the sun will shine through when conditions are right," he said. He set up his tripod and took a wireless remote with him when he climbed the rocks in the photo. From there, he hiked through the chasm to this spot where sun shines down onto the rocks. To get this particular photo, Johnson was harnessed and lowered 300 feet down into the cave. 2nd Place: " Jomblang Cave, Indonesia" submitted by Dale Johnson I knew it was a special moment when I took it."įor more of Gulbransen's photography, follow him on Instagram And the 2nd Place Photo Is. I was so cold, I couldn’t feel my fingertips and I was praying my battery wouldn’t freeze and I said, 'bear, would you just lift your head about 8 inches?' And sure enough, it lifted its head and that’s when I got the shot.
"The bear walked out there with his head down. "I said to myself, 'I hope a bear walks into this scene' and sure enough this bear just walked into the scene," he said. Temperatures were so low that he wasn't certain his battery would last long enough to get the photo. So magical, in fact, that Gulbransen wasn't even sure he had gotten the photo. It didn’t last very long, maybe 20 minutes. We had this amazing fire-and-ice situation. The temperature changed so rapidly that the water was evaporating like that. "It got really really cold and all of a sudden, we woke up and went outside and saw the sun was coming up. "The weather turned that day," Gulbransen said. This is exactly what Gulbransen was looking to photograph on his trip. In November the Hudson Bay freezes and, if you time it just right, you can watch as the polar bears migrate onto the frozen waters. Greg Gulbransen spent four years saving and planning for a photography trip to Manitoba, Canada where he captured this year's grand prize winning photo.
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