Bears of Kamchatka - Save The Day
Andy Parkinson
Andy has produced for us a fabulous presentation on photographing bears based on his experiences in the pristine wilderness of Kamchatka.For lovers of great photography, apex predators Bears especially and wonderous locations this will be a really great evening of information and entertainment.
The Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia’s Far East is the most spectacular destination that Andy has ever journeyed to. It is like stepping back in time, to an almost Jurassic landscape of towering, conical volcanoes, unbroken forests, and lakes and rivers that teem with an abundance of life.
Andy however travels to Kamchatka for one species, and one species alone, the enormous Kamchatka brown bear. It is the closest living relative of the biggest brown bear on Earth, the Kodiak browns of southern Alaska, but no place on Earth comes close to the rugged wilderness of Kamchatka. Accessed only by helicopter it is the abundance of the bears that is most jaw-dropping, and the proximity with which we are able to work.
Safety is of course paramount, and Andy and his groups are always accompanied by either one or two armed rangers, depending on the particular location, but Kamchatka remains, for the time-being at least, a globally unique destination for bear photography, unrivalled, unequalled and unbeatable!
In this talk Andy will detail exactly why this part of world is so special, and why maintaining visitor numbers is so critical to the bears survival, and to the protection of this remarkable wilderness. He will detail why he has been able to produce such an immense, and varied body of work on this species, and the challenges that living and working in such a remote and inaccessible part of the world can create. He will explore different shooting techniques, unusual but award-winning compositions, the importance of perspective and backdrop and why Kamchatka is the epitome of a once-in-a-lifetime destination.
The event is recorded and you will get a link to re-watch along with bonus material from our archives.