Surreal Moment Adorable Polar Bear Appears To Wave To Photographer In Alaska

The two polar bear cubs were craning to view another family of bears as they walked past. But to the photographer who took ti photo it appeared that one was waving directly at her. The curious cubs stood on their hind legs to watch the other family troop past when one of the young bears, who was struggling to balance, stuck out his paw.

Keene was in a 22ft boat where she and a group of other people could watch and photograph the bears for up to six hours a day while dealing with temperatures as low as -4 degrees celsius. Keene, Mason, said: 'It was such a surreal moment for me as a photographer when I saw that wave movement. Though intellectually I knew it was simply the cub moving to keep his balance as he stood upright, I pressed the shutter desperately hoping that I could capture that scene in focus as our boat rocked and pulled away. That event, in the character of the setting, with the mounds of snow and the wintery-grey background, are the sort of thing for which you always hope to be in the right place.'