A prior post depicted fauna in the Mendenhall Glacier area, and this post elaborates a little and even includes some of the same subject beasts. There is one newcomer (the harbor seal swimming just off the Auke Nu reef), but the bear cubs, porcupine, and even the spawning salmon are making encore appearances. Despite similarities, these are different images. I concede some fondness for the subject beasts. But after I reviewed the image files with fresh eyes today, I thought some people might find some brief encores interesting despite the thematic repetition.
With fish in the Auke Nu creek, this harbor seal was lurking by the reef.
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Same porcupine, new pose.
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Same cub and same claws, but the pose (eyes seemingly locked on the camera lens)
is different, as are the airborne bark chips as the cub brakes its descent.
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Four days later, the same mother had sent the same cubs back up the tree for safekeeping. They again descended on camera.
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In the stream, the same fish had progressed slightly.
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After a lifetime of mainly expressing myself with words, my postings here will mainly rely on images. They will speak for themselves to some extent, but I'll usually add a few comments of explanation. I've taken photographs for decades, since the 1950's, inspired in part by my father's photographic skill. Four years of photo assignments and quality darkroom time eventually gave way to decades of casual and family picture-taking. I re-immersed myself when I left film and turned to digital.