Southeast Alaska 567 photos

Aerial of M/Y Hanse Explorer working through dense brash ice toward a tidewater glacier front, likely Wrangell, Southeast Alaska.

94Wrangell medium

Vessel whole in an ice field with the glacier behind, brochure-opener composition

Four orcas travel in line on a gold-lit sea below layered mountain ridges at sunset, Southeast Alaska.

94no named location

Pod in a landscape, warm sky over blue ridgelines; best frame in the batch

Two paddleboarders cross open water in front of the wide seracked face of a tidewater glacier below a dark peak, Southeast Alaska.

93no named location

Two tiny figures against a full glacier face; the scale shot, sharp and clean

M/Y Hanse Explorer lies at anchor before a tidewater glacier with kayakers and paddleboarders around her, likely Wrangell, Southeast Alaska.

93Wrangell medium

HANSE EXPLORER legible on the bow; vessel, guests and glacier in one clean frame

A group of humpback whales bursts through the surface with mouths open in a coordinated bubble-net lunge, Southeast Alaska.

93no named location

Peak bubble-net moment, baleen and throat pleats visible, forested shore.

Humpback whales surge upward with mouths open and baleen exposed at the end of a bubble-net feeding lunge, Southeast Alaska.

93no named location

Cooperative lunge feed, baleen and throat pleats sharp; behaviour not a place

A brown bear and cubs stand on a grass spit while a superyacht lies anchored behind, Southeast Alaska.

93no named location

Bears sharp against a soft-focus yacht; hull lettering unreadable at 800px

A brown bear stands on a kelp-covered rock with a harbour seal hauled out behind it and the expedition yacht Hanse Explorer at anchor beyond, Southeast Alaska.

92Tracy Arm low

Bear, seal and named expedition vessel in one layered scale composition

A brown bear carries a live salmon in its jaws while a second bear moves in beside it, Southeast Alaska.

92no named location

Peak-action catch with a second bear closing; sharp, clean, tells the story

M/Y Hanse Explorer lies close under the blue seracs of a tidewater glacier face, likely Wrangell, Southeast Alaska.

92Wrangell medium

HANSE EXPLORER legible on bow and bridge; glacier face fills frame, brochure-opener grade

Humpback whales surface together with mouths open at the end of a bubble-net lunge, throat pleats and baleen showing, Southeast Alaska.

92no named location

Tight on the lunge, baleen and pleats sharp, immense energy.

A sea otter floats on its back with a pup resting on her chest among drifting kelp, Southeast Alaska.

92no named location

Mother and pup with kelp context, both faces sharp, strong storytelling

Guests paddle an inflatable kayak and stand-up paddleboards through brash ice in front of a tidewater glacier, Southeast Alaska.

91no named location

Guests, ice and glacier in one wide frame; the expedition-activity money shot

M/Y Hanse Explorer sits bow-on in a fjord with a tidewater glacier front visible past her stem, likely Wrangell, Southeast Alaska.

91Wrangell medium

HANSE EXPLORER large and legible on the bow; glacier and cliffs frame the vessel

A bald eagle perches on a blue serac in the broken ice of a glacier front, likely Wrangell, Southeast Alaska.

91Wrangell medium

Eagle small but unmistakable on ice, animal in a scene, uncommon subject pairing

A humpback whale breaches clear of the water in front of cloud-draped forested mountains, Southeast Alaska.

91Glacier Bay National Park low

Full breach with white pectoral, whole animal in frame, layered ridges behind

Aerial of the expedition yacht Arctic P anchored among bergy bits below the face of a tidewater glacier, likely Yakutat, Southeast Alaska.

91Yakutat medium

Ship tiny against a glacier front, ice-strewn water, moody weather.

Humpback whales break the surface in a tight bubble-net group with mouths open below a rocky forested shore, Southeast Alaska.

91no named location

Four heads up together, barnacles and baleen sharp, clean shoreline band.

A brown bear lowers its head to touch noses with a cub in a shallow salmon stream, Southeast Alaska.

91no named location

Tender adult-cub interaction, warm low light, sharp; species left at brown bear

Humpback whales lunge through the surface with mouths open beside a kelp-fringed rock wall, Southeast Alaska.

91no named location

Feeding lunge tight against the shoreline, intertidal band gives place and scale

The bow of a white expedition yacht faces the wide seracked front of Margerie Glacier across brash ice, Glacier Bay National Park, Southeast Alaska.

90Margerie Glacier, Glacier Bay National Park medium

Wide blue serac face with dark medial band meeting dirty ice right, Fairweather peaks behind

Two paddleboarders pass in front of a tidewater glacier face shot from water level, Southeast Alaska.

90no named location

Near-identical sibling of the wider SUP frame, slightly tighter on the ice

A brown bear holds a salmon in its jaws while a second bear reaches for it, Southeast Alaska.

90no named location

Burst sibling of the other catch frame, marginally looser on the two bears

Two paddleboarders face the calving front of a tidewater glacier across clear turquoise water, likely Wrangell, Southeast Alaska.

90Wrangell medium

Both paddlers whole in frame, glacier face fills the background, blue-sky day

Aerial of M/Y Hanse Explorer holding station in brash ice before a wide tidewater glacier face, likely Wrangell, Southeast Alaska.

90Wrangell medium

Elevated three-quarter view, ice field and glacier both fully in frame

An aerial looks down a green tidal estuary of braided channels to a narrow forested inlet with a single vessel anchored in the deep water, likely Elfin Cove, Southeast Alaska.

90Elfin Cove medium

Aerial with tiny boat for scale, rich colour and depth, brochure opener quality

Aerial of the expedition yacht Arctic P at anchor in a mist-filled bay ringed by low forested islands, likely Elfin Cove, Southeast Alaska.

90Elfin Cove medium

Vessel named by matching the hull that reads ARCTIC in ak-0432; mist layers.

Aerial of Pioneer at anchor on glassy water under a burning sunset sky with snow peaks behind, likely Yakutat, Southeast Alaska.

90Yakutat medium

Colour, calm water, vessel small in a huge scene, brochure opener.

A humpback whale lunges vertically out of the water showing its barnacled chin and throat pleats, Southeast Alaska.

90no named location

Peak lunge, barnacles and pleats readable, forested shore behind.

A humpback whale lunges sideways through the surface with baleen and throat pleats exposed, Southeast Alaska.

90no named location

Whole head and flipper clean in frame, hard light but great detail.

A humpback whale flukes up on glassy water in front of forested ridges, Southeast Alaska.

90no named location

Fluke, water curtain and layered blue ridgelines all in one clean vertical

A guest in a hooded jacket stands silhouetted on a yacht foredeck watching the sun set over a forested island, Southeast Alaska.

89no named location

Lone figure, curved deck line, full golden sunset; classic brochure opener

Two paddleboarders cross in front of a tidewater glacier below a dark peak, shot vertically from water level, Southeast Alaska.

89no named location

Vertical sibling of the SUP-at-glacier frames; good for a tall column

The bow of M/Y Hanse Explorer pushes into wall-to-wall brash ice toward a glacier at the head of a fjord, Southeast Alaska.

89no named location

Bow-forward into dense ice with glacier ahead; the ship-in-ice hero angle

A brown bear stands head-on over a rock ledge above white water, Southeast Alaska.

89no named location

Front-on vertical portrait, claws and wet fur sharp, good tall-column crop

A brown bear carries a fresh silver salmon in its jaws onto a barnacled rock, Southeast Alaska.

89no named location

Fish scales and bear muzzle both sharp; body cut at left, still reads clean

M/Y Hanse Explorer lies broadside against the seracs of a tidewater glacier, US ensign flying, likely Wrangell, Southeast Alaska.

89Wrangell medium

Full profile against wall of ice; US flag confirms American waters

Aerial of M/Y Hanse Explorer at the edge of a brash ice arc below a wide tidewater glacier front, likely Wrangell, Southeast Alaska.

89Wrangell medium

Ice curve leads to the vessel and on to the glacier, whole scene in frame

Six humpback whales surface abreast in a tight coordinated group with gulls working over them, likely Chatham Strait, Southeast Alaska.

89Chatham Strait medium

Synchronised surfacing with attending gulls is the bubble-net feeding pattern, a behaviour not a place

A group of humpback whales surfaces mouth-open through a bubble net with gulls diving at the herring above them, Southeast Alaska.

89no named location

Textbook bubble-net feeding, a behaviour not a place; gulls complete the story

An aerial looks down a steep fjord where a turquoise river delta braids into the arm under low cloud, likely Endicott Arm, Southeast Alaska.

89Endicott Arm medium

Depth, colour and cloud layering make this a brochure opener

A humpback whale lunges vertically with baleen and throat pleats showing while feeding with its group, Southeast Alaska.

89no named location

Baleen plates and pleated throat both readable at the top of the lunge

Aerial of Pioneer at anchor in a turquoise bay ringed by forested islands, kayaks stowed on deck, likely Elfin Cove, Southeast Alaska.

89Elfin Cove medium

Aerial, vessel small in a vast turquoise bay, exactly the taste brief.

Aerial at dusk of the expedition yacht Arctic P anchored off a forested spit with a snow-covered range across the strait, likely Yakutat, Southeast Alaska.

89Yakutat medium

Big vista, vessel small at right, soft evening light on the range.

Two people paddle a double kayak past a white expedition superyacht anchored below forested ridges at dusk, Southeast Alaska.

89no named location

Guests, kayak and mothership in one frame with soft pink light.

A humpback whale breaches clear of the water in front of a low rocky shore, pectoral flipper raised, Southeast Alaska.

89no named location

Full breach with flipper up, whole animal in frame, spray frozen.

A block of ice topples from the face of a tidewater glacier and throws up a wall of spray, Southeast Alaska.

89no named location

Calving caught mid-fall with deep blue ice; face not identifiable from pixels

A bald eagle perches on a mossy root wad above a river in misty rainforest, Southeast Alaska.

89no named location

Bird small inside a big misty forest scene, exactly the scale juxtaposition

A bear crosses a wet sedge meadow below fog-wrapped spruce, Southeast Alaska.

89no named location

Animal small in a big misty estuary scene; dark coat leaves species unsettled

A white-coated Kermode bear walks a mossy log above a salmon creek in temperate rainforest.

89no named location

Cream-coated Kermode is a British Columbia Great Bear animal, not Southeast Alaska

An expedition yacht runs a channel below banded fog and forested headlands, Southeast Alaska.

89no named location

Vessel small against stacked fog layers; zoomed the hull, no legible name

Guests scramble up polished bedrock from a zodiac in a glacial fjord ringed by peaks, Southeast Alaska.

89no named location

Backlit fjord, glacier-scoured rock and a tender full of guests; real expedition action

Layered ridgelines and a high snow peak stand above a forested shoreline at sunrise, Southeast Alaska.

89no named location

Atmospheric depth layers with a glaciated range behind; peak not identifiable

A brown bear stands at the lip of a salmon waterfall while gulls squabble on the rocks beside it, Southeast Alaska.

88Tracy Arm low

Bear in full salmon-stream scene with gulls; species left at brown bear

Aerial view of a tidewater glacier curving between rock peaks into silt-brown water, Southeast Alaska.

88no named location

Strong vertical aerial, glacier tongue to calving front, unnamed

A brown bear sow noses the shallows of a salmon stream with a cub close behind her, Southeast Alaska.

88no named location

Sow and cub together, both whole in frame, warm low light

A paddleboarder and a two-person inflatable kayak move along a glacier front from a half-submerged water-level view, Southeast Alaska.

88no named location

Split water-level framing, both craft and full glacier face in one shot

A harbour seal lies on blue glacier ice and looks back over its shoulder, Southeast Alaska.

88no named location

Whole animal on blue ice, clean palette, breathing room to the right

A brown bear stands in white water and looks directly at the camera, Southeast Alaska.

88no named location

Whole animal, direct eye contact, rapids fill the frame with motion

Top-down aerial of a rigid inflatable holding position under a waterfall in turquoise water, likely Endicott Arm, Southeast Alaska.

88Endicott Arm medium

Clean top-down graphic, boat whole in frame, strong colour separation

A rigid inflatable runs past M/Y Hanse Explorer at anchor below forested mountains, likely Endicott Arm, Southeast Alaska.

88Endicott Arm medium

Hull lettering reads HANSE EXPLORER; mothership plus tender, clean separation

Aerial over a brash ice edge where kayakers and a zodiac work a turquoise fjord below snow-streaked peaks, likely Wrangell, Southeast Alaska.

88Wrangell medium

Tiny kayaks against a wall of brash and mountains, strong scale juxtaposition

A harbour seal rests on a floe in front of a blue tidewater glacier face, likely Wrangell, Southeast Alaska.

88Wrangell medium

Animal in its scene, glacier behind, water-level angle; seals pup on glacial ice

M/Y Hanse Explorer swings bow-on below a granite wall with a glacier front to starboard, likely Wrangell, Southeast Alaska.

88Wrangell medium

Whole vessel with breathing room, glacier and cliffs both readable behind

Aerial of a single vessel dwarfed by an ice pan below the wide front of a tidewater glacier, likely Wrangell, Southeast Alaska.

88Wrangell medium

Vessel tiny against the whole calving front, the scale contrast Carson favours

Four humpback whales blow in unison in backlit calm water beneath a forested shoreline, Southeast Alaska.

88no named location

Four lit blows in one line, group behaviour plus environment, strong light

A paddleboarder in a wetsuit stands off the blue seracs of a tidewater glacier face, Southeast Alaska.

88Tracy Arm-Fords Terror Wilderness low

Scale juxtaposition of one person against a whole glacier front

A humpback whale rises mouth-first through a bubble net as a gull swoops in, with more whales alongside, Southeast Alaska.

88no named location

Peak of a bubble-net lunge, gull included, forested shore behind; sharp

A bald eagle perches on a floating iceberg with snow-covered peaks behind, Southeast Alaska.

88Sitka low

Iconic subject, clean ice foreground, layered mountain backdrop.

Sea kayakers rest on glacial meltwater in front of the seracked face of a tidewater glacier, Southeast Alaska.

88Glacier Bay National Park low

Classic scale shot, paddlers tiny against a blue ice wall.

Aerial of Pioneer alone on still water beneath a wide orange and grey sunset, likely Yakutat, Southeast Alaska.

88Yakutat medium

Sibling frame, moodier and darker, vessel slightly lower in frame.

A wet brown bear stands on a dark river shelf and looks straight at the camera, gulls behind, Southeast Alaska.

88no named location

Full-body portrait, eye contact, warm rim light, clean separation.

A line of humpback whales surfaces through a bubble net beside a small open skiff carrying four people, Southeast Alaska.

88no named location

Skiff gives real scale to the whole bubble-net group, forested shore.

Two humpback whales surface mouths open at the end of a lunge while gulls work overhead, Southeast Alaska.

88no named location

Gulls add scale, high-key sky isolates the whales, barnacles sharp.

A male orca's dorsal fin cuts a mirror-flat sea under low fog, Southeast Alaska.

88no named location

Minimal fog-and-reflection composition, strong negative space

A brown bear cub steps along a mossy fallen log at the edge of a still forest pool, Southeast Alaska.

88no named location

Cub in full rainforest setting with clean reflection, rich greens

A white-coated Kermode cub climbs over a black bear in a rushing creek, temperate rainforest.

88no named location

Spirit bear is British Columbia only; same mis-filed shoot as the other white-bear frame

Two humpback whales blow in backlit air in front of a dark forested shore, Southeast Alaska.

88no named location

Rim-lit spouts against shadowed forest, strong atmosphere and scale

A person walks the surface of a glacier beside a meltwater canyon with a helicopter parked on the ice, Southeast Alaska.

88no named location

Heli-landing on a valley glacier, figure gives scale to the blue meltwater slot

Guests and a pilot in headsets fly a helicopter above a glacier valley ringed by snow peaks, Southeast Alaska.

88no named location

Cockpit point of view with the glacier out the windshield; faces turned away

A person stands by a driftwood fire on a cobble beach at dusk while a vessel lies offshore below snow peaks, likely Yakutat, Southeast Alaska.

88Yakutat medium

Beach fire, lone figure and anchored vessel together; hull too small to name

Three brown bears work a salmon cascade beside an old concrete fish ladder in the rainforest, Southeast Alaska.

87Margerie Glacier, Glacier Bay National Park low

Three bears plus built fish pass; crop-zoom found concrete weir, no lettering

A brown bear walks the rockweed tideline below a bare rock shore, Southeast Alaska.

87no named location

Bear small inside a big intertidal scene, exactly the scale-in-place look

Two paddleboarders work through brash ice below a glacier with the sun flaring over the ridge, Southeast Alaska.

87no named location

Wide-angle water-level ice foreground with sunstar; energetic, slightly busy

A guest leans on the varnished rail of a yacht side deck watching brash ice and waterfalls in a steep fjord, Southeast Alaska.

87no named location

Deck, guest, ice and waterfall in one wide frame; sells the experience

A blond-maned brown bear stands on a midstream boulder in white water, Southeast Alaska.

87no named location

Whole bear on a rock with rapids around it, clean pose and separation

Three people run a rigid inflatable toward the camera below a tall waterfall on a mossy granite wall, likely Endicott Arm, Southeast Alaska.

87Endicott Arm medium

Boat head-on with bow wave, waterfall backdrop, whole subject with breathing room

A tender runs off the bow of M/Y Hanse Explorer beneath a waterfall-streaked granite wall, likely Endicott Arm, Southeast Alaska.

87Endicott Arm medium

HANSE EXPLORER legible on the bridge wing; bow and cliff give scale

Aerial of a paddleboarder threading a field of brash ice on green glacial water, likely Wrangell, Southeast Alaska.

87Wrangell medium

Single figure against ice mosaic, whole board in frame with room around it

Aerial of M/Y Hanse Explorer pushing through a dense field of brash ice, likely Wrangell, Southeast Alaska.

87Wrangell medium

Different vessel from Hanse Explorer; superstructure lettering too soft to read

A crew member stands at the stem of M/Y Hanse Explorer as she lies below a fjord wall and glacier, likely Wrangell, Southeast Alaska.

87Wrangell medium

Tight low bow angle with a person for scale; HANSE EXPLORER large and legible

M/Y Hanse Explorer lies in brash ice below a granite wall streaked with meltwater falls, likely Wrangell, Southeast Alaska.

87Wrangell medium

HANSE EXPLORER legible on the hull; foreground ice gives depth

A deep blue iceberg fills the foreground as M/Y Hanse Explorer lies against a dark rock wall beyond, likely Wrangell, Southeast Alaska.

87Wrangell medium

Compressed telephoto layers berg against vessel; HANSE EXPLORER legible on hull

The sportfishing tender SCOUT carries guests along the blue calving face of a tidewater glacier in a steep-walled fjord, Southeast Alaska.

87Tracy Arm-Fords Terror Wilderness low

Striated fjord walls and wide blue face fit Sawyer or Dawes

Alpenglow lights the peaks above a wide tidewater glacier face at dawn, likely Glacier Bay National Park, Southeast Alaska.

87Glacier Bay National Park medium

Wide clean calving face under lit peaks fits Glacier Bay's tidewater fronts

Humpback whales break the surface together in a bubble-net lunge as gulls dive for scraps, Southeast Alaska.

87no named location

Three gulls plus open mouth and rolled pectoral; feeding behaviour reads instantly

A brown bear walks a shallow rock shelf in front of a wide salmon-stream waterfall, Southeast Alaska.

87no named location

Bear reads as silhouette against the falls, strong scale and story.

A brown bear steps down a rock ledge into fast blue river water with gulls behind, Southeast Alaska.

87no named location

Warm light on wet fur, strong action, rump slightly tight to edge.

A brown bear and cub stand on a grassy point with a white superyacht at anchor in the channel behind, Southeast Alaska.

87no named location

Bear and yacht in one frame is the expedition story; no legible hull name.

A brown bear holds a salmon in its jaws in a whitewater stream, Southeast Alaska.

87no named location

Predation moment, salmon clearly readable, warm light; bear clipped at frame edge

Two brown bears spar on a rain-soaked grassy bank, one rising to paw at the other, Southeast Alaska.

87no named location

Interaction plus visible rain and wet coats; classic coastal bear weather

A stranded block of glacier ice rests on an outwash beach below a glacier front and snow peaks, Southeast Alaska.

87no named location

Clean foreground-to-terminus depth, clear evening light; terminus not nameable

A rainbow crosses a forested fjord wall beside a waterfall, with brash ice drifting on the green water, Southeast Alaska.

86Margerie Glacier, Glacier Bay National Park low

Rainbow, waterfall and brash ice in one frame; steep-walled fjord unnamed

A harbour seal and a dark-coated pup rest together on a floe of glacier ice, Southeast Alaska.

86no named location

Pair on ice, eye contact, clean pale palette; glacier ice nursery scene

Sharp rock spires catch first light above a cloud bank over forested ridges, Southeast Alaska.

86no named location

Distinctive spire skyline above cloud; no cheat-sheet match to name it

The blue calving front of a tidewater glacier meets a water-polished rock bluff, with growlers on the fjord below, Southeast Alaska.

86no named location

Ice against glacially scoured rock, strong blue, no named marker

Backlit fog fills a narrow passage between steep spruce-covered shores, Southeast Alaska.

86no named location

Layered narrows with glowing fog, strong depth, no named site

A large brown bear carries a salmon in its jaws while standing in white water, Southeast Alaska.

86no named location

Whole bear, catch clearly visible, rapids give context

A guest at a yacht rail watches a waterfall drop into a fjord packed wall to wall with brash ice, Southeast Alaska.

86no named location

Over-shoulder view into dense brash and waterfall; strong sense of place

A brown bear pulls a salmon from a rapid and turns with it in its jaws, Southeast Alaska.

86no named location

Clear catch moment, whole bear, water motion frozen cleanly

Three brown bears work the same stretch of white water, one walking a rock shelf in the foreground, Southeast Alaska.

86no named location

Three bears layered front to back; shows how crowded a salmon run gets

A brown bear stands on granite boulders at the forest edge, Southeast Alaska.

86no named location

Whole animal, clean light, temperate rainforest greens; grizzly not settleable

Aerial straight down a narrow turquoise fjord as a tender runs its length between forested walls, likely Endicott Arm, Southeast Alaska.

86Endicott Arm medium

Symmetrical drone frame, glacial flour turquoise, boat tiny for scale

Aerial of a tender circling M/Y Hanse Explorer at anchor in a fjord below snow-streaked peaks, likely Endicott Arm, Southeast Alaska.

86Endicott Arm medium

HANSE EXPLORER reads on the hull; full vessel plus wake and mountain backdrop

Aerial of a harbour seal hauled out alone on a floating slab of glacier ice, likely Wrangell, Southeast Alaska.

86Wrangell medium

Spotted coat reads harbour seal; clean top-down, animal small but sharp

Two paddleboarders cross a fjord past a large blue-white iceberg below granite walls, likely Wrangell, Southeast Alaska.

86Wrangell medium

Berg mass against tiny paddlers, the scale contrast Carson repeatedly picks

M/Y Hanse Explorer motors head-on past a small growler with a tidewater glacier behind, likely Wrangell, Southeast Alaska.

86Wrangell medium

Symmetrical head-on approach, glacier fills the gap behind the bridge

Aerial of M/Y Hanse Explorer steering a lead through heavy brash ice and small bergs, likely Wrangell, Southeast Alaska.

86Wrangell medium

Whole vessel plus the track she cut; unnamed white yacht, not Hanse Explorer

Panorama over a fjord scattered with ice, granite domes on both sides and a glacier at its head, likely Wrangell, Southeast Alaska.

86Wrangell medium

Reads the whole glacial arm at once; polished domes say heavy ice scouring

Aerial of M/Y Hanse Explorer lying among drifting ice on bright green glacial water, likely Wrangell, Southeast Alaska.

86Wrangell medium

Whole vessel and teak decks readable; hull name not resolvable from this angle

A pale brown bear sow leads two cubs along a gravel bar in a shallow braided river.

86no named location

Willow scrub, no conifers, braided salmon river reads Southwest Alaska not Southeast

Two sea kayakers paddle through brash ice toward a tidewater glacier front on a clear day, likely Glacier Bay National Park, Southeast Alaska.

86Glacier Bay National Park medium

Paddler-eye view into ice and glacier; a cruise ship at right is another operator

A slab of ice collapses from a tidewater glacier face and throws spray across the brash-covered water, likely Glacier Bay National Park, Southeast Alaska.

86Glacier Bay National Park medium

Calving caught mid-collapse, glacier against rock wall fits Glacier Bay

Aerial view of a long forest-rimmed lake with a single spruce islet mirrored in still water, likely Chatham Strait, Southeast Alaska.

86Chatham Strait medium

Drone frame, mirror reflection and tiny island give scale; lake unnamed

A block calves off a tidewater glacier and throws a plume of water and ice into the fjord, Southeast Alaska.

86no named location

Caught mid-calving, splash plume against blue face; the moment carries it

Aerial view straight down on a humpback whale swimming just under the surface, its white pectoral fins glowing green, likely Chatham Strait, Southeast Alaska.

86Chatham Strait medium

Drone top-down, whole animal in frame, pectorals lit turquoise through water

A pod of orcas surfaces together with a lingering blow beside a forested shoreline, Southeast Alaska.

86no named location

Five animals in one line, blow hanging, rainforest shore behind; strong scene

Four harlequin ducks swim past the sculpted blue face of a grounded iceberg, Southeast Alaska.

86no named location

Scale juxtaposition, ducks tiny against ice wall, clean minimal frame.

A brown bear stands chest deep in a river with sunlit green intertidal rock behind it, Southeast Alaska.

86no named location

Water-level angle, warm backlight, bear's head cleanly separated.

A brown bear sow and two cubs work a salmon river below a waterfall while gulls crowd the shallows, Southeast Alaska.

86no named location

Family group, gulls and falls, full salmon-run scene in one frame.

An orca spyhops straight out of flat grey water, throat patch and eye above the surface, Southeast Alaska.

86no named location

Clean spyhop, minimal misty background, whole head above water.

A carved iceberg sits stranded on a gravel bar in front of the layered face of a tidewater glacier, Southeast Alaska.

86no named location

Vertical frame stacks a sculpted berg against the ice wall behind.

An orca's dorsal fin and its reflection stand in flat calm water under fog, Southeast Alaska.

86no named location

Fin plus full reflection, restrained palette, strong vertical crop

An expedition yacht lies at anchor beneath fog-wrapped forested mountains, Southeast Alaska.

86no named location

Vessel tiny against layered fog and ridgelines, classic scale juxtaposition; hull lettering illegible

A brown bear and two cubs play among weathered stumps and summer grass, Southeast Alaska.

86no named location

Family group with three animals reading clearly, wildflowers and stumps for context

A bald eagle drops from a spruce with wings spread and talons lowered, Southeast Alaska.

86no named location

Full wingspan against dark conifers, head and talons sharp

Two helicopters stand on a crevassed glacier while a person walks the ice nearby, Southeast Alaska.

86no named location

Panoramic ice landing with two aircraft and a figure for scale, clean evening light

Ice pinnacles at a glacier terminus stand above stranded bergy bits on a cobble foreshore, Southeast Alaska.

86no named location

Serrated seracs with warm side light and grounded ice for foreground scale

A pilot and guests in headsets look out over a glacier valley from a helicopter cockpit, Southeast Alaska.

86no named location

Frame-for-frame identical to its sibling; keep one, drop the other downstream

Three harbour seals rest on brash ice below a glacier face, Southeast Alaska.

85Margerie Glacier, Glacier Bay National Park low

Seals hauled out on calved ice, glacier face behind, backlit

Two brown bears face off over a salmon on a streamside rock, Southeast Alaska.

85no named location

Strong interaction and detail but left bear is cut by the frame edge

A rainbow lands on a forested island below a cloud band, with a glacier on the mountain behind, Southeast Alaska.

85no named location

Rainbow, cloud layer and hanging glacier stacked; weather-driven scene

Low sun burns through mist on a forested ridge below a bare summit, Southeast Alaska.

85no named location

Layered light and fog, strong mood, works as a full-bleed break

Blue seracs at the top of a glacier below a dark rock horn and snowfields, Southeast Alaska.

85no named location

Compressed telephoto of seracs under a rock horn, big alpine scale

A guest photographs a waterfall and brash-ice-choked water from the teak side deck of an expedition yacht, Southeast Alaska.

85no named location

Deck leading lines into waterfall and ice; lifebuoy crop-zoomed, lettering out of focus

A paddler sits in a yellow inflatable kayak in front of a tidewater glacier and snow-streaked peaks, Southeast Alaska.

85no named location

Single kayak, clean water-level angle, glacier fills the background

Two guests lean on the side deck rail of the expedition yacht Hanse Explorer with a waterfall on the forested shore behind, Southeast Alaska.

85no named location

Crop-zoom reads HANSE EXPLORER on the superstructure; posed but vessel-identifying

Two brown bear cubs stand over salmon scraps on a barnacled rock shelf with their mother just out of frame, Southeast Alaska.

85no named location

Both cubs looking at camera; sow clipped at left edge and fish remains visible

Gulls roost on a stranded iceberg while M/Y Hanse Explorer passes a forested shore, likely Tracy Arm, Southeast Alaska.

85Tracy Arm medium

Hull profile and two-line bow name match frames where HANSE EXPLORER reads clearly

A rigid inflatable with three aboard turns away from a waterfall on a green fjord wall, likely Endicott Arm, Southeast Alaska.

85Endicott Arm medium

Deep green water, clean wake, waterfall reads clearly behind the boat

Top-down aerial of M/Y Hanse Explorer at anchor among bergy bits with kayaks and paddleboards spread around it, likely Wrangell, Southeast Alaska.

85Wrangell medium

Whole vessel plus watersports fleet in one graphic frame; no lettering readable

A sculpted blue iceberg fills one side of a fjord while a small yellow tender runs the far shore, likely Wrangell, Southeast Alaska.

85Wrangell medium

Berg texture and blue core, tender gives scale against the cliff waterfall

Crew line the rail as the bow of M/Y Hanse Explorer parts brash ice on green glacial water, likely Wrangell, Southeast Alaska.

85Wrangell medium

HANSE EXPLORER sharp on hull and superstructure; vessel clipped at the left edge

Two kayakers in a tandem sit-on-top watch a humpback whale surface a few boat-lengths away under a stormy coastal sky, Southeast Alaska.

85no named location

Scale juxtaposition, whale and paddlers in one frame, moody light

A large blue iceberg floats in a bay of scattered brash under a heavy storm sky, Southeast Alaska.

85Glacier Bay National Park low

Lit berg against dark storm, strong hero frame, bay not named from pixels

A paddleboarder crosses glacial meltwater in front of the seracs and debris bands of a tidewater glacier, Southeast Alaska.

85Tracy Arm-Fords Terror Wilderness low

Same set as sibling frame, slightly tighter and less sky

An aerial over a tidal lagoon and forested spits opening to a channel below low mountains, likely Elfin Cove, Southeast Alaska.

85Elfin Cove medium

Clean saturated aerial of estuary and spruce spits, no named feature

Two waterfalls pour off rock walls into an ice-choked lagoon at the front of a glacier, Southeast Alaska.

85no named location

Waterfalls, glacier and brash in one clean composition at low light

A group of Steller sea lions rests and squabbles on a rock haulout, Southeast Alaska.

85Inian Islands low

Twelve animals, warm light, interaction and haulout context all in one frame

A brown bear walks across algae-covered intertidal rock beside a running creek in backlight, Southeast Alaska.

85no named location

Rim-lit bear in its habitat, whole animal, creek adds motion.

A dark-hulled limousine tender idles at the base of a tall multi-tier waterfall on a forested shore, Southeast Alaska.

85no named location

Scale juxtaposition, small boat under a big falls, saturated greens.

The seracked blue face of a tidewater glacier fills the frame in raking side light, Southeast Alaska.

85no named location

Pure ice texture study, strong blues, no scale reference in frame.

Two orcas surface together in fog with a white superyacht faintly visible behind, Southeast Alaska.

85no named location

Whales sharp, yacht ghosted in fog behind, strong minimal palette.

Two brown bears rear up and grapple in backlit shallows on a rocky stream flat, Southeast Alaska.

85no named location

Backlit spray, both bears upright and whole, strong action.

A Steller sea lion throws a fish clear of the water as it feeds, Southeast Alaska.

85no named location

Peak action, fish airborne, whiskers and eye sharp

A Northwest Coast clan house painted with formline crest designs stands on a forested point at dusk, Southeast Alaska.

85no named location

Painted formline facade names the culture, not the community; pink dusk sky

Spruce-topped islets stand in silhouette against an orange and blue afterglow, Southeast Alaska.

85no named location

Graphic tree-line silhouette with clean gradient, wide brochure-ready crop

A dark-coated bear walks a sedge bank below a cliff streaked with waterfalls, Southeast Alaska.

85no named location

Coat is black but brown-vs-black bear not settleable at this angle

A humpback whale flukes up while a second surfaces alongside, forested shore behind, Southeast Alaska.

85no named location

Two animals plus shoreline context on glassy water, warm side light

A tidewater glacier face sits below a hanging glacier and snow peaks, Southeast Alaska.

85no named location

Layered ice and rock with brash-strewn water, strong vertical; face not nameable

A large baleen whale glides just below the surface, seen from directly overhead, likely Chatham Strait, Southeast Alaska.

85Chatham Strait medium

Top-down aerial, species not settleable from the rostrum alone; strong graphic frame

The heavily crevassed face of a tidewater glacier at the head of a narrow fjord, sun burst overhead, Southeast Alaska.

84Tracy Arm low

Steep narrow fjord tidewater face; Sawyer or Dawes, cannot settle which

A brown bear forages along a rockweed-covered shoreline at low tide, Southeast Alaska.

84Margerie Glacier, Glacier Bay National Park low

Whole bear in intertidal setting, warm rockweed tones, clean light

A brown bear stands chest-deep against a rock face eating a fish it holds in its paws, Southeast Alaska.

84no named location

Water-level angle, warm fur against dark rock, behaviour clearly readable

A green aurora arc stands over silhouetted coastal mountains with mist lying on the water below, Southeast Alaska.

84no named location

Aurora, stars and sea fog together; rare night frame for this pool

A bald eagle perches on a bleached driftwood snag against dark green forest, Southeast Alaska.

84no named location

Clean subject separation, breathing room, whole bird sharp

A humpback whale flukes up in a wide calm channel with small forested islets behind, Southeast Alaska.

84no named location

Whale tiny against a vast pale channel; scale and negative space carry it

Cloud tears along the granite and spruce walls of a steep-sided fjord, Southeast Alaska.

84no named location

Glacier-polished walls and low cloud; classic steep-fjord look, unnamed

A guest in an EYOS branded jacket stands at the rail of an expedition yacht as guests on the foredeck watch a large iceberg drift past in a glacial fjord, Southeast Alaska.

84no named location

Posed portrait, but foredeck group and iceberg give the scene real context

Looking straight down M/Y Hanse Explorer bow as it parts a raft of brash ice, Southeast Alaska.

84no named location

Crop-zoomed the raised bow lettering; stylised and unreadable at this size

Two brown bear cubs sit and stand among salmon remains on a barnacled rock shelf beside their mother, Southeast Alaska.

84no named location

Burst sibling of the other cub frame; sow cropped to a shoulder at left

Two guests in the foreground watch a brown bear carry a salmon out of a rapid, Southeast Alaska.

84no named location

Vertical sibling of the bear-watching frame; sleeve patch crop-zoomed, still unreadable

Four guests in a zodiac photograph a kelp-fringed rock shore in clear green water, Southeast Alaska.

84no named location

Bull kelp, strong tidal green water and steep spruce shore; zoomed jacket text illegible

A cascade drops down granite slabs to a turquoise fjord where a white yacht lies at anchor, likely Endicott Arm, Southeast Alaska.

84Endicott Arm medium

Glacier-fed turquoise and scoured granite read a steep fjord arm; no nameable landmark

Aerial of a rigid inflatable beside the base of a waterfall pouring off a granite slab into turquoise water, likely Endicott Arm, Southeast Alaska.

84Endicott Arm medium

Diagonal falls against flat turquoise, boat small for scale

Aerial of M/Y Hanse Explorer named REVELRY running past a forested headland, likely Elfin Cove, Southeast Alaska.

84Elfin Cove medium

Crop-zoom of the superstructure resolves REVELRY; spruce headland fits the region

The bow of M/Y Hanse Explorer pushes through scattered brash ice with crew watching from the foredeck, likely Wrangell, Southeast Alaska.

84Wrangell medium

HANSE EXPLORER large and sharp but the vessel is cut by the frame edge

Aerial of a large baleen whale blowing at the surface with a rainbow in the spout, likely Chatham Strait, Southeast Alaska.

84Chatham Strait medium

No white pectorals visible from above so humpback versus fin not settleable

A brown bear walks a gravel river bar toward a line of gulls, with dense conifer forest behind, Southeast Alaska.

84no named location

Low-angle bear framed by gulls, rainforest backdrop, species left at brown bear

Low sun catches the peak above a tall tidewater glacier face with brash ice at its foot, likely Glacier Bay National Park, Southeast Alaska.

84Glacier Bay National Park medium

Tall clean calving face under alpenglow peak fits Glacier Bay's tidewater fronts

From the bow of an expedition vessel with kayaks racked on deck, a glaciated range stands over still fjord water at dawn, Southeast Alaska.

84no named location

Onboard point of view with kayaks reading the expedition; no hull name visible

Spray and ice fragments burst outward as a tidewater glacier calves against a rock buttress, likely Glacier Bay National Park, Southeast Alaska.

84Glacier Bay National Park medium

Later frame in the same calving burst, slightly less ice in the air

Aerial view of a large valley glacier curving between snow peaks with a dark medial moraine down its centre, Southeast Alaska.

84no named location

Helicopter frame, yellow airframe blur lower right; icefield not nameable from pixels

Aerial view of a braided waterfall running through dense spruce forest into green tidal water, likely Chatham Strait, Southeast Alaska.

84Chatham Strait medium

Drone top-down; rainforest to saltwater transition reads clearly Southeast Alaska

A meltwater stream bursts from a hole in a glacier face and falls through banded blue ice, Southeast Alaska.

84no named location

Englacial waterfall is an uncommon, specific event and it is sharp

A Steller sea lion sits upright on a barnacled rock while others sleep behind, Southeast Alaska.

84Inian Islands low

Warm light, clean posture on barnacle and kelp rock, whole animal in frame

A line of humpback whales lunges through the surface together while bubble-net feeding on calm water, Southeast Alaska.

84no named location

Whole coordinated feeding line visible against glassy water and distant range

Aerial view of a humpback whale gliding below the surface with one white pectoral fin extended, likely Chatham Strait, Southeast Alaska.

84Chatham Strait medium

Drone frame from the same pass as ak-0364; clean green water, no clutter

A spawning sockeye salmon in red and green colours holds over gravel in a shallow creek below overhanging alders, Southeast Alaska.

84no named location

Split-level shows fish and streamside forest together; red body, green head

A tufted puffin spreads its wings on a lichen-covered rock ledge with a gull behind, Southeast Alaska.

84no named location

Orange bill, white face and blond tufts confirm tufted puffin; wings open

Two young brown bears spar in a shallow stream over green algae-covered rock, Southeast Alaska.

84no named location

Peak action, both bears whole in frame, open mouth moment.

A brown bear crosses the shallows below a wide tiered waterfall on a salmon river, Southeast Alaska.

84no named location

Same falls sequence, bear slightly smaller in frame.

Three sea kayakers paddle through brash ice toward a tidewater glacier, shot from the paddler's own cockpit, Southeast Alaska.

84Glacier Bay National Park low

Broad glacial bay with kayak operation fits Glacier Bay; unconfirmed.

A dark-hulled yacht tender runs past a sea arch below a spruce-topped headland, red ensign flying, Inian Islands, Southeast Alaska.

84Inian Islands high

Sea arch behind gives the frame a landmark; no legible boat name.

A bull orca surfaces close alongside, tall dorsal fin and white saddle patch clear, Southeast Alaska.

84no named location

Sharp close pass, whole dorsal and saddle in frame, plain blue water.

Two brown bear cubs stand in shoreline grass while their mother grazes behind them, Southeast Alaska.

84no named location

Cubs sharp and engaging, sow's head down and partly hidden.

A seal rests on a small ice floe below the towering blue face of a tidewater glacier, Southeast Alaska.

84no named location

Extreme scale, animal a speck under the ice cliff; species not settleable.

Morning fog threads through spruce above a grassy tidal flat where birds are feeding, Southeast Alaska.

84no named location

Backlit fog layers, warm foreground grass, quiet and atmospheric.

Two orcas surface side by side, the male's tall fin behind a smaller companion, Southeast Alaska.

84no named location

Two fins layered, saddle patches and rake marks readable, soft grey light

A flock of phalaropes flies low across rippled water, Southeast Alaska.

84no named location

Tight flock frozen against blue water bands; rufous neck on one supports phalarope

A carved and painted house post with outspread thunderbird wings stands inside a cedar clan house, Southeast Alaska.

84no named location

Northwest Coast formline carving in a cedar interior; house not nameable

A brown bear sits with two cubs among weathered stumps and flowering forbs, Southeast Alaska.

84no named location

Same stump-meadow shoot as the other family frame; check filing against the spirit-bear set

A zodiac sits on a tidal flat in silhouette as the sun sets behind treed islets.

84no named location

Tender anchors the foreground of the same sunset islet scene; expedition character

A humpback whale's fluke sheets water as it dives close to a forested shore, Southeast Alaska.

84no named location

Close fluke with fine water detail and green shore; fluke tip clipped at right

A wave-cut sea arch in a spruce-topped rock headland, with bull kelp in the swell, Southeast Alaska.

83Tracy Arm low

Outer-coast arch, temperate rainforest to waterline, no nameable marker

Two bald eagles perch in a moss-draped spruce with fog moving through the forest behind, Southeast Alaska.

83no named location

Two eagles small in a misty rainforest scene, the scale-in-environment look

A guest holds a glass of white wine on the aft deck of a yacht with a tidewater glacier and brash ice behind her, Southeast Alaska.

83no named location

Warm posed portrait, glacier legible behind; too personal for a full-bleed opener

Two guests watch a brown bear carry a salmon across a stream from a railed viewing spot, Southeast Alaska.

83no named location

Wooden rail suggests a managed bear-viewing site; sleeve patch crop-zoomed, unreadable

Aerial panorama of a spruce-covered island between calm blue channels with snow-streaked peaks beyond, likely Tracy Arm, Southeast Alaska.

83Tracy Arm medium

Wide stitched aerial, classic Inside Passage forest and channel, no named landform

A brown bear looks up from behind a young spruce on a boulder shore, Southeast Alaska.

83no named location

Eye contact through spruce, portrait crop; branches partly cover the head

A rigid inflatable with guests runs a fjord past waterfall-streaked walls with a small iceberg beyond, likely Endicott Arm, Southeast Alaska.

83Endicott Arm medium

Berg plus waterfalls in a steep arm says a tidewater glacier fjord, unnamed

Four people ride a rigid inflatable away from M/Y Hanse Explorer in a mirror-calm fjord, likely Endicott Arm, Southeast Alaska.

83Endicott Arm medium

HANSE EXPLORER legible; tender reflection and mothership stack well vertically

Top-down aerial of two kayaks paddling a lead of open water through scattered brash ice, likely Wrangell, Southeast Alaska.

83Wrangell medium

Abstract ice-and-teal graphic, kayaks small but clean; no horizon to place it

The commercial fishing boat OUTLOOK runs through backlit water with mist lifting off forested hills behind, Southeast Alaska.

83no named location

Golden backlight, mist plumes, small boat against big landscape

A humpback whale fluke streams water as the whale dives, with a rainforest shoreline behind, Southeast Alaska.

83no named location

Clean fluke-up with water curtain against green forest, whole subject in frame

An aerial close on the blue calving face of a tidewater glacier meeting silty green fjord water, Southeast Alaska.

83Tracy Arm-Fords Terror Wilderness low

Same silty green water and face as the tender frames, so likely Sawyer or Dawes

A broad glacier flows between snow peaks to a brash-filled inlet with a dark rock headland in front, likely Glacier Bay National Park, Southeast Alaska.

83Glacier Bay National Park medium

Layered headland, glacier and peaks reads the upper Glacier Bay inlets

A bald eagle perches on a stranded iceberg on a wide tidal flat below cloud-covered forest, Southeast Alaska.

83no named location

Eagle gives scale to the grounded bergs; classic Southeast Alaska pairing

A tufted puffin in breeding plumage swims on teal water, Southeast Alaska.

83no named location

Sharp whole bird, breathing room, rich water tone.

A wet brown bear stands over a fresh salmon on a river shelf while gulls wait alongside, Southeast Alaska.

83no named location

Full predator-scavenger story, gulls clipped at frame edge.

A brown bear guards a salmon carcass from gulls on a river ledge and looks toward the camera, Southeast Alaska.

83no named location

Eye contact plus salmon, gull clipped at left edge.

A brown bear stands at the lip of a wide waterfall backed by dense spruce forest, Southeast Alaska.

83no named location

Strong scale, bear small above a big falls, dark forest wall.

A dark-hulled yacht tender noses into the spray of a rainforest waterfall, shot head on, Southeast Alaska.

83no named location

Vertical crop stacks boat under falls, bow slightly tight to edge.

A brown bear picks its way across whitewater on a rock shelf in a salmon river, Southeast Alaska.

83no named location

Good action and light but rump clipped at the right edge.

A low fog bank rolls across a forested shoreline above calm water at dawn, Southeast Alaska.

83no named location

Cool blue mood, clean layers of fog, forest and water.

An orca surfaces on mirror-calm water with a long reflection trailing beneath it, Southeast Alaska.

83no named location

Same fog sequence, near-monochrome; subject smaller than siblings

Steller sea lions haul out on a rock islet with layered blue mountains behind, Southeast Alaska.

83no named location

Colony plus receding mountain layers gives depth and place feel; islet unnamed

Spawning salmon crowd a shallow stream, photographed from underwater, Southeast Alaska.

83no named location

Split-level river view of a spawning run; species left at salmon

A person stands on a rocky shore watching the sun set behind treed islets, Southeast Alaska.

83no named location

Lone figure for scale against sun-star and islets; same sunset location

A wide tidewater glacier front meets the sea below cloud-covered snow peaks, Glacier Bay National Park, Southeast Alaska.

83Glacier Bay National Park high

Full calving front with medial moraine bands and a single floe for scale

Aerial view across a broad icefield to snow-plastered peaks, Southeast Alaska.

82no named location

Flightseeing aerial, big scale, no landmark to name the icefield

A pale harbour seal lies on a barnacled rock and looks back at the camera, Southeast Alaska.

82no named location

Whole animal, clean separation, eye contact, soft background

Fog tears through spruce and hemlock on a steep forested slope, Southeast Alaska.

82no named location

Classic temperate rainforest mood, layered fog, works as a break image

A black bear walks the wet rock ledge beside a foaming salmon stream, Southeast Alaska.

82no named location

Straight facial profile, tall ears, no shoulder hump: black bear not brown

A bald eagle perches on a driftwood root wad in a grassy estuary meadow backed by forest, Southeast Alaska.

82no named location

Bird small inside a full estuary scene, the animal-in-environment look

A waterfall drops out of dark forest into a fjord, throwing spray across the water in low light, Southeast Alaska.

82no named location

Backlit spray against dark forest, strong tonal separation

A guest stands at the varnished rail of a yacht facing a tidewater glacier at the head of a steep-walled fjord, Southeast Alaska.

82no named location

Posed rail portrait; glacier and green fjord water read clearly behind

A breakfast buffet is laid out in M/Y Hanse Explorer dining room whose windows look onto a brash-ice fjord and a waterfall, Southeast Alaska.

82no named location

Interior with the fjord framed in three windows; small ORANGE JUICE card readable

Aerial of a zodiac running close along a rocky spruce shoreline in still grey water, likely Elfin Cove, Southeast Alaska.

82Elfin Cove medium

Tiny boat against big shoreline, the scale juxtaposition Carson favours

Vertical aerial of a tender running a bend of a turquoise glacial channel between spruce shores, likely Endicott Arm, Southeast Alaska.

82Endicott Arm medium

Same narrows as the sibling drone frame, portrait crop, silt-blue water

Low water-level panorama of M/Y Hanse Explorer with a glacier front off her bow, likely Wrangell, Southeast Alaska.

82Wrangell medium

Water-level angle gives bow scale; crew visible on the foredeck

Aerial of M/Y Hanse Explorer surrounded by wall-to-wall brash ice, likely Wrangell, Southeast Alaska.

82Wrangell medium

Same unnamed white yacht as siblings; ice fills the frame with no horizon

High aerial of M/Y Hanse Explorer small on dark green water speckled with drifting ice, likely Wrangell, Southeast Alaska.

82Wrangell medium

Minimal composition, vessel small against a field of ice, vertical crop

Two kayaks paddle past a large blue-hulled superyacht anchored below forested slopes and snowfields.

82no named location

Gold nameplate on the bow crop-zoomed but unreadable; not Hanse Explorer

Six guests in a zodiac named TERN run past a granite wall on milky green glacial water, Alaska.

82no named location

Hull reads AK 1575 AN, an Alaska state registration, confirming the region

A brown bear stands at the lip of a salmon river waterfall below dense rainforest, Southeast Alaska.

82Glacier Bay National Park low

Bear plus falls plus rainforest tells the whole story; falls not named

A stranded block of clear blue ice rests on a rocky intertidal shore below a hanging glacier in a fjord notch, Southeast Alaska.

82no named location

Foreground ice against fjord depth, moody, arm not identifiable

A debris-covered glacier runs down to a milky inlet below shrub-covered moraine and snow peaks, likely Glacier Bay National Park, Southeast Alaska.

82Glacier Bay National Park medium

Recently deglaciated shrub moraine beside a tidewater arm reads Glacier Bay

The fractured, debris-banded face of a tidewater glacier rises above brash ice, Glacier Bay National Park, Southeast Alaska.

82Glacier Bay National Park high

Tidewater face and dirt bands sharp; no text or landmark to name the glacier

A person in a red jacket stands on a tidal bar beside stranded icebergs as a gull flies past, Southeast Alaska.

82no named location

Tiny red figure gives the bergs scale; fogbow arcs behind

Backlit icebergs float in front of a glacier terminus between dark fjord walls, Southeast Alaska.

82no named location

Sun behind cloud rims the ice; low water-level viewpoint, likely from a tender

A Steller sea lion roars at the camera with two others swimming behind, Inian Islands, Southeast Alaska.

82Inian Islands high

Open-mouth roar sharp, three animals layered; low water-level angle

Four Steller sea lions raise their heads in the water below a guano-streaked cliff with nesting gulls, Inian Islands, Southeast Alaska.

82Inian Islands high

Animals plus seabird cliff give environment as well as subject

A large Steller sea lion haulout covers a sloping rock shelf above the tideline, Southeast Alaska.

82no named location

Forty-plus animals, colony scale is the story and it fills the frame

A humpback whale raises its fluke and throws water as it dives beside a rock shoreline, Southeast Alaska.

82no named location

Water sheeting off the fluke, clean separation from the background cliff

A spawning sockeye salmon rests over creek gravel with alder and grass above the waterline, Southeast Alaska.

82no named location

Sibling of ak-0369, tighter on the fish and slightly softer at the dome port

Sea otters wrestle at the surface, one with a pale blond head, Bay of Pillars, Southeast Alaska.

82Bay of Pillars high

Sharp faces and whiskers, real interaction; plain water background

A tufted puffin swims in the foreground while a gull flock works a feeding line behind it, Southeast Alaska.

82Inian Islands low

Clean isolated subject against soft busy background, subject small.

Two brown bears grapple mouth to shoulder in a shallow stream, Southeast Alaska.

82no named location

Square crop tightens action but trims habitat breathing room.

A brown bear walks through fast water at the foot of a wide waterfall, a gull on the rocks below, Southeast Alaska.

82no named location

Falls fill more of frame, bear lower contrast against dark water.

Three people photograph a tidewater glacier from a stony outwash plain crossed by a braided meltwater stream, Southeast Alaska.

82Glacier Bay National Park low

People tiny under the ice face; glacier beach landing fits Glacier Bay.

Two orcas surface together in flat calm water under low fog, Southeast Alaska.

82no named location

Adult and smaller whale together, misty blow, minimal grey palette.

The blue front of a tidewater glacier stretches along the shore under a low cloud ceiling with brash ice on the water, Southeast Alaska.

82no named location

Panoramic crop, glacier front plus fog bands, no scale reference.

A young brown bear sits on a streamside rock beside a glaucous-winged gull, Southeast Alaska.

82no named location

Bear in temperate rainforest context with gull for scale; clean subject

Phalaropes wheel in formation over open water, Southeast Alaska.

82no named location

Same flock sequence, slightly looser spacing, still graphic and sharp

People stand around a large driftwood fire on a shore beneath a star-filled sky.

82no named location

Stars plus firelit spruce and figures for scale; faces not readable

Aerial view of dirt-streaked icebergs floating in a milky green proglacial lake below green mountain walls, Southeast Alaska.

81no named location

Unusual iceberg-choked lake from the air, colour contrast carries it

Aerial down a waterfall channel to a turquoise fjord with a white yacht at anchor, likely Endicott Arm, Southeast Alaska.

81Endicott Arm medium

Same falls and anchored yacht as the overlook siblings, framed from above

Top-down aerial of M/Y Hanse Explorer turning a full circle while a tender crosses its wake, likely Endicott Arm, Southeast Alaska.

81Endicott Arm medium

Graphic top-down, teak decks and helipad visible; no lettering, no shoreline to place it

Panorama of a tidewater glacier front behind a fjord surface packed with brash ice, likely Wrangell, Southeast Alaska.

81Wrangell medium

Glacier face and brash from water level; stitched pano, glacier not identifiable

Two paddleboarders cross open water past a grounded iceberg below steep granite fjord walls, likely Wrangell, Southeast Alaska.

81Wrangell medium

Same berg and paddlers as sibling, wider and flatter composition

Panorama of M/Y Hanse Explorer bow-on in a fjord with a glacier front behind her starboard side, likely Wrangell, Southeast Alaska.

81Wrangell medium

HANSE EXPLORER legible; stitched pano crop leaves the vessel small in a wide band

Panorama of a vessel among floating ice on mirror water below green granite domes, likely Wrangell, Southeast Alaska.

81Wrangell medium

Full reflection and a glacier edge at right; pano crop keeps the vessel small

High aerial of a small white yacht almost lost in a wide field of brash ice and blue growlers, likely Wrangell, Southeast Alaska.

81Wrangell medium

Extreme scale contrast, vessel a speck in the ice; vertical crop suits a full-bleed

Aerial over the sundecks of M/Y Hanse Explorer surrounded by floating ice, likely Wrangell, Southeast Alaska.

81Wrangell medium

Closer sibling of the same aerial pass; deck detail strong, name still unreadable

Three Steller sea lions swim at the surface, one raising its head and whiskers clear of the green water, Southeast Alaska.

81no named location

Close curious sea lions, sharp whiskers, but top animal is edge-tight

A sea otter floats on its back in a thick bull kelp bed, Southeast Alaska.

81no named location

Animal in its kelp habitat, sharp face, environment tells the story

A blue glacier tongue reaches tidewater below a dark rock peak with hanging ice, likely Glacier Bay National Park, Southeast Alaska.

81Glacier Bay National Park medium

Vertical stack of peak over glacier front reads Glacier Bay's inlets

Brash ice drifts on a milky inlet in front of two glacier tongues below a cloud-covered peak, likely Glacier Bay National Park, Southeast Alaska.

81Glacier Bay National Park medium

Twin tidewater tongues either side of a rock peak fits Glacier Bay's inlets

A stranded iceberg melted through with round windows rests on a weed-covered tidal bar, Southeast Alaska.

81no named location

Sculpted holed berg against blue sky; near-identical framing to ak-0308

A banded tidewater glacier front fills a bay below heavily glaciated snow peaks, Southeast Alaska.

81Glacier Bay National Park low

Tidewater front under high alpine range fits Glacier Bay; no landmark to confirm

A brown bear sow and her cub move through shoreline grass at the edge of still water, Southeast Alaska.

81no named location

Sow and cub together, cub partly hidden in grass.

A brown bear feeds on a salmon on a rock ledge at the lip of a river, Southeast Alaska.

81no named location

Salmon clearly visible, whole bear, plain green backdrop.

A brown bear feeds on a salmon in a riffle while a second bear waits behind and gulls stand by, Southeast Alaska.

81no named location

Two bears plus gulls tell the salmon-run story, background bear soft.

Aurora and a setting moon share the sky over a dark ridgeline mirrored in still water, Alaska.

81no named location

Aurora plus moon reflection, two light sources, clean symmetry.

Fog bands drift through a hillside of spruce and hemlock in morning light, Southeast Alaska.

81no named location

Layered mist and conifers, quiet abstract, no anchor subject.

A young brown bear carries a salmon across a backlit cobble riverbed, Southeast Alaska.

81no named location

Rim-lit fur and glittering water, salmon clearly held; shadows deep

A single spruce-covered islet sits in silhouette on a still sea at sunset, Southeast Alaska.

81no named location

Same sunset shoot, simpler composition with foreground reef rocks

Layered coastal ranges silhouette against an orange sunset sky above a dark channel, Southeast Alaska.

80no named location

Clean layered ridgelines, strong sunset colour, no named marker

Melt-sculpted white spires stand out from the blue ice of a glacier face above still water, Southeast Alaska.

80no named location

Graphic blue and white ice detail, one small floe gives scale

A Steller sea lion surfaces open-mouthed and looks straight into the lens, Southeast Alaska.

80no named location

Strong eye contact but very tight crop with no environment

A brown bear feeds on salmon it has dragged onto mossy boulders, Southeast Alaska.

80no named location

Good behaviour and light, but head down and body clipped at top right

A guest in an EYOS branded Gore-Tex jacket sits on a tender bow in the rain, facing a fog-filled inlet lined with buoys, likely Chatham Strait, Southeast Alaska.

80Chatham Strait medium

EYOS branding legible on the jacket back; centred snapshot framing caps it

A brown bear wades a rapid seen through overhanging spruce boughs, Southeast Alaska.

80no named location

Bear small inside the forest-and-river scene; natural framing through branches

A sea otter floats on its back in a bull kelp bed and looks toward the camera, Southeast Alaska.

80no named location

Sharp otter face, kelp bed context, second otter behind; kelp says nearshore only

Guests in a rigid inflatable sit under a waterfall falling down a fractured rock face, likely Endicott Arm, Southeast Alaska.

80Endicott Arm medium

Faint rainbow at the falls base; AKA and YAMAHA are boat brands, not places

Aerial looking straight down a forested granite cliff to a tender on turquoise water beside a waterfall, likely Endicott Arm, Southeast Alaska.

80Endicott Arm medium

Vertical drone perspective, boat tiny for scale; ice-scoured granite says fjord arm

Panorama of a fjord packed with brash ice and small bergs below dark scoured rock walls, likely Wrangell, Southeast Alaska.

80Wrangell medium

Brash field and polished walls read a tidewater glacier arm; stitched pano, no landmark

Panorama across ice-polished bedrock to the seracs of a tidewater glacier meeting the sea, likely Wrangell, Southeast Alaska.

80Wrangell medium

Foreground roche moutonnee shows recent retreat; pano crop, glacier unnamed

Top-down aerial of M/Y Hanse Explorer lying still among scattered ice on green glacial water, likely Wrangell, Southeast Alaska.

80Wrangell medium

Whole vessel top-down with ice scatter; no lettering resolvable from directly above

Two humpback whales blow in backlit air off a cobble point, with a large cruise ship of another operator faint in the haze behind, Southeast Alaska.

80no named location

Backlit blows are the subject; white ship behind is another operator

Two tufted puffins stand on a slate ledge below overhanging grass and moss-draped roots, Southeast Alaska.

80no named location

Birds in their nesting cliff habitat, orange bills clean against dark rock

An aerial over a broad icefield with dark rock nunataks and peaks running to the horizon, likely the Juneau Icefield, Southeast Alaska.

80Juneau Icefield medium

Scale of ice plateau plus nunataks; reasoned as Juneau Icefield flightseeing

A pale coastal wolf walks through a wet sedge meadow in drizzle, Alaska.

80no named location

Treeless sedge flat with no conifers reads Katmai coast rather than SE rainforest

Weathered standing poles and collapsed house beams sit in a mossy clearing among spruce above a beach at an abandoned Northwest Coast village site.

80no named location

Cultural site is specific and findable but unnamed from pixels; no signage

Ice and meltwater pour down a deep blue cleft in a calving glacier face, Southeast Alaska.

80no named location

Deep blue ice detail with active collapse, strong colour and texture

A stranded block of blue glacier ice sits on a gravel outwash plain in front of the seracs of the terminus, Southeast Alaska.

80Glacier Bay National Park low

Foreground ice block gives scale to the terminus, same site as siblings

A cap cloud sits over a small forested island in a broad channel under sweeping cirrus, Inian Islands, Southeast Alaska.

80Inian Islands high

Lenticular cap over island is distinctive weather; island not identifiable

A tall blue iceberg stranded on a tidal flat splits into two leaning wings, Southeast Alaska.

80no named location

Grounded berg on a drying flat, strong shape; low cloud hides the far shore

A tidewater glacier reaches the water beside glacier-polished, iron-stained rock walls in a narrow fjord, Southeast Alaska.

80Tracy Arm or Endicott Arm low

Polished orange-streaked granite plus tidewater terminus fits Tracy or Endicott Arm

A tilted tabular iceberg floats in fog off a dark forested shore, Southeast Alaska.

80no named location

Clean shape and soft fog; spruce shore confirms temperate rainforest coast

Icebergs drift below a mist-wrapped spruce hillside in a quiet fjord, Southeast Alaska.

80no named location

Ice against dripping rainforest is the region's signature contrast

A Steller sea lion swims toward the camera roaring, its body visible under the surface, Inian Islands, Southeast Alaska.

80Inian Islands high

Best frame of the pair with ak-0337; open mouth and submerged body read clearly

Two Steller sea lions lift their heads out of breaking water close to the camera, Inian Islands, Southeast Alaska.

80Inian Islands high

Eye contact and spray at water level; background is water only

Steller sea lions hold a kelp-covered rock as tidal current pours over it, Southeast Alaska.

80Inian Islands low

Strong current over the haulout matches the Inian Islands pattern; unconfirmed

Steller sea lions lie piled on a rock ledge while one bull raises its head and calls, Southeast Alaska.

80no named location

Bull calling above the pile reads well; edges of the group are clipped

Humpback whales surface open-mouthed through a bubble net close under a rocky shoreline, Southeast Alaska.

80no named location

Feeding right against the kelp line; whales partly cut by the frame edge

A humpback whale fluke lifts clear of the water with a small workboat and forested ridges beyond, Southeast Alaska.

80no named location

Boat gives scale but is another vessel, no readable name; nothing marks it as ours

A raft of sea otters floats together in a kelp bed off a rocky shore, Southeast Alaska.

80no named location

Ten-plus otters rafted in kelp, letterbox crop limits use as a full bleed

A sea otter floats on its back with a fluffy pup resting on its chest near a barnacled rock, Inian Islands, Southeast Alaska.

80Inian Islands high

Mother and pup behaviour is clear; subject small in a lot of water

A feeding flock of gulls works the surface below steep seabird cliffs, Southeast Alaska.

80Inian Islands low

Hundreds of birds on a bait ball with the cliff wall giving the scene scale

The back of a surfacing whale breaks through a swirling flock of gulls, forested peak behind, Southeast Alaska.

80Inian Islands low

Whale barely showing but the birds tell the feeding story.

Two brown bears wrestle in a shallow creek mouth backed by grass and rainforest, Southeast Alaska.

80no named location

Same spar wider, more environment, slightly less impact.

A brown bear stands in tall shoreline grass above still green water backed by rainforest, Southeast Alaska.

80no named location

Animal in a scene, calm reflection, deep green tonality.

A soaked brown bear walks a shallow river shelf past a standing gull, Southeast Alaska.

80no named location

Close wet bear with texture, gulls clipped at right edge.

A wet brown bear strides through the shallow riffle of a salmon river below a grassy bank, Southeast Alaska.

80no named location

Clean side profile in motion, whole bear, water spray for energy.

A dark-hulled expedition yacht converted from a salvage tug lies off a misty forested shore while a red tender runs past, Inian Islands, Southeast Alaska.

80Inian Islands high

Cropped bow lettering unreadable at 800px; moody layered mist.

Blue seracs stand up along the crevassed edge of a glacier below a snow-covered ridge, Southeast Alaska.

80no named location

Sharp ice spires in raking light, vertical crop, no scale cue.

Blue seracs rise from the crevassed surface of a glacier with a snow-streaked ridge behind, Southeast Alaska.

80no named location

Sharp serac detail in sidelight, near-identical sibling of ak-0454.

An orca exhales in a bright spray beside a second surfacing whale in blue water, Southeast Alaska.

80no named location

Backlit blow well caught, dorsal fin cut by the frame edge at left.

A humpback whale raises its fluke as it dives, mist sitting on the shoreline behind, Southeast Alaska.

80no named location

Clean fluke-up dive with water sheeting off, moody mist band

A humpback whale's fluke lifts clear of the water with a fog bank on the shore behind, Southeast Alaska.

80no named location

Water curtain off the fluke frozen cleanly, calm muted palette

A Steller sea lion rests its head on a granite boulder with eyes closed, Southeast Alaska.

80no named location

Intimate haul-out portrait, warm fur against cool rock; body partly hidden

Two black bears work the edge of a mossy salmon creek, Southeast Alaska.

80no named location

Straight muzzle profile and no shoulder hump support black bear; flat light

A yellow helicopter sits shut down on a crevassed glacier surface below a rock ridge, Southeast Alaska.

80no named location

Wide-angle heli-on-ice with rotor framing; no registration lettering readable

A bald eagle perches on the trolling poles of a fishing boat against a forested hillside, Southeast Alaska.

79Margerie Glacier, Glacier Bay National Park low

Crop-zoomed rigging: troller poles and chain, no legible boat name

Panorama past a cliff waterfall to a tidewater glacier and its field of drifting brash ice, likely Wrangell, Southeast Alaska.

79Wrangell medium

Waterfall frames the glacier arm; stitched pano, glacier still not identifiable

Vertical aerial of two paddleboarders working the edge of a brash ice field on green glacial water, likely Wrangell, Southeast Alaska.

79Wrangell medium

Portrait crop of the same top-down paddle sequence; subjects small

Several humpback whales surface together in backlit water off a wooded shore, with buildings on the far waterfront, Southeast Alaska.

79no named location

Backlit blows across the frame; far waterfront buildings not identifiable

A sea otter floats on its back grooming, paws raised above its chest, in dark green water, Southeast Alaska.

79no named location

Clean single otter with breathing room, classic grooming pose

Cloud tears across a glaciated coastal range with hanging glaciers and a dark rock pyramid in the foreground, Southeast Alaska.

79Glacier Bay National Park low

Dramatic layered light on ice and cloud, range not identifiable from pixels

A large glacial erratic sits balanced on a bedrock shelf above a rockweed-covered intertidal zone, likely Balance Rock on Haida Gwaii.

79Balance Rock, Haida Gwaii medium

Balanced erratic on a tidal shelf matches Haida Gwaii, British Columbia not SE Alaska

A glacier terminus on land ends in seracs and an ice cave above a boulder outwash plain, Southeast Alaska.

79Glacier Bay National Park low

Land terminus with ice cave; same outwash landing site as the sibling frames

Stranded blocks of glacier ice sit on a gravel outwash flat below a debris-streaked glacier terminus, Glacier Bay National Park, Southeast Alaska.

79Glacier Bay National Park high

Terminus plus stranded bergs; same scene as ak-0297

Two grounded icebergs sit on a tidal bar with a faint fogbow behind them, Southeast Alaska.

79no named location

Fogbow arc and mirror reflection; same stranded-berg shoot as ak-0302 and ak-0306

Close portrait of a Steller sea lion at the surface with its mouth open, Inian Islands, Southeast Alaska.

79Inian Islands high

Very tight portrait, teeth and whiskers sharp; no environment

A brown bear stands on a vivid green algae bank and looks toward the camera, Southeast Alaska.

79no named location

Direct eye contact, whole bear, background rock a little busy.

A brown bear walks the grassy bank of a still green river below old-growth rainforest, Southeast Alaska.

79no named location

Animal small in a big green scene, calm mirrored water.

A brown bear stands over a salmon carcass on a river ledge and looks up, Southeast Alaska.

79no named location

Bear looking to camera, fish less readable than sibling frame.

Green aurora arcs over a dark ridgeline and reflects in still water, Alaska.

79no named location

Strong aurora with clean reflection, foreground has no anchor subject.

Three Steller sea lions raise their heads together in choppy water, Southeast Alaska.

79no named location

Curious group at eye level, good character; busy surface

A guest in a red jacket films a brown bear standing below a waterfall on a phone, Southeast Alaska.

79no named location

Zoomed the red jacket's chest badge, blurred beyond reading; bear sharp behind

Low cloud and golden backlight over forested island ridges rising from a dark sea, Southeast Alaska.

78no named location

Moody light on layered forested islands, generic Inside Passage view

Aerial view down a glacier flowing between snow-covered peaks, Southeast Alaska.

78no named location

Wide glacier valley aerial, good light, no nameable feature

A humpback whale lifts its barnacled fluke as it dives, Southeast Alaska.

78Margerie Glacier, Glacier Bay National Park low

Clean fluke-up dive, water only, no environment for scale

A couple stand together on a yacht aft deck with a waterfall on the forested shore behind them, Southeast Alaska.

78no named location

Posed guest portrait; jacket branding confirms EYOS trip, waterfall gives place

A brown bear lifts a stripped salmon carcass while a second bear feeds at its feet on a bloodied rock shelf, Southeast Alaska.

78no named location

Honest feeding behaviour but too much blood and offal for brochure use

Top-down aerial of M/Y Hanse Explorer's bow parting a dense sheet of brash ice, likely Wrangell, Southeast Alaska.

78Wrangell medium

Bow only, vessel cut by the frame edge; strong ice texture though

Aerial of M/Y Hanse Explorer REVELRY under way on open deep-blue water with no land in frame, likely Elfin Cove, Southeast Alaska.

78Elfin Cove medium

REVELRY legible on the superstructure; nothing in frame ties this water to Alaska

Two brown bear cubs stand up at a stepped creek waterfall while an adult watches from the bank above.

78no named location

Timber and concrete weir at right suggests a managed salmon stream; frame is soft

A wet brown bear stands facing the camera on a gravel flat, Southeast Alaska.

78no named location

Strong eye contact portrait but background empty; species left at brown bear

An aerial over a coastal icefield shows a corniced snow arete and rock summits above glacier basins, likely the Juneau Icefield, Southeast Alaska.

78Juneau Icefield medium

Flightseeing aerial over a large SE Alaska icefield, Juneau Icefield is the reasoned call

A row of weathered standing poles stands in a sunlit grass clearing behind a cobble beach and driftwood at an abandoned Northwest Coast village site.

78no named location

Same site from the beach, warm side light, still unnamed

A tall waterfall drops in stages through old-growth spruce to the salt water of a fjord, Southeast Alaska.

78no named location

Classic rainforest cascade to tidewater, vertical crop, no place cue

A heavily crevassed glacier spills from a snow-plastered peak in a high coastal range, Southeast Alaska.

78no named location

Big glaciated relief but a long lens crop with no anchor to name it

Melting ice blocks lie on a cobble outwash flat in front of a glacier terminus in low sun, Southeast Alaska.

78Glacier Bay National Park low

Wide-angle foreground ice, warm side light, same outwash site as siblings

Golden haze fills the gap between a heavy cloud deck and layered mountain silhouettes across open water, Southeast Alaska.

78no named location

Strong tonal layering and receding ranges; unnamed strait

The wide crevassed front of a tidewater glacier meets ice-strewn water below a hanging icefield, Southeast Alaska.

78no named location

Layered glacier front with icefield above; no identifying feature for a name

A holed iceberg stranded on a tidal bar under clear sky, with a second berg behind it, Southeast Alaska.

78no named location

Burst sibling of ak-0306, slightly wider and flatter light

Gulls perch along the top of a blue iceberg grounded on a cobble beach, Southeast Alaska.

78no named location

Six gulls line the berg crest; birds small, flat grey light

A Steller sea lion surges through the water with its mouth open, Inian Islands, Southeast Alaska.

78Inian Islands high

Sharp head and whiskers, animal close to the boat; water-only background

A group of Steller sea lions swims toward the camera below a dark rock headland, Inian Islands, Southeast Alaska.

78Inian Islands high

Lead animal sharp, group porpoising in; flat overcast light

Steller sea lions haul out on a rock below forested cliffs with snow-streaked mountains beyond, Southeast Alaska.

78no named location

Good animal-in-landscape scale; animals small and light is flat

A brown bear walks down a seaweed-draped fallen log at the forest edge, Southeast Alaska.

78no named location

Bear balanced on log, dark background, whole animal clean.

A brown bear wades through a river channel, only its head and shoulders above the reflective surface, Southeast Alaska.

78no named location

Sibling frame, bear smaller and face turned partly away.

Sea stacks and a seabird cliff emerge from fog with a small vessel standing off behind them.

78no named location

Atmospheric fog layers and a nesting cliff; boat unidentifiable.

An orca blows in front of a shoreline stacked with bleached driftwood logs, Southeast Alaska.

78no named location

Big backlit blow and driftwood shore give the frame place character.

A tufted puffin flies low across the sea surface, Southeast Alaska.

78no named location

Flight shot sharp with wingbeat frozen; lots of empty water

A humpback whale flukes up as it dives beneath a low fog bank, Southeast Alaska.

78no named location

Burst sibling of the other fluke frame, marginally less water detail

A photographer kneels to shoot the carved house posts inside a cedar clan house, Southeast Alaska.

78no named location

Wider view of the same interior with a person for scale; fire extinguisher in frame

Three guests photograph across a green sedge meadow toward snow-streaked mountains, Southeast Alaska.

78Sitka low

Genuine wildlife-watching moment in tall sedge; flat grey light

A waterfall drops down polished granite into a fjord where a single growler floats, Southeast Alaska.

77no named location

Glacier-scoured granite and waterfall, lone growler gives scale

A guest with a blue daypack sits on green algae-covered bedrock beside a river, seen from above, Southeast Alaska.

77no named location

Unusual top-down angle, saturated green; photographer's boots in frame

Aerial of two paddleboarders beside a wide sheet of brash ice on teal glacial water, likely Wrangell, Southeast Alaska.

77Wrangell medium

Near-identical to sibling top-down frames, boards slightly further off centre

A wind-scoured snow plateau runs to a wall of dark glaciated peaks under clear sky, likely the Juneau Icefield, Southeast Alaska.

77Juneau Icefield medium

Clean minimal snowfield foreground leading to a serrated skyline

Two spawning sockeye salmon in red and green breeding colour push through shallow river current, Southeast Alaska.

77no named location

Breeding colour diagnostic for sockeye, tight water-level angle

Steller sea lions haul out across a barnacle-banded rock islet, Southeast Alaska.

77no named location

Colony in habitat with clear intertidal banding; islet not identifiable

A horned puffin swims on grey water, Southeast Alaska.

76Tracy Arm low

White face and yellow-red bill settle horned puffin; plain water background

A brown bear eats from a row of fish laid out on rockweed at the tideline, Southeast Alaska.

76no named location

Bear head cut at top edge; gory feeding detail limits brochure use

A worn game trail runs through mossy old-growth forest lit by shafts of sun, Southeast Alaska.

76no named location

Clean temperate-rainforest interior, trail leads the eye, soft foreground grass

A small forested island sits in flat calm water under low fog, with a skiff drawn up on its beach, Southeast Alaska.

76no named location

Crop-zoom shows a skiff and shore posts; quiet muted Inside Passage frame

A gnarled old spruce grows out of moss-covered rock in dense rainforest understory, Southeast Alaska.

76no named location

Rich old-growth detail but an out-of-focus trunk splits the frame

A sea otter grooms while floating on its back in a bull kelp raft, Southeast Alaska.

76no named location

Otter in kelp, warm reflected light; a second otter behind, no place evidence

Top-down aerial of M/Y Hanse Explorer carving a circle while a tender runs outside its wake, likely Endicott Arm, Southeast Alaska.

76Endicott Arm medium

Near-identical to the sibling circle frame, slightly wider; no place evidence

Panorama from a rock ledge over a brash-filled bay to the face of a tidewater glacier, likely Wrangell, Southeast Alaska.

76Wrangell medium

Ice-polished foreground rock and glacier front; pano crop, no nameable feature

A sea otter floats on its back with its mouth wide open, forepaws raised.

76no named location

Charismatic and sharp but a closeup on plain water, no environment or place

Four pigeon guillemots with red feet and white wing patches perch on a lichen-covered rock outcrop above green shoreline vegetation, Southeast Alaska.

76no named location

Sharp seabird group, red feet and wing patch diagnostic, no place cue

A glacier descends between snow-covered peaks to a tidewater front with floating ice, likely Glacier Bay National Park, Southeast Alaska.

76Glacier Bay National Park medium

Same inlet as sibling frame, tighter on the peak; midday haze

A crevassed glacier surface in the foreground gives onto forested islands, a broad strait and a distant snow range, Southeast Alaska.

76no named location

Layered depth from ice to island seascape; no single feature names it

A guide with an outstretched arm talks to a group of guests on a mossy slope among big old-growth spruce and hemlock, Southeast Alaska.

76no named location

Guided forest walk with people for scale against old growth trunks

Sunset light breaks under a cloud bank over a broad strait with layered island ridges, Southeast Alaska.

76Glacier Bay National Park low

Rich colour and clean layering, works full bleed with type

A meltwater channel cuts the ablation surface of a glacier with a yellow helicopter parked on the ice and ridgelines beyond, Southeast Alaska.

76no named location

Helicopter glacier landing told by the aircraft on the ice; no markings legible

A valley glacier spills between rock walls toward a silty river below jagged peaks, Southeast Alaska.

76no named location

Retreating glacier framed by dark walls; no evidence names the valley

A stranded slab of glacier ice rests on a cobble flat in front of a glacier terminus, Glacier Bay National Park, Southeast Alaska.

76Glacier Bay National Park high

Vertical sibling of ak-0292, same terminus and outwash flat

Two icebergs float on glassy water in fog, one carved into a curling lip, Southeast Alaska.

76no named location

Minimal high-key ice study; left berg clipped by the frame edge

Cloud pours off a forested ridge above a line of icebergs grounded on a tidal flat, Southeast Alaska.

76no named location

Steaming cloud over spruce ridge, ice band low in frame; no place cue

A tall waterfall drops in stages down a dark rock face into a boulder field, Southeast Alaska.

76no named location

Heavy spray and volume; frame gives no scale and no place evidence

Layered cloud burns gold above a distant mountain skyline across open water, Southeast Alaska.

76no named location

Sky-dominant sunset; sea is a thin dark band, no anchor

Five Steller sea lions swim together at the surface, Inian Islands, Southeast Alaska.

76Inian Islands high

Nice spread of heads and reflections but nothing beyond flat water

A sea otter floats on its back and looks toward the camera in rippled water, Inian Islands, Southeast Alaska.

76Inian Islands high

Sharp face and paws, classic back-float pose; nothing else in frame

Steller sea lions haul out on a rocky islet as gulls wheel above, snow-streaked mountains behind, Southeast Alaska.

76Sitka low

Sea lions distant; strong layered scene, harsh midday contrast.

A brown bear picks its way across bright green algae-covered intertidal rock below the forest edge, Southeast Alaska.

76no named location

Whole bear in habitat, vivid algae, flat light and busy rock.

Hikers follow a narrow trail through a moss-covered rock cleft in old-growth temperate rainforest, Southeast Alaska.

76no named location

Vertical frame with people small in a mossy slot, good scale.

The expedition yacht Arctic P lies close under a spruce-forested shore, ARCTIC lettered on her bow, Gustavus, Southeast Alaska.

76Gustavus high

Crop-zoom resolves ARCTIC on the bow; flat letterbox record shot.