Puma, Torres del Paine National Park
This is the same puma as in the previous photo. After staring at us for a moment she stretched, yawned, and walked right by us like we weren’t even there.
Puma Wakes Up; Patagonia
This puma was very at ease with us. She slept for a while knowing where we were and just ignored us for the most part. After she woke up she just ambled past us and finally disappeared.
Cheetah, Kenya
A cheetah mother starts to hunt in the Olare Motorogi Conservancy. She has three hungry cubs to feed.
Brown Bear, Alaska
A brown bear munches on sedge grass in Lake Clark National Park. I’m not sure why it is that brown bears, at least where they are routinely photographed, pretty much ignore humans. I don’t know of any distance rules regarding the bears in Lake Clark. Of course, there was the famous case of Timothy Treadwell, a brown bear activist who, along with his girlfriend, was killed by a male brown bear in 2003.
Bald Eagle, Homer, Alaska
A bald eagle perches on a driftwood limb in Homer, Alaska.
A trip down memory lane. I took this photo in 2009 behind the house of “The Eagle Lady,” Jean Keene. Jean moved to Homer in 1977. She lived out at the end of Homer Spit which extends a long way into Kachemak Bay. It didn’t take long before she noticed a couple of bald eagles on the beach behind her house. She worked at a nearby fish processing plant and brought some fish home and threw the fish to the eagles. By the time of her death in 2009 the number of eagles at Jean’s house grew from two to 200. Feeding was done just in the winter when times were more difficult for the birds. Hundreds of bird photographers would come to Homer each winter to photograph those bald eagles.
Bobcat Portrait, Point Reyes National Seashore
I photographed this bobcat at Point Reyes a few days ago at sunset. The ranch area has greened up which makes for a better background than is the case in summer and fall when the non-native grasses are all brown and dead.
White Rhino, Nairobi National Park
A southern white rhino grazes at sunset. There are two species or subspecies of white rhino, the northern white rhino and the southern white rhino. The northern white rhino is down to the last two living individuals, both females, thanks to poaching. The southern white rhino consists of about 16,000 individuals.
