This is one of the most difficult wildlife images I’ve ever made. I made this photograph at 9:00 pm -- long past sunset. The twilight was essentially gone, and what there was left of it was purplish in color. Meanwhile, the large bear was far away, and on the move. I was hand holding the camera, and had to use ISO 800 in order to make a stable image. Even then, my shutter speed fell as low as 1/20th of second, usually causing camera shake at a long telephoto focal length. I coped with the obvious camera shake risk by taking advantage of built-in image stabilization. I also used my multi-imaging feature, which let me to make multiple images with only a single press of the shutter button. I made at least fifty images of this bear, and this was the one that worked the best. I cropped the image substantially to make the bear as large as possible. In wildlife photography, it always pays to make as many images as you possibly can and then choose the best of them. I liked this one because of the grass hanging out of the bear’s mouth.