“He’s going to come right at us!“ And just like that, a 500-kilo polar bear hurled himself up and over the bank and bee-lined straight for us in a cloud of snow and seaweed. When he was fifty meters from us, he put on the brakes and glanced behind him […]
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Two years ago when I first started following the new Pipestone (now Bow Valley) wolf family in Banff, Yoho, and Kootenay National Parks, I was fortunate enough to get a chance to name one of the pack members. Independent wolf researcher Gunther Bloch named the leading male and female and […]
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It’s official. I’m firing myself from my blog because of a broken promise. That’s right, in my first installment of Photographing Banff Wolves (Part I) three long days ago, I brashly pledged that you would be seeing a few of the photos from that encounter in Banff, along with the […]
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When is it too cold to photograph? Not at a mere -34 degrees Celsius (-41 C/F with the wind chill), apparently. For the eleventh straight day, I got up at 6:30 in the dark and managed to massage my car’s stiff old bod to life, then hit the roads and […]
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This is my first crack at showing off a few more Dempster (and other northern) images. I sat down this morning with the grand intention of showing the best of the best, but only made it through 2 of my 24 Dempster and Yukon/NWT folders before I figured I better […]
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Mud, rain, snow, fog, and sleet faced off for a conclusive three days this week against me and my battered Subaru Forester for a final duel to the dea…ok, for a final duel to determine an ultimate winner in this three week saga in the Great Canadian North. So the […]
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Wildlife photographers are like fishermen in many respects. A mutual admiration for the great outdoors? Check. A desire to proudly show off the pictures of the day’s great ‘catch’? Check. An ability to spin a tall tale when the ‘big one’ gets away? Check, check, check! In fact, half of […]
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