Photographers, naturalist reporters, trackers, we have been studying for several years brown (grizzly) and black bear behavior and habitat.
If we work with 20mm, 50mm, 80/200; 2.8 lenses and a 300; 2.8 telephoto lens with 1.4 multiplier (with monopod), it’s to roam the bush in search of the animal, make contact with it when we are tolerated, catch a glimpse of its personal life without disturbing it, observe and study its behavior when we stay behind the blind.

We cast bear tracks with chirurgical plaster, in the same conditions as photography.

In this way, the stories of ours photographs and tracks are even deeper.

If our pictures and tracks are meant to let you dream, they must also carry this rare emotion that can only be experienced in the wilderness.

We are, in effect, absolutely against any picture or track taken in captivity or semi-captivity (those so-called sightseeing parks which are nothing more than prisons, as much as zoos, circuses and dancing bears).

Those pictures and tracks must help you to stand against captivity, explaining to people that, with courage, sweat, tenacity, respecting the animal and learning to know it better, we can have a totally different and opposed approach from the one of the zoo.

Hunting is also one of our fights. Any of our pictures will never be published in one of their magazines and none of our track has been cast on a dead animal.
Hunters are people who think that Nature belongs to them. People like us prove them the contrary.

Alain and Isabelle Boyaval.