Happy To See Me
by Dr.Confuser

Comment:
I'm pretty sure I recognize you, but I'm shy to say so because if I were wrong, which a Bear often is in these matters, I'd end up with egg on my face. But thanks for the smile, ma belle!

Spirit of the Bare
by jomari

Comment:
So I'm a weathered, dying old tree in a patch of bracken, am I? Not far from the truth, actually :-)

"Last night they drained the fluid from a knee
and pumped a shoulder full of cortisone.
Thus I conform to my divinity
by dying inward, like an aging tree."

Theodore Roethke

The little tree
by Judi

Comment:
You know, this one snuck by me on first pass. It's been sitting here with a lonely 6 to its name, but when I look at it now, in commenting, I feel a resonance, a subtle one, that I didn't before. Technically, it's kind of got plusses and minuses, but who cares? A worthwhile image. Bumping you up. Thanks for the tree :-)

at the end of the day
by flaherma

Comment:
At the end of the day a bear likes nothing more than a nosegay of sweet-smelling blooms to erase the stench of salmon from his sinuses. This Bear thanks you :-)

easy for him
by herfotoman

Comment:
It is? But... but... bears don't fly! Do they? I wish I *could* escape that easily and cleanse myself in coldbright air.

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I do keep coming back to it, and dreaming that I might fly one day. For the dream, and that I can dream it, I give you a Bronze Bear Paw.

Human-mechanical rule of thirds
by Alex_Petrini

Comment:
This is curiously "me". I feel a great resonance with it, and it echoes but does not copy some themes I see in my work. Very well done.

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For the sheer strangeness of the thing, for the old man hobbling into the sea, for the heedless fishing boat on its way, and for the hunched water troll in the middle ground between reality and drowning, I give you a Bronze Bear Paw.

for target practise?
by cutout

Comment:
I tend to be a moving target: how dare you freeze me so? CUT me loose and let me OUT to run!

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For this strange capture and attempted assassination of my spirit, which, although it's entirely unlike anything I've ever done (or attempted) resonates fiercely with me, I give you the Silver Bear Paw.

I Hear Those Voices That Will Not Be Drowned - Benjamin Britten
by JulietNN

Comment:
It amazes me that there actually is a vocal opposition to this sculpture's placement. It's hard to understand people; I prefer being a Bear. The light is very much to my liking, the tone work is skillfully done.

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For your willingness to tackle extremes of light and your ability to make the tones work, a pursuit very much on my mind lately, I give you a Bronze Bear Paw.

I Bare for Bear
by docpjv

Comment:
This is extraordinary. In a quick once-over, easily the most powerful image in the challenge, and entirely in the spirit of me, at least as I view myself and my relationship to life. Thanks for sharing it, brother Peter.

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You are my Spirit Brother: I award you the Golden Bear Paw.

Maple Leaves
by dtallakson

Comment:
Lovely leaves, nice splash of blue. A bear might approve of such an habitat :-)