Alaska’s fascinating wild creatures
A big thank you to those who commented on my previous post about the choice between two polar bear photos for my 2016 calendar. And a special thank you to those who explained why. I thought you would be interested in the collective numbers, and which one got the most votes. It was nearly a…
I’m finalizing the design and image selection for my 2016 Alaska calendar and I’m vacillating between these two polar bear pictures for the month of December. Which one would you choose?
Close encounters with wild wolves in the arctic are rare. I’ve had a few serendipitous ones during my travels and photography ventures but the most recent one offered some very close up views. This wolf happened to be walking along the snow covered tundra north of the Brooks Range, very close to the road. What…
Muskox shed their amazing qiviut (hair) in the spring and it can be found in small clusters in the branches of tundra vegetation. I’ve got a big bag full that I’ve gathered over the years and someone graciously offered to spin a few balls of yarn from which I plan to have a warm hat…
As a mammal, the polar bear is the lord of the Arctic. Powerful, solitary, beautiful. This is one of my favorite photos from the 2013 photo tour last October. The bear pauses while walking across ice recently frozen in a bay, as the Romanzof mountains of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in the Brooks Range…
That perfect lens is always elusive. I took this shot at 400mm and when reviewing it on my computer later I asked myself why I didn’t at least flip the internal teleconverter on to reach out to 560mm. But I had no answer, I must have been preoccupied in some fashion and just grabbed whatever…
In a few weeks I’ll be leaving for Antarctica. So in the span of a few months, I will have traveled from Alaska’s high Arctic Beaufort Sea to the Southern Ocean and Antarctica. Which got me thinking about the earth’s polar regions. So I made a few greeting cards for the Holiday season using the…
In Alaska’s high Arctic in October, one can photograph all day under beautiful light. That is, if you get the light. The north coast is often cloudy, foggy, and under the immersion of seasonal change from autumn to winter. Clouds are the norm. However, we had some great splashes of light on a recent photo…
This polar bear basked in the afternoon light along the shore of the Beaufort Sea, as ice begins to form. This is one of my favorite color combinations in a photo, the blue and yellow/gold, or warm and cool tones. They work very well to deliver both contrast along with the feelings provoked by warm…
This photo embodies one of the compelling lures of Alaska’s Arctic for me-its huge, wild, and expansive spaces. The wildlife that roam this region often have a diverse range. It is a sparse landscape and population densities are much lower than other areas on the globe. Polar bears are normally solitary animals and will roam…