 photo tours have been full for some time, that is until yesterday.  Unfortunately, we have a person who is going to have to cancel thus opening an opportunity to join me on this amazing trip in August!  This photo tour usually fills about a year in advance, so this is a unique opportunity.  Here are the details:  Alaska Bear and Puffin Photo Tour.   Feel free to email or call if you have any questions.

By the way, it may still show as full, but that in only because we are having trouble updating  our website while on the road.

Horned Puffin in flight, Lake Clark National Park, Alaska.

We are a bit behind and are just now editing and adjusting last Summer’s photos.  So I thought I would share some since they are still “new” to me.

Horned puffin are really tough to photograph in flight.  Not only are they fast, but they are about the size of a football and don’t always fly a nice even path.  Over the years, some of my guests have captured killer flight images of puffin, but I have been a bit skunked.  Now that I have a much better flight lenses, the Canon 70-200 f/2.8, I decided to give more of an emphasis to flight photography.  This past Summer, between two trips in Prince William Sound, and my two Bear and Puffin Photo Tours, I had lots of opportunity, and was able to finally captured some decent puffin flight images!  This was from my June bear trip.

Canon 5D III, 70-200 with 1.4 converter @ 280, ISO 200, f/5 and 1/3200 of a second.  Original is a horizontal cropped to vertical.  I rarely crop, but this image worked much better cropped.

Horned Puffin and Red Baneberry.

A couple of Horned Puffin and Red Baneberry from this past August.

First year bear cub from June, Lake Clark National Park, Alaska.

These cute little first year bear cubs are like living teddy bears!

Brown bear in a field of lupine, Lake Clark National Park, Alaska.

I thought I would share another bear image from this Summer just because I love bears!