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🐻 Photo-Safari Lodge
Quiet Luxury 🤝 Pristine Wilderness 🤠 Great Guides
🌎 Bears. Birds. Alaska Fantastica
✨ Crafted by @northwildtravel

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A warm, peaceful evening with Safi and her family... mostly.
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Swipe to see what the other two were up to. As usual.
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#brownbears #bearphotography #natgeoyourshot #wildlifephotography #sonyalpha

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Photos on $20,000 of equipment will always nice.

But showing the wider view, of us just sitting and watching the bears walk along the shore, gives you a sense of being right there with us as we soak up these moments. It also shows that you don’t need a big fancy camera to enjoy life at BBB. You can come for the love of the wild and animals.

As we head into chiller days, my 10k bear photos from @brownbearbay keep us warm 😂. Stay tuned for many more.

🐻If you enjoy these, follow @alecoutside for more from Alaska and a week with coastal brown bears in Lake Clark National Park.

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After a long afternoon of grazing and playing, a mama bear and her three cubs stopped to get a drink🐻😋 #alaska #brownbears #capturedwithbrownbearbay #wildlife #brownbearcubs

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Two curious little cubs exploring the beaches of Alaska back in June. Never a dull moment with these two! 🐻

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#bearsofinstagram #wildlifephotography #sonyalpha #explore #natgeoyourshot @brownbearbay @northwildtravel

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I am so proud to work at the most beautiful lodge in Alaska. Where is most amazing place you have ever stayed? This is @brownbearbay #bears🐻 #bearviewing #brownbears #homeralaska

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The coolest family in the bay!
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Cubs meet their first humans only once. It’s rare, but so important for that moment to happen on the Mama’s terms. When a mother trusts a group enough, she may bring her cubs closer, as a lesson to not be afraid of us and to respect each other as friends, coexisting peacefully in the same space.
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@bradjosephsphotos calls it “one of the most beautiful moments that bears and humans can share,” and he couldn’t be more right.
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Safi gave us that gift in early June at Brown Bear Bay, just one day after bringing her COY out of the den. One of the highlights of the summer in Alaska.
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But moments like this can only happen if you are with the right guides who treat the bears correctly. Always respecting their space, letting them exist peacefully in their own habitat at a distance, and being patient, quiet, and calm as a group. Only then will these special moments happen, and on the bears’ terms.
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#brownbears #alaskanphotography #wildlifephotography #sonyalpha #natgeoyourshot

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This may have been the first time these cubs saw humans (or one of the firsts). They were extremely curious but also skittish and the team at @brownbearbay hadn’t recognized the mamma bear much (or at least she was an infrequent visitor to the area).

So I got the pleasure of naming her Daenerys - or Dany - due to her blonde color and the fact that she has 3 cubs (sadly no dragons were seen in Chinitna Bay).

I really loved how the cubs were all bundled up next to mom for protection as the golden light hits her face.

Just one of the incredible, show stopping moments from Alaska.

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These curious cubs came over to see what we were up to before wandering back down the beach and settling down for the night. 🐻

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Split second moments I’ll hold onto.

Getting to witness these bears at @brownbearbay gives you an incredible sense of what bears go through each day. We spent ~ 7-9 hours with the bears each day, watching them fish, meander, munch on grass, and sleep. By the end of the week, you knew their names, and cheered them on as they caught fish in preparation for winter.

Shot on @sonyalpha A1 ii and 400 f/2.8

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Wildlife photography | bears | travel Alaska @travelalaska | #wildlifephotography #wildlifeconservation

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Soup catching a Chum Salmon in 2025 🐻🐟 Soup is a skilled fisher and especially in this specific area because it is the water right off of Soup’s Kitchen!! (An area at the end of a spit affectionately named because Soup likes to lay at the end of the spit after fishing and sometimes even buried salmon there and laid on top of them!) #capturedwithbrownbearbay #brownbears #wildlife #alaska #brownbearfishing

The focus and power of Soup💪👁️👁️

The slow saunter back for a nap at Soup’s Kitchen after a successful fishing session😴

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Another epic week up here in Katmai Alaska. Low salmon numbers defiantly show in thinner bears, but overall I’ve seen very few that don’t look healthy enough to make it through the winter.
Even at Brooks, the fat bears are a little more fit and a little less fat.
This cub was on of three I had the privilege of hanging out with, his second season and his mom are treating him right. Like most boys he wonders off, plays around and gets into trouble.
He does sport a wondrous fluffy coat that makes it impossible to not dream about petting him behind those ears…but don’t worry, I didn’t.
Have an amazing day my friends and whatever appears through that lens, I hope it’s epic and more importantly I hope it makes you smile.
@canonusa
#shotoncanon #canonusa #canon #bears #alaska

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Happy Fat Bear week everyone 🐻

These may not be the chonkiest of bears, but they're most certainly some of the best mama bears in Alaska! I'm sure that most of these bears have thickened up since my week long visit to @brownbearbay back in July. Anywho, hope you all enjoy these beautiful bears thriving in bearadise!

Shot on @sonyalpha 7R V + @djiglobal air 3S 🤙🏽

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