Grizzly Salmon Strike — Brooks Falls Alaska
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A grizzly bear photographed at Brooks Falls, Alaska, at the precise moment of salmon capture — the salmon mid-leap and the bear’s jaws closing at the apex of the waterfall.
Description
Brooks Falls in Katmai National Park, Alaska, is one of the world’s great wildlife spectacles during the July sockeye salmon run — large-bodied male grizzly bears, some weighing over 400kg, occupying the waterfall lip and capturing salmon as they leap upstream. This photograph captures the peak of the interaction — a sockeye salmon at the apex of its jump and a large-bodied boar’s jaws closing within millimetres of the leaping fish. The image was made from the park-managed viewing platform at 20m range using a 500mm lens at 1/3200s. The precise timing, the compositional relationship between bear and salmon, and the water cascade background make this image one of the defining frames of the species interaction it documents.
