A bear mid-strike at dawn, caught from the far bank.

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A bear mid-strike at dawn, caught from the far bank.

Shoot the unstageable.

cinematic film still, frame from a movie: a brown bear erupting from a whitewater river with a salmon mid-air, water sheeting off its fur in backlit droplets, long-lens compression from the far bank, dawn mist over the rapids, anamorphic bokeh, graded silver-and-moss, the season's first catch