OLD FRIENDS
Whenever I journey to the wildest corners of the world, I always have the best team possible around me. When you go to photograph grizzlies it is essential that you have the correct people around you, both for your safety and the animals safety. However, it also means that you are behaving in an appropriate manner to ensure the animals feel comfortable enough to ignore you and behave naturally. We followed a group of juvenile bears as they navigated the sedge grass meadows in Katmai, and there were many afternoons where I felt like they were a bear version of my team. Good friends trying to keep a look out for one another, avoiding dangerous situations but also wanting to see what was going on in different parts of the meadow. In this moment two of these juveniles were play fighting on a cool afternoon in the meadow. They spar like this on their hind legs, pushing one another as a test of strength. They paused for this brief moment where it looks like two old friends sharing a private joke, stopping the play fighting before one of them takes it too far!
Whenever I journey to the wildest corners of the world, I always have the best team possible around me. When you go to photograph grizzlies it is essential that you have the correct people around you, both for your safety and the animals safety. However, it also means that you are behaving in an appropriate manner to ensure the animals feel comfortable enough to ignore you and behave naturally. We followed a group of juvenile bears as they navigated the sedge grass meadows in Katmai, and there were many afternoons where I felt like they were a bear version of my team. Good friends trying to keep a look out for one another, avoiding dangerous situations but also wanting to see what was going on in different parts of the meadow. In this moment two of these juveniles were play fighting on a cool afternoon in the meadow. They spar like this on their hind legs, pushing one another as a test of strength. They paused for this brief moment where it looks like two old friends sharing a private joke, stopping the play fighting before one of them takes it too far!
Whenever I journey to the wildest corners of the world, I always have the best team possible around me. When you go to photograph grizzlies it is essential that you have the correct people around you, both for your safety and the animals safety. However, it also means that you are behaving in an appropriate manner to ensure the animals feel comfortable enough to ignore you and behave naturally. We followed a group of juvenile bears as they navigated the sedge grass meadows in Katmai, and there were many afternoons where I felt like they were a bear version of my team. Good friends trying to keep a look out for one another, avoiding dangerous situations but also wanting to see what was going on in different parts of the meadow. In this moment two of these juveniles were play fighting on a cool afternoon in the meadow. They spar like this on their hind legs, pushing one another as a test of strength. They paused for this brief moment where it looks like two old friends sharing a private joke, stopping the play fighting before one of them takes it too far!