Images from 2008 - Part 10

Images made in Colorado. The mountain goat

was photographed on Mount Evans

and the others in Rocky Mountain National Park.

Images from 2008 - Part 9

More bears from last August.

Bush Administration Does It Again

"With only a few short weeks left in power, the Bush administration is handling out favors to Big Oil like candy," said Rebecca Noblin, staff attorney for the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) in Anchorage. "Despite increasingly dire threats to the Arctic from global warming, the Administration is charging full steam ahead with ill-conceived drilling plans that could drive polar bears and other struggling Arctic species to the brink of extinction."

A report from the CBD published by the Environmental News Network, December 16, 2008, stated, "The Department of the Interior released plans this week to open up more than 70 million acres of polar bear habitat in the Beaufort and Chuckchi seas of Alaska to oil development. The proposal, contained in a Draft Environmental Impact Statement released by the scandal-plagued Minerals Management Service, would auction off this important habitat to oil companies th[r]ough four lease sales scheduled between now and 2012."

HAPPY HOLIDAYS

Images from 2008 - Part 8

More bears!

Images from 2008 - Part 7

The juvenile sibling brown bears depicted in these images

provided numerous photo opps for my group and I

as we camped along Shelter Creek

in Alaska's Lake Clark National Park this past August.

Images from 2008 - Part 6

I made these images during

my company's Bald Eagles of Alaska photo adventure

in the Chilkat Bald Eagle Preserve

last month.

Images from 2008 - Part 5

These are images from my company's

Galapagos Wildlife adventure

in April, 2008

Greater Frigatebird

Swallow-tailed Gull

Lava Heron (juvenile)

Marine Iguana

Images from 2008 - Part 4

I made the following hummingbird images

during our Exotic Rainforest Hummingbirds workshop

in the Ecuadorian cloud forests of South America

this past April.

Fawn-breasted Brilliant

Rufous-tailed Hummingbird

Booted Racket-tail

Images from 2008 - Part 3

Brown Bear - Lake Clark National Park, Alaska

Photograph made during my Alaska Wildlife photo adventure in  August.

Purple-bibbed Whitetip - Ecuadorian Cloud Forest

I made this image during our Exotic Rainforest Hummingbirds workshop.

Nursing Elk Calf - Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado

Image from Colorado Fall Wildlife workshop.

Images from 2008 - Part 2

Here are more of my favorites from 2008. I hope you enjoy them.

Sow and twin cubs along Cook Inlet - Lake Clark National Park, Alaska

Bald Eagle in a snow storm - Chilkat Bald Eagle Preserve, Alaska

Red-billed Tropicbird - South Plaza Island, Galapagos Archipelago

Images from 2008 - Part 1

These a couple of images from last month's Bald Eagles of Alaska photo adventure, as I promised in my last post. In addition, between now and they end of the year, I will be posting more images that I made during 2008, a couple of which are appear below the eagle images. Sooo, check back frequently . . . and, I would love for you to post your comments.

This Bald Eagle was perched in a tree,

perfectly framed by snow covered limbs,

during a snow storm.

Early morning fog in The Valley of the Eagles.

I photographed these Horned Puffins during my company's

Alaska Wildlife adventure in early August.

Sometimes, even bears enjoy taking a bath.

Lake Clark National Park, Alaska