Sometimes I find the animal is just as curious about me as I am them. However being able to glide silently through the water in a kayak I'm able to observe and shoot images from without disrupting them in their natural habitat. Getting up close to skittish wild animals in nature can be both challenging and immensely frustrating, especially when relying on waterproof point and shoot camera. I don't claim to be a wildlife photographer. Clearly, the best course of action is to protect entire ecosystems so that individual species don’t get into trouble in the first place." I think we should show good stewardship to all species, great and small. “It's hoped that people will fall in love with these things, want to learn about what happened to the species, what they can do to save it and then realize that it ties directly back into their own lives. "That’s what the Photo Ark really is about,” Sartore said about the series. His goal is simple: to get the public to care and save species from extinction. Over last decade Sartore focus has been a project he calls the Photo Ark, the world’s largest collection of animal studio portraits. Most of the time it's physically miserable, and if you weren’t wound tight like me to get good pictures, why in the world would you ever do something like this? I don’t think you could stand it!” “You have to be really patient,” National Geographic photographer Joel Sartore told PBS, “ Most shoots I’m covered with bugs. As a consequence, the longer you spend watching them the more you to know about them. Be prepared to wait and watch for that perfect moment. You can’t ask them to look this way or stand where the light is better. Getting up close to wild animals with an elusive nature proves to be challenging.
There are two factors that are relied on when getting images of wildlife. Humans are but intruders who have presumed the right to be observers, and who, out of observation, find understanding. Flowers bloom, set seed and die back squirrels hide nuts in the fall and scold all year long bobcats track the snowy lake in winter deer browse the willow shoots in spring. There is also the Doc Gordon road that goes from the beginning of the Upper road all the way down to the mid area of the lake (steep but free).The life of the wood, meadow, and lake go on without us.
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The trails include the very popular Lake Clementine trail that connects the confluence area downstream to the Lower Clementine road (2 easy miles, and free from the confluence), the firebreak road/trail that goes from Lower road to the Culvert trail and Lakeview connector (also free), and the little known primitive fisherman’s trail that goes from the boat ramp along the shore for about 2 miles. Pooping in the lake is discouraged.ĭirections: Take 1-80 east 3 miles to Auburn Ravine exit, go 3.5 miles to Lower Clementine Road or 6 miles to Upper Clementine Road.
The lake also has a boat-in camping and floating toilets for boaters. The Lower road is where the boat ramp is and a large parking lot for boat trailers. It also offers a take out for rafters who put in at either Ponderosa or Yankee Jim’s bridges upstream. It has a rocky shore-line beach and river flows into the lake there. The Upper road is popular for swimming and recreation, sun bathing and hanging out. Fees are collected at both the Upper and Lower Clementine access roads. Today the lake is supervised by the ASRA for recreation. The waterfall made by the dam is always a favorite backdrop for photos. The Lake level is set by the dam height so it doesn’t vary much except during high flows. Man-made Lake Clementine was built by the Army Corps Of Engineers in 1935 to collect debris coming down the North Fork of the American river.
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