Polar Bear 6

[Ken Watkins]

A young orphan Bear eating from a Whale carcass (naturally dead), taken in Northern Svalbard 12/9/2009

Taken from Zodiac with

EOS 1D MkIII

28-300mm at 200mm IS hand-held

F7.1, ISO 400, 1/200

[Sabyasachi Patra]

Ken,
Funny expression in the bear. It seems you got lot of Polar bear shots in this trip. I guess you were quiet close to this one. What is their reaction when they see a zodiac.

Cheers,
Sabyasachi

[David Fletcher]

Looks like a wonderful trip Ken. you've got quite a variety of shots from it. Well done.

[Robert Amoruso]

Ken,

I like the bears expression. I find the reflection draws the eye too much and suggest that you crop that out. If it was a cleaner reflection, then by all means include it.

[Marc Mol]

Ken,

I like the bears expression. I find the reflection draws the eye too much and suggest that you crop that out. If it was a cleaner reflection, then by all means include it.

Agree with Robert on this, do you have enough pixels to crop closer. Is this FF?

[Ken Watkins]

Sabyaschi,

I think the expression is largely down to the taste and perhaps the toughness of the Whale meat. We got within 10 metres and basically the bears did not seem to react at all.

Robert, Marc,

I have to say that the reflection is a bit dissapointing (wake from Zodiac), I will try a crop at the where the body comes into the reflection.

[Harshad Barve]

lovely image , good suggations above
TFS