As a starving young kid Carl & Marge Jensen, highly respected Dena’ina elders took me in to their home & became like parents to me, Carl taught me about the bears in our region. Long before the white man came to Alaska Carl’s family called the bears K’ahdil’ani. Translated it means Large Grizzly Bear. Sitting in…

First let me say that I have travelled around the world from Antarctica to the North Pole.  In all of my travels I have never had a lodge so focused on making me happy.  As a professional photographer, I enjoy having choices and no crowds.  Jerry provides that. Every evening Jerry came up and said…

Recently Jerry had the opportunity to go to Ukraine. He had been asked to teach a sniper class in Poland to Ukrainian defenders. When he arrived in Warsaw he discovered that the class was cancelled because the ammunition they were going to use had been blown up by the Russians. He met and began working…

Grizzly Family: A Conversation with Jerry and Caleb Jacques Pride of Bristol Bay column written by Bjorn Dihle When Jerry Jacques was 16, he ran away from home and hitchhiked to Alaska. He had heard stories of his great-grandfather and grandfather prospecting, trapping and living in the far north and intended to follow in their footsteps….

What Lies Beneath the Koktuli River by Eric Parker It’s 3:00 AM and we take turns rowing into a headwind somewhere in remote Alaska. We’re lost amongst a giant network of braided channels. Exhausted and covered in bug bites from head to toe, after ten days on the Koktuli River, we’re forced to paddle an…

Thirty Year Search Brown bears of Alaska bush plane adventure is the culmination of a thirty-year search. Back in the late 80’s, I was a young photographer trying to earn a living making pictures of whatever creatures I could find. I grew up in northern Minnesota and I loved bears. It began with black bears,…

Thanks for being a wonderful host, leader, & pilot during our visit to Katmai.  Janet and I both had a great time.  I have a few pictures I thought I’d share with you.

We came to you with much anticipation and excitement; drawn to Iliamna by the allure of the Alaskan wilderness. We experienced in awe the grandeur of the landscape in tundra, rivers, falls, glaciers, lakes, mountains and the turning of the leaves. It was glorious! We gasped in the presence of majestic bears and were thrilled…

The salmon run in Alaska is one of the highlights of the year for both fishermen and photographers, and I’m pretty confident in making a bold statement that this safari probably offers the very best in action wildlife photography of any trip we or anyone else offers! The ability to access remote lakes, rivers and…