A lone rock outcropping juts through frozen Pasagshak Bay off Alaska’s Kodiak Island. The Kodiak archipelago is home to the Kodiak bear, the largest subspecies of brown bear, which feasts on the region’s prolific salmon runs.

(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, “Wrangell-St. Elias National Park: Alaska’s Sky-High Wilderness,” May 1994, National Geographic magazine)