There was talk of a bear on the hike today. I got to hang out with this cinnamon black bear on the way back. It wasn't feeling like posing, but I took shots none the less.
@jernst1779 I was closer than I would have been to a grizzly, but this is a heavy crop with a teleconverter on an apsc sensor camera, so further than you might think. Even still, I was letting the animal tell me what I needed to do.
@joansmor I am always respectful of bears, but most of the time I have ran acccross them I could have tackled them, it was a nice change to have some distance and not surprise each other