Sockeye Salmon
Exploding from the ocean in walls of silvery fish, the Sockeye infuses ocean calories into the tundra and forests. Nature at its finest, flora and fauna of the west coast finds its roots in this fish.
Horizontal last light, Bristol Bay, Alaska
The mutant hoard from the ocean
Ferocious determination to return to where they came from, No Pebble Mine
Upstream slow speed capture, Wood-Tikchik State Park, Alaska
Lets go up thar!
Over the bar and up the crick we go! Bristol Bay, Alaska
Safety in numbers
Digging the red, she does all the work, he fights off other suitors
Transitioning from ocean to river fish, Alagnak River, Bristol Bay, Alaska
Sockeye Salmon, Bristol Bay, Alaska
Ocean fresh
Silvery salmon, the lifeblood of the tundra
A wad of em' resting for the next push
Up high in the lake, Lake Iliamna, Bristol Bay, Alaska
Massive school of Lake Illiamna sockeye
Balled up at the river mouth
To swim here is to be one with the force
Fish hurricane, Bristol Bay, Alaska
Smelling the final push
Red swirls, hungry bears
Slow shutter, the lifeblood for it all
Dogged determination
Late day light, slow shutter motorboat action
Jacked up and ready to play
All the way to the top, shallow gravel beds spring new life
Now what?
The reds of summer
Posturing on the Nushagak River, Bristol Bay, Alaska
Slow shutter and windy movement
Everything moving, the cycle of life
Don't mess with that mouth
Ocean fueled super charger
Getting down to business
intense aqua blue and red
The big Lake, Illiamna Alaska
walk across their backs
Artsy slow shutter, river flowing fish finning
Bristol Bay, Alaska
what a face
Gearing up for the final act
From above the waterline
Upward momentum, ocean infused determintation
The living canvas
A small herd at the rivermouth
A larger herd at the rivermouth
Slow shutter, the lifeblood for it all
A river painted red
Clear and clean, untouched drainages of the north country
Hook jaws and a humpback
Just the teeth
A red billboard sided fish
Eddying out for the next move
10 pounders, Bristol Bay, Alaska
A day from the salt
Into the freshwater, it's been a while
Ocean fed, river born
On the river corner
Lake Illiamna hoard
Refelections
Lined up and ready to roll, Lake Illiamna, Alaska
In the headwaters, over-under
Lakeshore spawners
Movement
Leader of the pack, looking up the creek mouth
All going somewhere
The battleground
Evening upstream light
Prime condition for the final push
Fishy action at the top of the drainage
Last light Sockeye
The reds and greens
Finning in the shallows
Nushagak River over- under
Coupled up and heading upstream
Bristol Bay, Alaska, millions and millions
Centered up slow shutter capture
Motion waves from above
Close up motor boat
Sniffing out there home gravel
Sockey abstract
No bears, we are safe
Belly rubbing the upward run, Bristol Bay, Alaska
Jump around, the river explodes with life