Archival spirit bear
Several years ago I went to photograph spirit bears (Kermode bear, Ursus americanus kermodeii), one of the rarest animals in the world, on Princess Royal Island in the Great Bear Rainforest. The white colour of the bear is a result of a recessive gene carried by the local black bears. My local contacts are telling me that spirit bear sightings have now dropped to almost nothing in the last ~3 years, which is very disturbing. We bushwhacked up a salmon stream and photographed several spirit bears fishing for salmon. In this photo, denoised, sharpened and colour adjusted, a spirit bear glows white as it stands in the river under a tree canopy looking for salmon.
19/02/2024
Archival spirit bear
Several years ago I went to photograph spirit bears (Kermode bear, Ursus americanus kermodeii), one of the rarest animals in the world, on Princess Royal Island in the Great Bear Rainforest. The white colour of the bear is a result of a recessive gene carried by the local black bears. My local contacts are telling me that spirit bear sightings have now dropped to almost nothing in the last ~3 years, which is very disturbing. We bushwhacked up a salmon stream and photographed several spirit bears fishing for salmon. In this photo, denoised, sharpened and colour adjusted, a spirit bear glows white as it stands in the river under a tree canopy looking for salmon.
19/02/2024