We’ve gotten pretty used to grizzly photographs, but nothing like this. Exploded just now on social media is a photograph by veteran wildlife photographer Jim Lawrence in British Columbia of a grizzly bear. The image was taken on October 30. Lawrence was photographing bears fishing for salmon in a river near Revelstoke, BC. He had set up his Nikon with 400 mm lens on a tripod and returned to his car for a different lens. When he turned around, a five-year old grizzly, whom he affectionately called Harry because of his long fur, had climbed out of the river and was, well, studying the image in the back of the camera. Grabbing another camera Lawrence was able to capture the grizzly photographer at work.

So while, I’m usually not one to assist in the spreading of Facebook viral images, I just couldn’t resist this one.