Grizzly Boar

This is a very nice looking enormous grizzly Rick! Awesome find. Looks like you had the same weather as us further north, perfect for outdoor photography. Not something within your control, but esthetically would have been nice to have the foreground grass and Indian Paintbrush continue right up to the spruce. Thanks for sharing.

Hi Rick,

Nice specimen you captured here. Always hard to judge size from a photo (and without some clear referents to compare to), but have to agree with Gary that this seems to be a pretty big bear. Do you have other shots where the female is also in the frame? Would be interesting to see the size differential.

Technically this shot looks solid - exposure good and sharpness seems good (as much as one can tell with web-sized images). While I'm DEFINITELY not one to think one should always "fill the frame" with a subject, in this case (given the less than beautiful surrounding habitat) I'm wondering if you should have zoomed in more to emphasize both the bear and the scarlet paintbrush more? The gravel/sandy bed and the bear's pose does give the shot a bit of a diagonal flow (which is a good thing), but still thinking a closer framing might have worked better here? Just a thought...

Cheers...

Brad

Hello Rick

Great Capture! Does seem Very Large ? I think like Gary & Brad about tighter crop to emphasize & greater detail . The surrounding gravel doesn't add to the overall image .

Bill

Nice pose here Rick and well composed. The FG grasses with those tiny red flowers add a lot to this. Unfortunately the BG is giving the image a bit of a busy appearance. I agree that going in closer might have emphasized those flowers better whilst reducing the less co-operative BG.

Hi guys and thank you all for the kind comments and suggestions. I agree a closer zoom in the field would have likely worked better, but since I didn't do that here's a tighter crop. When I used the original photo ratio there was still to much noisy b/g so I reverted to a squarer crop, what do you think?

Hey Brad, I don't have many shots of them together as they were satisfying their huge appetites and for the most part both kept their heads down. This record shot does however show the relative size difference between them, although there's not much in the frame to gauge their actual size against. But I was actually quite surprised by how big they looked considering they likely haven't been out of their dens all that long.

cheers
Rick

Hey Rick,

The tighter crop does work better for me (and you really didn't lose the diagonal flow to the image). And thanks for posting the shot of the male and female - does give you a feel for the size differential but, like you say, no referents to assist in judging absolute size (why didn't you put your camera on a self-timer and run over beside the bear - then we could have got a REAL feel for its size! - KIDDING!). But he does look big...

Cheers...

Brad

Very nice capture of a beautiful subject. I like the closer crop, and the diagonal composition.

I agree with Brad. The tight crop is much better.

What a good looking animal. I would be excited to have either of the photos of this guy, but the tighter crop is better.

Big bear, Big bear chase me

That is one mighty bear. Look at the posture and claws.

IQ looks a little soft again but it's a cool image.

Jamie