When photographer Jean-Simon Bégin came across not one but six lynx in a snowstorm, the event was “like a dream.”
“I believe I am one of the only humans in the world to have experienced this closeness with six wild lynx,” Bégin told The Epoch Times.
The 32-year-old professional painter and wildlife photographer searched for several days in his quest to encounter the special species of wildcat. The location was a remote part of northern Canada, far from Quebec City where Bégin lives.
Despite large populations prowling the country’s north, Bégin—a keen photographer since the age of 12—didn’t succeed in capturing one with his camera until his mid-20s. Spotting a lynx became his “biggest obsession” he says….