Jess Lee’s Photo Adventures

Well, we are back and Silver Salmon is as awesome as always for our tours.
As bears are getting on the fish, we are filling flash cards as fast as the bears catch fish.  Today is bright and mostly clear so we will be doing our boat trip to puffin island. Check back for more images from [...]

While I love to travel it is nice to be home again.
I wonder if that is what this guy was feeling?
I don’t think it is possible to put human feeling on animals actions but this Orca we photographed in Alaska seem to be expressing joy or happiness when he breached 3 times in a row. [...]

After a week of hard work on these Alaska grizzlies the only image we felt we had missed was mom and the cubs on the beach. With 2 hours before we needed to pack for our flight home we made one last early morning run.
As you can see the bears sent us off with a [...]

This is the smaller of the two we have been concentrating on. Some times it seems to be getting picked on buy the bigger sibling but this one can hold it own. In this moment is seems to want a little attention form mom. It must have worked because the mom nursed them right after [...]

We had an interesting presentation by the Park Service after dinner. They allow us an insight into the way the NPS makes policy for things such as bear viewing and photography. Afterward we went out to find our favorite quarry.
These Cubs of the Year  ( COY) continued to perform and dance for us. The light was [...]

Lovely day at Silver Salmon. On our thrid try we were able to get some time with this mom and her babies. They are still a little shy, as new cubs are, but we are going to keep woking on them for the right shot.

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The day started with a 2 hour rain delay in Anchorage. With the promise of clearing weather 3 of us took of with bush pilot Tim Smith of Smith Air Charter for Silver Salmon. The others were behind in other aircraft awaiting our directions as we searched for openings is [...]

Denali wolves are a little easier to photograph than their cousins in Yellowstone but when you are on the shuttle it evens out.
We were lucky with this gal when we came upon here next to the road. She offered me a chance with Denali in the background but that shot is a little bushy. Still [...]

Denali,
The land of agony and almost ecstasy. The Denali shuttle is not the best way to see the park but for many times it is the only way. Bounching buses crowded with people can take it toll on your pleasure but some times the pain is almost worth the pleasure.

This guy came to us by a friend of Ron’s letting him know the Black Bear was feeding in his yard. It was the beginning of a great day.