Arriving home long after the sun went down, I spent several Saturdays trying to capture publishable photos of black bears. They always seemed to move just before dark, when lighting was less than desirable, and fell off until darkness overtook the skies.

It dawned on me last weekend that I was going at everything backwards. Instead of getting there when bears began stirring and lighting worsened by the minute, how about getting there before daylight and getting some shots before they called it a day while the light got increasingly better.

Despite not sleeping until aro...

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