Alaska Photos

A Piper Super Cub float plane in flight at sunset. Cook Inlet and Mt Redoubt volcano in background.

A man and woman floating Alaska's Kenai River. Sunset light and cottonwood seeds.

Homer Spit, Kachemak Bay and Kenai Mountains as seen from bluffs above the city of Homer Alaska.

Mt. Redoubt volcano and the lower Kenai River at sunset.

Beautiful cumulus clouds pass over the Kenai Peninsula's southernmost mountains. The Gulf of Alaska is in the foreground.

A night scene with stars and clouds over the Chucach Mountains and the upper Kenai River, Alaska.

Winter fog rising from the Kenai River during sub-zero temperatures blankets the land and trees with hoarfrost.

An Alaska sockeye salmon leaping from rapids.

A woman holding a large chinook salmon (king salmon) caught while sport fishing the Kenai River, Alaska.

A 3/4 moon rising over the Kenai Mountains and Skilak Lake, Alaska.

Alpenglow light and blue shadow paint Mt Spurr volcano and the winter landscape with color on a sub-zero morning. (As seen from the Kenai Peninsula)

An enormous calving glacier. Believe it or not, the wave coming off the face of this glacier was 75-100 feet tall. The gulls in the foreground are at least 1/4 mile away from this event.

Early winter in the Chugach Mountains, Alaska.

A Piper Super Cub airplane flying over an Alaska glacier.

A coyote standing in snow-covered boreal forest.

A canoe resting on the icy shoreline of the Kenai River, with a full moon, Skilak Lake and the Kenai Mountains in the background.

A setting moon above the Alaska Range with hoarfrost-coated spruce trees during sub-zero temperatures. The sky is colored by alpenglow and the Earth's shadow.

Fog, frost and low-angle light over the Kenai River on an Alaska winter day.

A man rowing a drift boat (dory) on Skilak Lake during a foggy morning.

A woman and man hold king salmon (chinook salmon) caught while sport fishing the Kenai River in Alaska.

An Alaska float plane landing on a remote mountain lake. The unusual color is a result of scattered blue light and reflected alpenglow, which is common at higher elevations during twilight periods.

Mt. Iliamna volcano as seen from Kachemak Bay at sunset.

An arctic tern in hovering flight.

Alpenglow-lit Mt. Redoubt volcano and Ward Cove Cannery rest quietly on a sub-zero Alaska morning.