Eisbären

On Sunday, August 3rd, 2003, Ulla and I met Detlef Braun and his wife, Ute,
at the zoo in Wuppertal, Germany. The temperature was hovering
around 100 degrees F, but it was not humid. We had lunch outdoors at
the Chinese restaurant across the street from the entrance to the zoo,
then spent the afternoon walking through only half of this immense complex,
talking photography, and taking pictures.

Toward the end of our walk, we came upon the polar bears, or Eisbären,
in German (ice bears, nicht icecream bears).

There was a male and a female. The male was patrolling the perimeter
while the female was swimming and hamming it up for the tourists.

These bears were behaving exactly as we would have been behaving,
had we been in their paws.

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Full Size Image Der Kommissar. Alles klar?	Full Size Image Alles klar. Gut.	Full Size Image Hmmmm....	Full Size Image Fascination
Full Size Image For the camera...	Full Size Image Backstroke	Full Size Image Exhaling and surfacing	Full Size Image Pushing off the glass
Full Size Image Shake it out!	Full Size Image Queen of her domain	Full Size Image Sidestroke	Full Size Image Sunlight, water, and bear
Full Size Image Perspective (that is Detlef on the left)	Full Size Image No audience	Full Size Image Before editing	Full Size Image After editing

Fantastic day.

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