DAY 5 — Pack Creek Today is another momentous day on the trip — Grizzly Day! We leave our private whispy fog enshrouded harbor and cross west to Admiralty Island and the Pack Creek Bear Viewing Wilderness Area. On our transit, I read a book about how the area came to be established. Too longContinue reading “Our Eight Day Photography Excursion Aboard the MV David B — Part Five”
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Our Eight Day Photography Excursion Aboard the MV David B — Part Four
DAY 4 — Dawes Glacier This morning I am invited down to the engine room by the Captain, to see what it takes to get the engine started for the day. First, there are about a dozen spots requiring a gentle squirt of oil from a long necked can I remember seeing in my grandfather’sContinue reading “Our Eight Day Photography Excursion Aboard the MV David B — Part Four”
Our Eight Day Photography Excursion Aboard the MV David B — Part Three
DAY 3 — Fords Terror For the trip, we are provided charming journals, the paper capable of being written on in the rain, to record our experiences. I managed it for twenty minutes on the afternoon of day one, and sadly, that was it. Each morning when Christine chalked the breakfast menu on the galleyContinue reading “Our Eight Day Photography Excursion Aboard the MV David B — Part Three”
Our Eight Day Photography Excursion Aboard the MV David B — Part Two
DAY 1 Within an hour of stepping aboard the David B and receiving our boat safety lecture, Jefferey had the maps out to show us the planned itinerary for the week and was cruising south through a narrow channel between the mainland and Douglas Island, and out into the network of watery highways of SoutheastContinue reading “Our Eight Day Photography Excursion Aboard the MV David B — Part Two”
Songbird Photography
(camera setting info and shooting strategy after all the pretty bird photos) In a previous post, Photography Blinds & Raptors, I shared what I learned about using blinds for wildlife photography as part of a workshop I attended. Our first morning was nonstop activity photographing a few dozen raptors. We could swing our cameras fromContinue reading “Songbird Photography”
Photography Blinds and Raptors
Our traditional trip west to work as volunteers in Grand Teton National Park took a detour this year — so that I could participate in a photography workshop in southern Texas. This side trip of 2,000 miles doubled the usual trip, but it created fun adventures for both of us. One of Dave’s brothers hoppedContinue reading “Photography Blinds and Raptors”