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Nicknamed "The Spice Bears," these are 2 of the 3 North American Black Bears, now 7 years old, rescued from Alaska after their mother was lost in a human-wildlife conflict. Seen at the Greater Vancouver Zoo in Aldergrove, British Columbia.
Although they are called Black Bears, their colour can be various shades of brown, reddish-brown, black, or even white, as seen in the Kermode bear of coastal British Columbia. (24-02-16-0789)
Saw several films here while I was in London, such as There Will Be Blood & Barry Lyndon, both in 35mm.
Also got to see The Thing, Nostalghia (by Tarkovsky), & a double bill of both Alien & Aliens.
I missed out on seeing Daniel Day-Lewis speak with Mark Kermode at the London Film Festival. This took place to days after I left London. If only I had a few more days.
Nikon F4, Nikkor 50mm F1.2 lens. Mr. Negative 500T 35mm ECN2 film.
I have nothing good or recent to post, but with all the changes going on at Flickr, I wanted to post something... So you get a not good, but rather exciting photo of a rare Kermode bear that I saw last month. The Kermode is a genetic variant of the black bear that occurs only on the central and north coast of BC. this big fella lives near Cedarvale along Highway 16. Unfortunately, it sounds like the conservation officers are going to trap and move him since he caused a rather large traffic accident last week. Well, the people stopping to gawk at him did anyway :(
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
The Kermode bear, sometimes called the spirit bear (Ursus americanus kermodei), is a subspecies of the American black bear and lives in the Central and North Coast regions of British Columbia, Canada.[1] It is the official provincial mammal of British Columbia and symbol of Terrace, British Columbia.[2][3] While most Kermode bears are black, between 100 and 500 fully white individuals exist.[4] The white variant is known as spirit bear, and is most common on three islands in British Columbia (Gribbell, Princess Royal, and Roderick), where they make up 10–20% of the Kermode population.[5] Spirit bears hold a prominent place in the oral traditions of the indigenous peoples of the area.
Gribbell Island - Great Bear Rainforest | BC, Canada
LEGEND of the GHOST BEAR
“My people, the Gitga’at First Nation of British Columbia, call him the Ghost Bear or Moksgm’ol. The Spirit Bear that roams the Great Bear Rainforest is a black bear with a white coat – a unique genetic trait that occurs in one out of every ten bears. When the settlers arrived here, they thought it was just a legend. For our people, who are part of the T’simshian First Nation, Moksgm’ol has always had a very special meaning. I remember that when I was growing up in the Gitga’at village of Hartley Bay, when someone saw a white bear in the forest we were told not to talk about it. We didn’t want it disturbed and we didn’t want people to know about it. The legend of the Spirit Bear has strong roots in our mythology. When the land was green, our creator, the Raven, decided to give us a reminder of when the world was covered with ice and snow. He asked the black bear to turn every tenth offspring into a white cub. Raven promised that they would have unique powers. They would lead chosen people to special places and have the ability to find fish deep in the ocean. Raven set aside a rainforest home for Moksgm’ol …..”
A personal perspective by Marven Robinson (our Gitga’at guide) taken from ‘BEAR – Spirit of the Wild’ by Nat Geo photographer Paul Nicklen, who just so happened to be filming on the island at the same time as we were there. His film team had the best spot a little upstream of us. But whilst we were blessed with seeing two Spirit Bears and, with the most famous Ma’ah (this bear and the one that Paul had come to film as a follow up to a previous documentary) being around much of the day, I understand that it was a much different story upstream. We were lucky, very lucky.
The Kermode bear, sometimes called the spirit bear (Ursus americanus kermodei), is a subspecies of the American black bear and lives in the Central and North Coast regions of British Columbia, Canada.[1] It is the official provincial mammal of British Columbia and symbol of Terrace, British Columbia.[2][3] While most Kermode bears are black, between 100 and 500 fully white individuals exist.[4] The white variant is known as spirit bear, and is most common on three islands in British Columbia (Gribbell, Princess Royal, and Roderick), where they make up 10–20% of the Kermode population.[5] Spirit bears hold a prominent place in the oral traditions of the indigenous peoples of the area.
The Kermode bears (both the black and the rarer white phase called spirit bear) eat constantly during the time of plenty when the spawning salmon fill the streams of the Pacific Northwest, preparing for their long hibernation when they go without food for several months. I saw a number of bears, who were clearly full, catch salmon and just strip out the eggs, leaving the rest of the body for other scavengers in the area. The bears often drag their catches into the woods where the nutrients feed the rainforest.
02/01/2019 www.allenfotowild.com
It is well knows that bears have favourite rubbing trees that they scent mark by rubbing their backs against the trees. Recent evidence suggests that this is a communication strategy for breeding purposes. Here is a rare shot of a spirit bear, its round belly stuffed full of salmon, standing on its hind legs scent marking a rubbing tree, Gribbell Island, British Columbia
18/01/2019 www.allelnfotowild.com
A spirit bear (rare white Kermode bear, Ursus americanus kermodei) that I photographed several years ago in the woods on Princess Royal Island stands over a salmon carcass. The salmon carcasses from spawning fish brought up from the river add needed nutrients to the forest.
I think the photo was taken with a Nikon D700 an early 12 MP digital camera.
30/03/2024 www.allenfotowild.com
Nicknamed "The Spice Bears," these are 2 of the 3 North American Black Bears, now 7 years old, rescued from Alaska after their mother was lost in a human-wildlife conflict. Seen at the Greater Vancouver Zoo in Aldergrove, British Columbia.
Although they are called Black Bears, their colour can be various shades of brown, reddish-brown, black, or even white, as seen in the Kermode bear of coastal British Columbia. (24-02-16-0794)
Ma'ah (the name means "grandmother" in the Tsimshian language) is a very old Kermode or Spirit bear. She's also famous, having appeared on the cover of National Geographic magazine in 2011.
A rare Kermode Spirit Bear, ready for hibernation in the Great Bear Rainforest, in British Columbia, Canada. This is a Black Bear, in whom a recessive gene has caused it to be an off-white colour (not albino). The photograph was taken on a sailboat cruise with Bluewater Adventures.
The bears along the west coast of North America take maximum advantage of the opportunity to fatten up during the fall salmon runs. This Spirit bear is checking out a new fishing spot. It is standing in front of a large hollow left when a huge cedar tree toppled in a gale, pulled out by its roots, Gribbell Island, BC. The huge trees on the West Coast have shallow root systems relative to their heights due to thin top soil over a rocky base. In strong winds they can literally blow over.
08/01/2019 www.allenfotowild.com
This is a re-edit of a picture I took a couple of summers ago and was never happy with the way it looked. When I took this picture it was well into dusk and there was very little light. The resulting image is a noisier than I'd like but that wasn't the only problem. When I edited this image the first time,I had such a hard time getting the colour right and it ended up looking over-saturated. I tried it again an am much happier with the results.
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This is one of the most photographed Spirit Bears in the Great Bear Rainforest. Ma'ah is about 20 years old and has graced the cover of the National Geographic Magazine for Paul Nicklen's article about the Spirit Bears in August 2011. She was also featured in Ian McAllister and Jeff Turner's IMAX film "Great Bear Rainforest".
Click twice on the photo to zoom in for details.
This beautiful Kermode Bear named Ma'ah (grandmother in the language of the Tsimshian First Nations people) is about 20 years old. She has appeared on the cover of the National Geographic magazine in Aug 2011 for Paul Nicklen's article about the Spirit Bears and is the star of the "Great Bear Rainforest" IMAX movie.
Thank you to the Gitga'at Guardians for protecting these amazing bears and their habitat.
Click twice on the photo to zoom in on her beautiful eyelashes!
Gribbell Island - Great Bear Rainforest | BC, Canada
Our group had a special two-day permit to visit this island, which is just about the only place where you stand a realistic chance of seeing the rare Kermode Bear [Ursus americanus kermodei], more commonly known as the Spirit or Ghost Bear. This was the highlight and primary purpose for travelling to the Great Bear Rainforest, which is why the trip was called ‘Spirit Bear Quest’.
The island is protected and managed by the local Gitga’at, one of the First Nation clans that make up the Tsimshian people of British Columbia’s northwest coast. The Spirit Bear, which the Gitga’at call Moksgm’ol, is a creamy-white variant of the American Back Bear, not an albino, as their skin and eyes are dark brown. These rare bears, of which there are estimated to be less than 400 left in the wild, are born white due to a recessive gene inherited from both parents, such that it’s not uncommon for white bears to be born to black parents.
We drew a complete blank on our first day - ten hours waiting and not a single bear. The second day we were at a different location on the other side of the island. It turned out to be one of the best days I’ve ever had - ten hours again, in the rain, but photographing bears all day long. We actually saw two different Spirit Bears as well as five or six normal Black Bears. On one occasion a Spirit Bear walked so close to me as I was sitting in the river bed that I could have touched it! It was a fantastic experience and privilege to see such a wonderful and rare creature deep in the rainforest.
This shot was taken using flash. It was just before dark. The two bears were playing in a small stream. Bears love to get in the water on a hot day.
Not as sharp as I would like it to be.
I haven't had much luck finding bears on many of my recent photo safaris. That changed on my trip to Banff. The highlight of the trip was finding this black bear mother with 4 cubs. And one was white!
It rained most of the time on my trip. This little one was cold, miserable and hungry. Mother was focused on grazing on grasses and weeds, particularly dandelions. She needed her nourishment to feed four hungry cubs. The cub was so adorable and needy I wanted to grab it, cuddle with it and keep it warm. Yeah right........dream on slow runner.
I had seen a rare Kermode, or Spirit Bear, before and thought perhaps they had traveled far from the BC coastal rainforests here. However, white-phase bears, not Spirit Bears, had been seen here earlier so suspect that what's this cold, wet darling bear cub was.
The white-phase black bear is not a genetic anomaly or the product of a recessive gene like the Spirit Bear. Just one of many colors black bears can have.
Naturally I took many shots of the mother and cubs while they were somewhat in the open on the edge of the forest. The mix of bright light and shade made it challenging, as did the weeds and shrubs that the cub walked thru. I did get many decent shots of this special family though that I will share more of in the future.
Gribbell Island - Great Bear Rainforest | BC, Canada
My FINAL SET of Spirit Bear images and, apart from a couple of scenery shots, these are the last photos I'll post from our excellent trip to the Great Bear Rainforest - an adventure that I would highly recommend.
While I was looking for a better shot of him after shedding I found this shot of him wrestling with a larger Black Bear. So, I got it scanned from a slide to.
Lady Elizabeth Asquith, daughter of the 1st Earl of Oxford, British PM married Prince Antoine Bibescu, diplomat at the Romanian Legation in London and settled at the family seat of Mogosoaia near Bucharest.
She figures in an Anthology, (now available as an E-Book) entitled:
"Blouse Roumaine - the Unsung Voices of Romanian Women"
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Elizabeth Asquith (1897 - 1948) was the daughter of Prime Minister Herbert Asquith. In 1919 she married Prince Antoine Bibesco a flamboyant Romanian diplomat in London and the wedding ceremony took place at the Greek Orthodox church of Sait Sophia in London and at St Margaret's Westminster.
On seeing the inevitable happen that his daughter Elizabeth would marry into a Romanian family, the British Prime Minister Herbert Asquith, 1st Earl of Oxford, (1852-1928) inquired cautiously of his future son-in-law:
“It seems that you have considerable estates in Romania?”
to which the young diplomat, Prince Antoine Bibesco (1878-1952) answered:
“It takes the Orient Express one day to go through me”.
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Antoine was a friend of Marcel Proust whom he asked to be his daughter's Godfather: this was Priscilla Bibesco who died in Paris in 2004 in an apartment in l'Ile St Louis, overlooking Notre Dame. This was originally Antoine and Elizabeth's flat in Paris, where they moved after they married: it was decorated with immense canvasses by Vuillard.
Priscilla Bibesco. Elizabeth's daughter was a neighbour and cousin of Princess Marthe Bibesco, who kept a coveted literary salon.
Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco was known as a witty writer of short stories, essays novels plays and poetry. A collection of her papers are kept in the Bodleyan library, Oxford.
Elizabeth had a brief liaison with Katherine Mansfield's husband - John Middleton Murry (1889-1957) at which point Mansfield wrote Asquith a waspish letter:
“I am afraid you must stop writing these little love letters to my husband while he and I live together. It is one of those things which is not done in our world.
You are very young. Won’t you ask your husband to explain to you the impossibility of such a situation.
Please don’t you have to make me write to you again. I do not like scolding people and I simply hate to teach them manners.” (Frank and Anita Kermode op.cit. 496).
At that time Murry (1889-1957) was 33, a socialist and pacifist, an influential literary critic, an Editor of the Athaeneum and friend of notable literary figures such as T. S. Eliot, D. H. Lawrence, and Virginia Woolf. Katherine Mansfield was an established writer, gaining praise for her recently published volume, ironically entitled 'Bliss' (1920), whilst Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco was an aspiring writer. Miss Mansfield did not object to her socialist husband’s affair with an aristocrat, rather to the irritation of seeing these love letters whilst she and Murry still lived under the same roof.
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"Blouse Roumaine - the Unsung Voices of Romanian Women"
Presented and Selected by Constantin ROMAN
Anthology E-BOOK (11BM)
DISTRIBUTION: Online with credit card
COST: $ 54.99, £34.99 (ca Euros 35.50)
LINK: www(dot)blouseroumaine(dot)com/orderthebook_p1(dot)html
CONTENTS:
2,250,000 words,
over 1,000 pages,
ca 160 illustrations in text
160 critical biographies,
58 social categories/professions,
600 quotations (mostly translated into English for the first time),
circa 3,000 bibliographical references (including URLs and credits)
6 Indexes (alphabetical, by profession, timeline, quotation Index, place
index and name index)
AUTHOR: Constantin Roman is a Scholar with a Doctorate from Cambridge and a Member of the Society of Authors (London). He is an International Adviser, Guest Speaker, Professor Honoris Causa and Commander of the Order of Merit.
INDEX BY PROSFESSION: 58 CATEGORIES by Call, Profession or Social Status
Academics (22), Actresses (9), Anti-Communist Fighters (14), Architects/Interior Designers (2), Art Critics (9), Artist Book Binders (1), Ballerinas (6), Charity Workers/Benefactors (20), Communist Public Figures (2), Courtesans (3), Designers (2), Diplomats (4), Essayists (11), Ethnographers (6), Exiles & First-generation Romanians born abroad (87), Explorers (1), Feminists (12), Folk Singers (1), Gymnasts, Dressage Riders (2), Historians (5), Honorary Romanian Women (15), Illustrators (3), Journalists (13), Lawyers (4), Librarians (3), Linguists (2), Literary Critics (1), Media (15), Medical Doctors/Nurses (5), Memoir Writers (16), Missionaries and Nuns (4), Mountainéers (2), Museographers (1), Musical Instruments Makers (1), Novelists (24), Opera Singers (16), Painters (14), Peasant Farmers (6), Philosophers and Philosophy Graduates (4), Pianists (6), Pilots (4), Playwrights (5), Poets (29), Political Prisoners (30), Politicians (5), Revolutionaries (2), Royals and Aristocrats (34), Scientists (8), Sculptors (4), Slave (1), Socialites/Hostesses (20), Spouses/Relations of Public Figures (51), Spies (2), Tapestry Weavers (4), Translators (25), Unknown Illustrious (6), Violinists (4), Workers (3)
NOTE:
Most of the above 160 Romanian women, in the best tradition of versatility, are true polymaths and therefore nearly each one of them falls in more than just one category, often three or more. This explains why adding the numbers of the 57 individual categories bears no relation to the actual total of the above 160 women included in Blouse Roumaine.
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LIST OF 160 CRITICAL BIOGRAPHIES (each supported by Quotations and Bibliography)
AA *Gabriela Adamesteanu *Florenta Albu *Nina Arbore *Elena Arnàutoiu *Ioana Raluca Voicu-Arnàutoiu, *Laurentia Arnàutoiu *Mariea Plop - Arnàutoiu *Ana Aslan *Lady Elizabeth Asquith Bibescu
BB *Lauren Bacall *Lady Florence Baker *Zoe Bàlàceanu *Ecaterina Bàlàcioiu-Lovinescu *Victorine de Bellio *Pss. Marta Bibescu *Adriana Bittel *Maria Prodan Bjørnson *Ana Blandiana *Yvonne Blondel *Lola Bobescu *Smaranda Bràescu *Elena Bràtianu *Élise Bràtianu *Ioana Bràtianu *Elena Bràtianu- Racottà *Letitzia Bucur
CC *Anne-Marie Callimachi *Georgeta Cancicov *Madeleine Cancicov *Pss. Alexandra Cantacuzino *Pss.Maria Cantacuzino (Madame Puvis de Chavannes) *Pss. Maruca Cantacuzino-Enesco* Pss. Catherine Caradja *Elena Caragiani-Stoenescu *Marta Caraion-Blanc, *Nina Cassian, *Otilia Cazimir *Elena Ceausescu *Maria Cebotari *Ioana Celibidache *Hélène Chrissoveloni (Mme Paul Morand)*Alice Cocea *Irina Codreanu *Lizica Codreanu *Alina Cojocaru *Nadia Comàneci *Denisa Comànescu *Lena Constante *Silvia Constantinescu *Doina Cornea *Hortense Cornu *Viorica Cortez*Otilia Cosmutzà *Sandra Cotovu *Ileana Cotrubas *Carmen-Daniela Cràsnaru *Mioara Cremene *Florica Cristoforeanu *Pss. Elena Cuza
DD *Hariclea Darclée *Cella Delavrancea *Alina Diaconú *Varinca Diaconú *Anca Diamandy *Marie Ana Dràgescu *Rodica Dràghincescu *Bucura Dumbravà *Natalia Dumitrescu
EE *Micaela Eleutheriade *Queen Elisabeth of Romania (‘Carmen Sylva’) *Alexandra Enescu *Mica Ertegün
FF *Lizi Florescu, *Maria Forescu *Nicoleta Franck *Aurora Fúlgida
GG *Angela Gheorghiu *Pss Grigore Ghica *Pss. Georges Ghika (Liane de Pougy) *Veturia Goga *Maria Golescu *Nadia Gray *Olga Greceanu *Pss. Helen of Greece *Nicole Valéry-Grossu *Carmen Groza
HH *Virginia Andreescu Haret *Clara Haskil *Lucia Hossu-Longin
II *Pss. Ileana of Romania *Ana Ipàtescu *Marie-France Ionesco *Dora d’Istria *Rodica Iulian
JJ *Doina Jela *Lucretia Jurj
KK *Mite Kremnitz
LL *Marie-Jeanne Lecca *Madeleine Lipatti *Monica Lovinescu *Elena Lupescu
MM *Maria Mailat *Ileana Màlàncioiu *Ionela Manolesco *Lilly Marcou *Silvia Marcovici *Queen Marie of Romania *Ioana A. Marin *Ioana Meitani *Gabriela Melinescu *Veronica Micle *Nelly Miricioiu *Herta Müller *Alina Mungiu-Pippidi *Agnes Kelly Murgoci
NN *Mabel Nandris *Anita Nandris-Cudla *Lucia Negoità *Mariana Nicolesco *Countess Anna de Noailles *Ana Novac
OO *Helen O’Brien *Oana Orlea
PP *Hortensia Papadat-Bengescu *Milita Pàtrascu *Ana Pauker *Marta Petreu *Cornelia Pillat *Magdalena Popa *Elvira Popescu
RR *Ruxandra Racovitzà *Elisabeta Rizea *Eugenia Roman *Stella Roman *Queen Ana de România, *Pss. Margarita de România *Maria Rosetti *Elisabeth Roudinesco
SS *Annie Samuelli *Sylvia Sidney *Henriette-Yvonne Stahl *Countess Leopold Starszensky *Elena Stefoi *Pss. Marina Stirbey *Sanda Stolojan *Cecilia Cutzescu-Storck
TT *Maria Tànase *Aretia Tàtàrescu *Monica Theodorescu *Elena Theodorini
UU *Viorica Ursuleac
VV *Elena Vàcàrescu *Leontina Vàduva *Ana Velescu *Marioara Ventura *Anca Visdei *Wanda Sachelarie Vladimirescu *Alice Steriade Voinescu
WW *Sabina Wurmbrand
ZZ *Virginia Zeani
Two cubs going to the same owner named in memory of her late sister and brother. They are both black bear cubs. Black bears come in more colors than any other North American animal. The white is a Kermode, and the other a cinnamon colored cub. In the wild they could have both been born to a black mother.
Gribbell Island - Great Bear Rainforest | BC, Canada
Back to bears and three more images of the incredible Spirit Bear. And there will be more to follow! Who could blame me - they're rare and this was a once in a lifetime encounter.
Mussel Inlet - Great Bear Rainforest | BC, Canada
Whilst this particular photo is of my first ever Grizzly Bear encounter, it will be my last Grizzly (Brown) Bear 'public' post from this trip, as I want to move onto posting Black Bear images including some of the Kermode Bear, which is the rare white variant of the species better known as the 'Spirit' or 'Ghost' bear.
An older spirit bear (ghost bear, Kermode bear, Ursus americanus kermodei) chases a pink salmon in Gribbell Island Creek. During the fall salmon run the bears on the coast feed up on the nutrition-rich fish that sustain them through their winter hibernation. Gribbell is one of two islands in the Hartley Bear area that host this rare genetic variation of the black bear. The white colour is due to a double recessive gene unique in the subspecies. The spirit bears are considered sacred to the Gitga'at First Nation, and the band members protect the bear and its fragile habitat.
14/01/2017 www.allenfotowild.com
As the Kermode bears on the salmon stream got fuller, they got more selective in their eating habits and I saw them catching salmon and just scooping out the eggs and discarding the carcass which was them available for other opportunistic feeders in the area. This Steller's jay (Cyanocitta stelleri) was hunting around in the steam for dropped salmon eggs, and delicately eating them. I was luck to catch a shot of one with an orange salmon egg in is beak. Gribbell Island, British Columbia. The jay fished the salmon egg out of the water by ducking its head under the surface.
Backlit black bear by a huge downed cedar tree, exploring the waters of Riorden Creek for salmon during the fall salmon run, Gribbell Island, British Columbia
05/12/2019 www/allenfotowild.com
The Kermode bear, sometimes called the spirit bear (Ursus americanus kermodei), is a subspecies of the American black bear and lives in the Central and North Coast regions of British Columbia, Canada.[1] It is the official provincial mammal of British Columbia and symbol of Terrace, British Columbia.[2][3] While most Kermode bears are black, between 100 and 500 fully white individuals exist.[4] The white variant is known as spirit bear, and is most common on three islands in British Columbia (Gribbell, Princess Royal, and Roderick), where they make up 10–20% of the Kermode population.[5] Spirit bears hold a prominent place in the oral traditions of the indigenous peoples of the area.