2008 is the Year of the Polar Bear, as declared by the United Nations. Climate change has directly affected the winter habitat of these marine mammals, as ice packs melt due to increasing ocean temperatures.
These photographs of polar bears were taken at Churchill, Manitoba. Such first hand experience observing them in their natural environment may soon be a thing of the past.
You can order my book "Looking at Polar Bears" with these and many other images. E-mail for further information.
There are several photographic books in the works.
Moments of Exile has several folios: National Dream
Road Less Traveled
Lovers and Other Strangers
No Matter Where You Go...There You Are
Looking at Polar Bears
People of Nuxhalk
Artists Make Art