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Images from Canadian Geographic’s Photo Club
SPECIAL COLLECTOR’S EDITION
B E S T
WILDLIFE PHOTOGRAPHY 20
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PHOTOCLUB
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EDITOR’S NOTEBOOK 5 BY TYRONE BURKE
INTRODUCTION 7 BY MICHELLE VALBERG
ON THE PROWL 8
THINGS WITH WINGS 40
WHAT’S IN THE WATER 68
JUNIOR PHOTOGRAPHERS 92
BEST WILDLIFE
PHOTOGRAPHY 2014
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40
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92 F R O N T C O V E R : J O H N Z I M M E R M A N ; B A C K C O V E R : D A V I D W H I T E
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Worth the wait Sorting through the year’s best wildlife photography is one of the privi- leges of working at Canadian Geographic. Every year I marvel at the calibre of the images we receive through our contests. Not only am I impressed by the photographic skill, I’m blown away by the patience it takes to get so close to breaching humpbacks and tiny tree frogs.
I have wide-eyed admiration for wildlife photographers. Even though the genre has always been my favourite type of photography to look at, I’ve had lile success actually producing any. Never the most
patient (or light-footed) person, I frighten off animals long before I get a decent shot.
Yet, with our photo club members as inspiration, I finally got into a wildlife blind this spring and waited it out. Hours before dawn, I seled in next to hundreds of thousands of sandhill cranes, which were pass- ing through Nebraska’s Plae River Valley as they migrated toward Canada’s Far North for the summer.
Each minute I shivered in the darkness, I gained yet more respect for the toughness of wildlife photographers. Then the sun finally crested the horizon, and thousands of cranes stirred and swooped. When a hunting eagle zoomed in and sent the cranes scaering,
I suddenly understood where wildlife photographers find their patience.There’s no spectacle on Earth that can match nature in action. It’s worth waiting for.
Tyrone Burke
Sorting throuorti thro leges of workile calibre of thecali I impressed b II esse I it takes to getget
I have wideI ide the enre haenre
ESIDENT AND PUBLISHER André Préfontaine
E-PRESIDENT, CONTENT CREATION Gilles Gagnier
OJECT EDITOR Tyrone Burke NIOR EDITOR Aaron Kylie EATIVE DIRECTOR Suzanne Morin STOM PUBLISHING MANAGER Mike Elston
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Animal insinc From aop a small cliff, I could see clumps of walruses gruning and wrihing en masse on he beachfron. I was a grea vanage poin, bu I waned o ge closer. Much closer.
Led by my guide, I crep up slowly, unil I was wihin a mere of he herd. The firs hing ha hi me was he smell: an overpowering scen of 10,000 we animals, like a feid beachfron barnyard. I was amazing o be so close.
Under he fla ligh of cloud cover, I sho close-ups of hewalruses’ leahery, ancien-looking skin, bulbous eyes and whiskers. Jus as I decided i was ime o go and urned away, here was a hunderous sound — he herd was on he move. I fired off a few shos, bu I wasn’ even sure if my camera was in focus. My senses old me just shoot .
The dus kicked up by he walruses creaed an ehereal mis, illuminaed by he sun as i peeked hrough he clouds. In ha momen, everyhing came ogeher. I go “he sho.”
When phoographing wildlife I ry o be atenive, o anicipae wha an animal will do nex. Even a sligh change can ransform an
ordinary phoo ino somehing exraordinary, bu you can overhinkhings oo. Someimes a phoographer’s mos valuable ool is insinc. Michelle Valberg
I wasn’t even sureif my camera was in focus. My senses told me ‘just shoot.’
From aop a IFrom ao a I wrihing en Iw I bu I wanedb I
Led by m I II I he herd. Th scen of 10, Is I amazin oa
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ON THE PROW
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A wild animal never knows if its most
recent meal was its last. There are no
guarantees that the next hunt will be
fruitful. With ears perked and claws
drawn, predators need to be constantly alert. When the time comes to make
the kill, there is lile room for error. An
animal needs to eat, or it will eventually
be eaten itself.
wild animal nevd ani
recent mea was ien ea
guarantees t at tuar t
fruitful. ith earfr e
rawn re atorsors