It seems like just yesterday, but 2011 will be my 12th year returning to the Cook Inlet in Alaska to photograph America's most spectacular animals.
Spending a week with Alaskan Coastal Brown Bears, often called Grizzlies, is truly a life-changing experience. Unlike the bears at Brooks Lodge in Katmai, which are stressed out and offer very limited viewing, we'll be able to see bears in their native and un-stressed environment.
One day the bears will be grazing on the nutrient rich grass and the next they'll be up to their shoulder digging in the mud for clams. Without question these are my favorite weeks of the year.
We'll have an entire small lodge to ourselves, and the bears are right in the area, so our shooting opportunities are maximized.
You can see some of my favorite images from this year on Flickr:
It seems like just yesterday, but 2011 will be my 12th year returning to the Cook Inlet in Alaska to photograph America's most spectacular animals.
Spending a week with Alaskan Coastal Brown Bears, often called Grizzlies, is truly a life-changing experience. Unlike the bears at Brooks Lodge in Katmai, which are stressed out and offer very limited viewing, we'll be able to see bears in their native and un-stressed environment.
One day the bears will be grazing on the nutrient rich grass and the next they'll be up to their shoulder digging in the mud for clams. Without question these are my favorite weeks of the year.
We'll have an entire small lodge to ourselves, and the bears are right in the area, so our shooting opportunities are maximized.
Submitted by David Cardinal on Sun, 07/12/2009 - 08:45
No one knows quite how or when Alaskan Brown Bears (also known as Grizzly Bears) learned to clam. Or rather, lots of people claim to know but they all have different stories... Read more »
Submitted by David Cardinal on Fri, 07/10/2009 - 15:36
All it takes is standing alongside a road or in a park next to a long lens to draw shouts of "what are you shooting, the moon?" But as any wildlife photographer knows a telephoto isn't used just to photograph objects that are far away... Read more »
