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• Scots wildlife photographer David Yarrow even escaped an up close meeting with a lioness on the prairie
• Self-taught 47-year-old has produced almost 90 black and white pictures of wildlife in harsh landscapes
• Among the images are two baby penguins helping each other climb an icy slope in Snow Hill, Antarctica
• Also included in new book Encounter is a pair of polar bears confronting each other in Manitoba, Canada

By ROBERT DEX  in mail online .com UK

 

 

He has travelled to some of the world’s remotest destinations and come face to face with deadly animals to capture these stunning images.

And Scots wildlife photographer David Yarrow even escaped an up close and personal meeting with a lioness on the prairie during his global travels.

Mr Yarrow, from Glasgow, has produced almost 90 black and white pictures of wildlife in some of the harshest landscapes on Earth.

Scary: Scots wildlife photographer David Yarrow even escaped an up close and personal meeting with a lioness on the prairie during his global travels

Impressive: Mr Yarrow, from Glasgow, has produced almost 90 black and white pictures of wildlife in some of the harshest landscapes on Earth

Beautiful moment: Among the images are two baby penguins helping each other climb an icy slope in Snow Hill, Antarctica

The self-taught 47-year-old said the confrontation was his ‘one moment of real fear’ during his travels to collect the stunning pictures for his new book.

The encounter happened in the Katmai National Park, Alaska, which is home to thousands of brown bears.

 

Looking at you: This is the moment Scots wildlife photographer Mr Yarrow came face to face with an adult brown bear in the wilds of Alaska

stunning image of a zebra…

 

Mr Yarrow said: ‘As I turned a corner after a walk through the woods, I was met with the sight of an approaching bear 80 yards away.

 

‘It says little for my general sense of self-preservation that, after the initial shock, I instinctively raised my camera and took one picture – the lack of crispness hints at my fast heartbeat and sense of haste.

‘I then did as the safety drill instructed and stood to one side talking loudly to the bear.

‘”Good afternoon Mr Bear”, were my exact words – repeated regularly and louder and louder…  

‘In retrospect, it was all rather comical, but the nearest human was at least a mile away.

‘Luckily the bear did exactly what we had been assured they tend to do in Katmai and wandered off showing no interest in me whatsoever.

‘But it is not the most relaxing way to spend a Sunday afternoon, and not too long after this incident, a photographer elsewhere in Alaska was killed by a bear.’

 

 

Fighting talk: Among the images in the set by Mr Yarrow are a pair of polar bears confronting each other in Manitoba, Canada

Staring: This stunning portrait of a razorback gorilla

 

source:::::photographs by David Yarrow….mailonline.com

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