Niche: A Weekly Peek at an Emerging Artist ; Gay Bumgarner

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Nature photographer Gay Bumgarner has been chased by elephants, lived on a houseboat on the Amazon River, trekked through Costa Rican rain forests in pursuit of butterflies and nearly died in Kenya after the ledge she was standing on over a pool of hippos gave way.

She considers the near-death experience a funny story her children could have told their doctors when asked about their family medical history.

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Niche: A Weekly Peek at an Emerging Artist ; Gay Bumgarner

"How did your parents die?" Bumgarner asked, speaking as the doctor.

"Oh, my mother was killed by hippos," she replied as her daughter.

Bumgarner laughed.

The Columbia resident has been a professional photographer since the 1950s. She got her start while work...

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