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August 20, 2012
Grizzly Bears Sparring in Glacier National Park, Montana

Grizzly Bears Sparring
Grizzly Bears Sparring
Glacier National Park, Montana, USA
Canon EOS 1D Mk IV, 500 f4, 1/500 sec, f4, ISO 640
Image taken on August 19, 2012.
The two sub-adult Grizzly Bears that were hazed five days ago were not only back near the road yesterday morning, they were on the road when I found them before sunrise. I stopped and watched, and they moved over to the correct side of the road: uphill and what would be down-light — good bears. About ten minutes after sunrise, they started to spar. There wasn't much light, so I upped my ISO about as far as I like to go (640), and fortunately I caught them when the lighter bear's left claws were illuminated. The images before and after this one had motion blur.

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