Highlight Gallery & New Additions-Updated 2023.9.19.
Several months ago I had to upgrade my Graphics Card and Computer Screen. It made me aware of images I posted in too big of a hurry and others that I could develop better. I'm slowly going through this gallery first and trying to upgrade as many as possible.
Samples of the most recently added images are now being added to the beginning pages. All Images in this Gallery are protected by US copyright law. No images may be copied or downloaded without formal written permission from Tom Jesiolowski/Northland Arts Nature Images.
A Brown Bear sow that had a couple of cubs. 1997.7#25.3. She was snorkeling for salmon in the Pink Salmon hole below the parking lot when I looked over the bank. She then rushed out of the river and came right up to the bottom of the bank. When she dropped down and seemed to be headed for the river I slowly started down the staircase built by the Forest Service to get a better view point. She wheeled around and came half way up the staircase. I decided to go to a different area on the river. Pink Salmon Hole and Parking area on the Russian River. Kenai Peninsula Alaska. No way to know for sure but I always wondered if she may have been the bear that mauled Dan Bigley a few years later. She was by far the largest sow and most aggressive scary bear I ever encountered on Russian River.
