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Polar bear framed in earth tones

Oct 26 2026 | By: Jim Zuckerman Photography

I'm in Churchill, Manitoba, Canada now leading a photo tour to capture polar bears. Yesterday, winds were 60 miles an hour and photography was almost impossible. It was a challenge just to keep standing. Today the wind had subsided quite a bit. We came upon this bear comfortably resting in rocks that protected it from the wind. There is virtually no snow at the moment; I like how the muted earth tones and textures frame the bear. That created contrast that in this case works well, I think. I took this with a 500mm focal length plus a 1.4x teleconverter giving me 700mm of focal length. The settings were 1/1600, f/10, and 3200 ISO. I used a super fast shutter speed even though the bear wasn't moving because the lens was being severely buffeted by the wind.

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