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Brown Bear on Brooks Falls, Katmai National Park, Alaska, USA. As you know Salmon swims upstream and even up the falls. At Brooks Falls, the bears are often seen waiting on top of the falls to catch Salmon as they swim up. Nikon D4S with the Nikkor 200-500mm f5.6 lens.
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Mountain ridges, Katmai National Park, Alaska, USA. Early last August, we went to Katmai National Park in Alaska, mainly to see Brown Bears. It was highly successful and I am going to show you some of my images in the next several postings. Getting to Katmai is a bit tricky. You cannot drive from Anchorage to Katmai. You have to fly to nearby King Salmon, AK. Furthermore, we were specifically interested in the area around Brooks Falls. One cannot drive or use other means to get to Brooks Falls. You must use float planes from King Salmon. Accommodations are another roadblock. Since we could not get reservations for the limited cabins near Brooks Falls, we stayed at King Salmon and made day trips to Brooks Falls on float planes. This image is a shot of Katmai National Park, taken from the float plane as it was close to landing. Nikon D4S with the 24-120mm f4 lens. This is my first keeper shot from Day 1 at Katmai.
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Mountains, snow and clouds, as seen from Delta Junction, Alaska. This was photographed in early August, during a long lonely car ride from Fairbanks to Paxson lake. Nikon D4S with Nikkor 200-500mm f5.6 + 1.4x teleconverter. This view was very far from the road that I photographed this from, and I had to use a 1.4x teleconverter attached to this lens set at 500mm to accomplish this composition. People think that a 700mm lens is only for wildlife photography. Not true.
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Ice detail, Matanuska Glacier, Alaska. While still lodging in Anchorage, AK, we drove our rental car to Matanuska Glacier. There are tour operators that take people on hikes on this Glacier. In late July when we went, the weather was comfortable for the hike. You do need to wear fitting boot spikes and for someone doing it for the first time, definitely a guided hike is the way to go. It was a great experience for the family. From a photographic perspective, the ice was pretty dirty with brown dirt on top. For me, it did not appeal photographically and I got very few keepers. This one is from a clean section showing ice detail on the glacier. I like the diagonal ridges. Mainly an abstract of graphical lines, without a sense of place. Nikon D700 with Nikkor 24-120mm f4.
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Denali National Park, Alaska. Shot around 5PM (still midday for Alaska in July). The cloud cover helped me in getting this shot. A flat lighting landscape, somewhat saved by the meandering river that forms a great leading line. Nikon D4S with Nikkor 24-120mm f4 lens.
Denali National Park, Alaska. Shot under similar conditions as and just minutes after Alaska#18 and Alaska#19. Nikon D4S with Nikkor 200-500mm f5.6 lens.
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Denali National Park, Alaska. Shot under similar conditions as and just minutes after Alaska#18. Nikon D4S with Nikkor 200-500mm f5.6 lens.
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Alaska#18 – Mt. Denali National Park, Alaska. I don’t shoot landscapes in the middle of the day (usually), because the light is much better around sunrise or around sunset. In this case, because of the bus timings, I had two choices. Take the photographs disregarding light or skip them altogether. I am glad I made some images. The clouds made it possible to get reasonable shots without harsh mid-day lighting. It was a little after 11am, when this was shot. A very rare landscape shot for me. Nikon D4S with Nikkor 200-500mm f5.6 lens.
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Mt. Denali, Denali National Park, Alaska. As you know, tourists are no longer allowed to go into Denali National Park freely in their own private vehicles. You pretty much have to win a lottery to have this privilege. In late July, we stayed overnight in a lodge outside the Denali park and took the Denali tour bus and photographed through the bus window or when the bus stopped. When our bus arrived at this location, Mt. Denali was covered with clouds. Fortunately, the snow capped peak was visible at the very top. This photograph became a keeper for me, because of a sense of discovery. This is a routine trite shot of some hills with clouds over it, until you discover the snow capped Mt. Denali. Nikon D4S with Nikkor 200-500mm f5.6 lens. Why use this telephoto for landscapes? Isolating interesting compositions from a bus is easier. If I included the bus window and the road and the parking lots, it wouldn’t be as interesting.
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Chugach Mountain ridges and clouds, as seen from Prince William Sound, Alaska. This is an extended view of the same scene from Alaska#15. I fired several overlapping frames and later stitched them in Lightroom. The interplay between the ridges, the clouds and the snow laden peaks continued to mesmerize me for a long time during the cruise. Nikon D700 with Nikkor 70-200mm f2.8 lens.
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