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lionfloss · 1 year
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sleepy polar bear 🥺
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sitting-on-me-bum · 5 months
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Martin watched this polar bear cub playing in a mass of fireweed on the coast of Hudson Bay, Canada.
Photo by Martin Gregus
Wildlife Photographer Of The Year
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ilikeit-art · 1 year
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“Sweet Dreams”
Martin Gregus captured a once in a lifetime moment of a Polar Bear sleeping on a bed of fireweed.
Churchill, Manitoba, Canada
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xtruss · 8 months
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Even as a drone hovered above to get this shot, a large male polar bear that photographer Martin Gregus, Jr., calls Scar never stirred in this bed of fireweed. Gregus says he named many of the bears in hopes it would help people relate to them as individuals needing protection.
Snoozing in Flower Beds? Behold the Bears of Summer
A photographer spends two months in the Canadian Arctic and reveals a softer side of the world’s largest terrestrial predator.
— By Jason Bittel | Photographs By Martin Gregus, Jr. | Published August 9, 2022
“You always see polar bears on ice and snow,” says photographer Martin Gregus, Jr. “But it’s not like they stop living in the summertime.” Determined to reveal this less depicted angle on the bears, he constructed a field station on the back of a small boat and spent 33 days north of Churchill, Manitoba, in the summers of 2020 and 2021.
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The bears that Gregus calls Betty and Veronica wrestled over this boulder for nearly an hour before he caught them forming the shape of a heart. The two seemed inseparable, often playing and hunting together.
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Two large cubs appear to guard their mother while a male passes by, just out of the frame. For Gregus, the image recalls Cerberus, the multiheaded dog of Greek mythology.
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Aurora and her cub, Beans, hunker down as a storm approaches. Thunder and lightning have recently become more frequent in this region as a result of climate change, Gregus says. Every time the sky cracked, the bears started shaking, like dogs hearing fireworks.
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Polar bears spend so much time in the water that many scientists consider them to be marine mammals. In some cases, they’ve been recorded swimming for more than a week straight and clocking over 400 miles. To get underwater images like this one of a polar bear moving from melting sea ice onto dry land, Gregus developed camera rigs and techniques that allowed him to get close to the animals without being seen by them.
The more Gregus studied the bears, the more he learned of their personalities. There was the persistent cub he named Hercules. He lost a leg yet managed to survive his first two summers. An enormous female, Wanda, seemed to be feared by other bears but spent her days doing yoga-like stretches in the fireweed. Another female, Wilma, appeared to be so comfortable with Gregus that she’d nurse her cubs, Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm, close enough for him to hear their purring. Gregus also witnessed behaviors he’d rarely seen before, such as bears grazing on plants and hunting tern chicks by chasing them into the surf. For now, actions like those may be helping this polar bear population cope with the effects of climate change—but others elsewhere are starving.
“All of these pictures show bears that are fat, healthy, and playful,” Gregus says. So although from a global perspective everything may be going wrong for polar bears, “obviously something’s going right here.”
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“We’d look around and say, ‘Where’s Wanda?’ Because if she was there, we didn’t have to worry about any other bears,” says Gregus, of the large but laid-back female.
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Cubs weigh just one pound at birth, but a diet of milk that is extremely rich in fat helps them bulk up quickly. Each cub will nurse for at least 20 months, and they usually stay by their mother’s side for two years.
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In this part of the Arctic, everything’s flat, Gregus says. That means even a small boulder can provide a better view—if a bear hasn’t succumbed to sleep, that is. The bears, including Veronica (shown), often stood on this rock, scouring the area for seals to eat or bears to avoid. Gregus hopes to return to this coast, where he sees the bears “thriving and adapting to the environment.” But he knows that in most of their range, polar bears are suffering from the warming temperatures.
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pangeen · 1 year
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“ Nap Attack “ // © Martin Gregus 
Music:  Kristian Sonderlund - World of Water
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without-ado · 1 year
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Family Portrait l Martin Gregus
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kindafondawanda · 4 months
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Martin Gregus - 33 Days Among The Bears
From his film
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ilostmygh0st · 4 months
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Snoozing polar bear, photographed by Martin Gregus Jr for Nat Geo.
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mutant-distraction · 8 months
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Martin Gregus Jr,
📸 @mywildlive
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#1 
2nd Place In Nature/Aerial/Drone: "33 Days Among The Bears" By Martin Gregus
from https://www.boredpanda.com/nature-photography-winners-international-photo-awards-2023/
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sitting-on-me-bum · 2 years
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Drone Photographer Spends 33 Days Camping with Polar Bears in Canada
Photographer: Martin Gregus
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silverbat · 2 years
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Martin Gregus Jr, Winner of 2021 Wildlife Photographer of the Year
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xtruss · 2 years
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Even as a drone hovered above to get this shot, a large male polar bear that photographer Martin Gregus, Jr., calls Scar never stirred in this bed of fireweed. Gregus says he named many of the bears in hopes it would help people relate to them as individuals needing protection.
Snoozing In Flower Beds? Behold The Bears of Summer
A photographer spends two months in the Canadian Arctic and reveals a softer side of the world’s largest terrestrial predator.
— By Jason Bittel | Photographs By Martin Gregus, Jr. | August 09, 2022
“You always see polar bears on ice and snow,” says photographer Martin Gregus, Jr. “But it’s not like they stop living in the summertime.” Determined to reveal this less depicted angle on the bears, he constructed a field station on the back of a small boat and spent 33 days north of Churchill, Manitoba, in the summers of 2020 and 2021.
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The bears that Gregus calls Betty and Veronica wrestled over this boulder for nearly an hour before he caught them forming the shape of a heart. The two seemed inseparable, often playing and hunting together.
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Top: Two large cubs appear to guard their mother while a male passes by, just out of the frame. For Gregus, the image recalls Cerberus, the multiheaded dog of Greek mythology. Bottom: Aurora and her cub, Beans, hunker down as a storm approaches. Thunder and lightning have recently become more frequent in this region as a result of climate change, Gregus says. Every time the sky cracked, the bears started shaking, like dogs hearing fireworks.
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Polar bears spend so much time in the water that many scientists consider them to be marine mammals. In some cases, they’ve been recorded swimming for more than a week straight and clocking over 400 miles. To get underwater images like this one of a polar bear moving from melting sea ice onto dry land, Gregus developed camera rigs and techniques that allowed him to get close to the animals without being seen by them.
The more Gregus studied the bears, the more he learned of their personalities. There was the persistent cub he named Hercules. He lost a leg yet managed to survive his first two summers. An enormous female, Wanda, seemed to be feared by other bears but spent her days doing yoga-like stretches in the fireweed. Another female, Wilma, appeared to be so comfortable with Gregus that she’d nurse her cubs, Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm, close enough for him to hear their purring. Gregus also witnessed behaviors he’d rarely seen before, such as bears grazing on plants and hunting tern chicks by chasing them into the surf. For now, actions like those may be helping this polar bear population cope with the effects of climate change—but others elsewhere are starving.
“All of these pictures show bears that are fat, healthy, and playful,” Gregus says. So although from a global perspective everything may be going wrong for polar bears, “obviously something’s going right here.”
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Top: “We’d look around and say, ‘Where’s Wanda?’ Because if she was there, we didn’t have to worry about any other bears,” says Gregus, of the large but laid-back female. Bottom: Cubs weigh just one pound at birth, but a diet of milk that is extremely rich in fat helps them bulk up quickly. Each cub will nurse for at least 20 months, and they usually stay by their mother’s side for two years.
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Following a colossal rainstorm, Gregus went searching for this shot while his crew bailed water out of the boat. “I looked outside and saw the rainbow, and I thought, OK, now I just need to find a bear,” he says.
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Athena lounges with her three-legged cub, Hercules. Gregus can’t say for sure how the limb was lost, but he suspects an encounter with wolves may be the cause. The bears’ den is in wolf territory.
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Athena lounges with her three-legged cub, Hercules. Gregus can’t say for sure how the limb was lost, but he suspects an encounter with wolves may be the cause. The bears’ den is in wolf territory.
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“These bears are really thriving and adapting to the environment,” Gregus says. “But they’re not adapting fast enough in certain places, because the ice is melting too fast.”
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In this part of the Arctic, everything’s flat, Gregus says. That means even a small boulder can provide a better view—if a bear hasn’t succumbed to sleep, that is. The bears, including Veronica (shown), often stood on this rock, scouring the area for seals to eat or bears to avoid. Gregus hopes to return to this coast, where he sees the bears “thriving and adapting to the environment.” But he knows that in most of their range, polar bears are suffering from the warming temperatures.
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pangeen · 1 year
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“ Betty and Veronica “ // © Martin Gregus 
Music:  James Quinn - A Gentle Sunlight
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A Polar bear snoozing in a field of flower in the summer Arctic.
When we think of Polar bears, we usually imagine them on a vast blanket of whitish snow. This rather unusual scene was encountered by photographer Martin Gregus Jr. when he set out on a long journey to uncover the secret of polar bears during the summers. The scenes he came across were rarely documented behaviors of polar bears, seeing them grazing in the green fields. It was more encouraging and hopeful as to what had been shown before, where these large mammals were depicted looking famished in the northernmost ice regions. That was the photographer's goal, to portray this majestic land predator from another angle that has never been observed before.
📷 Martin Gregus Jr
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faithinchances · 2 years
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[Image ID: Two polar bears with only the heads visible in a field of purple flowers. Caption 1 reads: Photograph by Martin Gregus, Jr. Caption 2 reads: In the Canadian Arctic, these polar bears thrive in summer (pictured, Beans and Aurora poking their heads above the blooming fireweed)]
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