@expeditionsalaskaMost people show up to photograph humpback whales with the biggest lens they own. I did the same thing my first year. It's the wrong call. During bubble-net feeding in Southeast Alaska, whales can surface 30 feet from the boat. A 400mm at that range gets you a frame full of grey
@expeditionsalaskaThis is one of those shots where everything just came together. The bear hit the water at full speed and I was already tracking it, hoping the autofocus would keep up. It did. Barely. You can see the intensity in that face. Nothing else exists for this bear right now except the f
@expeditionsalaskaThis shot is a good example of why I love photographing brown bear family groups. A sow tolerating her cub's antics on a grassy bench above the coast. The cub is all energy and playfulness. Mom is patient but setting boundaries. Look at the body language. The cub is fully comm
@kerakisWe don't get a ton of these guys here in the East Tennessee, but they do occasionally grace us. This one was hanging onto my back door when I came home one night in November. It was an unusually warm evening thankfully. I grabbed my macro lens and hung out with him for a bit. I u
@expeditionsalaskaAlaska can be some amazing polar bear photography opportunities. Nothing quite like it. When's on, it's on.Of course, weather is always a thing in the arctic, so let that stand as a caveat. But when it's working in your favor, it's awesome.These are from a few years ago. Hope we
@kerakisFirst post for me on Digg! I'm an amateur photography that loves wildlife, and especially birds. Nothing too rare here, but I just love the way a Cedar Waxwing looks. This one landed on a nearby branch while I was photographing some Common Mergansers, so I took the opportunity fo
@akcarlTorres del Paine National Park and surrounding lands in Chilean Patagonia has become one of the few places on earth where you can reliably photograph wild pumas. For decades, these cats were ghosts across their entire range, from Canada to the southern tip of South America. But c
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