Marty’s photo of the day #4291: I shot this photo well after midnight, in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge of Alaska. Yes, this is as dark as it gets up there in late June.
ANWR at night
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Dall sheep, doing their thing
Marty’s photo of the day #4285: To fully appreciate this photo, you’ll need a screen bigger than what’s on a typical smartphone. These are Dall sheep (also called thinhorn sheep) on a sheer mountainside. Photographed north of the Arctic Circle, in Alaska.
Caribou
Wolf Track
Marty’s photo of the day #4049: Wolf track vs. woman’s hand, photographed in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge of Alaska. This photo also appears in my second book, Endangered Edens: Exploring the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Costa Rica, the Everglades, and Puerto Rico.
Red Fox
Arctic ground squirrel
Marty’s photo of the day #4012: Arctic ground squirrel. Photographed in Alaska, north of the Arctic Circle.
ANWR caribou
Marty’s photo of the day #3691: Today we head far north for this photo of a large male caribou, in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge of Alaska.
Fox on the run
Marty’s photo of the day #3628: A red fox runs out of a streambed in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge of Alaska.
Caribou, not oil wells
Marty’s photo of the day #3589: Caribou in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge of Alaska. And if Republicans had their way, an oil well would be photo-bombing this scene.
Nearing the tree line
Marty’s photo of the day #3523: I took this photo north of the Arctic Circle in Alaska. As you can see, the tree line (where trees can no longer grow) is approaching. As I continued north, these scraggly trees would give way to tundra.
Amazing Dall sheep
Marty’s photo of the day #3522: I thought about cropping this photo, so you could see the Dall sheep better; then I thought better of it. The sight of these amazing animals on the steep rock face—especially the two that are away from the others—is what makes this photo. (Photographed north of the Arctic Circle, […]
Hyder, Alaska
Heading to ANWR
Marty’s photo of the day #3336: I took this photo from the co-pilot’s seat of a tiny airplane, heading north to the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. That would put me in northern Alaska, on the southern side of the Brooks Range.
Alaska Scenic
Marty’s photo of the day #3279: Today we go scenic, with a photo I took in Alaska, well north of the Arctic Circle.
Northern Alaska
The Salmon River, Alaska
Marty’s photo of the day #3130: Annie checks out the Salmon River, just a few miles below the Salmon Glacier. The location is in Alaska, not far from the British Columbia border.
A ball-sucking glacier!
Marty’s photo of the day #3127: In this photo, Deb is at the top (elevation 4,300 feet) of the Salmon Glacier in Alaska. It’s the fifth largest glacier in North America. The following excerpt from my first book, Cool Creatures, Hot Planet: Exploring the Seven Continents, describes our adventure: Unlike other mountain roads I’ve driven, […]
The King of all Rock Ptarmigans
Marty’s photo of the day #3077: You are looking at the King of all Rock Ptarmigans, as he surveys his vast territory in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge of Alaska. (Or he just happened to pose that way for me—I’m not sure.)
Swimming with curious sea lions
Marty’s photo of the day #2904: The other night Deb and I watched one of the BBC Planet Earth specials, where divers were swimming with sea lions off the coast of Alaska. That, of course, reminded me of our similar experience in the Sea of Cortez, and I had to dig up a photo that […]
Crossing the Brooks Range
Marty’s photo of the day #2607: Flying north over the Brooks Range in Alaska is one of the most dangerous flights anywhere. That’s because the tiny airplanes pilots use to land on the tundra in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge barely have enough power to fight the wind blowing south off the Arctic Ocean. I […]