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Meet Scarface

Hard to believe I didn't introduce this big guy to you folks sooner.   Obviously from my bear trip last fall, but this particular bear made quite an impression for obvious reasons.  Not only was this male boar huge, but the scar across his nose gave him, well to put...

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Bear and salmon stream

Bear and salmon stream

Bear and river, Kinak Bay, Katmai National Park, Alaska Hard to believe months have already gone by and I am still digging out favorites from my trip to Katmai National Park in Alaska.   Bears are such amazing animals, I still feel quite privileged to have had the...

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Bear claws

Processing bear photos continues.... I thought this was an interesting portrait in how you do not see the bear's eyes, but my attention is drawn almost immediately to the claws.   I wondered if this was an instinctual reaction to a threat.   Similar to the way people...

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Bear reflections

I was fortunate enough to capture a few scenes with some nice reflections of these coastal brown bears (aka. grizzly bears aka. ursus arctos ).     It seemed to be a rare occurrence when a bear would walk along the water's edge and at the same time have the water calm...

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Bear wobbles

Carl Donohue mentioned in his comments on my previous bear blur post; ".. bears are just hard to do motion blurs with .. their gait is much of a wobble that they end up looking weird, most of the time .." I tend to agree with him, but sometimes you get lucky.  By the...

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