When to Photograph What in Alaska
Have you ever wondered when is the best time to photograph brown bears snagging salmon in cascading falls? Fields carpeted with wild lupine? Northern lights whipping across the night sky? Or, tail slapping whales in coastal fjords? [...]
Aurora Tour
Aurora Tour from Anchorage To witness auroras rippling across the northern night sky over moonlit, snowy peaks and shining across dark water is an experience to be remembered a lifetime. Alaska Photo Treks offers an [...]
Chasing Light
One of the best things about being an Alaska photo tour guide is that it puts you in touch with so many interesting people. This past summer, I had the honor of meeting and hosting full-time [...]
Art of Seeing
Photography | The Art of Seeing and Sharing At the peak of film photography in 1999, Kodak estimated 80 billion photos were taken that year. It's difficult to get a firm number of the amount [...]
Seldovia Photo Essay
The still waters of Seldovia Slough make it an ideal reflective surface for twilight photography. Sea otter in Seldovia Slough. Sea otters have very thick fur- [...]
Photographing Fall Colors
Autumn on Our Doorstep Photographing Fall Colors At 61° north, autumn does not creep in on little cat feet, it thunders in like a bull moose in rut...and for a brief [...]
B&W Landscapes
Photographing Black & White Landscapes A great way to add drama to your nature photography is to shoot black and white landscapes. Most modern digital cameras give you this option; to [...]
Bad Weather Photography
The Benefits of Photographing in Bad Weather We run our Sunset Photo Safaris every night in the summertime, but as you can probably guess, it's not away sunny in Alaska. Sometimes it's cloudy. Sometimes [...]
Photographing Sunset Silhouettes
Tips for Photographing Sunset Silhouettes When photographing in dramatic light, you usually want to shoot so the good light is falling on your subjects. However, if you turn around and shoot towards the light, you can [...]
Photographing Water Reflections
The unique symmetrical quality of this composition, combined with the creative use of water, creates the feeling of both side-to-side and top-to-bottom reflection. Photographing Water Reflections Reflections can add a wonderful compositional element to [...]
Instructional Photography Tours
Master Your Camera | Learn Photography on Tour in Alaska! The tickets are bought, hotels booked, and you're down to deciding things to do for your upcoming Alaska trip. It might also be time [...]
Photographing Winter Sunsets
Shoot Recipe | Photographing Winter Sunsets Ice flows coming in on high tide at Beluga Point .4 sec at f/20, ISO 50, 16mm, on tripod with slow shutter to show movement of ice [...]
Photographing Winter Glaciers
Shoot Recipe | Photographing Winter Glaciers Summer glacier views are dramatic, in winter they are surreal. Rivers of azure ice contrasts sharply with the tone of surrounding landscape. Though they don't command the same immediate attention when [...]
Photographing Northern Lights
Shoot Recipe | Photographing Northern Lights Photographing northern lights is a pursuit of contradictions. It's easy and difficult, exciting and tedious, disappointing and wildly rewarding. Preparation for successful winter shoots is covered in Part I of this [...]
Photographing Winter Landscapes
Shoot Recipe | Photographing Winter Landscapes In winter photography, extremes can make the scene. Snowscapes to sky shows, ice fog to ice flows, winter provides plenty of [...]