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Mother and two cubs

Oct 28 2026 | By: Jim Zuckerman Photography

Fifteen minutes from our lodge in Churchill we came upon a female polar bear with two cubs about 16 months old. They were all lying on the ground, sheltered from the wind, apparently sleeping. My photo tour group waited for about an hour, hoping we'd get something exciting to photograph, and then the two cubs nursed from the mother and finally got up and moved around. The three of them interacted with affection and made the most endearing poses. Here, the one cub is peeking over the mother's back at the photographers while the other one was pressing up against the female. I captured this with a 100-500mm zoom plus a 1.4x teleconverter giving me 700mm of focal length. The settings were 1/640, f/10, and 4000 ISO.

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Oct 28, 2026, 10:11:10 PM

Barbara Vickers - No words for this one....

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