I'm ready for my claws-up By Daily Mail Reporter Updated: 15:57 GMT, 24 August 2011 Jill Greenberg, like every other professional photographer, knows that models can be hard to handle - with their diva-like demands and hissy fits. And, with the models she works with especially, getting them at the wrong time of day is literally like dealing with a bear with a sore head. Greenberg's studio portraits feature animal celebrities, including many who have appeared in Hollywood films and commercials, at their most cute - and frightening. Paw-trait: Amos, an impossibly adorable European Brown Bear, poses for a Jill Greenberg portrait in Kern, Frazier Park, California. The portraits range from cute to ferocious He work captures everything from baby brown bears looking adorable, to 10ft tall Kodiak bears looking a little less adorable. She said: 'I wanted to create images of these majestic beasts unlike anything we had seen before. Does my butt look big in this? Who's been a bad bear? 'Do you come here often?'
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