Vantage Point

Just returned from this year's Japan tours. Still have to move all the images from my laptop to my home computer, so no Japan images to post here yet.

This is the third image from my brown bear series in National Geographic (Dutch edition), which was used as the opening shot for the article. This young bear cub rocketed up a tree when it heard another bear approaching. The obvious choice here was to make a vertical composition to emphasize the vertical direction and the height of the trees, but I preferred to use the different layers of tree trunks in combination with shallow dof.