Alaska photography tours. Expeditions Alaska provide a multitude of professionally guided photography tours. Wildlife photography tours such as the brown bears of Katmai Coast or polar bears in the Arctic Refuge. We also run northern lights photo tours, Alaska landscapes and a bald eagles photography workshop on the Chilkat River near Haines, Alaska.
Locations for these photography tours include Katmai National Park, Wrangell-St. Elias National Park, ANWR and the Chilkat River.
This series of posts shows images and stories from these photography tours. Come on out sometime. You’ll have a grand time!
“Oooh, my little pretty one, pretty one, When ya gunna give me some, My Corona” Hey Folks, What a cool tune, eh? This image of the aurora borealis corona was taken last March on one of the aurora borealis tours. Here’s to hoping we get a night like this one again. Absolutely incredible evening, and […]
Hey Folks, Welcome back! I’ve just returned from a photo trip to Haines, Alaska, photographing bald eagles along the Chilkat River, in the famed Chilkat Bald Eagle Preserve. Had an awesome, awesome trip, met a lot of cool people, and got some nice images. Anyone wanna join me there next year? The bald eagles are […]
Hey Folks, Bookings are now being taken for a week long polar bear photo tour in arctic Alaska for 2013. This tour is limited to 4 myself plus photographers only; a smaller group than any other polar bear photo tour I’ve seen advertised. For one week in October it’ll be our group and as many […]
Hey Folks, Here’s a curious young polar bear from our recent trip to the arctic. This young bear surfaced and stood in the shallow water, and shook like a dog; a 400 lb dog, but a dog nonetheless. Fortunately, the light was happening at the time, and I happened to have a camera in my […]
Hey Folks, A week in arctic Alaska, photographing Nanuq, the magnificent polar bear? An awesome, awesome trip. I took 3 people up earlier this month for a fantastic week, where we were so lucky to get to spend time up close and personal with polar bears; literally, dozens and dozens of polar bears. US F&WS […]
Hey Folks, From a trip up north in March. I thought the power pole was a nice silhouette against the northern lights, and waited for the brake lights of a car that drove by to add some drama to the foreground. The northern lights came on particularly bright here, briefly, and the only way to […]
Hey Folks, Welcome to Expeditions Alaska, the new name for my business, previously Alaskan Alpine Treks. I’ve thought for a long time now about changing the name, so here it is. I’ve still got a few things to tweak over the coming weeks, so if you run across any glitches, please let me know. This […]
Part 3 of the complete guide to aurora borealis photography; tips and information on camera gear, composition, clothing and scouting, predicting and forecasting, finding the aurora borealis. Everything you need to know about aurora borealis photography and northern lights photography, in a 3 part article.
A complete guide to photographing the northern lights and aurora borealis photography. Tips and shooting information on how to get the best out of your northern lights photography.
This article is intended to help you plan for (and work around, best we can) some of the struggles and pitfalls that await. It’s still up to you, your camera and the gods of luck to actually bring home the images, but hopefully this article will help you with that. If you see any thing repeated in this article, figure that repetition probably suggests emphasis.