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01/16/2022 07:48:50 PM · #1 |
Check out his photos of polar bears who took over an abandoned island.
Check out his website
and his Insta |
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01/16/2022 09:18:52 PM · #2 |
| Amazing images. Thanks for sharing. |
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01/17/2022 12:17:29 AM · #3 |
| Amazing that the photographer did not finish as a meal in polar bears' local pub! ;) |
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01/17/2022 11:01:13 AM · #4 |
Originally posted by MargaretNet:
Amazing that the photographer did not finish as a meal in polar bears' local pub! ;) |
I was thinking "picnic in the front yard" myself. I find myself wondering if he did these shots with a high-end drone that mounts his dSLR on a gimbal... The more wide-angle shots up-close can't possibly be him standing his ground, or can they? |
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01/17/2022 11:01:56 AM · #5 |
Originally posted by MargaretNet:
Amazing that the photographer did not finish as a meal in polar bears' local pub! ;) |
I also wondered about that. It says somewhere he got up close, and I just wondered how he got up close. |
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01/17/2022 11:22:01 AM · #6 |
| Those were my thoughts as well... would love to know how he managed the close-up shots without being lunch. Great stuff! |
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01/18/2022 01:05:06 AM · #7 |
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
Originally posted by MargaretNet:
Amazing that the photographer did not finish as a meal in polar bears' local pub! ;) |
I was thinking "picnic in the front yard" myself. I find myself wondering if he did these shots with a high-end drone that mounts his dSLR on a gimbal... The more wide-angle shots up-close can't possibly be him standing his ground, or can they? |
This article indeed mentions his use of a drone
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01/18/2022 11:36:38 AM · #8 |
| That's too bad -- using drones on wildlife really isn't a good idea. It's banned in National Parks for that very reason. Very cool shots, but I wish it was done another way. :( |
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01/18/2022 11:37:04 AM · #9 |
Originally posted by vawendy:
That's too bad -- using drones on wildlife really isn't a good idea. It's banned in National Parks for that very reason. Very cool shots, but I wish it was done another way. :( |
Although it would be funny to see the videos of the drones getting batted out of the air by the polar bears. :) |
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01/18/2022 11:56:45 AM · #10 |
| The interesting thing is, the bears basically seem to accept the drone at some point in time after they decide it's not a threat. Also, for what it's worth, harassing herd animals and other skittish beasts is one thing, but I'm not sure a drone can do much to upset the equilibrium of an apex predator :-) Still, I thought what Wendy did; not to cool... |
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01/18/2022 02:01:00 PM · #11 |
I was a bit conflicted on this, and had to really give some thought to my ideas regarding the use of the drone... here's what I came up with:
- Normally, I would not condone approaching/disturbing wildlife with a drone...
- ...however the bears seemed interested, and not spooked or otherwise agitated by the presence of the drone.
- The very remote location is key here; those bears probably don't see a human for years at a time, and drones next to never. No chance that they are going to be regularly bothered and have their routines upset
- The bears were not engaged in an activity such as hunting, that if disturbed may have had a significant negative impact (e.g. loss of one quarry might mean starvation).
- In the end, I think that for purposes of documentation of this really unusual behavior, the use of the drone here is acceptable. Had the bears reacted negatively, he should have been out of there in an instant. Obviously, though, the main thought on the bears' minds was "Hey, lunch! Skinny bird, though."
One could ask "well if it's OK for him, what if everybody did it?" This is a really good reason why we should not do this in more populated locations. Here, I think it is excused by the fact that the animals were not frightened, the location was so remote that frequent disturbance is, well, a remote possibility, and finally that there is research value in documenting the behavior.
Obviously, this was not in a US National Park, so those rules do not apply. Don't know what rules might apply in Russian wilderness, but likely not many!
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