GRANDE PRAIRIE- A local photographer has sold some of his work to an National Geographic.
Amos Wiebe captured a rare sight of a pair of lynx fighting up a tree in the forest south of Grande Prairie.
His posting of the sight went viral on the internet.
Wiebe says that led to National Geographic contacting him Monday morning.
“Sounds like for sure they will be posting on all their web and social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. So that’s pretty exciting.”
He calls the deal with National Geographic a dream.
“It’s a dream gig for any photographer to have work published in National Geographic. To have any agreement in place and to have content that will be posted on there in the future, is definitely an honour.”
Wiebe says lynx are elusive, so this is something that humans would rarely get to see.
A staff member at National Geographic that studies lynx says that it was actually a male up in the tree.
Another male that was on the ground with the female was trying to run the male in the tree out of his territory.
He kept treeing him because he was already paired up with a female.
Wiebe had first thought it was a male and female lynx that were fighting in the tree.
