Welcome to the Mark Enarson Images blog. Here you will find trip reports, news, and articles about nature and wildlife photography.
Saving the Amazon Through Tourism
March 16, 2013
In January of 2008, I had the great privilege to visit the Ecuadorian Amazon at the Napo Wildlife Center Eco-Lodge. This unique lodge, nestled along the banks of Lake Anangu in the Yasunì National Park. This park is an important UNESCO Biosphere Reserve and the largest tract of tropical rain forest in Ecuador.
This area of the Amazon is under co...
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The Sailfish of Isla Mujeres
March 16, 2013
In March 2010, I traveled to Mexico where I had an opportunity to swim with and photograph the ocean’s fastest animal - the sailfish. Once an exclusive encounter for only the most elite underwater photographers, more and more great photos are emerging from the spectacular bait balls that occur each year off Isla Mujeres, Mexico every January to Mar...
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Raising Baby Cheetah Style
March 16, 2013
For a cheetah on the Serengeti plains, life is hard. These graceful predators are killed and displaced by larger predators and the odds of survival are heavily stacked against them. As a result, the population density of cheetahs in the Serengeti is low. Estimates in the 1990s put the number of cheetahs in the whole of the Serengeti at 500 to 900 i...
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Seasons of the Great Bear
March 16, 2013
The year begins for a Kodiak bear deep below the Alaskan snow. Within the den, a Kodiak bear spends the winter months in hibernation. During these months, the hibernating bear does not eat, drink, defecate, or urinate. As winter progresses, the bear’s body temperature drops slowly reaching a low of 12 ° C (21.6 ° F) below its normal active temperat...
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Transients - The Whale Killers
March 16, 2013
At up to 30 feet in length and weighing up to 10 tonnes, the intelligent and pack-hunting orca is unrivalled as the ocean’s top predator. Roughly 100 000 years ago, orcas divided into separate populations which have been called the residents and transients. These groups have developed differences in social structure, anatomy, diet, and hunting stra...
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