Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as “Alaska”
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.
Polar bear photo by Hugh Rose.
I have good news and bad news. The bad news, all my photo tour trips for 2014 are full. But the good news, I will be working with Hugh Rose on a polar bear tour and there is still space for anyone who wants to join us this Fall! This is something we have been talking about and planning for months, and are now ready to begin taking reservations.
Hugh created and pioneered this Polar Bear tour many years ago. In recent years this trip has been copied, but no one comes close to having Hugh’s experience guiding photographers in the Alaska Arctic. I have always thought this was one of the best photo tours in Alaska and I have referred a number of people his way over the years.
I first meet Hugh back sometime in the mid 90’s on a Kenai Fjords tour boat. I was just beginning to pursue my passion of photography more seriously, and he was already an established guide leading a group. Fast forward 15 years or so to today. We are now good friends, and I have worked with him on trips to Antarctica, and in Alaska on a photo trip into Prince William Sound and Cordova, Alaska. Not only is he an excellent photographer, but maybe one of the best, if not the best naturalists I know. It is an honor to be joining him. It is going to be a fun trip – there is typically no shortage of laughter on trips we work together!
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.
Sunset last night, Resurrection Bay, Seward, Alaska.
It is Tuesday morning. I leave in a couple of hours for Southern Argentina and ultimately Antarctica. So I hit the road Thursday morning and don’t arrive in Ushuaia, Argentina 7:30 Friday night – that is a lot of travel, especially for someone who has trouble sitting still while getting a hair cut!
A lot of the time I have spent in the field over the last three years has been spent creating content I haven’t been able to share here on the blog – video.
There are a couple of reasons I haven’t been able to share much of my video work. For one, I don’t market my stock video – it all goes to an agent under an exclusive license.
In addition, I have also spent a couple of years (2011 and 2012) contributing video to be used in a new film at the Begich, Boggs Visitor Center. I was hired to do what they called the “beauty shots”. Lots of landscapes, wildlife time-lapse etc. Now that the production is done (it began airing last Summer), I can share some of my work – they also had an exclusive arrangement.
So here is a short variety of Winter clips. Some of the things I was assigned were more challenging to capture then you might think – like fresh snow blowing from trees. As often as I have seen that happen over the years – it is hard to be set-up and rolling before it happens. The opening clips which go from Summer to Autumn and then Winter were a lot of fun, and something I hope to do more of in the future.
By the way, if you do get by the Begich, Boggs Visitor Center, check out the video. I also have a number of photos on the walls of the Center, and in the Visitor Guide – I am proud of the wonderful relationship I have had with the Chugach National Forest over the years.
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