Hold Her Tight Format:Matted If I had not poked

If I had not poked my head up above my camera

It was fall

I first spotted these black bear cubs feeding their mother along the Icefields Parkway in Jasper National Park

One morning

I think they had been sitting there so the wind would give them some relief of the mosquitoes

Hold Her Tight Format:Matted If I had not pokedNunavut A mother polar bear awakes with her newborn cub of the year. The mystical light seemed to mirror the Arctic cold. She spent only a few seconds examining my good friend David and me, then meandered back into the sunset. I and David, an Inuit elder and accomplished guide, had waited hours for a surreal moment such as this. I immediately reviewed the images, then high fived my friend. But it was a bittersweet moment. A tear rolled down my cheek