Best of 2020 Photo Selection
Our Best of 2020 - A Thank You to Our Guests We started the year of 2020 with a sense of promise. Anchorage saw a beautiful January, with an extended period of cold, crisp [...]
Photography Tips – 13 Ways to Work on Photography at Home
Thirteen Ways to Work on Photography at Home We live in challenging times, with the spread of COVID-19 coronavirus around the globe and now with the United States surpassing the total number of infections [...]
Insider Tips – Top 10 Reasons to Photograph Alaska in Winter
10 Reasons to Photograph Alaska in Winter Alaska Photo Treks can design your photo experience in any time of year, but read below if you want some great ideas for an Alaskan winter adventure! [...]
Guest Blog – Brown Bear Photo Safari with Mic-Anthony Hay
Filming and Photographing coastal brown bear with Mic-Anthony Hay Sony sent their A-team [Alpha Collective] up to Alaska last fall for some fun shooting in various locations, including filming and photographing coastal brown bear [...]
Insider Tips – Photograph Alaska Wildlife
How to Photograph Alaska Wildlife No doubt about it, seeing and photographing wildlife is a main attraction for many visitors traveling to Alaska, but the state is large and finding them takes planning, patience [...]
Special Places – Knik Glacier
Adventures on Knik Glacier Standing barefoot atop ice formed from snow that fell more than 100 years ago, he stripped to board shorts while the guide tied a safety cable across his chest. The [...]
Insider Tips – Top 30 Alaska Photography Subjects and When to Shoot Them
Top 30 Alaska Photography Subjects by Season Ever wondered when's the best time to photograph brown bear snatching salmon from a cascading falls... alpine meadows carpeted with wildflowers... northern lights whipping across the night sky... [...]
Guest Blog – Chasing Light in Anchorage
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 chasing light in [...]
Photography Tips – One Simple Way to Improve Your Photos
One Simple Way to Improve Your Photos At the peak of film photography in 1999, Kodak estimated 80 billion photos were taken. According to Mary Meeker's annual Internet Trends report, an average of 1.8 billion were [...]
Special Places – Seldovia, Alaska
Special Places - The Visual Treasures of Seldovia, Alaska Owner and Guide, Jody Overstreet has traveled out of Anchorage to other Alaska locales a few times this season, including two trips to Seldovia. Throughout the year, Jody teaches, [...]
Photography Tips – Master Your Camera on Tour!
Learn Photography on Tour in Alaska! The tickets are purchased, hotels booked, and you're down to deciding what you want to do on your upcoming Alaska trip. It might not sound like the best [...]
Photography Tips – 3 Ways Photograph Winter Sunsets
3 Ways to Photograph Winter Sunsets It's a subject we never tire of: the setting sun. How many times have you seen a line of cars veer into a scenic pullout just as [...]
How to Photograph Glaciers in Winter
How to Photograph Glaciers in Winter Glaciers are dramatic any time of year, but in winter they are surreal. Though more subtle when snow enfolds them, their blue heart shines through. It's the density of ice [...]
How to Photograph Northern Lights
How to Photograph Northern Lights in 10 Easy Steps To successfully photograph northern lights is an incredibly rewarding life experience. It can also be fraught with challenges, which are broken down into 10 [...]
How to Photograph Winter Landscapes
How to Photograph Winter Landscapes Extremes can make the scene, and from snowscapes to sky shows, ice fog to ice flows, the Alaska provides plenty of photo-worthy extremes in which to photograph winter [...]