Ocean Harmony Size:7x15 A mother polar bear awakes

A mother polar bear awakes with her newborn cub of the year

I had spent many days in the Kananaskis area of Alberta

I sat on the edge of a vertical drop of 200 feet

and they were totally focused in one direction

and he was finding every last one

Ocean Harmony Size:7x15 A mother polar bear awakesCoast of Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador It proved to be surprisingly difficult to photograph a single image of land, ocean and a 60 foot species that spends much of its time below the oceans surface! Most whale species are very social and naturally curious. Humpback whales were decimated by commercial whaling in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Consequently, they were one of the first species protected under The Endangered Species