Wolf encounter: A photographer on what humans have lost
- Lasting impressionPedersen has experienced moments like this many times throughout his career and says each one leaves a lasting impression.
- No matter the reaction — fear, awe or shock — anyone who experiences close encounters with a wild predator, he said, “will feel different around the natural world than they did before”.
- The encounter awakens something primal, an often unchallenged part of our brain that forces us to recognise how thin the line really is between ourselves and the wild — and how quickly the illusion of control can disappear.
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- Lasting impressionPedersen has experienced moments like this many times throughout his career and says each one leaves a lasting impression.
- No matter the reaction — fear, awe or shock — anyone who experiences close encounters with a wild predator, he said, “will feel different around the natural world than they did before”.
- The encounter awakens something primal, an often unchallenged part of our brain that forces us to recognise how thin the line really is between ourselves and the wild — and how quickly the illusion of control can disappear.
Sources: Al Jazeera