I spent some time up in the Khutzeymateen Grizzly Sanctuary, up in coastal northern British Columbia. It is the first area in Canada created specifically to protect the local grizzly bear population and is accessible only by boat or float plane. There's only one place to stay, the Khutzeymateen Wilderness Lodge, a floating structure towed up to the inlet each season. Each day you travel up and down the inlet on a zodiac and look for bears feeding on clams and sedge grass along the shoreline. This allows you to get remarkably close to the bears, which was really exciting.
All images were taken with an R5 Mark II and the 100-300 f/2.8 w 1/4x teleconverter attached.
Lovely work on these. I really enjoyed the rocky environment with the coverings.
Nice processing and rendering on the fur, sounds like a wonderful place to go to see and photograph grizzlies!
You got a get variety of images here. My favorite is the cub in the second last image.
I used the same camera / lens combination last June in Alaska for the bears, and it worked really well.
Karl Witt wrote:
Lovely work on these. I really enjoyed the rocky environment with the coverings.
Nice processing and rendering on the fur, sounds like a wonderful place to go to see and photograph grizzlies!
Karl
Thank you, Karl. I too enjoyed the environment and felt it added something to the images. I have always associated Grizzly images with catching salmon in a stream, or in a forest, or even along the roadside through a mountain range, so this setting felt quite new to me.
Dave_E wrote:
You got a get variety of images here. My favorite is the cub in the second last image.
I used the same camera / lens combination last June in Alaska for the bears, and it worked really well.
Dave
Thanks, Dave. The 100-300 has fast become my favourite wildlife lens. Glad you're getting on with it as well.
