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Young Billy Goat, Glacier Peak Wilderness, Washington. My second trip to Magic Mountain led me to the North Cascade's version sans the roller coasters but not without a fair share of stimulating thrills including a moat problem, a charge by a brown bear, and a family of mountain goats who decided to drop by for breakfast. The moat, a yawing gap between the final snow slope and its rocky borders, required a detour down a snow bridge and then up an extremely loose chimney of gravel where I literally pressed down on the rocks to keep them in place and used my ice axe to stake my position. Once I reached the col, I dropped my pack as my climbing partner Don Geyer had just spied a bear grazing a few hundred feet below us. I zoomed in on the brown bear which upon closer inspection turned out to be a very stout brown haired black bear. Much to my surprise, the bruin decided to romp up the alp slope in my direction forcing me to pull my lens back until finally, I decided to give up my position and a clear shot for a potential escape route. At about the same time, the bear dropped into a thicket not to be seen again for several hours. A false charge. The next morning, we awoke to the sound of shifting rocks and heavy footfalls, a family of goats (much to our relief considering the alternative) decided to include our camp as part of their morning ridge run. In this image, I encouraged the goat towards a point above me by lying low and pretending to ignore his presence and then circling to a better vantage once I had him cornered on the ledge. Technical: Nikon 100-300mm zoom lens, minimum f-stop to stop all action.

South Moelle Island, Australia.

Red Kangaroo, Mungo National Park, Australia.
<br>Photographing kangaroos in the wild proved more difficult than expected. Perhaps due to local hunting practices, the kangaroos remained very wary of my presence and would bound away whenever I came closer than 100 yards on foot. Finally, I rigged a window mount on my rental and settled for a quick shot or two before the kangaroo could take off and the impending red dust, churned from my quick braking, could overtake my vantage.
<br>Technical: Nikon 400mm lens.

Mountain Goat, North Cascades, Washington. Technical: Nikon 28-80mm zoom lens.

Grouse, Canadian Selkirks, British Columbia.
<br>Technical: Nikon 100-300mm zoom lens.

Sahale Goat, North Cascades Park, Washington.

Ptarmigan, Assiniboine Provincial Park, Canadian Rockies, British Columbia.

Roo on the Move, Mungo National Park, Australia.

Mountain Goat, Glacier Peak Wilderness, North Cascades, Washington.

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