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JYou can just be lucky or you can enforce your luck….or a combination of both. For making this photo it was the latter. I was breaking camp when the excited calling of Ravens drew my attention. Where Ravens call…..wolves are around. I was alerted instantly and I hurried to pack my things and follow the sounds with my canoe. When I heard breaking branches in the woods I suspected a deer to be near………to my great surprise a wolf appeared..and another..and another! Fortunately they used the boulders to walk upon and this gave me time to grab my camera and take shots. With my canoe I tried to pick them up after they disappeared. Close to my landing point I saw two of the three wolves returning and this time they saw me. One of them stopped and stared at me for some time….I saw that two of them wore radio neck collars. It annoyed me, but on the other hand, it is part of the story of these wolves and of the wolves of Minnesota.
Jim Brandenburg wrote to me: “I am extremely impressed with the images of the wolves you captured. It is very rare to have such a great setting. If you would show these to photographers that do wolves a lot they would assume it was done with tame animals… The radio collars prove it’s the real thing!” What more can I add to that…..

Cheers, Niels