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“WEIGHT OF THE WORLD” – Limited Edition 250 – Coastal Brown Bear, Katmai, Alaska
A couple years ago, I was able to spend a week in Alaska at Lake Clark National Park, photographing these huge coastal brown bears. Crimp ear is a well know bear in that area for her mother insticts. A year before I took this pic, her spring cub was attacked and killed by a big male bear. It was apparently a horrific incident, and there were photographers there when it happened. She tried to defend the cub, but was unsuccessful. So not long after that event, another bear, known as Agora, kicked out her cub, forcing the cub to live on its own. Crimp ear then took in that cub, and fostered it. Every day we saw them, they were together, and this is one shot I got of them both lying on the beach, Crimp ear watching her cub sleep.
This print is 48×72 inches, and really shows how big she is, and with her walking, head down, on the beach, seemed to capture the weight of her existence, and hard life that these bears can face in their environment. That’s the story behind the shot, Weight of the World.
