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Tanzania 2011

t is in February of every year in the southern Serengeti that the wildebeests try to overwhelm the predators by calving in the tens of thousands. It is during this time that the predators have a feast, which you will...
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Polar Bear Snowmobile Trip Part IV- the Bears!

First things first, and in this vast Arctic ice land, you need to look for polar bears continuously, and use any evidence of them, to help find them. The two main things are to look for seals resting on the...
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Polar Bear Snowmobile Trip Part V- How We Got the Shot

The Arctic is a vast landscape, and polar bears are not inclined to pose for many pictures. This means that many photos need to be taken at a far distance. This scenario necessitates two things: Powerful telephoto lenses in the...
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Churchill, the Polar Bear Capitol of the World

At the beginning and end of the trip we went through Churchill, Manitoba. It is quite an interesting place, and is visited by tourists from around the world hoping to get a good look at polar bears from a tundra...
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Walking With The Polar Bears Outside of Camp

We kept a close tab on one particular polar bear that had been resting on the ground for several days just outside of our camp. Some days he would be close, other days he would be 200 yards away from...
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Polar Bears Visiting us at Camp Gellini

These are the migrating polar bears that took a special interest in us at camp, and walked by slowly keeping an eye on us, or came right up to the fence. There is a video at the end of this...
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The Polar Bears of Camp Gellini- Deterrence

Our transient neighbors would "visit" us at all hours. By visit I mean either walking by in a curious manner as they looked at us and tried to catch our scent, to bluntly coming up to the fence to investigate...
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The Gellini Camp and Staff

Our Chef Of course food is important, so we cannot go any further showing polar bear photos without mentioning how great a chef "Meesh" was. Meesh cooking up another tasty meal for us We ate well as evidenced by this...
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Getting to the Polar Bear Camp on Hudson Bay

From California it takes several days to get to the Camp Gellini compound. A night  spent in Winnipeg, Manitoba is the first leg. The second leg goes to the Churchill airport, and then right on to the camp  Gellini for...
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Walking with Polar Bears in Canada

When tourists and wildlife photographers think of polar bears in Canada the first area that comes to mind is Churchill in Manitoba. They think of tundra buggies in the fall filled with tourists driving around seeing the bears as they...
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