The Silvertip

This Silvertip Grizzly was digging for food by a pullout. He actually was foraging with a very dark Grizzly. We spotted them three or four times during our trip (in the Yukon portion) and he was always with that dark bear (of whom I'll post a picture of soon)! Anyway, he had just taken a break frome digging for roots to look at something. I took some pictures, and soon after he went back to his business of diggin'. It was pretty cool watching them both work for roots like this; you can just see the power they have as they move heavy rocks out of the way to get food. I'm sure I'll be posting a couple more of this guy .

This is cropped from vertical to a 4x5 horizontal format. Now, I would've liked to have a little more room below, but there were some distracting elements down there and I wanted plenty of space above his head.

Thanks for lookin'!

Nikon D300
Nikkor 300mm f/4 ED with 1.4TC
ISO 800
1/125sec @ f/5.6
exposure comp set to -0.7 to control highlights
resting on vehicle window
cropped from vertical to 4X5 horizontal
light NR on background using Nik Dfine 2
slight adjustments to tones and contrast using Nik Viveza 2