Wildlife Photography: Capturing Grizzly Bears - Course Preview

This is bear country and just understanding a few precautions can help prevent a negative response from a bear attack or prevent a bear attack. So when you get on the trails, you, the basic rule of thumb is you wanna make as much noise as you can. Some people have bells on their packs. A lot of people just simply talk in a normal voice. So essentially you're looking at basically 100% success rate when it comes to using bear spray versus the possibility of shooting yourself, shooting somebody else that's with you while you're fumbling for a gun or something like that. This time of year, they're just coming out of hibernation and they really need to build up their body mass again. And so they're eating a lot and that means digging. So you've really got to be patient 'cause when you can isolate you know, just parts of the scene and really zoom in tight on your subject, an animal like this even though they're animals, they still have facial expressions just like humans do. And being able to zoom in tight on them and you know just pluck out just the head or just like half of the body. Spring in the Absaroka Mountains, what a beautiful time of year to be here. The trees are lush, the wild flowers are blooming, and the wildlife is abundant. This week I'm gonna meet up with a good friend of mine, Jared Lloyd, and we're gonna seek out and photograph one of North America's biggest predators, the Grizzly Bear. I'm Doug Gardner and your wild photo adventure starts now.