Living on the West Coast, black bears are a common accurance in our lives, on the news, in our backyards, and “beware of bear” signs on the trails, but how many of us actually know about them?
I recently received an email about black bears, which I thought was interesting to share with you all. Tom Sears is a photographer who followed a family of black bears for 6 weeks. This family of bears consisted of five cubs. This is a phenomenon, as black bears normally have two cubs, rarely do they have one or three cubs. He wanted to take this opportunity of lifetime to photograph all five cubs and their mother. Therefore, he followed the black bears for four hours a day, 7 days a week, for 6 weeks. He eventually discovered the trail that the bears would follow on a regular basis and finally was able to capture that amazing shot.
Over the rest of the summer, he stayed in touch with other bear enthusiasts who saw the bears, until he knew they had safely gone into hibernation. A year later, he was once again destined to capture his second photograph of a lifetime. This time the cubs were all a year old for another truly amazing photograph.

As quoted my Mr. Sears “when something as magical as this happens between man and animal, Native Americans say we have walked together in the shadow of a rainbow.”