16 January 2014. Alaska’s Polar Bears: As Seen by French Photographer Sylvain Cordier

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12 December 2012. From the Russian Web… Japanese Fotog Catches Alaska Ursine Rasslin’ Match in Full Glory

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Photographer Shogo Asao caught a grizzly rasslin’ match in progress. You see, one of the grizzlies tried to snatch a salmon that the other grizzly just caught. Needless to say, that didn’t please the ursine fisherman one little bit, and this donnybrook ensued. We don’t know who won it  (did the fotog stay around for the final round or did the premises become too “hot to handle?” Perspirin’ minds wanna know…)…

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8 December 2012. From the Russian Web. Through an Airplane’s Window… Mount Robert Barron in Alaska

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Mount Robert Barron is 21.5 kilometres (13.4 miles) away from Auke Bay AK, the nearest settlement.

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27 November 2012. Our Great Russian Motherland. The Komandorsky Islands (photography by Vadim Gippenreiter)

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The Komandorsky Islands are located 175 kilometres (109 miles) east of the Kamchatka Peninsula in the Russian Far East, in the Bering Sea. They’re the isolated westernmost extension of the Aleutians (they’re separated from the rest of the chain by 333 kilometres (207 miles), and the native people here are Aleuts, the same as their relatives in Alaska. I’m told that Aleuts from Unalaska AK flew into Bering Island when HH blessed a church here… that wouldn’t be surprising… after all, Vladivostok is far closer to Unalaska than Syosset NY is…

The above photo of sea lions is by the famous Soviet-era photographer Vadim Gippenreiter.

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