Caribou migrating in Alaska’s arctic Alaska’s caribou are nomadic ungulates that traverse hundreds of miles across much of Alaska. In the arctic, their presence is sporadic due to their varied movements. On occasion, if one is lucky, large herds can be observed migrating and feeding on Alaska’s arctic north slope. While this group of animals…
Alaska Photography Blog
Photos and stories about digital photography in Alaska by professional photographer Patrick Endres
Monthly Archives: January 2012Polar bear symmetry While her cubs were off playing, this female polar bear curled up on the snow and dozed off occasionally. The posture makes a beautiful, symmetrical pose. It is a cropped version of an image taken with a Canon 1D Mark IV, 500mm + 1.4x extender, which translates into a focal length of… Brown bear (ursus arctos) and red salmon (oncorhynchus nerka) I watched this female brown bear capture many red salmon in the Brooks river of Katmai national park, in southwest Alaska. She had one cub of the year to feed, who watched from the river bank keeping alert for other bears. This picture was taken at… Full curl Dall sheep ram I took this shot a few months ago while traveling through Alaska’s Brooks range. Dall sheep rams with a full curl are generally pretty wary due to hunting pressure which has increased in the region over the last decade. Due to the breeding season, a few rams were mingling with… I’ve been digging through some files from that latter part of 2011, doing some clean up work and getting folders in a completed state. Occasionally I will shoot a series of images which are to be stitched into a larger file in post production. I do this for panoramas, and sometimes to increase the overall… |
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