Momma Bear

[Rachel Hollander]

This is Aggro, the mother of the 3 one year old cubs. Here she relaxes a bit at the water's edge in the warm late afternoon light. The cubs were just a few yards to her left.

Canon 7D2
100-400 II @ 330mm
1/800
f6.3
ISO 400
HH while sitting on beach, cropped to pano, levels, curves, color adjustments, sharpened in PSCC.

C&C welcome and appreciated. Thanks,

Rachel

[Gabriela Plesea]

Hello Rachel,

Your bear girl looks so calm and relaxed here, I could say meditative. She is well placed within the frame and the pano crop works well. Nice detail, lovely rich colours and tones.
Aggro is really gorgeous - I wish to see more of her and the cubs in the future, if you have. Thank you so much for this

Warmest regards,

[Glenn Pure]

Looks like you were quite close here Rachel. I'm feeling nervous already even though Aggro looks quite relaxed at the moment. Perhaps she has a belly full of food? I hope. I like the pose and turned head as well as the low POV. Colour and tone look good to me although the light was clearly quite harsh and not ideal. Nothing you can do about that. Overall and nice study of a relaxed and confident animal.

[Jonathan Ashton]

Love it Rachel! A very "clean" image lovely fir details and the colours really are pleasing.

[Rachel Hollander]

Thanks Gabriela, Glenn and Jon, much appreciated.

[Andreas Liedmann]

Hi Rachel works well as presented ...like this one so much because i think just the right exp and the perfect luminance levels over the complete range. Many other images from that trip you posted, seemed to be too light in the HL , 1/4 tones and sometimes even the 1/2 tones.
I do like the stretched pose and the checker look of momma ....

Keep them coming ....TFS Andreas

[Mike Poole]

Another nice Bear Rachel - can't compete with the cute factor of the cubs though! That said, it is a really solid frame in nice light and while the looks nice and peaceful, there is still that look in the eye that says 'no messing'!

Mike

[haseeb badar]

Hi Rachel -- This is very nicely done. I liked the pose and the details in your subject , nice tones as well. You have been posting some very nice Bear images and wish to see more from the trip .

TFS !

[Rachel Hollander]

Thanks Andreas, Mike and Haseeb for the kind comments.