Sibling Snuzzle

A pair of black bear cubs, one cinnamon, one black, give each other a snuzzle after spending the morning searching for breakfast flowers along the roadside. I photographed these two the previous year alongside their mother, who left them on their own at some point in the last year. There's something so very tender but heartbreaking about this image; knowing that by the end of this season they'll likely leave one another and go their separate ways as well, with moments like this being not but a distant memory.