Untamed Photographer
When Earth’s beauty remains untamed, the best we can do is provide a frame. Raising environmental awareness through art and storytelling.
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Fishing with Spirit Bears
View print sizes for Fishing with Spirit Bears by April Bencze: Story Behind the Photograph: Fishing with Spirit Bears There's something slightly impersonal about a rod and a reel after watching bears fish for salmon. Long claws, sharp teeth, and a quickness you would not assume from a bear slowly meandering their way up a river. The dance of predator and prey awakens something primal in us, oft dormant in those born to a city. The relationship between life and death; raw and integral in reminding us of the interconnectedness of all things.
April BenczePublished 2 years ago in Earth - Supported By: Untamed Photographer
Among Asters
View print sizes for Among Asters by April Bencze: Story Behind the Photograph: Among Asters The ocean reaches many arms to embrace the land. Long, graceful fingers of saltwater stretch to meet fresh, flowing rivers. River and ocean mingle to make brackish water. Ocean breathes the tide in, and out, in, and out. Hiding and then revealing the shore’s secrets with each ebb and flood. We call these places estuaries.
April BenczePublished 2 years ago in Earth - Supported By: Untamed Photographer
The Dawn Howl
View print sizes for The Dawn Howl by April Bencze: Story Behind the Photograph: The Dawn Howl It is a sound that pierces your soul and echoes through your flesh; the landscape reverberating along with your bones long after the wolf lowers his head. The call of the wild; the way I know the howls will sound the same whether I am there to absorb them or not.
April BenczePublished 2 years ago in Earth - Supported By: Untamed Photographer
Clouds Over Changthang
View print sizes for Clouds Over Changthang by Arati Kumar-Rao: Story Behind the Photograph: Clouds Over Changthang The northernmost region of India is the ‘land of high passes,’ Ladakh. Shielded from South Asia’s wet and humid monsoon by the Greater Himalayan range that stretches to its south and curves west, this Trans-Himalayan region is a vast cold desert.
Arati Kumar-RaoPublished 2 years ago in Earth - Supported By: Untamed Photographer
Silent Extinction
View print sizes for Silent Extinction by Arati Kumar-Rao: Story Behind the Photograph: Silent Extinction Tall, graceful, powerful and puzzlingly “silent,” much about vocal communication among giraffes is still a mystery. Long thought to be silent creatures, they seemed to communicate either in frequencies that are extremely low or even out of the hearing range of humans. More recent research indicates that they do make sounds in the human auditory range: they hum … and only at night. At 92Hz, the sound is at the low end of human hearing.
Arati Kumar-RaoPublished 2 years ago in Earth - Supported By: Untamed Photographer
Everest
View print sizes for Everest by Arati Kumar-Rao: Story Behind the Photograph: Everest I was heading due west, from the kingdom of Bhutan in the Indian subcontinent to the capital of India, New Delhi. Having made sure I had an “F” window seat on the plane, away from the wing, camera at the ready, I prayed for clear skies (and a clear window pane) and kept my eyes peeled. From the moment we took off till we begin to descend two-and-a-half hours later, the Great Himalayan range unfolded in front of my eyes.
Arati Kumar-RaoPublished 2 years ago in Earth - Supported By: Untamed Photographer
Plains of the Brahmaputra
View print sizes for Plains of the Brahmaputra by Arati Kumar-Rao: Story Behind the Photograph: Plains of the Brahmaputra
Arati Kumar-RaoPublished 2 years ago in Earth - Supported By: Untamed Photographer
The Matriarch
View print sizes for The Matriarch by Arati Kumar-Rao: Story Behind the Photograph: The Matriarch On the vast salt plains of Kenya’s Amboseli National Park, a matriarch, with her herd of elephants, is about to enter the swamps. This vast land, called “Empusel” for salty, dusty place in the language of the Maasais, Maa, sprawls at the base of Mount Kilimanjaro on the border of Kenya and Tanzania and is traditionally grazing grounds for the herds of Maasai cattle. They have, for centuries, shared this landscape with massive herds of elephants, prides of lions, cheetahs, leopards, and other wild animals.
Arati Kumar-RaoPublished 2 years ago in Earth - Supported By: Untamed Photographer
Milkyway Over Mangroves
View print sizes for Milkyway Over Mangroves by Arati Kumar-Rao: Story Behind the Photograph: Milkyway Over Mangroves Night falls like a black hood over the largest mangrove forest in the world, the Sundarbans. Straddling the border between Bangladesh and India, this beautiful forest (which is likely where it gets its name from — Sundar, meaning beautiful, ban, meaning forest) is home to the Royal Bengal Tiger, saltwater crocodiles, all manner of snakes, crustaceans, river sharks, and a few million crab-catchers, fishers, and honey hunters.
Arati Kumar-RaoPublished 2 years ago in Earth - Supported By: Untamed Photographer
Majestic Manta
View print sizes for Majestic Manta by Brian Moghari: Story Behind the Photograph: Majestic Manta I’ve spent hundreds of hours filming and photographing in our oceans, and every once in a while something truly unexpected happens. In 2019, I was filming whale sharks near Isla Mujeres Mexico for National Geographic’s first ever live VR shark experience. In this particular area, hundreds of millions of eggs from the fish known as the Little Tunny are released into the food chain, attracting whale sharks throughout the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea. This spawning alone is responsible for the world’s largest whale shark aggregation which was scientifically discovered only a decade before in 2009.
Brian MoghariPublished 2 years ago in Earth - Supported By: Untamed Photographer
Thin Blue Line
View print sizes for Thin Blue Line by Brian Moghari: Story Behind the Photograph: Thin Blue Line The ocean covers around 70 percent of our planet’s surface and holds over 96 percent of the Earth’s water. It is our planet’s largest ecosystem driving our weather, regulating temperature, and ultimately supporting all living organisms, but we know very little about this underwater world. More than eighty percent of this vast environment has yet to be explored by man. When I look out to the ocean and see where mountains, forests and mangroves collide with this expansive body of water it is easy to think there’s nothing more but water beyond this intersection; but beneath the surface begins a whole new world full of life just out of sight.
Brian MoghariPublished 2 years ago in Earth - Supported By: Untamed Photographer
Macaws in Flight
View print sizes for Macaws in Flight by Tony Rath: Story Behind the Photograph: Macaws in Flight The serene “Golden Hour” of photography in the northern latitudes is more like a “15 Minute Blitz” in the tropics. Here in Belize, the sun rapidly sinks on a near vertical path leaving little time for spontaneity. Planning, patience and technique are most important when photographing wildlife at sunrises and sunsets.
