One Bear

One Bear - This gallery represents a forty minute encounter with a most curious and cooperative bear we had on our 2023 trip to Arctic Canada and Greenland. Bears exhibit many different personalities, as most will stay distant or relatively still as the ship approaches ever so slowly. Sometimes from initial sighting in our scopes at two or three miles, it can take an hour until a bear is really in camera range. This bear was one of the rare ones that really was curious and and as we approached her, she would move slowly from ice floe to ice floe by jumping and/or swimming, towards us. I was using my OM Systems (formerly Olympus) OM-1 and 150-400 lens with built in 1.25 teleconverter and 1.4 teleconverter added for an effective 1,600 millimeter reach (with the camera’s 2x digital factor) as we approached each other and finally she took us through a bear’s yoga practice.