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Pole Dancing
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Pole Dancing

by Gary Minish

Gallery: Man & FaunaPosted June 22, 2017182 views2 comments
Two cubs belonging to a beautiful Cinnamon Black Bear sow.  One inherited the brown genes and the other got the standard black bear variety.  They were browsing along the power pole right-of-way near the highway and took a break from the serious job of feeding and started playing with this one power pole.  

Sony a6500, FE 70-200 f2.8 GM @ 198mm, ISO-100, f/2.8, 1/640. hand held.
 

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2 comments
Comment posted by Skip Layman on June 22, 2017 at 1:05 PM
Good behavior shot.  I would like to see this cropped a bit tighter.
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Comment posted by Gary Minish on June 22, 2017 at 3:17 PM
Skip,  I think I could probably get away with a little tighter crop, but I failed to mention in the data that I was ~200 ft away with a 200 mm lens so this is already a little more than a 50% crop.
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