Category Archives: Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
Polar 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…
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 A calm day this time of year along Alaska’s typically windy arctic coast is a treat. Such was the case yesterday, at least for a short while. During a photo session with the polar bears, one walked over to the edge of the water and lowered its face to reveal a beautiful reflection. I happened…
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 I dug these few paragraphs out of the drafts folder, having started writing it sometime around the start of the new year. That’s near the time the great task of reprocessing and re-editing my entire stock files began. It is a grinding process with burnout on the near border, but great strides have been made….
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Friday, January 14, 2011
Categories: Aerials, Arctic, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Denali National Park, Galleries, Gates of the Arctic NP, Interior, Katmai National Park, Landscapes, Mountains, National Petroleum Reserve, Nature, Prince William Sound, Southcentral, Southeast, Southwest4 comments
 “There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.” G. K. Chesterton My growing affinity for something as intangible and transient as clouds is the result of years of treading the land and looking up. The magic and art of the sky is ever changing, fleeting, ominous, lovely and at times simply…
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Categories: Aerials, Arctic, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Denali National Park, Galleries, Gates of the Arctic NP, Interior, Katmai National Park, Landscapes, Mountains, National Petroleum Reserve, Nature, Prince William Sound, Southcentral, Southeast, Southwest
Thursday, December 30, 2010
Categories: 100 Yearly Favorites, Aerials, Arctic, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Aurora borealis, Bears, Caribou, Cold weather, Dall Sheep, Denali National Park, Galleries, Gates of the Arctic NP, Interior, Landscapes, Moose, Mountains, Muskox, National Petroleum Reserve, Nature, Polar bears, Wildflowers, Winter, Wolf27 comments
 There is no lack of top five, top ten, top whatever lists…these days. When making any list or selection, the process is influenced by many factors. I’ve picked a few images, 100 to be exact that were notable to me in some way during the past year. In retrospect, my photography seemed minimized in diversity…
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Categories: 100 Yearly Favorites, Aerials, Arctic, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Aurora borealis, Bears, Caribou, Cold weather, Dall Sheep, Denali National Park, Galleries, Gates of the Arctic NP, Interior, Landscapes, Moose, Mountains, Muskox, National Petroleum Reserve, Nature, Polar bears, Wildflowers, Winter, Wolf
Wednesday, December 22, 2010
 If you have been tuned into Alaska news, you might have heard that: “Alaska officials filed notice Tuesday that the state would sue the federal government over a decision to designate a swath of the Arctic as critical habitat for polar bears faced with the effects of climate change.” Read more: I’m not making this…
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Friday, December 17, 2010
 It’s hard to get too much of polar bears, they are among the most fascinating animals to watch and photograph. This picture seems appropriate for a winter day boasting temperatures in the sub -30 degrees in Fairbanks. I really liked the falling snow on this October day along Alaska’s arctic coast. The temperature then was…
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Friday, November 19, 2010
 ATT 2011 Calendar For 25 years AT&T has had a tradition of publishing a calendar that is distributed freely (and download-able as a screen saver–I’ll share that link when it is available). I’ve had my work selected for some of those calendars, and this year, they took a slightly different angle by selecting a wildlife…
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Monday, November 15, 2010
 The demands of traveling, taking photos, processing them, and presenting them to the public is a process that requires many steps. Having recently finalized some time-sensitive printing project deadlines, I’m just now starting to take a more in-depth look at images from my October arctic photo tours. There were some shining moments in there for…
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 Yesterday concluded our photo venture with Alaska’s polar bears and it was a great day of viewing and a challenging day of photography. Winds that gusted to 50mph were sweeping across the coast blowing snow and salt spray. This in conjunction with the lens shake caused by such force made shooting difficult. However, I think…
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 Today proved to be an amazing photographic venture. I woke at 5:00am to an amazing aurora display, and only had time to snap a few pictures before traveling north to the arctic coast for polar bear photography. Our group arrived just in time to catch some golden sunset light on a female polar bear with…
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 Alaska polar bears While guiding a group of photographers on a recent tour for Alaska polar bears, aurora and other opportunistic arctic subjects, we had the wonderful opportunity to spend some time with these playful polar bear cubs. Like many young animals, they are curious, playful and active, when the parents often sleep or rest….
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 Photo gallery from my July 2010 float trip down the Marsh Fork of the Canning River, in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
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 Veterans of river travel know that waterways can be a creature of movement in more ways than one. In mountain country, rainfall in the hills all goes downhill by gravity and ends up ocean-bound via the river system. In Alaska’s arctic specifically, most river flow is dominated by snow melt or rain, unlike many of…
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Wednesday, August 4, 2010
 Contrary to what many non-photographers think, the bluebird day, cloudless skies are generally not welcomed by the landscape photographer-not me anyway. They might ensure first and last light upon the land, but there is little art in the sky without some shapes and lines offered by broken clouds moving dynamically overhead. It is these latter…
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