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!
Lake Clark 2011
Brown Bear, Lake Clark National Park, Alaska.
The first hour into my Alaska bear photo tour – things are starting great!
Northwestern Fjord Sunset
Sunset in Northwestern Fjord, Kenai Fjords National Park, Alaska.
Here is the view from the boat from our second nights anchorage last Saturday night. We had some nice light the next morning as well – what a great trip! This was our first nights stop: Aialik Glacier.
Party of Four?
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
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!
Kenai Fjords
Iceberg in front of Aialik Glacier, Kenai Fjords National Park, Alaska.
Just got home from the first of a couple of my Alaska photo tours – Kenai Fjords photo tour. Wow, what an awesome trip! The weather was so nice that we were even in short sleeve shirts around the glaciers! Fortunately one of the guests brought sunscreen which we had to ration through out the trip – who would have thought that would happen!
And the photo opportunities were endless! The most cooperative sea otters I have ever spent time with. Many bears, including one that got greedy and tried to carry off two big salmon at once! We saw another bear swimming out in the ocean. Lots of humpback whales, birds and other wildlife. We even had nice light for both sunrise and sunset – it was such a great trip! And if that wasn’t enough, I was joined by a really fun, passionate group of photographers which just made the trip that much more enjoyable. I think we literally spent more time laughing than sleeping – just how it should be.
Crazy Three Weeks
Janine on the trail to Spencer Glacier, Chugach National Forest, Alaska.
How is this – I’m playing my excuse in advance for my possible lack of photo blog activity!
Tomorrow morning I head out on a boat for a few days as part of my Kenai Fjords photo tour. It is shaping up to be an epic trip – there have been reports of a large number of whales, and the weather is even looking great!
I then have a steady series of private tours everyday right up to my week long bear and puffin tour. The bear tour is also shaping up to be great with reports of a number of spring cubs! You can’t beat spring cubs!
I should have a bunch of new photos to share, and when I get a chance as I come and go, I will do updates here and there – but, if you don’t hear from me for awhile, you will know why, and I’ll be back soon!
Now I need to go mow the lawn so that I can find the house when I return!
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