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[Wandering Sagebrush]

That old boy looks like he is losing muscle mass.  I suspect his genes are going to carry on.

 

Great photos!

[Wandering Sagebrush]

Bull!

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[park]

Finally getting around to processing some shots taken up in Alaska.

 

[WjColdWater]

Finally getting around to processing some shots taken up in Alaska.

 

Crazy good! I’m amazed at the talented photographers on this site! Thanks for sharing!

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[Casa Escarlata Robles Too]

Thanks for all who post the fantastic photos on the site.

Keep it up.

Frank

[PaulT]

Park,

 

You and your bears.  Who else could get bears swimming in formation?

Great shots!  Healthy looking ram too.

 

Paul

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Going back through the many shots taken up in BC this fall and it always surprises me as to which photos capture my attention. More and more it's not the up close, perfect focus or the animal doing something out of the norm but simply a majestic animal in his natural environment doing what his kind have been doing for thousands of years. As I watched this Grizzly patrol for Salmon along the Atnarko River I wondered how many times this same stretch of river had bore witness to this exact scene. With any luck his kind, and the wild places in which he rules, will be here long into the future.

 

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By no standards is this much of a photograph but it was my most memorable bear encounter this past fall while in the Yellowstone area. A large boar grizzly was on this bull elk carcass and seeing as this can be an extremely dangerous situation getting close for a quality photo was not a priority. This shot was taken at quite a distance and cropped as well. However, sitting and watching him, via a spotting scope, feed, sleep on top of, watch me and burying the carcass was better than any photograph I may have left with. I went back for the next two days, hoping he would leave the carcass and I might get a better shot but it never happened. Watching mother nature in its raw form for hours was a highlight of the recent roam about.