Bearhunter

Coty Jones, a photography student at the Corcoran, took down a rather large black bear. Bears live around here?

Maybe it's my mood today but that story does not provoke me. There's something primal about the notion of hunting that formidable a creature. Though the idea of waiting silently in a tree stand for one to meander by doesn't exactly correspond to that romance. But the patient waiting taps into another romantic vein, doesn't it? The severity and concentration juxtaposed with awesome wild power.

I thought immediately about Jason Zimmerman's video, Spotting, and that I felt no remorse about the kill or reflected glory in the hunt. It was the largest bear—now it is not.