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The pinkish photo that has deteriorated over time is a scene of a parent and child polar bear walking slowly on the ice-bound sea. Then I noticed that there was a photographer, Hidehiro Otake, who was accompanying me on the interview. The wildest versions have been fueled by the publication of the Dyatlov hikers’ film rolls, received in 2009 from the personal archive of the prosecutor who led the case. One frame from a Zorki camera of one of the tourists, Yuri Krivonischenko, became particularly famous: in the blurry photo, you can make out moving balls of light in the dark.

Hoshino enjoyed a level of success few photographers achieve. His works were widely published and featured in exhibits in his ownJapan and around the world. He also won photographyaccoladesincluding the prestigious Kimura Ihei Awardand was invited to take part in photo projects in the Galápagos Islands and otherfar-flung locations. Despite his renown, however, he maintained a perspective that helped himbalance life among family, friends, and work. August draws to a close. The air, which grows crisper each day, gradually dyes the surface of the Earth. The blueberries and cranberries ripen, and together with the dwarf birch and the willows, their leaves turn a flaming red and yellow. About the time the sandhill cranes head south in their great V formations, changes begin to take place within the forest as well. I hear a low, groaning voice with a steady rhythm. Giant antlers weave their way through the spruce trees. There is no guarantee that the film can be rewound after 26 years, and if the rewinding fails, it will be impossible to develop the photo.When it was developed, it turned reddish due to the deterioration of the film. It is believed to have been taken near Churchill, Manitoba, Canada, near the Arctic Circle about a year ago. Bears become more active during the summer months and their mating season typically begins in July. The tragic, albeit somewhat commonplace, death of nine students of Ural Polytechnic Institute (from 1975-2004, more than one hundred people died on ski trips in Russia alone) has entered tourist mythology due to the unidentified official cause of death and mystical details. A tent cut open from the inside was found at the end of February in 1959 on one of the ridges of the Altai Mountains. The half-naked bodies of the tourists were discovered in different places, some at a considerable distance from the camp. Although most of the students were frozen, some bodies had been injured which might indicate a violent death. I think one of the most exciting things is this feeling of mystery, feeling of awe, the feeling of looking at a little live thing and being amazed by it and how it's emerged through these hundreds of years of evolution and there it is and it is perfect and why. Horns, which adorn rams, goats, cows, and many other mammals, are part of the skull itself and never shed. Composed of keratin, a protein in our hair and fingernails, horns are dead, and simply grow slightly larger each year as new material is added onto the base. In more than a few horned species, such as yaks, oryx, and duikers, females sport cranial weaponry, too.

The award-winning photographer Hoshino Michio (1952–96) had an innate talent for capturing intimate moments from the wilds of Alaska. His photos are slivers of time that show his subjects, sometimes no more than tiny figures in the foreground, set amid vast expansesof forest, sea, mountain, tundra, orice. Through Hoshino’s lens viewers are present for such timeless Arctic scenes as polar bears sauntering side by side through an expansive, frozen environment, a herd of caribou fording a mirror-smooth river, and the Aurora Borealis dancing across the rolling, snow-covered landscape.

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Sixteen years after his death on a photographic assignment in Russia, Michio Hoshino's (1952-1996) spectacular landscape photography, depictions of animals in their natural environment and beautifully descriptive texts continue to win the hearts of photo lovers all over the world. In the midst of May winds, new moose life is born. A cow with calves is very tense. Moving her large ears about like antennae, the cow does not let the faintest forest sound escape her. This new life may become the target of wolves or of the hungry grizzly just awakened from winter sleep. Last year before my Arctic trip, I stopped by the Museum of the North in Fairbanks, Alaska, where I saw his writing on a wall: Photographer Michio Hoshino, who passed away 26 years ago during his coverage of the nature and people of the far north, has found a film that seems to have been taken a year before his death. His professional career as a photographer began in 1986 when his work on the Grizzly Bear was published by Chronicle Books in "GRIZZLY". The book won the 3rd Anima award, which is given to the book with the most distinguished wildlife photography. The Chicago Tribune called the book, "a bold and beautiful saga in which he followed a family of Alaskan grizzlies meandering through the seasons."

It was a panorama photo that was unique to Mr. Hoshino, who has taken the environment surrounding living creatures above all else.This exhibition traces the works of Hoshino from his very first trip to Alaska in 1973 through to as yet unpublished photographs taken during his ill-fated journey to the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia's Far East where he was to meet his untimely death. Lynn Schooler, whose book The Blue Bear tells the story of his friendship with Hoshino and their adventures in the wild, and Karen Colligan-Taylor, his longtime friend and English translator, recall Hoshino’s kindness and humility. ”He was simple and good-hearted,” explains Schooler. “He empathized with people and would never put his views above the opinions of others.” Colligan-Taylor describes him as having a disarming, boyish sincerity and a comforting openness that put people at ease. Another aspect of Hoshino’s charm was a natural absentmindedness. This has produced an endless volume of “Michio stories” among his friends. “He was so without ego,” says Schooler, “that he was seldom part of his own thoughts.” The parent and child feel the presence of something, huddle together, stare into the distance, and then walk away from the screen. I become totally absorbed into this forest existence. It was an unparalleled period when aloneness was a way of life; a perfect opportunity, it might seem, for meditating in the meaning of existence and my role in it all. Tramping through the mountains of Alaska, I frequently encountered grizzlies. One spring day I spotted a grizzly sow and cub playing in the lingering snow. They were in the midst of a game of tag. When the cub ran away, the sow would pursue it. These actions were repeated many times, until the sow finally caught the cub. I burst out laughing at the scene that followed, as the mother bear continued to play with her young. The sow firmly grasped the cub with two paws and rolled down the mountain slope, the cub in her arms.

Michio Hoshino ( 星野 道夫, Hoshino Michio, September 27, 1952 – August 8, 1996) was a Japanese-born nature photographer. He originally hailed from Ichikawa, Chiba Prefecture. [1] Considered one of the most accomplished nature photographers of his era [2] and compared to Ansel Adams, [3] Hoshino specialized in photographing Alaskan wildlife until he was killed by a brown bear while on assignment in Kurilskoye Lake, Russia in 1996. [4] Lynn Schooler's book The Blue Bear relates the story of the author's friendship with Hoshino, a man he admired greatly for his skill as a photographer and his humanity. Schooler is a wilderness guide who became a photographer in his own right under Hoshino's tutelage. [5] Another book, The Only Kayak by Kim Heacox, describes Hoshino's journeys to Glacier Bay as well as his own close personal friendship with Hoshino.Hoshino encouraged people to follow their passions, just as he had, and sought to inspire with tales of his experiences in the wild. He understood that most people will never see the migration of the caribou or watch a grizzly cub play with its mother; nor, he felt, did they need to. Simply being able to imagine a world of primeval forests, heaving glaciers, and endless plains—where day and night might stretch on for weeks, and seasonal cycles are both familiar and peculiar—would inspire people to dream. In 2009, as part of a photoshop competition on worth1000.com with the description, “the last picture you’ll ever take…” the last shot of Michio Hoshino was allegedly published. It took off and is now called authentic by many sources. What was reflected there was the brilliance of “life” living on the ice land, like a message from Mr. Hoshino. A caribou wanders past patches of melting snow on the tundra. Commemorative Exhibit: Hoshino Michio’s Journey