Igor Shpilenok in Samara.

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During his three -year (!) Are supposed to travel in reserves and national parks of Russia in Samara drove the famous nature photographer , blogger , writer , founder of the reserve "Bryansk Forest" Shpilenok [/URL].

My goal - is to show the beauty of Russian wildlife sanctuaries and national parks, and to awaken in people the desire to preserve these places .

Igor is moving from west to east , reaching ( plan ) to Kamchatka (who since 2004 for several months living and working in Kronotskoye Reserve ) will stay there a year , and will move in the opposite direction. Travelling is timed to the 100th anniversary of the first Russian natural reserve - Barguzinsky .

He , by the way , loved the Zhiguli Mountains . <! - ~ 1 ~ ->

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I was in a meeting, very pleased and so decided to show some of the world famous pictures of this wonderful wizard.

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I was in a meeting, very pleased and so decided to show some of the world famous pictures of this wonderful wizard.

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The first two photos were pristizhnye Award Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition .

tri-color Rysku gave our family friends in Kamchatka. It so happened that I was leaving for five months in the winter in Kronotskiy reserve and wife and children - in America to parents. Rysku no one to leave, and she went into a cardboard box with me in a helicopter to a hundred and fifty kilometers north of Petropavlovsk. In another box followed her personal baggage - the stock cat food for six months.
Our cabin, and to be honest - old wooden shed, once built great naturalist Vitaly Nikolaenko, stood on the overgrown ancient stone birch Cape moraine, which go into the tundra. Under the cape a river quiet, teeming with fish and for kilometers tundra breathed Pacific. In clear weather from the Cape opened four snow-white peaks of volcanoes: Big Semyachik, Kikhpinych, Krasheninnikova and Kronotsk.
I insulate the shed and brought Isover Lining, closed the roof, installed new stoves and chimney - just turned the barn into evrosaray. Collect fuel wood, redid the decrepit bridge over ice-stream. The cat in this time wiped out all of voles and shrews underground.
We Ryski had a habit to wake me an hour before sunrise. Every fine morning we were the first in Russia greeted the sunrise over the ocean. I'm stoked stoves, brewed coffee, the first month of grilled fried in lard, and then when I ran out of eggs, baked pancakes. The smell of bacon was Narcotic reserved for local foxes, dozens of generations that do not know what is hunting them. In the morning, before they came to the cabin to enjoy the delicious smell. They even fought for the right to stand closer to the window hut to not only smell, but to see the bacon!

That's where Ryska and has proved its mettle. She herself, spoiled cat food, do not eat any fat or stew or crushed by it voles and shrews - all of their prey, until recently, tail, she proudly brought me to the report. But to fox sniffing master's fat! Such arrogance and unscrupulousness Ryska they could not afford!
 
Within a radius of 50 meters from the house she rushed lioness fox! There was a case that frightened Patrikeevna she drove to the inclined tree. She even tried to attack passers-by bears. Are not very afraid of it, but it's still added step ...
I began to shoot Rysku with foxes for the family album. After returning to the mainland, and the wife took one of the pictures sent to London for Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition - competition, a victory which - it's peak in the career of any photographer shooting wildlife. And take a picture, and won in the category "Urban and Garden Wildlife".
This is my second victory in the competition in this category. The first victory was three years ago - is also a picture of the home album! This will be a separate story. That's the irony of which: rented in one of the wildest places on the planet, and the win in the category of "wild nature in the city and the garden." But anyway - thanks, Ryska! And respect!

In London, the awards ceremony Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition, I was able to meet with several judges. It turned out the house all have a cat!

Wonderful blog Igor Shpilenok.

And the third - a great liking to the Internet.
Bear eating berries, he saw a man (for the first time in his life, says Shpilenok) stood up in surprise, and so that's noted. <! - ~ 7 ~ ->

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A few photos from the meeting itself.

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And the third - a great liking to the Internet.

I'm currently a fifth (with cubs) has set as desktop background.

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Photo Wolverines, but still a quality - a great rarity!
I have at this fine album, reading - a pleasure!

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Sitting in the urban "hole" (that is in Moscow) and looking with envy and longing at these photos, you feel inadequate.

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Sitting in the urban " hole" (that is in Moscow) and looking with envy and longing at these photos , you feel inadequate .

And what prevents fly to Kamchatka?
For example, I know that Michael Zadornov ( not a satirist , humorist and economist , currently Chairman and CEO VTB 24 )
For several years, holidays with the family spends on Kamchatka - put a tent on the banks of the river and rest.
He even was a deputy of the State Duma of Kamchatka , by the way .

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And what prevents fly to Kamchatka?

Apparently I'm not light on his feet . Holding something : vanity , "business" , some ghostly aspirations ... and discomfort to panic or fear that you experience when knocked out of the usual bustle of the maelstrom of city life. Conceptually, you know what to choose life or the mother of Babylon , or vice versa , with measured detached existence of some sort in the countryside, or, say, wander " through the world " (as such makes this happy Shpilenok ) . Either one or the other , no middle ground . It seems that for example the trip to Kamchatka , will only exacerbate this dissonance . I've visited where in my life , but lately not even like to go for a vacation . Occasionally I get out to the country : they sleep sweeter. )

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Conceptually, you know what to choose life or the mother of Babylon , or vice versa , with measured detached existence in some sort of countryside

That's what I 'm talking about the trip for a short time - a week there , two .
Especially because you are flying back to the city , too - in Petropavlovsk- Kamchatsky, rather, in Elizovo International Airport , and from there to the city, 30 km away.
And only then out of the city - or in the interior , to the river , for example , fishing for salmon , or along the ocean.
Ocean summer fun - no mosquitoes and camomile .