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Fall Back (in time) by Shelly Lynn Hachey O Via Flickr: Entering into Daylight Savings Time - setting my memory clock back to time well spent this year watching this bear. Hope she had a healthy and safe season.

DSC_0610-Edit by Ursula Dubrick Via Flickr: Bear in Cades Cove, TN

Gone fishing by Shelly Lynn Hachey O Via Flickr: Brown Coastal Bear wading in the rising tide in hopes of finding a fish.

Brown bear with cubs by Kenneth Kearney

Brown bear cubs by Kenneth Kearney

My Vote Is for Nature (Jasper National Park) by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: A view looking to the southwest at a roadside pullout along the Maligne Lake Road in Jasper National Park. This was of a mother black bear and one of her three cubs.

Life in Great Smoky Mountains National Park by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: A setting looking to the east-northeast while taking in views at a roadside pullout along the main park loop road in the Cades Cove area of Great Smoky Mountains National Park. While I did capture a few images at this location, I attempted to focus pressing the shutter release when the bears might be looking up or moving with a look for an image to capture. Here one of the cubs happened to be looking in my general direction as it climbed over this fallen tree.

The ultimate beachcomber by Shelly Lynn Hachey O Via Flickr: This wild beautiful coastal brown bear focused on her objective of digging clams while the tide was out - only a few times did she raise her head to inquire on her surroundings. She was very successful in her pursuit of finding clams beneath the tidal surface.

Black bear cubs #4 by Vijay Somalinga Via Flickr: Ursus americanus vancouveri, Tofino, BC, 31 August 2012.

Life is like a black and white photo-there are lots of shades in between what is black and white by Shelly Lynn Hachey O Via Flickr: Coastal brown bear foraging for fish as the tide comes in - Alaska, USA

Young Bear by Jack Heald Via Flickr: Katmai National Park, Alaska

Maybe she's born with it, Maybe it's May-bear-line by Shelly Lynn Hachey O Via Flickr: This Coastal Brown Bear, from Alaska, was searching for clams as the tide was out. She had her head down (as most bears do) but lifted just as the right time in my direction. She sure was a beauty (I was going to edit out her string of slobber but kind it adds to her clam digging appetite).

Some People Dream in Abstract (Great Smoky Mountains National Park) by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: Some People Dream in Abstract Thoughts Like an Expressionist's Painting While other are bizarre, almost seemingly surreal Mine have been both, and sometimes in red But right now, I only dream wonderment for what stands in front Another work of short poetry or prose to complement the image captured one afternoon in the Cades Cove area of Great Smoky Mountains National Park. This was at a roadside pullout along the main park road with a view looking to the north-northwest to a group of black bears (momma bear and three cubs) who happened to be crossing this asphalt road. I captured quite a few images at this location, but this is one of the few that I really liked of the group because the momma bear happened to be looking in my general direction while her cub continued on.

The Wild West by Shelly Lynn Hachey O Via Flickr: Wild Grizzly Bear in early Spring walking through the fields grazing on the new grass (Rocky Mountains - Canada).

brown bear Hoenderdaell 3L0A3288 by safi kok

Mother Bear and Cub (Jasper National Park) by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: While at a roadside pullout along Maligne Lake Road with a view looking to the southwest to a mother black bear and her cubs eating away. This is in Jasper National Park. In composing this image, I attempted to center the mother and one of her cubs, as they were eating grasses and wildflowers in this field.

American black bear  3L0A2397 by safi kok