Very Crappy Very Cool Photo
A big black bear was walking the far edge of a small river and I went a ways down river to try to get a good vantage point with a decent background for when it walked by. What I got instead was the bear charging at high speed out into the water to grab a salmon. Between me and the bear was a tree. I pushed the shutter anyway and kept on shooting, hoping it would come out into the open. This was as clean a shot as I could get. 10m back the way I came from would visually have been head on with the charge.
Focus was a bit off and overall image quality was a bit off. But a fisherman should show off the big fish they catch, and maybe even exaggerate about the size. Since the bear didn't have a social media account, I thought I would post the pic on its behalf just to show off how big that salmon was. Judging it against the bear, you know it was an impressive size.
The bear is likely a Vancouver Island sub-species, Ursus americanus vancouveri, which is generally a bit bigger than those on the mainland. Given the size of the fish, it is possibly a Chinook (aka King) salmon. I'm sure the bear enjoyed it thoroughly.
Very Crappy Very Cool Photo
A big black bear was walking the far edge of a small river and I went a ways down river to try to get a good vantage point with a decent background for when it walked by. What I got instead was the bear charging at high speed out into the water to grab a salmon. Between me and the bear was a tree. I pushed the shutter anyway and kept on shooting, hoping it would come out into the open. This was as clean a shot as I could get. 10m back the way I came from would visually have been head on with the charge.
Focus was a bit off and overall image quality was a bit off. But a fisherman should show off the big fish they catch, and maybe even exaggerate about the size. Since the bear didn't have a social media account, I thought I would post the pic on its behalf just to show off how big that salmon was. Judging it against the bear, you know it was an impressive size.
The bear is likely a Vancouver Island sub-species, Ursus americanus vancouveri, which is generally a bit bigger than those on the mainland. Given the size of the fish, it is possibly a Chinook (aka King) salmon. I'm sure the bear enjoyed it thoroughly.