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Brown Bear enjoying the surf in Brooks River, Alaska, USA. The only reason this image became a keeper for me is that at first sight, it appears to be bear sunk in snow, but as you look carefully, one realizes that is surf in a river. Nikon D4S with Nikkor 200-500mm f5.6 lens.
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Brown Bear with freshly caught Salmon, Brooks River, Alaska, USA. After succeeding in a catch, this bear is walking away to enjoy the meal. Nikon D4S with Nikkor 200-500mm f5.6 lens.
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Brown Bears on Brooks falls, waiting for Salmon swimming upstream. This shot was made moments after Alaska#41. I just turned the zoom from 200mm to 500mm to make this closer shot. Nikon D4S with Nikkor 200-500mm f5.6 lens. Shutterspeed of 1/4 s.
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Brown Bears on Brooks falls, waiting for Salmon swimming upstream. As I said before, we spent the first day trip to this area seeing and photographing bears on Brooks Falls. The second day trip was spent at the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes. This photograph begins the shoot from day 3. After my shoot on day 1 and during my shoot on day 2, I knew that my third day would be spent at Brooks falls. I did some brainstorming on how I could shoot. I came in on day 3, with a preconceived idea to make a slow shutter speed shot to smoothen the falls. Here’s my first such image. Nikon D4S loaded with the Nikkor 200-500mm f5.6 lens. Shutterspeed of 1/6 s, slow enough to smoothen the falls, but fast enough to ensure that the bears are not fully blurred out.
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Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, Alaska, USA. Here the bottom left has the pink flower laden hill as foreground. Additionally, this has the same type of cloud-ridge interrupts. Finally, this has three layers of shaded clouds in the top right part of the image. Nikon D4S with 200-500mm f5.6 lens with 1.4x teleconverter. Shot at 700mm.
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Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, Alaska, USA. Loved this composition because of the pink flower laden foreground hills, followed by four distinct interrupts by the clouds on the ridges. The first such interrupt is in the top left corner of the image. The same pattern repeats as you go to the right for a total of four times. I saw this happen and to isolate it, not only did I have to add my 1.4x teleconverter to the 200-500mm f5.6 lens setup at 500mm, but I also added a 1.5x crop in-camera. Effectively, this is another 1050mm shot.
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Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, Alaska, USA. This is another 700mm landscape. Loved this composition because of the three distinct layers of hills shown here, accentuated by the way the clouds interrupt the ridges.
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Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, Alaska, USA. Continuing on with highly unusual landscape here. I shot this with the same 700mm lens setup. Loved this scene because of the rolling wavy lines on the main subject hill, arrested by the strong sharp diagonal right to left ridge. Additionally the cloud cover is layered, covered a little bit of the main subject hill, but covering a lot more of the background hills. This scene is so isolated that to reach it with my lens, I had to apply a further 1.5x crop in-camera, to finally nail this framing. Effectively, this is a 1050mm shot.
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Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, Alaska, USA. This image was made continuing on with my 700mm setup from Alaska#35. I loved this scene because of the shadowed hill in the foreground, followed by strong diagonal lines in the mid ground hill, followed by hazy distant hill. With clouds filling 1/3 of the frame.
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Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, Alaska, USA. The sheer uniqueness of this landscape encouraged me to shoot this image. The horizontal pattern at the bottom, followed by diagonal pattern above it and finally, the uniquely different hills anchoring the background. The low clouds added drama. To isolate this scene, my Nikkor 200-500mm f5.6 lens was insufficient. I needed to add my 1.4x teleconverter, to effectively shoot this at 700mm.
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