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Images from Canadian Geographic’s Photo Club

SPECIAL COLLECTOR’S EDITION

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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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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 lile 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 seled in next to hundreds of thousands of sandhill cranes, which were pass- ing through Nebraska’s Plae 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 scaering,

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

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Animal insinc From aop a small cliff, I could see clumps of walruses gruning and wrihing en masse on he beachfron. I was a grea vanage poin, bu I waned o ge closer. Much closer.

Led by my guide, I crep up slowly, unil I was wihin a mere of he herd. The firs hing ha hi me was he smell: an overpowering scen of 10,000 we animals, like a feid beachfron barnyard. I was amazing o be so close.

Under he fla ligh of cloud cover, I sho close-ups of hewalruses’ leahery, 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 shos, bu I wasn’ even sure if my camera was in focus. My senses old me just shoot .

The dus kicked up by he walruses creaed an ehereal mis, illuminaed by he sun as i peeked hrough he clouds. In ha momen, everyhing came ogeher. I go “he sho.”

When phoographing wildlife I ry o be atenive, o anicipae wha an animal will do nex. Even a sligh change can ransform an

ordinary phoo ino somehing exraordinary, bu you can overhinkhings oo. Someimes a phoographer’s mos valuable ool is insinc. Michelle Valberg

I wasn’t even sureif my camera was in focus. My senses told me ‘just shoot.’ 

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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 lile room for error. An

animal needs to eat, or it will eventually

be eaten itself.

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