About the Image(s)

I am not usually a fan of close portraits but this black bear standing in water up to his shoulder just seemed to fit a "headshot". He stayed in one place for quite some time scooping up spawned out salmon as they drifted downstream on the British Columbia coast. The tree branch made a convenient lunch table. Shooting from a Zodiac allowed me to get the low angle.

Nikon Z9 400 TC 2.8 with internal TC engaged
560 mm, 1/1600 sec., f/4.0, ISO 6400 matrix metered.

Cropped, white balance correction and exposure adjusted in Lightroom Classic. Denoise and some sharpening in Topaz Studio. Final crop and color space conversion in Photoshop.