A sow and cub heading out in search of clams, Lake Clark National Park, Alaska.
This sow and cub where heading out to dig for clams – a fascinating activity to watch and photograph – I’ll have more on this in my next post.
Bear Silhouette
A brown bear looking for clams along the coast, Lake Clark National Park, Alaska.
If I was to expose this enough to show detail in the bear, I would have blown out the warm beautiful sunrise light. So, I purposely underexposed this so that I would just have the silhouette and the wonderful light.
This was captured with a 600mm at f/4.5, 320 iso and 1/2500 of a second on a Canon 7D.
Alaska Bear Photo Tours
A brown bear and bald eagle both watch for salmon during this years bear photo tour - Lake Clark National Park, Alaska.
Well I have some bad news, and good news regarding next years Alaska Bear and Puffin Photo Tour.
The bad news was – we have a tentative person interested in our final spot leaving me without any openings going into the prime booking season!
Now the good news – I was able to obtain another week during 2012! I am really fortunate to obtain such a great week, as David, the lodge owner is now having to turn away groups thanks to the popularity of this location! I am very grateful to be able to offer two trips a summer!
My second week being added is at the end of June – the 23rd to the 29th. I will be interested to see what it is like that time of year. I do remember comments made by Jenny, my former bear guide – she said the end of June was her favorite time of year. Kevin, the park ranger in the area for the past 10 years (the first 4 in a tent! ) has also said late June is one of her favorite times as well. Even Rick, my bear guide this year expressed a preference for late June. So I’m excited to see what it is like then!
What are the advantages of going in June? Possibly more bears, especially spring cubs. This year they were seeing 6 spring cubs by the end of June – that was down to 1 by August. Short, rich green grass along with fields wildflower like lupine should be in nice bloom. Mating activity also takes place during June offering some unique interaction and bringing more bores (males) into the area.
What are the advantages of going in August? There are two big ones. Fishing bears – bears catching and eating salmon is always high on the list of advantages of August. The other advantage is perching puffin – they may not perch as much in June, but they will be flying.
If you are interested or have any questions, please feel free to email or call. I anticipate these trips will fill fairly quick – certainly by Christmas. For more information, visit our page for the Alaska bear and puffin photography tour.
Lake Clark 2011
Brown Bear, Lake Clark National Park, Alaska.
The first hour into my Alaska bear photo tour – things are starting great!
Mentioned in Time Magazine!
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.
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