Alaska Katmai National Park & Preserve Scenes and Grizzly Bears

John Harrison is an Award Winning Landscape Photographer specializing in Nature Photography. Mostly shooting in Yosemite & Kauai Hawaii. Buy his Yosemite Landscape photography prints & art pieces.

How do you know when a Grizzly Bear is too close?!? This one was about 15 feet away! 1) When the Nikon 500mm lens you got from BorrowLenses.com won't focus any closer. 2) You have to switch to your other camera and he still fills up more than the entire frame!! 3) You can smell his bear/fish breath 4) Your guide reaches for his bear spray 5) The hair on the back of your next stands up ... I'll let you fill in other ideas! Normally we were a couple hundred feet away but the bears cover a wide area and this one came about 15 feet away! Luckily all he had was Salmon on his mind and he knew we weren't going to bothering him! Wow! What an exciting time with Rebecca R Jackrel Photography! — at Katmai National Park & Preserve.

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How do you know when a Grizzly Bear is too close?!? This one was about 15 feet away! 1) When the Nikon 500mm lens you got from BorrowLenses.com won't focus any closer. 2) You have to switch to your other camera and he still fills up more than the entire frame!! 3) You can smell his bear/fish breath 4) Your guide reaches for his bear spray 5) The hair on the back of your next stands up ... I'll let you fill in other ideas! Normally we were a couple hundred feet away but the bears cover a wide area and this one came about 15 feet away! Luckily all he had was Salmon on his mind and he knew we weren't going to bothering him! Wow! What an exciting time with Rebecca R Jackrel Photography! — at Katmai National Park & Preserve.

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