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Brown bear keeping an eye on us
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Pic from the PI Alaska scouting expedition in August. Took over 9000 shots, still going through them….
Spotted this dude walking along a dried out river bed. Between the three of us we took around 300 shots. Got very close, we had to jump back into the bus just incase….
He was feeding on the berries you can just about see.
Nikon D200, Nikon 70-200 2.8F VR, Nikon 1.7x teleconverter
We got within around 60 feet of him, they really are amazing animals…. We had the pleasure of watching another brown bear from around 150 feet away fishing for about 40 minutes one evening in a lake, splashing around trying to catch a fish. We were about an hours walk from the road, so it was just the 4 of us and the bear, amazing experience…
Hey Martin nice picture. Looks sharp and nice positioning of the bear.
He actually looks fairly friendly – he’s grinning.
Did you guys drive around with a guide in a 4×4 or something?
How’d you find the 70-200mm with the 1.7tc as range for Alaska?
Is there much photo friendly bird life?
Another super shot of your scouting trip to Alaska, he doesn’t look that mean but I think I might be a little nervous if I was an hour away from the bus. I did hear they can run quite fast when they get going.
Dave.
200mm if definitely too short for wildlife in Alaska.
If I remember correctly, some woman got off a bus behind us and started walking up to the bear (compact camera in hand). When the rangers shouted at her to get back on the bus she said that she wanted to get a close up. Some people……
Great shot and fair play for getting so close.
Some cracking shots from your trip.
DeeThanks all for the comments,
bingbongbiddley wrote:
Hey Martin nice picture. Looks sharp and nice positioning of the bear.
He actually looks fairly friendly – he’s grinning.
Did you guys drive around with a guide in a 4×4 or something?
How’d you find the 70-200mm with the 1.7tc as range for Alaska?
Is there much photo friendly bird life?We had no guide really just a half deaf bus driver who we asked to stop when ever we seen anything, we then got out and photographed…
The 70-200 is an excellent lens, very sharp, Was handy having the 1.7 converter, as it gave me 340mm. It was less sharp with the tele converter but fairly acceptable. They were an ok combo for Alaska, I got away with the setup but did miss some shots because of it. Ideally you need to be shooting prime telephoto lenses, the 300, 400, 500 and 600 ideally. If I was going back id try to pick up a 400mm lens and use this with the 1.7 tele when i needed it. I think I would have gotten allot more shots that way, Id still bring the 70-200 though very handy lens to have…
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Podge wrote:
If I remember correctly, some woman got off a bus behind us and started walking up to the bear (compact camera in hand). When the rangers shouted at her to get back on the bus she said that she wanted to get a close up. Some people……
Why not just let natural selection and evolution do it’s job?
Great shot of the bear, looks like you had great light for the shot and the bear posed nicely for ya. As for the oul wan that wanted the close up…… i’m with randomway above…… could have made for some stunning shots :-)
The 70-200 is an excellent lens, very sharp, Was handy having the 1.7 converter, as it gave me 340mm. It was less sharp with the tele converter but fairly acceptable. They were an ok combo for Alaska, I got away with the setup but did miss some shots because of it. Ideally you need to be shooting prime telephoto lenses, the 300, 400, 500 and 600 ideally. If I was going back id try to pick up a 400mm lens and use this with the 1.7 tele when i needed it. I think I would have gotten allot more shots that way, Id still bring the 70-200 though very handy lens to have…
Thanks for the reply Martin.
Alaska is on my wishlist of places to visit for a long time.
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