Year: 2007

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Mr Furtive, the porcupine, originally uploaded by blather. North American Porcupine on the road to Denali, Alaska. I was speeding along one of the endless stretches of the George Parks highway when something caught the corner of my eye, across the road. I slowed down, pulled a U-Turn, and slowly drove back. So did the old SUV that was behind me. I stopped, turned off the engine, pulled up my camera and 400mm lens from beside me. A man appeared to the right of my car, in full U.S. military fatigues and crewcut, brandishing a tiny silver compact camera. I got out, with my Canon bazooka lens. That's when Mr. Furtive, above, stepped out onto the road. He froze in this position, as if he'd been...

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Humpback mother and calf, Kenai Fjords National Park, Alas, originally uploaded by blather. Humpback other and calf, Kenai Fjords National Park, Alaska, seen from a whalewatching boat. These two whales were feeding, probably after migrating from Hawaii. Those are puffins in the foreground... Want to use this image? »

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Get high resolution version » Young Buskers at the Willy Clancy Festival, Miltown Malbay, originally uploaded by blather. Festival, Miltown Malbay A quick break from the Alaska pictures. Here's one from Saturday last....Young buskers at the Willy Clancy Festival, Miltown Malbay, County Clare, in the west of Ireland. It's one of a load of traditional irish music festivals that happen ever summer here. Get high resolution version » Get high resolution version » Young buskers at the Willy Clancy Festival, Miltown Malbay, Co. Clare. The festival runs for over a week every July, and is usually a fine example of mayhem. This young lad has broken a string. Want to use this photograph?

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Get high resolution version »Barren Ground Caribou - wild Reindeer, Denali National Park, Alaska, originally uploaded by blather. Caribou stag on Polychrome mountain, Denali National Park, Alaska. (Reindeer, when living wild in North America, are known as caribou.) Want to purchase this caribou image for use?

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Grizzly Bear, Denali National Park, Alaska, originally uploaded by blather. Click for high resolution » Grizzly Bear, Denali National Park, Alaska. This is as close as I got to any bears, alas. And this was with a 400mm lens, hanging out the side of a bus, pointing about 30 degrees down a slope - which is the only reason that the bear looks like he's on the flat! Apparently he's fairly young - maybe three years old, and about 150kg/300lb. Heather's been telling everyone that I photographed a "bear's ass". As you can see, I managed to photograph its head too. Some feat, eh? BTW, I have no great desire to get *any* closer to a bear. I think of them as being like an eccentric...

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Get high resolution version » Curious Caribou, originally uploaded by blather. Get the high quality version here » I met three of these reindeer stags up a mountain today - they, like the ground squirrel, were very curious... Denali National Park, Alaska

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Arctic Ground Squirrel, Denali National Park, originally uploaded by blather. This little guy was very cheeky. I was 5000ft up on a mountain ridge, and he pretty much marched out of his burrow to greet me. Well, I nearly stepped on him first ,he vanished into a hole, only to pop up in another one seconds later - it was like one of those "hit them with the mallet" games. Then he just came over so close the telephoto was getting too long! Loads more of this character... Called Siksiks by the Inuit, the diurnal Arctic Ground Squirrel lives in colonies and is the only Arctic animal that hibernates. In the spring and summer they forage for tundra plants, seeds and fruit to increase body fat...

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Exit Glacier, Seward, Kenai Peninsula, Alaska, originally uploaded by blather. Purchase this photograph » Exit glacier has has receded 300 metres in the past 10 years - the viewing platform for surveying the glacier would have been under several feet of ice just a few years ago. Today it's on dry land. There's quite a river flowing from underneath it, as you can see. It's very difficult to show the extent of the glacier from the ground, and still bring across a sense of its melting. That's why I used the wide-angle lens!

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Lahinch, of an evening, originally uploaded by blather.

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Driftwood, originally uploaded by blather. Driftwood on Lahinch Beach, Clare, Ireland