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Beautiful Baja, Part 2 (Repost)

By Jim | Published September 6, 2012

In part 1 of this 3-part post, the focus was primarily on the Grey Whales of Laguna San Ignacio. When we left this area, we ran upon a pod of ~12 Humpback Whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) that began breaching, tail lobbing, and fin slapping, non-stop, for well over 30 minutes. With so many of them, there was barely a second […]

Posted in Blog, Mammals, Nature Photography, Travel Photography | Tags: 2010, acrobatic humpback whales, Baja, behavior, Blog, breaching, breaching whale, humpback whale, mammals, marine mammals, Mexico, nature, photography, pod, travel, whale, winter
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Beautiful Baja, Part 1 (Repost)

By Jim | Published September 5, 2012

(Originally posted May 2010) Not too long ago, one of my Twitter compadres asked me about my “best experiences with the ocean, or marine animals”. Without hesitation, I answered “my February 2009 Baja trip”. I was then asked to share some images from our Baja adventure. Although that trip is a bit over a year […]

Posted in Blog, Mammals, Nature Photography, Travel Photography | Tags: 2010, Baja, behavior, Blog, crab, grey whale, Laguna San Ignacio, mammals, Mexico, nature, Pacific Ocean, photography, Sally Lightfoot crab, travel, whale, winter
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Landscaped Whales!

By Jim | Published November 2, 2011

In this final post on Humpback Whales from the recent photo workshop I led in Alaska, I decided to shoot some images at a wider angle than what I had been doing. I had already gotten some nice up-close images and other behavioral images that were on my “to do list” (that is, all but […]

Posted in Blog | Tags: Alaska, Blog, Frederick Sound, humpback whale, Inside Passage, landscape, mammals, nature, photography, travel, whale
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Whale of a Tail

By Jim | Published November 1, 2011

After leaving the Dall’s Porpoises, we continued heading southward through Frederick’s Sound. Remember what we saw so abundantly when we passed through the area heading northward? Yeh, humpback whales, by the hundreds (at least, so it seemed). Well, they were still waiting for our return! So, I thought I’d do another post on the humpback […]

Posted in Blog | Tags: Alaska, Blog, flukes, Inside Passage, mammals, nature, photography, travel, whale, whale identification
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Sleeping Whales … Followup Post

By Jim | Published October 26, 2011

You may have seen my post a few days ago, titled “Don’t Let Sleeping Whales Lie …”. When I put that post together, I thought I had some much better images than those I ended up using for that post. Well, as I was going through my images for another post this morning, I decided […]

Posted in Blog | Tags: Alaska, behavior, Blog, humpback, humpback whale, Inside Passage, mammals, nature, photography, travel, whale
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Don’t Let Sleeping Whales Lie …

By Jim | Published October 20, 2011

Note: A followup to this post has been posted … you might just run over them! That’s certainly what we thought we were going to do when we ran upon a large Humpback Whale that was sleeping at the surface. We had just left Pack Creek a couple hours earlier and were headed back […]

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Pack Creek (Photo Workshop Day 2), Part 1

By Jim | Published October 13, 2011

After experiencing the wonderful whale experiences of Day 1, what would Day 2 bring us? Well, at the end of the first day, we found a sheltered cove to anchor for the evening. Wasn’t too sure about our overnight … the Captain told us we were anchoring in “Last Chance Bay” … that will make […]

Posted in Blog | Tags: Alaska, bear, Bird, birding, birdwatching, Blog, brown bear, grizzly, humpback whale, Inside Passage, mammals, nature, otter, photography, river otter, scoters, travel, whale
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“A Whale of a Day, Part 3, or …”

By Jim | Published October 12, 2011

CAUTION: TODAY’S POST CONTAINS A GRAPHIC IMAGE THAT MAY BE DISTURBING TO SOME PEOPLE … “When is a Whale Not a Whale?” Answer: When it is a Killer Whale Photo of a breaching Orca, taken in 2008 in British Columbia “Killer Whales” (Orcinus orca) are not actually whales, but are toothed dolphins. […]

Posted in Blog | Tags: Alaska, behavior, Blog, dolphin, feeding, Inside Passage, mammals, nature, Orca, photography, travel, whale
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A Whale of a Day, Part 2

By Jim | Published October 11, 2011

Yesterday I introduced the Alaskan Humpback Whales to you. Today’s post is a continuation of yesterday’s post, but featuring some fun behaviors that you can sometimes find with humpbacks. In yesterday’s post, you will remember that the skies turned a very gray color, with lots of clouds, yielding a very “black-and-whitish” look to most of […]

Posted in Blog | Tags: Alaska, behavior, Blog, humpback, humpback whale, Inside Passage, mammals, nature, pectoral fin slap, photography, tail lobbing, travel, whale
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A Whale of A Day, Part 1

By Jim | Published October 10, 2011

On the morning of our departure on the Photo Workshop that I was leading, we all met at the Delphinus around 9:00am. After a short talk by Captain Ronn on boat safety, how and what to do in an emergency, and correct procedures for moving about the boat, we got underway. Leaving the harbor at […]

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