Grizzly bear standing up next to man
Sometimes you get so close
Hey Folks,
Here’s a photo that might be of interest to photography fans here. To me, this photo expresses what nature photography is all about; shooting, re-shooting, shooting some more, time and again, and doing everything you can to ‘get that shot’, and still coming home empty handed. How so?
One of the photos I want is a big ole grizzly bear standing upright, with a nice background. So far, I’ve not yet made that image. I’ve been fortunate enough to have a few opportunities, and unfortunate enough to blow every single one of them.
To catch a nice, full-frame shot of a bear standing upright means anticipation, as well as luck. More often than not, when I’ve been close enough to make a shot like this, I’m shooting with the camera/lens in a horizontal position, and when the bear stands, I can’t fit it all in the frame. It’s simply too easy to miss this kind of shot and too hard to actually nail it.
Adult bears rarely stand upright, and when they do, they don’t do it for very long. Generally the behavior is a ‘look around’; something alarms the bear and they stand up to get
A Close Call with a Pair of Grizzly Bears
in Banff National Park
I had an interesting grizzly bear encounter on Thursday, June 27, 2018. My wife, Kazue, and I were backcountry camping atNorman Lake near Sunset Pass in Banff National Park. Norman Lake is a little South of the Columbia Icefields and a few KMs East of the Icefields Parkway. It was a nice day in late June in 2018. Suddenly, as we were finishing up dinner not one, but two grizzly bears appeared in the mountain meadow in front of us about 150m away and began walking straight towards our campsite. And, the distance between us was closing uncomfortable fast.
Visit this page on the Parks Canada website
for some excellent advice on
what to do when you encounter a bear
So, what do you do when two grizzly bears
are walking towards you and they haven’t seen you yet?
You yell at the Grizzly Bears, of course!
We kinda didn’t have much of a chance to avoid an encounter with this pair of grizzly bears. They were heading directly towards the point of trees we were camped in on the edge of the meadow. So, I decided to confront them because they hadn’t seen
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