Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as “Denali”
A member of the Grant Creek Pack, Denali National Park, Alaska.
This is another new image from this summer – I was really fortunate to at least see if not photograph wolves almost everyday I was in Denali this past summer. I love watching wolves – even if they are hunting way off in the distance beyond photo range, they are still fascinating to watch.
Mountain light, Denali National Park, Alaska.
Can you see the Dall Sheep in this image?
Janine has pushed hard to get some of our new images from earlier this summer on the website and has updated our section of Denali National Park photos with new pictures from our two trips up there this past summer.
Cascade Chaos by William Slusher.
Since this book arrived in the mail yesterday, I thought it was the perfect time to throw in a little shameless shelf promotion. 🙂 This is the original photo of the grizzly bear from Denali, as you might guess, in the original, the bear isn’t carrying a red rose – the was added by the publisher with our permission. I haven’t had a chance to read the book, but it is a fictional story about the restoration of grizzlies into Central Washington. Thanks for the nice signed copy of the book William!
Mt. McKinley, better know up here as Denali, Denali National Park, Alaska.
Unfortunately, I have never seen a photo do the shear size of this mountain justice, but on those rare days when the mountain is out like this one earlier in August, it sure is an amazing sight!
I probably won’t be able to post to the blog until some time next week as we head off to photograph Alaska’s amazing fall colors.
Wild lynx, Denali National Park, Alaska.
This is one of those moments in nature where you think, wow, I wonder what is going to happen next? I had been sitting on the ground watching this young lynx hunt in the alders for about 20 minutes – I also saw a couple of snowshoe hares make a lucky escape when they saw it coming. Then, without warning, it turned and began walking right towards me like a curious house cat. The image above was captured with a 100-400 on a full frame camera. Gosh, I could have had head shots if I still had my 600 and converter on!
So what happened next? A vehicle of Park Service employees came around the corner – needless to say they were thrilled to see such a rare animal and when they pulled up and began photographing, the lynx turned around and went back to hunting in the alders. The group of us were able to watch and photograph this young lynx for another 15 minutes – definitely a thrill!
Wild wolf, Denali National Park, Alaska.
Finally getting a chance to share some more of my photos from my trip to Denali earlier this month. Look at the difference in the appearance of this beautiful wolf in two photos taken just 7 seconds apart. The first one looks nice a friendly like a family pet, the second one…
Wild wolf yawns, Denali National Park, Alaska.
This wolf was passing by me at a fast pace – I didn’t think I had too many options except maybe a pan / blur when all of a sudden she stopped and laid down in some really sweet light! The bottom photo was taken at f/13 thinking I would be panning, the top one was dialed down to f/4 so that I could limit the depth of field, and improve the background and foreground by blurring the distracting elements.
Polychrome Pass, Denali National Park, Alaska.
A polychrome sky over Polychrome Pass last weekend!
Last week while we were in Denali the photo blog passed the 4 year mark! In August 2006, it started very slow, but now it continues to steadily grow, and I’m grateful to all the people who follow our travels! The blog now averages 2,500 unique visitors a day, plus some 800 who subscribe via the RSS feed or email, and another 800 or so who follow via Facebook, and even more via Twitter. Although these numbers pale in comparison with our main photo website, they are still very significant and growing, and I wanted to take a minute to say thanks!
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