Hikers trek 4 miles up the harding ice field trail to overlook the harding ice field on July 13th 2019. The ice field is 700 square miles and feeds into 40 glaciers including exit glacier which is left of this photograph.
Deana Oachs from Seward Alaska picks up marine debris in Kenia Fjords National Park during a marine debris clean up in the summer of 2019.
The sun set around 10 pm in Seward, Alaska in June. This means long days of fishing durning the salmon run.
A portrait of an Eagle in Seward Alaska. August 4th 2019.
During the 2019 Kenai Fjords National Park Teacher Workshop. The crew would often set shrimp nets in the morning and retrieve them in the evenings. This year the group struggles to catch a lot of shrimp but were successful with catching a good handful in Aialik bay.
Kenai Fjords Park Ranger looks into a crevasse on Exit Glacier during a practice glacier rescue on July 31st 2019. The park rangers practice rescues incase someone where to be stuck in a crevasse. They use these practices to figure out the fastest way to complete a rescue.
Kenai Fjords Park Ranger looks into a crevasse on Exit Glacier during a practice glacier rescue on July 31st 2019. The park rangers practice rescues incase someone where to be stuck in a crevasse. They use these practices to figure out the fastest way to complete a rescue.
Keystone species, The sea otter spends most of its life floating on its back occasionally pausing to observe disturbances in their surroundings.
An eagle carries it meal over Resurrection Bay in Seward Alaska on July 18th 2019.
Orca whales are highly social animals and are composed of populations of pods who work as a team when hunting making them highly successful. The photograph was taken of a pod in Kenai Fjords National Park.
A harbor seal pokes its head up out of the water in Alalik bay near Aialik glacier in Kenai Fjords National Park, Alaska on June 18th 2019.
A rare site of a humpback whale feeding along side doll proposes in late May 2019, in resurrection bay. On my first night in Seward I was was greeted by this magnificent sight.
Gull chicks patiently wait and hope for their parents to return with food where they nest on the side of a cliff in Kenai Fjords National Park, August 2019.
A double-crested cormorant spreads its wings in Resurrection Bay in order to dry them. Cormorants have less preen oil on their feathers than other sea birds, resulting in wet feathers. This is thought to be an adaptation that reduces buoyancy, allowing them to hunt underwater more effectively.
A Puffin flies along side an Orca whale in Kanai Fjords National Park.
A puffin sits and observes in the safety of the coastal rocks of Kenai Fjords National Park in August 2019.
A sea lion baths sun baths on the rocks in Kenai Fjords National Park. This Luxury does not come without the burden of flies.