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A little brown bear cub checking us out last June in Alaska.

A young brown bear cub nursing. From this past June.

We had great puffin on both my Bear and Puffin photo tours. Not too many years ago, a photo like this would be very challenging. That is sure changed with modern focus tracking on today’s mirror-less cameras. Horned puffin, Lake Clark National Park, Alaska.

I’m home from my two annual back to back Alaska Bear and Puffin photo tours! The weather at times was challenging, but the photo opportunities were awesome! So much variety. We had two sows, each with a set of spring cubs. I think we saw 5 nursing sessions the first week, and 6 the second! This was from day one of week one. For those who have traveled with me before, this is Crimp.

A brown bear sow with a couple of spring bear cubs on the lookout for danger. June, Lake Clark National Park, Alaska.

Bear cubs are sure cute!

There was a time when photographing puffin in flight was almost impossible – it took lots of attempts and practice. I am amazed with the subject tracking capabilities of the Olympus OM-1 coupled with the 150-400 f4.5. Even with busy backgrounds – It made photographing flying puffin fun! Was able to capture photos with puffing flying straight at the camera. This was from my first week, had even better success the following week.