Esther's photos with the keyword: Anchorage

Anchorage museum- Anchorage, Alaska AIMG 5480

Alaska Zoo - Anchorage, Alaska - Snow Leopard AIMG 5477

Alaska Zoo - Anchorage, Alaska "In 1966, Anchorage grocer Jack Snyder won a contest offering a prize of "$3,000 or a baby elephant". He chose the elephant, a female Asian elephant named Annabelle. Annabelle was initially kept at the Diamond H Horse Ranch, located in the Hillside area of Anchorage and owned by Sammye Seawell, which had the only heated stalls available.[1] With Annabelle's increasing popularity, Seawell formed a non-profit corporation to build a place "where the public could visit animals and learn about them." It was incorporated on March 28, 1968 as the Alaska Children's Zoo, which opened in 1969 with Annabelle and other donated animals. The zoo was located on land adjacent to Seawell's ranch. The zoo's name was changed to Alaska Zoo in June 1980." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Zoo AIMG 5479

Black Bear - Anchorage, Alaska. We were driving in a woody section of Anchorage, Alaska in the vicinity of a triathlon, when a mother bear and two cubs ran in front of our car and into the woods. I was not fast enough with my camera to get a good shot of the mother bear, but one of the cubs was curious and watched me from a tree near the road. He eventually climbed very high into the tree. His mother had disappeared by then, but I could hear that she was close. The people running the triathlon decided that she was a smart bear that did not pose a danger to the bicyclists and runners. AIMG 5460

Black Bear - Anchorage, Alaska. We were driving in a woody section of Anchorage, Alaska in the vicinity of a triathlon, when a mother bear and two cubs ran in front of our car and into the woods. I was not fast enough with my camera to get a good shot of the mother bear, but one of the cubs was curious and watched me from a tree near the road. He eventually climbed very high into the tree. His mother had disappeared by then, but I could hear that she was close. The people running the triathlon decided that she was a smart bear that did not pose a danger to the bicyclists and runners. AIMG 5457

Black Bear - Anchorage, Alaska. We were driving in a woody section of Anchorage, Alaska in the vicinity of a triathlon, when a mother bear and two cubs ran in front of our car and into the woods. I was not fast enough with my camera to get a good shot of the mother bear, but one of the cubs was curious and watched me from a tree near the road. He eventually climbed very high into the tree. His mother had disappeared by then, but I could hear that she was close. The people running the triathlon decided that she was a smart bear that did not pose a danger to the bicyclists and runners. AIMG 5462

Alaska Zoo - Anchorage, Alaska - Great Gray Owl The Sunday Challenge: Sparkly bokeh AIMG 5469

The lobby at the Lakeshore Inn and Suites in Anchorage, Alaska. Decorating with dead animals was quite common in Alaska. AIMG 5112

Despite the overcast weather, the views from the Seward Highway connecting Anchorage with Seward, Alaska, were magnifcent. The Sunday Challenge: Shot through the window of a moving vehicle. I was the passenger. AIMG 5114