Polar Bear 2

[Ken Watkins]

An orphan of 1 1/2 years, doing great feeding on a dead whale carcass.

Taken in Northern Svalbard 12th September 2009, from Zodiac.

EOS 1d MkIII

300mm F4 IS

F7.1, ISO 800, 1/640

[Stu Bowie]

Pretty large fellow, and I like the protruding tongue. A bit tight left and bottom, but good to see him close up.

[beykirch]

Hi Ken,

a really good one. We got very similar scenes a couple of days before (on September 6).

Regards

Bernd

[Harshad Barve]

Some more room fro me , rest looks fantastic
TFS

[Sabyasachi Patra]

Ken,
Nice. Like the tongue protruding out. Slight space at the bottom and back would have strengthened the image.

Cheers,
Sabyasachi

[Robert Amoruso]

Ken,

Good job getting him on that carcass. Agree with other comments above.

[David Fletcher]

The room mentioned Ken, but the details and tongue are fab. Keep em coming.

[Ken Watkins]

Here is the full frame version.

My thoughts would be to take a little off the bottom only?

[Harshad Barve]

Repost looks better
TFS

[Tell Dickinson]

Here is the full frame version.

My thoughts would be to take a little off the bottom only?

Yes that would do it for me Ken :) I do like the closeness though and of course the tongue :)

Tell

[Steve Canuel]

Like the detail in the bear's fur. I prefer the repost and agree with taking just a bit off the bottom (to just above the greyish strip).

[Hilary Hann]

Like the way the polar bears paws sink into the whale carcass. Agree that just cropping the foreground up to the grey line works for me, leaving in more of the entrails trailing off to the right (excuse the pun) where they appear to attach to the carcass.