Bears of the border

Brown bears on the Russian border, photographed from the same three hides since 2012.

Boreal

Bears 02 Two cubs forest · 600mm · f/4 · 1/800 · ISO 4000
Bears 03 Bear and cub · 400mm · f/2.8 · 1/500 · ISO 2000
Bears 04 Bear family · 600mm · f/4 · 1/1000 · ISO 5000
Bears 05 Two bears dense forest · 500mm · f/4 · 1/400 · ISO 1250
Bears 06 Bears forest edge · 400mm · f/2.8 · 1/1250 · ISO 3200
Bears 07 Two bears snow · 600mm · f/4 · 1/320 · ISO 2500
Bears 08 European brown bear portrait · 600mm · f/4 · 1/1600 · ISO 6400
Bears 09 Bear and cub clearing · 400mm · f/2.8 · 1/640 · ISO 1600
Bears 10 Bear resting close dark · 600mm · f/4 · 1/800 · ISO 4000

The hides sit on a bog two kilometers from the border fence. The bears come at dusk and again at three in the morning when the light is a rumor. Every frame here was made without a flash, from a slit at ground level, over the course of two hundred and twelve nights.