Beautiful Baja, Part 2 (Repost)

By James Braswell | 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 […]

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Landscaped Whales!

By James Braswell | 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 […]

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Sleeping Whales … Followup Post

By James Braswell | 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 […]

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Don’t Let Sleeping Whales Lie …

By James Braswell | 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 James Braswell | 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 […]

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A Whale of a Day, Part 2

By James Braswell | 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 […]

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