On the coast of British Columbia, several wildlife species that are traditionally known to be terrestrial have adapted to the oceanside life. One of these species is the Black Bear, which is found here in some of its densest numbers on the planet. Their success is in part due to the availability of rich marine resources. At low tide, bears will often venture onto the beaches to forage on small invertebrate prey that becomes exposed on the rocks. During the annual salmon runs, Black Bears will also gather at rivers, where they fish for salmon heading from the ocean to their upstream spawning grounds. This image captures the paws of a Black Bear at an intertidal river mouth, as it waited for salmon to swim by. I wanted to capture a closeup of a bear's paws in the intertidal setting, to document this fascinating connection between land and sea. While I had this image in mind for a while, it required persistence and many days spent around beaches and rivers to execute.