tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67525193566845560072024-02-24T02:18:55.687-07:00HW Photo & SafarisGreg combines his passions for nature, travel and photography to create wildlife images from around the world.Fit N Well Inc. And HW Photo & Safarishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17019733821925706077noreply@blogger.comBlogger133125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6752519356684556007.post-54737885466568017402020-07-27T12:01:00.005-06:002020-07-27T20:54:56.637-06:00Coastal Brown Bears of Alaska, 2020. "All In on Red 26"<h2 style="text-align: left;"><font face="arial" size="5" style="font-weight: normal;">With the pandemic here most of my safaris have been canceled. I've made the most of it by finding local fox dens to photograph...Correction. One of my friends who was on one of my African trips found me two fox dens to photograph the kits.</font><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgp0svnX_s3SiuehcxxwfxajnZautHWV_Qp2ME0NSQGTD2z63LFqTy-S_zHZhBdDSF7cVRKoFtmgmq47hcrkrqVgRa33roOfRdbUNqbOtm8Msnjh3BKWs9s2HlceFrGaSkaedPAJBx8bmAD/s2048/SSC44660ba.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><font face="arial" size="5" style="font-weight: normal;"><img alt="Fox Kits huddling for warmth" border="0" data-original-height="1420" data-original-width="2048" height="435" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgp0svnX_s3SiuehcxxwfxajnZautHWV_Qp2ME0NSQGTD2z63LFqTy-S_zHZhBdDSF7cVRKoFtmgmq47hcrkrqVgRa33roOfRdbUNqbOtm8Msnjh3BKWs9s2HlceFrGaSkaedPAJBx8bmAD/w625-h435/SSC44660ba.jpg" title="Fox Kits Basking in the Sun" width="625" /></font></a><span style="font-weight: normal;"><font face="arial"><br /><br /><br /><font size="5">While I canceled two African safaris and one trip to Alaska to photograph Eagles, our brown bear trip fell right in the middle. Cases were dropping and we might be able to figure out a way to travel. The odds were against us going with the borders being "closed". <br /></font><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5qj_mQn4OneDfLs9ssgDQWrvPzgbcyCyBHq_rubbZSZCi6TQ_GcfdJaD02bZuVJeQqKliFOFR-2fCE_hbxIWfTKrNDfe5ZP-ipZxU9s3vyq25RW7CSEIQKnD-gRtqwYbMdFktmP4CdQjG/s2048/SSC45437.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Fox Kit Posing on Mound" border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="520" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5qj_mQn4OneDfLs9ssgDQWrvPzgbcyCyBHq_rubbZSZCi6TQ_GcfdJaD02bZuVJeQqKliFOFR-2fCE_hbxIWfTKrNDfe5ZP-ipZxU9s3vyq25RW7CSEIQKnD-gRtqwYbMdFktmP4CdQjG/w781-h520/SSC45437.jpg" title="Fox Kit Posing on Mound" width="781" /></a><font size="5"><br /></font><font size="5">I told my guests there was a big chance we wouldn't be able to travel, but that we would exhaust every avenue before we gave up. We betting the house on red 26. We were going all in and would let the chips fall where they may.</font><font size="5"><br /></font><font size="5">The borders were closed until the end of June. Hopefully with the cases dropping the borders would open up the end of June and we would be able to travel in July. The problem was although the cases were dropping across most of Canada, the cases actually increasing in Quebec and the U.S. Around June 19th we heard they were keeping the borders closed. Was this going to kybosh our trip?<br /></font><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUhBVKkHZJ-P48J89TkV1zaKlTAz-moyDrfUwLeKL8fVBABGIHYUa-n6O43RqR563H3NvPFYRjv68k7lBRniSUGACi-sfGivpeFn6_-fGC3JZwX1vAU7RvWxTkH8kpT_wV8K-jHqYqHbCf/s1868/SSC40688.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Fox Mom and Kit Silhouette" border="0" data-original-height="1245" data-original-width="1868" height="416" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUhBVKkHZJ-P48J89TkV1zaKlTAz-moyDrfUwLeKL8fVBABGIHYUa-n6O43RqR563H3NvPFYRjv68k7lBRniSUGACi-sfGivpeFn6_-fGC3JZwX1vAU7RvWxTkH8kpT_wV8K-jHqYqHbCf/w625-h416/SSC40688.jpg" title="Fox Mom and Kit Silhouette" width="625" /></a><font size="5"><br /></font><font size="5">A day or two after we heard that the borders were remaining closed we discovered that Canadian airlines were allowed to fly Canadians back and forth across the border. Just U.S. airlines weren't allowed to cross the border. That gave us one of the crucial windows we needed to get to and from Alaska. It meant it was expensive as we had to buy additional tickets, but we figured it out.<br /></font><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsojO3G6WFfHkyfOnrcvxwh1sJUZffYpXFl_VT6DsrFStVRyt0UTKlDK8BBtPPJybAm3qbEpkLbz134wg2xi_g4Xlp4T9Rc5jhghP4pcodgRuboR3dq_XJ08tK-E39LgfazaqBPR1rwHgP/s2048/7DBB4123abcdefogIlikeit%2521.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Alaskan Coastal Brown Bears Clamming" border="0" data-original-height="1366" data-original-width="2048" height="416" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsojO3G6WFfHkyfOnrcvxwh1sJUZffYpXFl_VT6DsrFStVRyt0UTKlDK8BBtPPJybAm3qbEpkLbz134wg2xi_g4Xlp4T9Rc5jhghP4pcodgRuboR3dq_XJ08tK-E39LgfazaqBPR1rwHgP/w625-h416/7DBB4123abcdefogIlikeit%2521.jpg" title="Alaskan brown bears clamming" width="625" /><br /></a><font size="5">I kept telling my guests if we were able to make it, we would have a bear safari of a lifetime. I was up last year and we didn't see any cubs. Some people would have blamed it on "Climate Change". Logic told me otherwise. </font><span style="font-size: x-large;">Nature goes in cycles.</span><span style="font-size: x-large;"> I thought</span><span style="font-size: x-large;"> this year would be epic!<br /></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrrLQAwhGltbAEmCIyfS4khSqCOflZQc5ES0YYzJ4OiiyjmWcjsUjOE3W6z-1jR7mJU-eouO5NsNoM6WWKwjz-TBavBWAdK70KY51nhfHMqTn9RCLIygyBPTfvnHtYn879Ali94piU7fhC/s2048/_T2Q2641.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Brown Bear Spring Cubs Playing" border="0" data-original-height="1366" data-original-width="2048" height="416" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrrLQAwhGltbAEmCIyfS4khSqCOflZQc5ES0YYzJ4OiiyjmWcjsUjOE3W6z-1jR7mJU-eouO5NsNoM6WWKwjz-TBavBWAdK70KY51nhfHMqTn9RCLIygyBPTfvnHtYn879Ali94piU7fhC/w625-h416/_T2Q2641.jpg" title="Brown Bear Spring Cubs Playing" width="625" /><br /></a><font size="5">In order to go first we had to find a way to get to Alaska...Check. The Canadian government allowed Canadian Airlines to fly across the border.<br /></font><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1t61zm65r8jZLtt53Kr37NGbCX2_wmnK46hDsHRo4hVG4AoyJctx1_O4Glp7F1DDBIoF0EzEeJdOK-pPObYdUhK1OOVC-G8QjGbWvZOpo38bZAOOs5TRzt7qU8Gx999W1Tg3I5tyr3TYj/s2048/_T2Q2704.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Brown Bear cubs sparring" border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="416" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1t61zm65r8jZLtt53Kr37NGbCX2_wmnK46hDsHRo4hVG4AoyJctx1_O4Glp7F1DDBIoF0EzEeJdOK-pPObYdUhK1OOVC-G8QjGbWvZOpo38bZAOOs5TRzt7qU8Gx999W1Tg3I5tyr3TYj/w625-h416/_T2Q2704.jpg" title="Brown Bear cubs sparring" width="625" /><br /></a><font size="5">Next we had to find a place to self quarantine in Alaska for 14 days. It was a stretch, but we asked to increase a day at the lodge on either side of the safari. We canceled our stay on either end at an Anchorage hotel. And hoped customs would buy our "quarantine at the lodge" request.</font><font size="5"><br /></font><font size="5">Next we had to get tested for Covid within 72 hours of arriving in Alaska. Seeing as we would be flying out on Monday morning and the tests took between 5-7 days for results to come back, that seemed like a big ask. That wasn't going to work. I was hoping we would get our tests within a week of travel and out of good faith they would let us through. They were testing at the Anchorage airport. We would get our Anchorage test results back after a few days of "self isolation" at the lodge. The next problem was none of us could get our covid tests back in time.<br /></font><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5cDCy1S3hmVEQG7rVenJ_kSFxd1VtS3y9mOqU0mePuJUbUoWC6n0HRKc6HfxgCENL8CwILgtDOjP4Ci8JHpQc9qKnRic0wZcjYOf_oR7ut2L3zwa8Ikepfvmrx8Sv9CoN0PnrJqmWr2p8/s1824/7DBB3949a.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Brown Bear Clamming" border="0" data-original-height="1216" data-original-width="1824" height="416" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5cDCy1S3hmVEQG7rVenJ_kSFxd1VtS3y9mOqU0mePuJUbUoWC6n0HRKc6HfxgCENL8CwILgtDOjP4Ci8JHpQc9qKnRic0wZcjYOf_oR7ut2L3zwa8Ikepfvmrx8Sv9CoN0PnrJqmWr2p8/w625-h416/7DBB3949a.jpg" title="Brown Bear Clamming" width="625" /></a><br /><font size="5">Insult to injury on the Thursday before we flew out I heard that one of my clients was golfing with someone who was exposed to someone with covid. That shot my anxiety up a notch or two! Maybe I had covid and didn't know? </font><font size="5"><br /></font><font size="5">I got my test on July 1st. My doctor didn't know why it was taking so long so he did a test on Friday July 3rd. On July 5th I received results of both negative tests. I haven't been more happy to fail a test. :) We flew out Monday, July 6th.<br /></font><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8KfHuROHoEHSloYkaC-ncCmoRDXoiOiQ7a2p1TNjeiiJ6KRgt6Km7fYg7tQKsC9-kao5Ag1ZRH0xWJLhnzKdVmUQOhbcC3YQw2vXFcYfVwJX-gTLMItWOTrdYnCqREcJLDPVIZoC4UIII/s2048/_T2Q5098.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Spring Cub Brown Bears Playing" border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="416" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8KfHuROHoEHSloYkaC-ncCmoRDXoiOiQ7a2p1TNjeiiJ6KRgt6Km7fYg7tQKsC9-kao5Ag1ZRH0xWJLhnzKdVmUQOhbcC3YQw2vXFcYfVwJX-gTLMItWOTrdYnCqREcJLDPVIZoC4UIII/w625-h416/_T2Q5098.jpg" title="Spring Cub Brown Bears Playing" width="625" /><br /></a><span style="font-size: x-large;">Reality was in Anchorage they didn't care much about our tests in Edmonton. They tested at the Anchorage airport, but anyone could walk right by the testing area and no one would question you. Also after we were tested in Anchorage, a week later no one had received their results yet. Some of my guests didn't even receive results from their Edmonton tests a week earlier. By the end of our trip they still hadn't received their Edmonton results and it had been two weeks at that point.<br /></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyubhjx010ql2R3sTOCW9ot7qRxM3WQeLTtlzbX4MAhJa3zFKyzqIXr63_hvU88m0zFJwAUXzsOShDifpm1nD4gzw-z8pjWfhjGw8nIvjX0eH7s4Sso2JSuapvchHNA7OwiS7SNZ1E3itL/s2048/_T2Q6998fog1ab.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Brown bear walking through fog" border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="416" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyubhjx010ql2R3sTOCW9ot7qRxM3WQeLTtlzbX4MAhJa3zFKyzqIXr63_hvU88m0zFJwAUXzsOShDifpm1nD4gzw-z8pjWfhjGw8nIvjX0eH7s4Sso2JSuapvchHNA7OwiS7SNZ1E3itL/w625-h416/_T2Q6998fog1ab.jpg" title="Brown bear walking through fog" width="625" /><br /></a><font size="5">So, there was a loop hole in the "closed borders". The need for testing was kind of a joke. No one asked where we were self-isolating. No one at customs or airport security even asked.</font><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiO6SY-Ph3df1iJzRpRIGyhYAQeBPfehNjTbvzOwKr7fM4myaxyp0fl4lQyCpmuNRqRyQnQosyx5dINSqbHxUhf7J5fE4Aai_RQ5Q45JSHs_1_1RDePI1-tjw2QG7PObu0ESOQeAHtbEWtm/s1923/_T2Q9277.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Brown Bear Mom and Cub" border="0" data-original-height="1282" data-original-width="1923" height="416" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiO6SY-Ph3df1iJzRpRIGyhYAQeBPfehNjTbvzOwKr7fM4myaxyp0fl4lQyCpmuNRqRyQnQosyx5dINSqbHxUhf7J5fE4Aai_RQ5Q45JSHs_1_1RDePI1-tjw2QG7PObu0ESOQeAHtbEWtm/w625-h416/_T2Q9277.jpg" title="Brown Bear Mom and Cub" width="625" /></a><br /><br /><font size="5">For six days we photographed 8 brown bear spring cubs and moms. There were also two second year cubs in the area too.</font><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkLEEhx_ximq6ivn9VIiYJ8TesF9sBPRtwh-7jrNvU50nMf3FGfdIgNBvkBFdF5fy1lzt0WURxDzhlKRgcD_tkPjSRJYVZs4ULS-9DkIxt44aeP3zhSSt4sDss62PjB-4mpRAlLon_5swQ/s2048/_T2Q6281.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Brown Bear Mom and Second Year Cubs" border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="416" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkLEEhx_ximq6ivn9VIiYJ8TesF9sBPRtwh-7jrNvU50nMf3FGfdIgNBvkBFdF5fy1lzt0WURxDzhlKRgcD_tkPjSRJYVZs4ULS-9DkIxt44aeP3zhSSt4sDss62PjB-4mpRAlLon_5swQ/w625-h416/_T2Q6281.jpg" title="Brown Bear Mom and Second Year Cubs" width="625" /></a><br /><font size="5">But how would we get back. We didn't have an Anchorage hotel room to stay in on our way out. We were instead "Self-isolating" at the lodge. If the fog came in we would have had to stay another day at the lodge and would miss our flights back.<br /></font><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9-rD_3Ep_PEEw-ap4ojjACT_Hcqq7SXh9ZiqQc9pKNz9HkcqYahkAmeelvoQm91PzH2TEne_MMx2yO1R4dPgzoJv68OMb6ysP4_ZZrVPfJjjJPRq6_kX5nEXsk1OTcDVRpHbqeTOL4cuQ/s1702/_T2Q4805.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Moose Twin Calves" border="0" data-original-height="1135" data-original-width="1702" height="416" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9-rD_3Ep_PEEw-ap4ojjACT_Hcqq7SXh9ZiqQc9pKNz9HkcqYahkAmeelvoQm91PzH2TEne_MMx2yO1R4dPgzoJv68OMb6ysP4_ZZrVPfJjjJPRq6_kX5nEXsk1OTcDVRpHbqeTOL4cuQ/w625-h416/_T2Q4805.jpg" title="MooseTwin Calves" width="625" /></a><font size="5">O</font><span style="font-size: x-large; text-align: left;">n the way back because our flights were changed and we would have to overnight in Seattle. I called the Washington government. They told me if we were to enter Washington state as Canadians we would have to self-isolate somewhere for 14 days. When we got to Seattle no one asked us about self-isolating. No one cared. And when we (Canadians) went to check in, no one asked how long we had been in the US. The only problem we ran into was one of our guests who had been living in Canada for the past several months was not allowed to fly back to Canada because she had a U.S. passport. She would have to fly back to Florida. We knew this might happen. It was our "plan b".<br /></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgprqjGEgmvUC7IoC1wWGS6S_Jgj8eFdtL6mcxtyAsrK6U1_EbMr0QcNtKL01iW03eyWjhLX9CCAOFOfHp-pEaS0wa3CiCy2hsLRh81p-cA35y97rGbTGI5pBLYvZnnXs20u1AV-XbiT92v/s2048/_T2Q9081a.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Brown Bear in Creek" border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="520" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgprqjGEgmvUC7IoC1wWGS6S_Jgj8eFdtL6mcxtyAsrK6U1_EbMr0QcNtKL01iW03eyWjhLX9CCAOFOfHp-pEaS0wa3CiCy2hsLRh81p-cA35y97rGbTGI5pBLYvZnnXs20u1AV-XbiT92v/w781-h520/_T2Q9081a.jpg" title="Brown Bear in Creek" width="781" /></a><br /><font size="5">So now here I sit in self-isolation at home on my twelfth day of isolation. I am doing it right. Gaye hasn't been here in two weeks. She's been kind enough to deliver groceries and I have kept myself busy with pictures, company administration and house projects. A month before we left on this journey I kept telling my guests "we would be all in on red 26. Momma needs a new dress". If we got to the lodge I knew we would pretty much have the lodge to ourselves. I knew the bear viewing would be phenomenal...Or we could get held up somewhere and would be turned back. All in on red 26. And we won big! It was a great trip! Great people, great photography, great bear viewing. Our only complaint was the weather was too nice. Too many cloudless skies meant for poor photos during the day. That was our only complaint. Not too bad considering what we went through to get to Alaska and the amazing sightings we had.</font><br /><font size="5">My next trip up to <a href="http://www.wildlifesafaris.ca/safari-destinations/alaskan-brown-bear-safari/" target="_blank">photograph the brown bear moms and cubs is July, 2023. </a></font></font></span></h2><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidxX3Q4tsfz7hn31bvkPuC_qfyVQRCayT3sbCaK3vMyL8b-xSDOmfW6R4c2R3v9rTSYobw5ZGrs-f-luqx_6xT2kpfBk8bQdsI6Sn0UtgD3wZpuDd9Bh_s6qlGBDB1y6XVewc9iAWZCanN/s2048/7DBB6087.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: left;"><br /></a></div></div>Fit N Well Inc. 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<span style="font-size: large;">While it is important right now to contain this virus, our mental and physical health are still very important. If we aren't sick I see no reason why we can't enjoy the outdoors, get some sunshine while practicing social distancing. And that is just what two of my friends and I did over the past few days.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We met at a park in Edmonton and started looking for fledgling great horned owls that we heard were in the area. This got our minds off our cabin fever. It gave us something to look forward to, it got us out of the house, we soaked in the sunshine and got hours worth of great exercise while carrying heavy camera equipment.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We can however still enjoy life responsibly. While I am not a "birder" exactly, exercise, <a href="http://www.harveywildlifephotography.ca/" target="_blank">wildlife photography</a> and being out in nature is where I am happy. So while I am not in<a href="http://www.hwsafaris.ca/" target="_blank"> safari in Africa or Alaska</a> right now, enjoying the local parks looking for wildlife while staying at leastt six feet away from others will suffice for now.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Even though our current situation may not be ideal I hope you are finding your "happy place" too.</span><br />
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Fit N Well Inc. And HW Photo & Safarishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17019733821925706077noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6752519356684556007.post-17243909616300199052019-09-25T13:30:00.000-06:002019-09-25T13:37:38.885-06:00Love Elephants<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: large;">If you love elephants, then sit back, relax and watch this short video compilation of pictures and videos from our trips to South Africa and Kenya.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It is surreal watching elephants lumber through the camp. On our last trip they were in the camp every day. When they come through they have the right of way. We give them a wide birth and let them wander through. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Safaris are amazing enough, but when the wildlife wanders through camp, it's pretty special.</span><br />
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Fit N Well Inc. And HW Photo & Safarishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17019733821925706077noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6752519356684556007.post-36689232247958826542019-09-12T21:38:00.000-06:002019-09-12T21:43:07.660-06:00Adorable Polar Bear Cub.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: large;">In 2014 on our polar bear trip we only photographed one polar bear mom and cub. This little bear didn't have any siblings to play with and mom didn't come out of the den very often. I think she was bored. Every time we set up to photograph her she would come out of the den and look at us. It was as if she was posing as she pranced around the den.</span><br />
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Fit N Well Inc. And HW Photo & Safarishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17019733821925706077noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6752519356684556007.post-69688374813212188662019-04-15T17:56:00.000-06:002019-04-15T17:59:48.633-06:00Hot Air Balloon Safari Over the Masai Mara.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: large;">If you have never gone up in a hot air balloon and you have always wanted to go, go to the Masai Mara on a hot air balloon flight over the Mara river. If you like nature and wildlife, I can't imagine a better hot air balloon flight in the world!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Sometimes only a few of my guests go up in the hot air balloon, sometimes most of them do. Regardless of who goes, they all have one thing in common. The hot air balloon trip over the Mara river is one of the highlights of their trip.</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.wildlifesafaris.ca/safari-destinations/masai-mara-kenya/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">Visit my website for more information on upcoming Kenya safaris.</span></a><br />
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Fit N Well Inc. And HW Photo & Safarishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17019733821925706077noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6752519356684556007.post-17005003158197107472019-04-05T20:29:00.001-06:002019-04-05T20:49:21.476-06:00Ultimate Kenyan Safari- Masai Mara & Giraffe Manor, 2019<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: large;">This past February I hosted another group in the Masai Mara. This time it was a small group. There were only seven of us. No one in the group had been to Africa before. It is always fun seeing people experience the Masai Mara for the first time. We had fantastic group chemistry which made the trip that much more fun!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">On our fist day in the Mara we had a great sighting of a cheetah mom and her two month-old cub. The cub was using mom's head as a springboard. It was super cute! A few minutes later we saw a mating pair of serval cats. And that was just the first morning in the Mara.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We had a lot of highlights. One of which was seeing elephants in camp. I could go on, but the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SinBoQfwtro&t=1s" target="_blank">pictures and videos in the slideshow</a> will do a better job of showing what the trip was like.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I take groups to the Masai Mara every February and November. If you have never been to Kenya before and would like to go some day I hope you will consider joining us.</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.wildlifesafaris.ca/safari-destinations/masai-mara-kenya/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">Check out the details of our next trip.</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Or <a href="http://www.harveywildlifephotography.ca/" target="_blank">see our website for pictures of our African adventures.</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">After the safari is over we are back in Nairobi for a stay at Giraffe Manor and a private tour of the elephant orphanage. </span><br />
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Fit N Well Inc. And HW Photo & Safarishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17019733821925706077noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6752519356684556007.post-71417740224839952202019-01-09T21:28:00.000-07:002019-01-10T10:53:27.212-07:00What constitutes a "Bucket List Safari?"<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUqpjcSjxEXXxmJvb0-1rc0ZaawcvxFVE5ctlsIoFftDtCKKUBwTF7lDsDu2s73g4Gjzb7gX-2QXzkVAmvSefflOo0d7aUujwcvmYgM45XsVP3CbgeqSvcX80_IExyOCAagxxgNzeqX4-A/s1600/Rob-%2526-Elizabeth-Hot-Air-Balloon-Flight.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1067" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUqpjcSjxEXXxmJvb0-1rc0ZaawcvxFVE5ctlsIoFftDtCKKUBwTF7lDsDu2s73g4Gjzb7gX-2QXzkVAmvSefflOo0d7aUujwcvmYgM45XsVP3CbgeqSvcX80_IExyOCAagxxgNzeqX4-A/s400/Rob-%2526-Elizabeth-Hot-Air-Balloon-Flight.jpg" width="266" /></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">One of my favourite things in life is a great sighting on a safari. Better than that is a quiet, private sighting on safari. I think that is what is so appealing about a hot air balloon safari. When you are sixty feet in the air, it is completely peaceful. All you hear is the hot air balloon burners kicking in occasionally when the captain needs the balloon to have a little more elevation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Seeing the animals below, while floating gently above is an amazing experience. Some people are pretty nervous before they go up, but once in the air, it is a completely comfortable, fabulous experience! In my experience, even the most nervous first timers, were completely relaxed once in the air.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">For the hour-long trip floating above the Masai Mara seeing pristine nature below it is a <a href="http://www.harveywildlifephotography.ca/landscapes-aurora-borealis-flora-and-abstracts/landscapes/3S2Y9060/" target="_blank">completely blissful experience</a> and I notice my stress melts away. We float over the Mara Triangle part of the Mara where there are very little vehicles. Other than a few roads down below we don't see any sign of human activity. That is nature just the way I like it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">So what makes this safari a bucket list safari? Is the hot air balloon the definition of a bucket list safari? Nope, the hot air balloon flight is optional. Is it the visit to Giraffe Manor?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">and the animals in that part of the park? Enjoying a maximum of 3-4 people per vehicle instead of the six people you will often see in vehicles? No. What makes it a bucket list safari is all of the above. It is the combination of all of these and many more attributes of this trip. You can <a href="mailto:greg@hwphoto.ca" target="_blank">contact Greg</a> at greg@hwphoto.ca to enquire about this trip. <a href="http://www.wildlifesafaris.ca/safari-destinations/masai-mara-kenya/" target="_blank">Sign up for one of our bucket list trips to Kenya and the Masai Mara and find out for yourself first hand why this is a bucket list trip.</a></span><br />
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Fit N Well Inc. And HW Photo & Safarishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17019733821925706077noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6752519356684556007.post-8539181152176204122018-12-25T19:19:00.003-07:002018-12-25T21:13:12.398-07:00Bucket list Masai Mara. November, 2018 Safari.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: large;">In November, 2018 HW Safaris hosted 13 guests in Kenya.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">We enjoyed great company, we were hosted by fantastic camps and lodges and even as the guide hosting the trip, I enjoyed a trip of a lifetime. I have been on this same itinerary many times and it just seems to get better every time I go.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Some of the highlights of our November, 2018 safari included:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-size: large;">Tea time and breakfast with the giraffes at Giraffe Manor.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">Private tour of an elephant orphanage</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">Two camps in the Masai Mara- Five star lodging, camps with no fences. We are on safari 24/7 when we are in the Mara.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">Great leopard and lion sightings. Lots of ellies and thousands of ungulates made for great images.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">Hot air balloon ride of the famous Mara river.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">Visit to Loigero Primary school</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">There were really too many highlights to mention. Check out the youtube video as I tried to sum up some of our highlights while providing a nice keepsake for my guests via this youtube video.</span></li>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Join <a href="http://www.hwsafaris.ca/" target="_blank">HW Photo & Safaris</a> in Kenya. <a href="http://www.wildlifesafaris.ca/safari-destinations/masai-mara-kenya/" target="_blank">We are now booking for November, 2019</a>. Contact <a href="http://www.wildlifesafaris.ca/contact/" target="_blank">Greg</a> at <a href="mailto:greg@hwphoto.ca" target="_blank">greg@hwphoto.ca</a> for more imformation.</span><br />
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Fit N Well Inc. And HW Photo & Safarishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17019733821925706077noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6752519356684556007.post-19057011008498535452018-12-17T18:10:00.000-07:002018-12-17T18:10:32.616-07:00Giraffe Manor Slideshow<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">We had a great time at Giraffe Manor, so making a fun slideshow of the day was a no-brainer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">We are now booking for November, 2019. One of the benefits of booking early is the first two couples to book for November will be in the rooms at Giraffe Manor with balconies and have the best views of the grounds. These couples can also feed the giraffes from the balcony of their rooms.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.wildlifesafaris.ca/contact/" target="_blank">Contact Greg</a> to book your bucket list Masai Mara safari. <a href="http://www.wildlifesafaris.ca/safari-destinations/masai-mara-kenya/" target="_blank">See here for trip details.</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">We're back home from another great <a href="http://www.hwsafaris.ca/" target="_blank">HW Safaris</a> trip to the Masai Mara. This time I had 13 guests plus myself. We had such an amazing trip a fantastic group!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> 14 people, mostly arriving to Kenya as strangers. Six from Canada and eight from the USA. Some were photographers, some were supportive photography spouses. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">We spent time in Nairobi National Park to shake the rust off our photography skills, then on to <a href="https://www.thesafaricollection.com/properties/giraffe-manor/" target="_blank">Giraffe Manor</a>, a private tour of an elephant orphanage then 9 days split between two camps in the Masai Mara. I choose those camps strategically as they complement one another based on the types of camps they are and the type of game in that area of the Mara.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We brought donations that support two schools and a village and enjoyed a village visit and a school visit.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We also thoroughly enjoyed an optional hot air balloon ride that gently soared over the Mara River.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">And we had amazing sightings. 5 different leopards, lion sightings almost every game drive, 5 cheetahs, bat eared foxes and too many other animals to mention.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">If there was fun to be found, we found it! I took over 3500 pictures of people enjoying their safari. At the end of the trip the best of those images were given to my guests. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">And we are already talking about a reunion trip to a different country. I love my job!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.wildlifesafaris.ca/safari-destinations/masai-mara-kenya/" target="_blank">Our next bucket list trip to the Masai Mara is in November, 2019</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I have said it before and I'll say it again. If you are only going to go to Kenya on a safari once, you should join our group. It isn't a "laying on the beach" type holiday, but you can certainly take some time off from the odd game drive and have a siesta when you like. For the others who like to go, go, go, you can get that on our safari photo tour too.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I encourage you to join us. You won't be disappointed!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This was an unexpected last minute </span><a href="http://www.harveywildlifephotography.ca/north-american-wildlife/north-american-bears/katmai-coastal-brown-bears/" style="font-size: x-large;" target="_blank">wildlife photography trip</a><span style="font-size: large;">. I had a week to prepare for it. Since it kind of fell into my lap due to the generosity of one of my photography colleagues who was supposed to go, but couldn’t make it I had the opportunity to go in her place. I love photographing brown bears and I love Alaska so whether I could afford the time off or not I had to go.</span><br />
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<span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">We flew into Kodiak, on Kodiak, Island, Alaska. From there we took a De Havilland Beaver float plane to a boat in the Kinac Bay in the Katmai National Park. The idea is we stay on a boat for seven days and take a skiff to shore and photograph the bears fishing. If one Bay isn’t productive, we try another. As we are staying on a boat for the week we are able to be mobile. From the boat we take a skiff to shore to photograph the bears. The skiff is a 20 foot boat with a ramp. It allows us to get into the shallows of the ocean and safely dismount with our photography equipment.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;">Half of our trip was cloudy and rainy. I expected that as it is Alaska after all. The weather didn’t bother me. Actually I prefer cloudy days as they provide better light for photography. The problem was the salmon run was quite insignificant. Poor salmon run = poor brown bear viewing. Still we had a few good brown bear photography sessions.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Most of our bear photography trips involve being as big as
possible and staying together as a group and shooting with long lenses. The
philosophy here is quite the opposite. We were encouraged to use short lenses,
get low to the ground and photograph the bears at close proximity while they
were fishing. The best images came from the use of short lenses. (100-400mm was
perfect) while lying on our stomachs at the water’s edge. The bears came
remarkably close to us and completely ignored us as they were busy fishing. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">On one occasion the biggest male in the area came bounding
toward a photographer chasing a fish. He missed the fish and stopped dead in
his tracks about 2-3 feet away from the photographer. She didn’t even flinch.
She looked at him and he stared at her for a second or two. That second or two
felt like minutes. Then he got distracted by a fish and kept on fishing. If
that happens ten times, I bet 8 times that photographer is in the hospital or
worse. And if there was an incident, how long would it take to get the skiff
out to us, then a float plane would have to be ready to fly in and get the
photographer out back to shore where a car would have to take her to the
hospital. And would she have the luxury of that 3-4 hours to get to a hospital?
After that close call, from that point on, I was obsessed with the “what if’s”.
The photographer did the exact right thing and froze. She didn’t move a muscle
and had nerves of steel. Still, in my opinion we were too close to the water’s
edge and behaving careless in regards to our safety. The bear could have taken
a swat at her “just because”. He could have seen her as competition for his
fish had he caught it, etc. One bite from that 1000 pound bear or one swat with
those six inch claws and her life would have never been the same. I think that
day she <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">was beyond</i> lucky to come out
of that incident unscathed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">All in all it was a fun trip. On the way in our float plane
landed in Kinak Bay, a 45 minute flight from Kodiak. We cruised for two hours out
to Geographic Bay where we spent the first 2.5 days. The bear photography was
pretty good there. From Geographic it was a four hour boat ride to Hallo Bay.
Hallo Bay is beautiful! Unfortunately for us the bear viewing was very scarce
and the bears that were there were really skittish. After </span><a href="http://www.harveywildlifephotography.ca/landscapes-aurora-borealis-flora-and-abstracts/landscapes/Hallo-Bay-Pano-Meadow/" style="font-size: x-large;" target="_blank">Hallo Bay</a><span style="font-size: large;"> we cruised
into Kukak Bay. The bears in Kukak bay were dosey and just kind of layed
around. After a couple empty bear viewing attempts at Kukak Bay, four of us
chose to go on skiff rides instead of photographing sleepy bears. Our skiff highlights
were </span><a href="http://www.harveywildlifephotography.ca/birds/puffins/" style="font-size: x-large;" target="_blank">photographing puffins</a><span style="font-size: large;"> and a </span><a href="http://www.harveywildlifephotography.ca/north-american-wildlife/river-otters/" style="font-size: x-large;" target="_blank">family of river otters</a><span style="font-size: large;">. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">On one day we were
lucky enough to photograph a wolf. And the bear group was even luckier on one
morning. After seeing nothing all morning, <a href="http://www.harveywildlifephotography.ca/north-american-wildlife/north-american-k-9s/wolves/" target="_blank">the wolf that we photographed</a> earlier approached them and came within a few feet of them. What an incredible
encounter!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I would recommend this trip Captained by Chuck Keim aboard
the 70’ Coastal Explorer. Chuck has 30 years’ experience on the sea and is a
great guy! His second; Dwayne is about the hardest working guy you’ll meet. He kept
that boat “ship shape”.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The other highlight of our trip was meeting Sophia. Sophia is Chuck and Olga’s granddaughter. She joined us on the boat for a few days.
She has got to be the happiest four year old I’ve ever met. She kept us
entertained on the boat and was happily escorting the photographers to and from
the shore on the skiff with her Grandma and Grandpa. That little ray of
sunshine definitely added a fun aspect to the trip. We were all delighted to be
entertained by this little social butterfly. At four years old she was happy to
teach eight adults a life lesson. If you are nice to people and genuinely a positive
person. If you are fun to be around and welcoming to strangers, you will make
people’s day and they will adore you for your positive way about you. Whether
you are four or ninety six, people like that are just fun to be around.</span><br />
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photographers on an <a href="http://www.wildlifesafaris.ca/" target="_blank">HW Safaris</a> tour photographing black bear moms and cubs. While there are a lot of black bears that wander in and out of the
meadow, it is a hurry up and wait game for us as we are there for moms with
spring cubs. This area has a lot of black and cinnamon black bears. The various
colour tones of black bears make wonderful subjects.</span></div>
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This year we were
lucky enough to photograph a mom with three cubs. We saw her a couple times on
both the first and second days. We saw a mom with four, although you’ll have to
take my word for it because by the time we got in position to photograph her,
she and her cubs took off into the bush. We photographed a second mom with
triplets in the evening of the second day for an hour or so. On the third day
it rained throughout the morning. Outside the 8 boars that were in the area, we
got lucky photographing a yearling on a log. </div>
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The third day was pretty quiet,
but we persevered and just before it was time to leave, a mom and a single cub
wandered into the forest on the edge of the meadow. They gave us some nice
opportunities to photograph the cub as the little one went up a tree. Shooting
between the canopy of leaves we had a couple brief opportunities to get a
couple good images of her. <a href="http://www.harveywildlifephotography.ca/north-american-wildlife/north-american-bears/black-bears/Black-Bear-mom-and-flowers/" target="_blank">Our black bear gallery can be seen here.<o:p></o:p></a><br />
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Our next Black bear moms
and cubs safari will be in June, 2019. <a href="http://www.wildlifesafaris.ca/safari-destinations/minnesota--black-bears/" target="_blank">Check our itinerary for the dates and details if you are interested in a great opportunity to photograph black bear moms and cubs in their natural environment.</a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">If you live in the Edmonton area, we offer a wildlife photography course twice a year in the summer. Our next course will run September 8 & 9, 2018. To register, please visit <a href="https://www.bsop.ca/edmonton-wildlife-photography-classes/" target="_blank">Burwell School of Photography.</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We go back to the classroom to view our images and discuss what we can do to improve our <a href="http://www.harveywildlifephotography.ca/" target="_blank">wildlife portraits</a>. Then we drive out to Tofield to photograph Saw Whet Owls and peregrine falcons.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">On day two we analyze our images again, learn more techniques on speed photography then we practice our new skill by photographing Rio, flying toward the photographers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This is a great course to prepare you for any one of our wildlife safaris. Join us in <a href="http://www.wildlifesafaris.ca/safari-destinations/alaskan-brown-bear-safari/" target="_blank">Alaska</a> as we <a href="http://www.wildlifesafaris.ca/safari-destinations/alaskan-brown-bear-safari/" target="_blank">photograph brown bears</a> or <a href="http://www.wildlifesafaris.ca/safari-destinations/minnesota--black-bears/" target="_blank">black bears in Minnesota</a> or the Ultimate bucket list safari of them all. <a href="http://www.wildlifesafaris.ca/safari-destinations/masai-mara-kenya/" target="_blank">Masai, Mara, Kenya</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Our Bucket List Masai Mara Wildlife Photo Safari is sold out. <span style="color: red;">We have four spots open for our Masai Mara trip in February, 22 to March 7th, 2019.</span> <a href="http://www.wildlifesafaris.ca/safari-destinations/masai-mara-february-2019/" target="_blank">Visit HW Photo & Safaris</a> for more details.</span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/"></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Email <a href="mailto:greg@hwphoto.ca">greg@hwphoto.ca</a> to register for this bucket list Safari in Kenya.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">When we go the Mara, we support four schools. In February we were able to bring in 1300 pounds in donations. School supplies, teaching supplies, washable feminine hygiene products, books and soccer balls. We even had 900 soccer jerseys donated by Millwoods Soccer Association. We take care of the donations. Guests can donate or not. Many of our guests in February just donated their extra allowable checked luggage space. Everyone was able to examine the bag that had their name on it. We did the rest. We collected the donations, packed and organized the donations in our bags. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Spending an afternoon with the children was definitely one of the highlights of the trip. Anyone who isn't interested in visiting the school were able to go on a game drive while we were at the school.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">In June, 2019 we have a small group going to Alaska to photograph brown bears. <a href="http://www.wildlifesafaris.ca/safari-destinations/alaskan-brown-bear-safari/" target="_blank">Check out the link for more details.</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">This video was taken with an iPhone. That gives you an idea as to how habituated these wild bears are in this beautiful National Park in Alaska. This park is not accessible by road, so the brown bear viewing is much more special as there aren't crowds of people. Just a lot of bears. It is a very special wildlife experience. The below video is a fun video that we made for our last group.</span><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="YOUTUBE-iframe-video" data-thumbnail-src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/9tToXpCaILw/0.jpg" frameborder="0" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/9tToXpCaILw?feature=player_embedded" width="320"></iframe></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In February 18 of us enjoyed an <a href="http://www.wildlifesafaris.ca/" target="_blank">HW Photo & Safari tour</a>. We visited the world renowned <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5O3PuhVUeHg" target="_blank">Giraffe Manor </a></span></div>
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<span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">and a private tour of the <a href="https://www.sheldrickwildlifetrust.org/" target="_blank">David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust</a>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"> From there we chartered two Cessna planes and flew out to the Masai Mara where we stayed at two, five star luxury safari camps. <a href="https://www.governorscamp.com/property-descriptions/governors-camps-masai-mara/little-governors-camp" target="_blank">Little Governors Camp</a> again was amazing! The camp has such an amazing atmosphere with the tents opening up to the Marsh. Between game drives we enjoyed safaris right in our camp as the animals wandered through camp.</span></span></div>
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<span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">After our safari we made a slideshow for our guests:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We also took pictures and videos of our guests each day throughout the safari. Those images were uploaded to a secure webpage for my guests so each guest would have images from their safari as keepsakes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We were able to collect and donate 1300 pounds of school supplies, teaching supplies, washable feminine hygiene products, clothing, shoes, soccer uniforms and shoes etc. It was truly an amazing experience. Meeting the children, handing out the supplies and playing soccer with the kids at the school was a highlight that I'm sure we will always cherish.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Our November, 2018 bucket list safari trip is full. The good news is we still have four spots available for our <a href="http://wildlifesafaris.ca/safari-destinations/masai-mara-kenya/" target="_blank">February, 2019 Safari</a>. I welcome you to join us for another epic bucket list safari. Pictures from our safaris can be seen on our <a href="http://www.harveywildlifephotography.ca/" target="_blank">wildlife photography website at </a><a href="http://www.hwphoto.ca/">www.hwphoto.ca</a></span></div>
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Fit N Well Inc. And HW Photo & Safarishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17019733821925706077noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6752519356684556007.post-69428094563463257932017-02-23T11:53:00.001-07:002017-02-23T12:35:39.676-07:00The Need for High-End Compact Cameras...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana";">In this blog I have added a few images from my favourite places to photograph wildlife. South Africa, Kenya, Northern Canada, Southern France and Alaska. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana";"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjO6mX-75jG3V09l7RoEEvObIQ1i7Oay3gNUghVkt7C5AuGkrT41Sk8Om9ydyTlq8KIeD_LrUdEE8AzD2pKJbW3OPpxZjJv89EvxGZ5-t496sHtkLIBj4pq3CaHZzNKk1iPMUlqcANgGsKe/s1600/Giraffe+and+Acacia+Tree+Silhouette.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="228" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjO6mX-75jG3V09l7RoEEvObIQ1i7Oay3gNUghVkt7C5AuGkrT41Sk8Om9ydyTlq8KIeD_LrUdEE8AzD2pKJbW3OPpxZjJv89EvxGZ5-t496sHtkLIBj4pq3CaHZzNKk1iPMUlqcANgGsKe/s320/Giraffe+and+Acacia+Tree+Silhouette.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "verdana";">As a </span><a href="http://www.harveywildlifephotography.ca/" style="font-family: Verdana;">wildlife
photographer</a><span style="font-family: "verdana";"> I do a fair amount of traveling to different areas of the
world. I travel with high-end DSLR’s and big zoom and prime lenses. Add in a
subject and I am astounded by their ability to create sharp images of animals
moving at a distance in low light. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana";">What has been bothering me the past few years is not
all of the images that I am taking, rather, all of the wonderful images I am
missing. As fantastic as DSLR’s and big lenses are, they are cumbersome and
attract attention. The majority of my time traveling is spent with this
equipment packed away in discreet cases that look like suitcases. I do this so
I don’t draw any attention to those who may be interested in relieving me of my
gear and or any money I have on me at the time. Once I get to my destination in
the bush or the jungle away from people the gear comes out and the magic
begins.</span><br />
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way. The problem is there is a huge quality gap between what my DSLR produces
in images and what my Iphone or point and shoot camera produces. When I heard about Lightco's <a href="https://www.pinterest.com/thelightco/vantage-point/" target="_blank">#Vantagepoint</a> I got excited about their approach. A <a href="https://light.co/camera" target="_blank">compact camera</a> the size of my point and shoot that creates images that are of similar quality of my DSLR's. </span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "verdana";">A high-quality camera that records videos in 4K and
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to stop over at the Eiffel Tower while in Paris in the evening to take
low-light images of the Eiffel tower lit up without carrying around expensive
looking bulky camera gear. Walking around Paris at night with expensive DSLR’s
then getting on the subway just screams “mug me”. While in India and visiting
the Taj Mahal, a camera like the L16 Light camera again gives me the quality of
my DSLR’s without attracting the attention of any poor locals who will drape
themselves over me in hopes that I will pay them to be my guide or carry my
gear etc. A high-end camera that fits in my pocket will allow me the freedom to
get all the images before and after the safari that I am looking for. This while
keeping a low profile and without adding significant weight to my carry-on bag.
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into a hut in a Masai village. The inside of the hut is quite dark. It has a
small fire pit in the middle for those cold nights with two sleeping areas. One
for the kids and one for the mother. The walls of the hut are made of mud and
cow manure And below that are my favourite images from when a group of Masai
dancers stopped by in the evening and entertained us at my favourite camp in Kenya. </span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US">Days are pretty full while on safari. We get up at 5:45a.m., leave for safari at 6:15a.m., we're back at 11:30a.m. I download and back up my images, have lunch, quickly organize the images, then I hopefully get in a half hour snooze and we are out on safari again from 3:30p.m. to 6:30p.m. Once back at camp I download and back up images, shower, dinner at 7:30. Back at the tent, I diarize the days events, then am asleep by 9:30p.m. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Internet access is often spotty, so I haven't been blogging regularly while on safari these past few trips. I do want to be able to look back to use the blog as a reference, so I'm back home now and will finish it up where the internet is reliable and I have a little more time.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><b>Entim Day Two, drives four and five:</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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pride of lions sleeping. There were 3 lionesses, a<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>big male and four, six month-old cubs. There
were a lot safari jeeps in the area. Thankfully those people got bored as the
lions were sleeping in the tall grass. They left and we had breakfast, then the
lions got up and started moving and we got some great images of them as they
walked down the road toward us.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">We found a serval cat. This was my first
serval cat sighting in the wild. She was beautiful, but unfortunately I didn’t
get any good images of her. It was sad. She walked around in the tall grass calling her babies.
It isn’t looking good for her. We watched her for a couple hours. She would
wander around and find a small treat here and there, then go back to that same
area and cry again.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">We found a lioness with 5, two month old
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<span lang="EN-US">It was dark and raining really hard as we
attempted to photograph the mom and three lion cubs. I thought two had died as
there were only three left. Looking more closely at my images that evening, I discovered
that mom was babysitting two cubs that were slightly older than hers. We never
did catch up with either lioness or their cubs again.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><b>Day Four, Drives eight and nine:</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">It was a very uneventful morning. I think it rained most of the night and the roads were like driving in grease. We were looking for the lioness and her cubs and got stuck and had to be towed out. I
took one picture of a huge crocodile on that game drive and then we got stuck again. Between the 5' long grass and the wet, I think the predators were just laying low.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><b>Day Five, Game drives ten and eleven:</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">We found Sierra and her cub. Sierra was in a
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<span lang="EN-US">We went out to see the cheetahs again. We
couldn’t find Sierra and her baby so we went on to find Maliaka and her two cubs
sleeping in the<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>bush. They were boring
and we heard over the radio that they found Sierra so we drove out to see them.
They were lying high on a grassy, abandoned termite mound. We spent the rest of
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<span lang="EN-US">When it is really hot we drink a lot of water. When we drink a lot, we tend to have to "check the tire" a little more often than usual. On the way home from the cheetah sighting it was already really dark. Another
vehicle from Entim got a flat, so the guys had to change the tire in the mud,
in the dark. They did really well considering the circumstances. Our vehicle may get stuck, but we never once got a flat. We took credit for that. We were good "tire monitors'".<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Another tough morning. We couldn’t find
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<span lang="EN-US">This game drive was a tough one. We started
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camp. We couldn’t find them so we went to the cheetahs. We couldn’t find Sierra,
but caught up with Maliaka and her two boys snoozing in the grass. They never
did get up, so we drove back to camp. On the way back it was getting pretty dark, but we found a hyena den with
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<span lang="EN-US">I thought this game drive would be mostly
just a transfer to Little Governors Camp. We started out by seeing a few
elephants. The baby elephant decided he was going to challenge our land rover
to a fight. It was pretty entertaining. <span id="goog_2020544010"></span><span id="goog_2020544011"></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/"></a></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US">After that we saw Sierra and her cub in
their tree again. We followed them for about an hour, then went on our way. We
then saw about 15 hyenas. From there we went out of the park and through a town
where we met a once orphaned eland. She is now quite friendly and came up to
our landrover looking for food. I offered nuts, but she wouldn’t accept them. I
did scratch her behind the ears which she she seemed to tolerate. </span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US">From there we
photographed a baby zebra. After that we came upon lipstick, the four cubs and three lionesses. They had just taken down a topi. By the time we got there
there was nothing left but a few bits of meat on a rib cage which the jackals
were quite enjoying. We almost got to Little Governors’ camp and found a hyena
den with several babies, then troops of hundreds of baboons and herds totalling
about 50 elephants (that we could see on the way to camp). Ironically, the transfer to Little Governors' camp was one of our best game drives of the entire week!<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US">Images at <a href="http://www.harveywildlifephotography.ca/">Harvey Wildlife Photography</a>.</span></div>
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Fit N Well Inc. And HW Photo & Safarishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17019733821925706077noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6752519356684556007.post-14202502148470180822016-02-07T05:17:00.002-07:002016-02-07T05:25:26.576-07:00First full day at Entim Camp...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span lang="EN-US">We had a pretty successful morning drive.
It started with a jackal lying on the side of the road all cuddled up trying to
keep warm, then we saw a dozen or so hyenas in a few different groups. Hyenas
have a face that only a mother could love, but one layed down on the side of
the road so two of her babies could nurse. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Ugly or not, it was still sweet. We spent
a lot of the morning looking for a lioness and her three six- week old cubs, but
couldn’t find them. We gave up then caught up with a cheetah mom and her two
thirteen month-old cubs and spent a couple hours with them. It started with
them jumping on a jeep. </span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMq7meAbPMhcAe1EWzBb4brCevNJoZUSQullU-F9qTGOjnCSsli4KkUkWLUYnZJzlHfbOGRbHbIAb9uECz8mdm3WitCIVdgCG7tyvWjBqBLm9jM_xTkNt41vBAE0gjhnu0J_ZYF3TdLLOb/s1600/Three_Cheetahs_2016.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="285" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMq7meAbPMhcAe1EWzBb4brCevNJoZUSQullU-F9qTGOjnCSsli4KkUkWLUYnZJzlHfbOGRbHbIAb9uECz8mdm3WitCIVdgCG7tyvWjBqBLm9jM_xTkNt41vBAE0gjhnu0J_ZYF3TdLLOb/s400/Three_Cheetahs_2016.jpg" width="400" /></a><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US">It is a big “no-no” allowing cheetahs on your vehicle. Guides can get in trouble if they get caught allowing this. Our sighting ended with a failed impala hunt. From there we caught up with another cheetah mom and her super cute 6 month old cub. They had just killed an impala. The six-month old was dragging the carcas around showing off how tough he is I guess. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "wingdings";">J</span><span lang="EN-US"> The grass around them was really long so the picture opportunities were pretty scarce. And then they started eating. Their faces get all covered in blood which makes them less than photogenic, so we headed back to camp for lunch.</span></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCTeRCLQdp9BRBj42d1MH6hseCTEHndqxk6GcznA8yXK_8Qys5oNf5lydhb7urLNe-LVD6mAgaN6x9-2PMbxQrPhCry1_wLj4aaugncbbX3K2FNOCSuhpgEX9R3IgEeETo8i_e8MTvDTlg/s1600/Leopard_Tree_2016.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="456" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCTeRCLQdp9BRBj42d1MH6hseCTEHndqxk6GcznA8yXK_8Qys5oNf5lydhb7urLNe-LVD6mAgaN6x9-2PMbxQrPhCry1_wLj4aaugncbbX3K2FNOCSuhpgEX9R3IgEeETo8i_e8MTvDTlg/s640/Leopard_Tree_2016.jpg" width="640" /></a><span lang="EN-US">After lunch our game drive wasn’t very
fruitful until Gaye saw a leopard in a tree. It was a great sighting... for about
5 minutes until a vehicle pulled up too close and scared her down into the bush. We found
her in the bush a few minutes later and took a few shots of her only to realize that she wasn’t the
same leopard that we saw in the tree. This was one of her cubs. It turns out
that she had two cubs and over the next two days a lot of people drove over to see them. We have been busy with lions, but hopefully we will be able to find them again at some
point.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">My images aren't up yet, but will be at my website <a href="http://www.harveywildlifephotography.ca/" target="_blank">Harvey Wildlife Photography</a> </span><br />
<span lang="EN-US"><br /></span>
<span lang="EN-US">On our next game drive we caught up with a pride of lions and some crazy cute lion cubs. I haven't edited them yet, but I think on that drive I got my first good images of the trip to date, so I was really happy about that drive. I will edit one and add it to the next blog posting.</span></div>
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Fit N Well Inc. And HW Photo & Safarishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17019733821925706077noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6752519356684556007.post-38351390963554865232016-02-06T05:15:00.003-07:002016-02-06T05:15:58.608-07:00Travelling to Africa...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Africa
Travel day(s)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Edmonton to Montreal- Smooth. We’re early
so we register our gear at customs. There are no line ups and we get on our
flight. 4 hours later we are in Montreal.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Montreal to CDG, Paris- Another smooth
connection with a 90-minute connection time.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">CDG Paris to Istanbul- Oh CDG; What a crazy
place. When we were here in 2008 it took us 3 hours to get from one connection
to the next. This
time we walked for 30 minutes or so. From there we had to go through security and here they examine all of my gear lens-by-lens, camera-by-camera. We catch a shuttle bus to
terminal one only to walk and walk and walk and end up at security again where
again, we empty my gear out of three camera bags so they can inspect every
piece. This is the only airport in the world that I have been in that is that
thorough. Oh well, perhaps that is good for safety reasons. It is just
stressful as I have to hold everyone up while my bags get torn apart and I hope
that every piece of camera gear finds its way back in my bag.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">At Istanbul we have a 6 hour lay over so I
posted my Iceland/France blog and wait…Our next flight and we are finally in
Nairobi. Istanbul to Nairobi. We leave at 12:50a.m. and arrive at 8:40a.m. Kind
of makes for a long day.</span></div>
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Since Aeroplan changed our flights around
our travel was a little more challenging. As I type this, I am lyng in something
called a bed. I haven’t been in one of these in over 50 hours! We got in this
morning, had a little time to do some souvenir shopping before we caught our flight to the Mara. In all honesty Gaye
had time to do some souvenir shopping. I don’t know if it was the first
malarone pill (malaria pill). Or lack of sleep or a little of both. I was
feeling really uncomfortable so I rested in the car while Gaye shopped. Gaye had
a successful shopping spree, was happy and bought me lunch after her shopping
spree. Dry bread and soup were a welcome addition.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The airstrip we landed at in the Mara.</td></tr>
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<b>Our Flight to the Mara...</b></div>
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Most people while flying over the Masai Mara National Park look down at the herds of giraffe and elephants and are in awe of the spectacle from above. Me? I look up at the ceiling thinking please don’t throw up, please don’t throw up. Then oops. Better luck next time chump! So much for the dry bread and soup making me feel better. Fortunately for me, Gaye and I were the only ones on the flight and I know where the sick bags are. I'm weak and shaky, but we go on our first game drive and do okay. I certainly wasn't going to travel 50 hours and miss any drives. That's for sure. In fact I even got a pretty decent image or two on that first game drive. I'll post more later.</div>
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Fit N Well Inc. And HW Photo & Safarishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17019733821925706077noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6752519356684556007.post-67251649453752326522016-02-03T10:16:00.003-07:002016-02-21T05:18:27.364-07:00Iceland and France, 2015<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Iceland
and France, 2015<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Okay, so admittedly, I am really far behind
on this blog. I have been putting it off because the entire trip was a comedy
of errors and I wanted to figure out a way to write it without naming names or
making anyone feel badly. At the same time there is a lot to be learned from
what happened; and in retrospect, some of it was pretty funny…Only in retrospect! This
blog is a little on the long side. My apologies for that. I promise my African
blogs will be shorter. I put off writing about this trip because I like to think that I am busy. Well I am sitting in the airport in Istanbul right now and our flight to Nairobi doesn't leave for 5 more hours, so I have no more excuses.</span></div>
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Our Iceland/France trip really was made up of many near
disasters so I really had to write about them. You may want to read on because
the stuff that happened was almost unbelievable. It was like one of those corny
movies where three friends go on holidays and everything goes wrong, but they
manage to come home in one piece. They learn some lessons and in the end their
adventure ends on a happy note.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Guiser in Iceland</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US">Now, I am the first to admit that stuff
happens. Anyone who knows me or has read my blogs knows I have done a ton of
really dumb things and have had a ton of things happen to me on my travels. I’m
one to talk. In 2011 in India, I offered beef jerky to a Hindu (that was before
I became a vegan of course). In 2012 a frozen toilet on a plane kind of
exploded and covered me in my own urine…Not my fault, but certainly not my best
moment either. In 2005 a friend and I got locked in a room in an airport in Russia. They thought we were trying to illegally stay in the country when really we
were desperate to get out of Russia. In 2010 I got food poisoning in Africa and
lost my cookies on a bush plane. That wasn’t pretty. I missed a flight due to a
blizzard in the Arctic, I could go on. Stuff happens all the time, but not this
trip. So many things happened and kept happening and so much of it was
avoidable that it just turned our trip into one that went from one disaster to
another.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Our intention was to fly to Iceland, spend
a few days photographing puffins, then fly to Paris where we would take the
fast train to Avignon. From there we would rent a van and drive to Saintes
Maries de la Mer to photograph the Camargue horses. Four days of photographing
horses, then we drop off the van and take the train back to Paris where we
would stay another couple days.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I love the Icelandic Ponies' manes. They<br />
aren't coarse like the North American<br />
horses' manes. They are actually quite<br />
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<span lang="EN-US">What actually happened was close, but was
really just a trip filled with near-disasters that we kept on escaping from.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Leaving
Edmonton…<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">My mom wanted to go with us to Iceland so
she, a colleague of mine and I were going to fly to Iceland and meet up with a
third photographer; my colleagues brother-in-law from the States. Mom, brave
soul that she is would go on her excursions on her own and we would head up north 8 hours
to photograph the puffins for three days. Three days later she would fly back to Edmonton. That same morning we
would return to Reykjavik and fly to Paris.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Arriving
in Reykjavik…<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I realize many people have traveled to
further ends of the earth than I have or likely ever will. That being said, I
have traveled internationally a fair bit and like to think I know what to
expect when arriving in a foreign country.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>What happened here wasn’t a huge thing. Just strange. Upon arriving in
Iceland they had everyone go through security so they could leave the airport.
I asked them why and what they were looking for; for education sake. They told
me they are just looking for the same things that they look for in Edmonton in
security. Fire arms, knives, drugs, etc. You would think if we had any of that,
they would have found it in security in Edmonton. Strange. Stranger, I think
they were confiscating people’s duty-free alcohol. Very strange. I still don’t
understand the strategy there.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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One: Travel Day And Golden Circle:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">As we were getting ready to catch our 6:30p.m.
flight to Iceland we got word that the third photographer didn’t book his
flights properly and missed a flight which in turn would make him miss his
flight to Iceland. He would have to stay over night in Detroit. Unfortunate,
but we decided we would roll with the punches, pick up our car, tour around
Reykjavik and return to the airport the following day and pick him up so he
wouldn’t have to drive up to the cliffs alone.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Europe's Largest Waterfall</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US">Upon landing in Iceland, we couldn’t find
our car rental company. There were only three car rental places in the airport.
We asked them where our rental company was and they were quite rude telling us
that there are 65 car rental companies in Reykjavik and they couldn’t possibly
know where our rental company was located. In a fake attempt at compassion they
reassured us that if we wanted to rent one of their vehicles they had some
available. Long story short, there were regular shuttles leaving the airport
and the car rental company is located about 100 yards away from the airport.
They knew both of these tidbits of information, but weren’t about to help us.
That would have been too much effort. That "Icelandic welcoming committee" had to drive by
our car rental company every day to get to the airport. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">So congratulations Avis, Budget and Hertz at the Iceland airport you
are all officially assholes and I will tell everyone I know who is going to
Iceland not to use your services</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">It is a 45-minute drive from the airport to
Reykjavik. We dropped mom off at her hotel, then began touring the golden
circle and doing “the tourist thing”. I don’t typically do touristy things, but
we were rolling with the punches. We photographed some Icelandic ponies along
the way and made the best of it. It was a long day because we left at 6:30p.m.
from Edmonton and landed in Iceland at 6:30a.m. from there we toured around
until 9p.m.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We bought some groceries for
supper and for the next day, booked into a hotel and called it a night.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Two- Picking up our American friend and our drive to the Latrabjarg Cliffs:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">By the time our American friend’s flight
came in and we were able to pick him up and get on our way it was already
noonish. After a long day of driving and making a little time to stop along the
way to photograph some Icelandic ponies, we finally arrived at our hotel near
the Latrabjarg cliffs at about 9p.m. There was some light left so we went to
the cliffs to photograph the puffins. It was pretty cool. There were hundreds
of puffins. It was too dark to get the best of photos so we stayed out for a
couple hours then retired back to the hotel looking forward to one full day of
puffin photography the following day.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">All wasn't lost on the puffins. I did get one image that I like.</td></tr>
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Three- <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The windy Latrabjarg Cliffs:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The next morning we got up early to go to
the cliffs. We walked for a couple hours along the world famous Latrabjarg puffin
cliffs and only saw one puffin! The winds were so strong we had to lean
into the wind to walk. I’ve never felt winds like that before. We came back and
they told us that the puffins only come out in the evening. We spent the day in
our room (nothing to do in the middle of no-where). We went back out at 5 pm
ready for some great puffin photography. Unfortunately the winds were so strong
that we didn’t see so much as a puffin.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Number One:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">When you are travelling with other people
don’t assume that they will just arrive when they are supposed to. Ask for
their flight numbers and travel plans. If they are booking flights individually
and don’t leave a few hours between connection times they can cost you valuable
days of waiting around instead of enjoying your photo safari. In this case the
connection mishap cost us two days of puffin photography plus we missed an expensive night in a hotel and insult to injury had to book an additional night elsewhere. Their flights are your business. If they screw up their flights, it costs you money and days of valuable photography time.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Four- The Drive back to Reykjavik/ Flight to Paris/ Train to Avignon/ Drive to
Saintes Maries de la Mer…One Long Day!:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The next morning we left the hotel and
started driving back to the airport so we could catch our flight to Paris. We
saw one really pretty location overlooking the ocean and got out for a few
snapshots. Our American friend who missed his flight slipped and had a fall on
the lava rocks. He is tough though and didn’t really focus on it. He just said
the rocks were slippery and he scraped his shin. I didn’t realize it was
anything to be concerned about as he didn’t make a big deal of it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> I kind of feel guilty about this one. I saw this view and wanted to take a picture and this is where our friend fell on the<br />
rocks. Oh well, who knew?</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US">Late that afternoon we arrived at the airport.
We were a few hours early as were about a hundred other people. Strangely there
are no chairs in the waiting area so we all lined the walls sitting on the
floor.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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in Paris…<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Arriving in Paris we had to wait a few
hours for our train. Long story, but my colleague and I and our American friend
got split up while boarding the train. We were all on the train though so all
was good. A couple hours later when the train was stopping in Avignon, I was
hoping he would know to get off the train. We had to check the GPS on a phone
to know when to get off, as the train doesn’t announce the name of the stops.
Strange to me, but it is what it is. We must have been missing something. Or
maybe the locals just know where to get off? I have no idea.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">We get off the train in Avignon and what a
relief as there standing on the train deck is our American friend. The first
thing I notice is he has his suitcase, but that’s it. I ask where his camera
gear is. You can’t hide 25 grand in camera gear. It takes up space and as a photographer,
that is the first thing I notice. All the colour drains from his face and he
says “I forgot it on the train!” Next thing you know he is doing what any sane
person would do. He is running down the train deck yelling at the French people
“Stop the train! Stop the train!”. Alright so 25 grand in camera gear is now
going to Marseille. He doesn’t speak a word of French and is yelling at
everyone he sees. Like that is going to go over well in the countryside in
Southern France. They were just ignoring him. So we wait as he talks to every
train station official he can find until he finds someone who speaks a little English
and is willing to help. Apparently someone is taking his bag off the train at
Marseille and he will be able to pick up his bag there.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Number Two:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Don’t let your colleagues split from the
group. My theory is that when I travel I get over-tired and my intelligence
drops to that of the average house plant. I make mistakes that I never would
make at home. And clearly I’m not the only one. Stay together so you can watch
each other’s back. Traveling in a group is safer so you may as well take advantage of it. And your friends can watch out for you if you are feeling sick or are
forgetting something important like; I don’t know 25 grand in camera gear
maybe?!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">$25
Grand in lost Camera Gear before our main photo shoot starts? Ouch?!<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Iclenadic Horse and Foal. Too much reading and<br />
not enough pictures, so I will have to throw some<br />
in here and there</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US">My colleague and I rent the van and head to
Saintes Maries de la Mer so we can find the charming farmhouse that we are
staying at. In the meantime, our American colleague gets on the next train to
Marseiile to see if he can catch up with his camera gear. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span>Well, we get to Saintes Maries de la Mer,
but we can’t find our accommodations. It is some vague random rural address.
Our hosts aren’t answering their phone and our gps shows the address in the
middle of a swamp. We try desperately to find our rental. We stop at every farm
house we can find, but between our broken French and their broken English we
really aren’t getting anywhere. It is getting late and we are supposed to drive
back to Avignon to meet up with our American friend. Our meeting time is in 45
minutes so my colleague decides to do a U-turn so we can head back. He
accidentally backs into the ditch and gets us stuck. Now we are hungry, can’t
find our accommodations, we’re high-sided on the bank of the ditch and are
officially late picking up our American friend. We empty our gear out of the
van and I try pushing. We don’t have much room for error as the van is just a
few feet away from a fence. Unfortunately for me the forward gear is right
beside reverse so when I go to push the van backs into me and throws me into
the fence. Okay, I’m not injured so we’re still good, but we’re still stuck. It
takes another 15 minutes before I think about using my head a bit. Growing up
on the farm has taught me a thing or two. Instead of trying to drive straight
up on to the road, because we are high-sided, we drive through the ditch at an
angle until we are back on the road again. And it works!</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I'm not a birder, but when flamingos are flying over head, you may as well take a shot or two. I love their colours.</td></tr>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Stuck
and Late…<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Okay, so that worked. Now we are going to
be a couple hours late in picking up our friend and we’re starving. We haven’t
eaten since having a small $10 sandwich in the Paris airport early in the
morning and it’s now supper time so we stop off at a fruit stand, pick up some
delicious fresh fruit and head north to Avignon. No problem, we should just
call our friend and let him know we’re going to be late right? Problem. He
didn’t bring a phone and I didn’t know he didn’t have a phone. Who doesn’t
travel with a phone? Well, he doesn’t. He wanted his holiday to be a
stress-free holiday without a phone and out of contact from work. Fair enough,
but that isn’t helping lower our stress levels now. By the time we get to the
Avignon train station we are 2.5 hours late and worried that he… well we had no
idea what he would do.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Lesson
Number Three:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Don’t travel with people who don’t bring
cell phones. That is just a recipe for disaster! It is always safer while in a
strange country to at the very least be able to text people in case you split
up and can’t find one another.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">It turns out that our American friend
caught up to his camera gear. He gave the gentleman a healthy tip for helping
him out then got back on the train to Avignon. Unfortunately he got off the
train at the wrong station. That can happen when you don’t speak the language,
don’t have a phone with GPS or any phone at all and because they don’t announce
the train stops. The train just stops, people get off, people get on and I
never even saw any signs so I can’t say that I blame him. So he had to hire a
cab and 100 more Euros later and 2.5 hours late he got to the train
station…about ten minutes before we got there, so all is good.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One of my favourite shots from the trip. A single white stallion running along the beach of the Mediterranean.</td></tr>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Lost
Days…<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">So, one day lost due to a missed flight.
Another half day lost due to the late flight coming in and another half day lost
due to camera gear left on a train. My Edmonton colleague and I are still in
good spirits though. I figured it is like a bad day of fishing on a nice day.
It’s still nice out and it is still fishing, so how bad could it be? I had
nothing to be down about. We were in Southern France, the weather was
beautiful, the scenery was amazing, the Camargue horses were beautiful and
we’re having an adventure. It is what it is and we are rolling with the
punches. The three of us drive to Saintes Maries de la Mer and now it is
getting dark. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Short
Tempers, 10 p.m. and No Accommodations…</span></b><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">We are now driving to Saintes Maries de la
Mer and looking for our accommodations. Our American colleague is furious that
we weren’t able to find our accommodations. We start asking everyone we see if
they know of where our farmhouse is. No one knows. It is 10p.m. finally we find
a lady who tells us to go to le hotel de la plage. They are big partiers and
know everyone. Pretty easy task right? Saintes Maries de la Mer is a small
town. How hard could it possibly be to find Le Plage hotel? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Well, it’s fricken harder than you might
think. The town is on the ocean and le plage means the beach so every second
restaurant or business seemed to be called le plage.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">We drove around the town about three times
to no avail and our American colleague was getting madder and madder and was
yelling at us. In turn I was getting really pissed off. In all fairness, we
lost a day and a half photographing puffins because he had trouble with his
flights. My Edmonton colleague and I lost the reservation at the puffin place
that we paid for at $350 per night and in addition had to book a hotel in
Reykjavik. Then we lost half a day in Saintes Maries de la Mer because our
American friend left his camera gear on the train. Had he been sitting with us
we could have been watching his back, but nope. He had to separate from us and
leave his gear on the train which cost us another half day. One person has now
cost us two full photography days and a couple hundred bucks as we had to book
another hotel room and he is mad at us??!! I was starting to lose my cool. We
weren’t even half way through the trip though so I was trying to bite my lip. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">On the second drive through town I had
noticed in faded print high up on a building something that I thought said “Hotel
de la Plage”. I kept on telling the guys about it and they kept disagreeing
with what I thought I saw so I finally just got out. The van was still
rollling, but I couldn’t be in that car one more second. I told my Edmonton
friend that I would text him if I found something and jumped out of the van.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I love the Camargue horses. They are so beautiful!</td></tr>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Found
It!!!!<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Walking around the corner I could see on
the business awning that I was actually in the right spot. The sign was just
hidden from view and it was about 10:30p.m. at this point so it was hard to
see. I walked into the bar and started asking about our accommodations. Oddly
enough a patron there knew exactly what I was talking about. In fact he used to
work on that small farm. He agreed to get in the van and would direct us to the
farm house. It was only about a ten minute drive. I didn’t want them to think
we were some kind of crazy axe murders from North America, so I suggested that
I would stay behind and order some drinks while they found the farm house. I figured
he would feel safer if one of us stayed behind with their friends.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Greg
Drinking???!!<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Anyone who knows me knows I don’t drink.
Not a drop. I don’t like what drinking does, I think it is a waste of money and
a waste of alertness, judgement and more often than not; health. But when in
Rome…The intoxicated people in the bar were wondering about the North American
stranger so I had a few tequila drinks and tried to fit in…And actually they
weren’t half bad. And neither were the drinks. Half an hour later, the boys
came back in great spirits. We bought our new friend some drinks and some
dinner at midnight and all was good again.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Lost
Wallet<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">On our first day at the beach town we
thought we would buy some postcards for our ladies back home. We stop at a
souvenir shop and pick up some postcards and go home for lunch. My Edmonton
friend discovers that his wallet is missing. Flustered he and I drive back into
town. No wallet at the souvenir shop and no word of it. Maybe it is at home
somewhere? Nope. Can’t find it anywhere but we have a photoshoot to get to so
we will have to take care of it later. That evening he calls his credit card
company and cancels his bank and credit cards.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i>In case I am boring you too much and you can't tolerate any more of my drivel, but would like to see more images you can go straight to my <a href="http://www.harveywildlifephotography.ca/horses/icelandic-horses/Iceland_horses_rearing_up/" target="_blank">Iceland horse images</a>, <a href="http://www.harveywildlifephotography.ca/birds/puffins/Puffin-Couple-2/" target="_blank">puffin images </a>or <a href="http://www.harveywildlifephotography.ca/horses/camargue-horses/camargue_horses_pond_2015/" target="_blank">Camargue horse images</a>.</i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Lesson
Number Four:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">Don’t carry all of your credit cards, debit
cards and money in the same place. I was a little careful about that sort of
thing before with my hard drives. I tend to carry one in a pocket and the other
in a camera bag. This was a good lesson for me. I carry a picture of my
passport on my phone, extra passport pictures and I split up my credit cards
and debit cards and money so they aren’t in the same place. The best part is my
camera bags are locked up so they double as portable safes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Try
the police Station…<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">All we know to say is la portefeuille…(wallet
in French). Sure enough a really nice lady handed in his wallet and didn’t take
so much as a Euro. My Edmonton friend asks for her phone number so he can give
her a nice tip for her troubles and his appreciation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Photo
Shoots…<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The photo shoots were good. We had some
communication issues and experienced some dissapointments, but all in all for
our first time, we all considered it a success…I think. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Last
Evening and the Last disaster…<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">On the last evening we were sad that our
time in France was quickly wrapping up. We went out for dinner as a group and
had a nice meal. Brigitte; our new friend from Belgium was going to drive home
that evening and had a 7 hour drive after a long 4 days of full photography.
She didn’t have another night in her hotel and we were worried about her so we
invited her to sleep on the couch at the farm house. My Edmonton friend and his
American brother-in-law were going to drive one of the guardians home and I
went with Brigitte so she knew how to get to the farm house. It really is
tricky to find, especially late at night.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">We get back to the farm house and my
Edmonton friend is upset. The streets in Saintes Maries de la Mer were designed
for horses and buggys many years ago so they are really narrow. Unfortunately
for him he cut a corner to short and scraped two panels of the van. That is
crappy, but he has insurance with his credit card so no problem right???<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Now do you remember when his wallet got
stolen and he canceled his cards? Well his insurance was on that credit card
that he cancelled. Now he will have to work with the credit card company to get
their insurance on a cancelled card to pay for an accident that he had after
his card was cancelled. Needless to say he spent several hours on the phone
that night. It was a long process and a couple weeks later he was reimbursed
for the $2700.00 in damage to the van. Yes, credit card insurance can be pretty
impressive!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Did
I say one last disaster? Are we out of the woods yet?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">On the fast train back to Paris we are
looking at pictures. I am anal about my images. I’m not the greatest
photographer, but when I travel half way around the world I do not leave my
images to chance. I really want to come home with them so I make sure to
download after every shoot and back up on a second hard drive in case the first
one gets damaged, lost or stolen. So our American friend opens up his laptop,
plugs in his hard drive and nothing is on it. He asks me to look at it. Nothing
I can do. “No problem, I tell him, that’s what back up’s are for. Just check
your second hard drive.” Well, he didn’t back up. An entire trip worth of
images possibly lost because someone couldn’t be bothered to pay an extra $89
for a second hard drive. That never makes any sense to me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Lesson
Number 5:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Always back up after every shoot. I can
never understand photographers who don’t do this. For those people it isn’t if,
but when something like this happens to them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">So, we are back on the fast train and paying
close attention to our stop in Paris and we tell him that we are getting close.
He decides that he needs to use the bathroom a few minutes before our stop. I
used the bathroom 30 minutes before our stop to be safe. Not him. Nope, had to
wait. Unfortunately there was a line up for the bathroom. Where is our American
friend? In the bathroom I guess. So we pack up his laptop and grab all of his
gear. We are getting off this train and we can’t just leave his gear out in the
open. We get off the train with his gear and hope that he gets off in time.
Sure enough he gets off the train in a panic wondering where all his gear is.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Lesson
Number 6:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Oh forget it, some people just don’t learn
their lessons. I shouldn’t be too harsh though because while over tired and
traveling I have done some pretty dumb things myself.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Paris
and Our last Scare…<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">So we are to spend a couple days in Paris
before flying home. Our American friend says his leg is burning up. I ask if I
can see it. Do you remember when he fell and scraped his leg in Iceland? Well
his leg now looks like he is wearing a red sock that goes almost up to his
knee. I guess four days of standing in swamps was a great breeding ground for
infection. It is about 6p.m. and I am scared for him. That will travel to your
heart and when it gets there you are dead. This is very serious! Well, he
called home and his wife found an emergency phone number. He called a doctor
who makes house calls. For about $80 a doctor came to our apartment at 2a.m.,
diagnosed his infection and prescribed antibiotics. The next morning at 10a.m.
he was at the pharmacy with his prescription. He bought these antibiotics that
dissolve in water like iced tea crystals. After the first three doses his
infection was already subsiding. By the following day the redness had almost
completely disappeared.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Lesson
Number 7:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">If you travel a lot it may not a bad idea
to go to the pharmacist and acquire some general antibiotics in case you fall
on the rocks in Iceland, cut your leg up, then spend four days in muddy swamps
in Southern France…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Hard
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<span lang="EN-US">So what about his hard drive? The company
is based in California. He shipped his hard drive off to California and hoped
for the best. $1500.00 US later the hard drive was shipped back with all of his
images in tact.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">If I have managed to keep your attention this long, congratulations you are either really patient or you are stuck under something heavy and your screen froze. :) Our American friend really is a great guy.. He just hasn't done much international travel. The more I travel, the more I realize it is kind of an art. You need to be safe, prepared, aware and polite. And you need to learn to learn from your mistakes. Much of this blog was to remind me what can go wrong when you are travelling internationally. These things could have just as easily have happened to me and I don't want them to, so I'm certainly going to remind myself of these lessons in the future.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.safaristories.ca/guardian.htm" target="_blank">I liked this series of shots of a guardian picking up his friends hat out of the water while at full gallop. I was impressed by his athleticism. </a></span></div>
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We also went to a bull fight. It is different and great in that the bull fighters are the ones in the most danger. The bulls often have a long career of ten years or so while the bull fighters are the most in danger. One slip and they are dead. The object is to pull a ribbon off the bulls head without getting gored. It is still mean teasing an animal, but at least they are levelling the playing field.<a href="http://www.safaristories.ca/Bull_butt_stab.htm" target="_blank"> Check out the gif. This guy got more than he bargained for and was really lucky that he only got a sharp poke.</a></div>
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Fit N Well Inc. And HW Photo & Safarishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17019733821925706077noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6752519356684556007.post-62539412889880949202015-04-03T12:17:00.001-06:002015-04-03T12:17:30.122-06:00Polar bear family 2015<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="344" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Uemspkc2hE0" width="459"></iframe>Fit N Well Inc. And HW Photo & Safarishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17019733821925706077noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6752519356684556007.post-20147202918819045112015-03-15T19:36:00.000-06:002015-05-02T14:58:58.321-06:00Polar Bear Moms and Cubs Days 7 through 10. 2015<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Out to
Fletcher lake again to look for tracks. The trackers still haven’t seen
triplets or even tracks of triplets yet this year. No bears today. We saw some
tracks on Fletcher lake. The mom and twins left yesterday and have already
walked out of range.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">No
bears. We sat in the van all day. <a href="http://www.harveywildlifephotography.ca/#/landscapes-aurora-borealis-flora-and-abstracts/aurora-borealis-(northern-lights)/Northern_lights_reds_2015" target="_blank">Amazing northern lights</a> that night! My best
northern lights images to date so far.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">They
found a mom and twins south of Lovett lake. We arrived there at 2p.m. When we
got there, a baby was standing on mom’s back as mom was standing. That is one
of my images that I am looking to get but unfortunately by the time we set up we missed it. It
was really warm. -6 to -8 degrees. There was no wind and we had a heat shimmer
for the first two hours. A heat shimmer occurs when the temperature warms up and the warm air hits the cold air just above the ground. The result is images that lack definition. It is very frustrating. All of our images were soft. As it got colder and the
wind picked up a bit, the images got sharper and sharper.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By the end of the day the images were really
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drove out to Fletcher lake again waiting to hear from the trackers. Mom and
cubs had already gone 10 or 15 miles and were already out of range. We drove
around Fletcher a bit, but didn’t see any tracks, so then drove out to Lovett
lake. We all checked out the polar bear den, then called it a day and drove
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p> And that's it for another trip to Wapusk National Park. I just got home. This year I was only able to get on to the internet three times over the past ten days so I am a little behind. My <a href="http://www.harveywildlifephotography.ca/#/north-american-wildlife/north-american-bears/polar-bear-moms-and-cubs-2015/Polar_Bears_Cuddling_2015" target="_blank">polar bear</a> and <a href="http://www.harveywildlifephotography.ca/#/landscapes-aurora-borealis-flora-and-abstracts/aurora-borealis-(northern-lights)/Northern_lights_reds_2015" target="_blank">northern lights images </a>can be seen on my <a href="http://www.harveywildlifephotography.ca/" target="_blank">website</a>.</o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p>My next safari isn't until June. I will be photographing puffins and horses in Iceland, then on to France to photograph Camargue Horses.</o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The
family on Lovett Lake was in the willows so we went the other way to Fletcher
lake. They found another den there but there was no action there so we drove
around Fletcher Lake looking for another den. We didn't see anything and got
back to the lodge around 5:30pm. That night the <a href="http://www.harveywildlifephotography.ca/#/landscapes-aurora-borealis-flora-and-abstracts/aurora-borealis-(northern-lights)/Northern_lights_reds_2015" target="_blank">northern lights</a> were
amazing. No reds, but some pretty impressive streaks.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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went to Lovett Lake. As we were getting to the first den we could see the mom
and twins. They were walking back to the den and went in before we got there. Mom and babies finally came
out at 5p.m<span style="color: blue;">.</span> It was a nice pink light but quite dark and my pictures
weren't as nice…Actually my images were crap. I was feeling quite sorry for myself until I discovered that many other photographers were experiencing the same problems.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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drove 45 minutes west to Lovett Lake and set up at the den. 20 minutes later we
got a call that tracks of a mom and twins were found east of the lodge on
Fletcher Lake. We got to the site around 11a.m. Mom and cubs napped most of the day. They got up and walked a bit around 2p.m. then
settled back down and napped again. Around 4ish they got up and walked around a
bit. We got some nice shots of the cubs between moms legs. By 4:30p.m. the
bears started on the next leg of their journey and we packed up and called it a
day.</span></div>
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waited to hear what is going on at the den at Lovett Lake. Not much going on
there and our family from yesterday has already walked out of reach so we drove
around Fletcher lake looking for dens. In the afternoon we caught up with
yesterday's bears having a sleep in a snow bank.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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we started by circling Fletcher lake looking for dens. Hoping that in the
meantime the trackers will find some fresh tracks. Lots of blowing snow and flat
light. We spent the day in the van, then decided to go back early. Even if we found bears, the images wouldn't have been any good anyway.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://www.harveywildlifephotography.ca/#/north-american-wildlife/north-american-bears/polar-bear-moms-and-cubs-2015/Polar_Bears_Cuddling_2015" target="_blank">Images from this year's safari can be seen here:</a></span></div>
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Fit N Well Inc. And HW Photo & Safarishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17019733821925706077noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6752519356684556007.post-69944801554261325522015-03-06T06:59:00.001-07:002015-05-02T14:59:37.491-06:00Polar Bear Moms and Cubs 2015 Day One...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span lang="EN-US">The arctic can be boring and yet exciting. It’s
a vast white emptiness and yet with constant -40- to -50 temperatures with the wind chill it’s always an adventure and you just never know
what is going to break down or where you may get stuck etc.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I managed to get to the lodge with minimal
issues. My Winnipeg to Churchill checked bag was held back, but did arrive on
the next flight. That was the flight that I was originally on that I was bumped
from because that flight was “cancelled”. Due to that cancelled flight, I had
to change my other plane ticket and book a hotel room. And yet, the flight did
exist…And that’s typical of flights in the Arctic where there is only one
airline. They can really do what ever they want. From there the train was
running and running on time so we got to the lodge with no issues. That sounds
like a no-brainer and they always manage to get us to the lodge. One year we
were sent out in vans and last year one of the photography groups were driven
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bombardier AKA polar bear finder</td></tr>
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Bombardiers kind of look like a metal can on tracks. One way
or another they make it work. It is hard to believe that in the early years, the photographers went out in search of polar bears in this bombardier. We may not enjoy running water out on the tundra, but we enjoy our safaris in the lap of luxury compared to what they used when they first started the lodge. And before the Bombardier, the photographers went out searching for polar bears on the back of skidoos. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">So, this polar bear season has been tough for the first
8 or 10 days with a couple white outs and a couple days where they had to stay
in the lodge. Then they had a few stellar days. They have seen 4 different
families thus far. Five including our first day. The conditions and the forecast is looking really good for
us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We started the day by checking out a
den on Lovett lake. Shortly thereafter we got word that she had moved on to a
second den a few miles away so we headed out. Unfortunately one of our vans got
buried/high centered going up a bank. Once we got out of that one, we found our
way to the next den. Mom came out at about 2p.m. and enjoyed 20 minutes of snow
baths. The tiny twins came out for a minute or two, then went back in the den.
At 5p.m. she came out again for 30 or so minutes, then the babies came out for
a few minutes again. The light was gorgeous and the mom and babies are
beautiful. The babies are pretty tiny so with any luck she won’t be leaving for
the Bay quite yet. Hopefully we will have the opportunity to see them again
tomorrow.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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My <a href="http://www.harveywildlifephotography.ca/" target="_blank">website</a> shows more polar bear images from my last 5 years here photographing polar bear moms and cubs. <a href="http://www.harveywildlifephotography.ca/#/north-american-wildlife/north-american-bears/polar-bear-moms-and-cubs-2015/Polar_Bears_Cuddling_2015" target="_blank">My 2015 polar bear gallery can be seen here.</a></div>
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Day Two:</div>
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The bear we were seeing from day 1 was in the willows so we went the other direction to Fletcher Lake. They know of a den there, but mom and babies didn't come out so we drove the entire 12 km's around Fletcher Lake. We didn't see anything. Hopefully day 3 will bring us some bears. It is the morning of day three. I have to start getting ready to go out. It takes about half an hour to get all the layers on and get my camera gear ready. I feel like a little kid getting into a snow suit. It is quite the process.</div>
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Fit N Well Inc. And HW Photo & Safarishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17019733821925706077noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6752519356684556007.post-49871938180688742252014-08-17T09:51:00.000-06:002014-08-17T18:45:03.332-06:00Anthropomorphism Makes For Great Wildlife Photography<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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seeing pictures of wildlife that are photographed while displaying some kind of
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Whether it’s a picture of a <a href="http://www.harveywildlifephotography.ca/#/wildlife-babies-aka-the-cute-zone/waving_polar_bear" target="_blank">polar bear waving</a> or
<a href="http://www.harveywildlifephotography.ca/#/north-american-bears/polar-bear-moms-and-cubs-2014" target="_blank">praying</a> or some other human-like behaviour. Scientists call this “anthropomorphism”.
While an animal behaviour may look similar to something that a human might do,
the thought processes of that animal are not the same as that of a human. The
talk of anthropomorphic behaviour is a big no-no in the scientific community.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">From my perspective as a <a href="http://www.harveywildlifephotography.ca/" target="_blank">wildlife photographer</a>, I
am always looking for anthropomorphic behaviours so people who look at my
images will have something to relate to and may say “ah, how cute, look, she’s
praying.” I believe it helps to create a respect for animals or at the very
least a connection. The more respect that people have for animals; hopefully
the less people will want to harm them intentionally or indirectly.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One of my favourite examples of anthropomorphism occurred
while watching a<a href="http://www.harveywildlifephotography.ca/#/north-american-bears/alaskan-brown-bears/Kiss-for-Mom" target="_blank"> brown bear family in Alaska</a>. I watched this family for several
hours a day over the span of five days.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A female brown bear had two cubs, a male
and a female. The boy tormented his sister every chance he got. The little girl
was pretty feisty and fought hard but was rarely the aggressor. In this image,
the little girl finally had enough of her brother and decided to take refuge by
cuddling up to her mother. It’s as if she knew that if her brother kept trying
to pick a fight with her he would inevitably irritate mom. Hopefully mom would
respond by giving him a bite or a good smack and a scolding. So what is a
rambunctious boy to do? He sticks out his tongue at his sister behind his
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US">Of course I’m sure the cub didn’t have
this thought process at all, but that’s how I saw the events unfold from a
human perspective. Growing up second youngest in a family of five siblings, I
have either been the one being picked on or was the aggressor sticking out my
tongue more times than I care to admit. I can hear the male brown bear cub
saying “na na na na boo boo” to his sister as he continued to harass her. Was
the male cub really sticking out his tongue at his sister with these
intentions? Was the female cub really plotting to get her brother in trouble? Probably
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giving animals a much needed voice. It’s easy to point the finger at the big
oil companies for the state of the environment. One day people may come to the
conclusion that oil companies work to supply <u>our</u> demand. Getting upset
with an oil company for drilling for oil is like an overweight person eating
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hopefully at some point people will begin to realize that everyone can
conserve a little more and waste a little less. Each person’s actions have an
impact on nature. Together our choices dictate how clean our environment will
be.</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">All this talk about anthropomorphism leads me to one last question…</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Does this fur make my butt look fat?</span><br />
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