Pics From Katmai!!

[Dunatic]

Click the slideshow link!! There where times when I had a bear come about 20 yards from me, pretty scary at first! Probably one of the coolest things I have ever done in my life! We had 15 bears within 200 yards of us most of the day, they where everywhere!

http://s123.photobucket.com/albums/o291/UtahPix/Alaska%202011/?start=all

 

[Yamadoo04]

Those pics are awesome. I think my pants would still be brown from being that close to those bears.

 

[wjl]

GREAT pictures.
Ever thought of a picture job for National Geographic.

 

[Dunatic]

GREAT pictures.
Ever thought of a picture job for National Geographic.

Thanks!! Just about everyday of my life Dreams.....

 

[TGitt]

Amazing pictures!!! What body and lens are you using?

 

[Dunatic]

Amazing pictures!!! What body and lens are you using?

Nikon D3s (my body) Nikon 600mm VR lens and Wimberly II support (rented)

I really want that lens!! Wish I had an extra $10,000 laying around...

 

[girlpowder]

Thanks, the pictures are awesome. It looks like an incredible time for sure! I was however very worried for those three people on the log. What are they thinking?

 

[byeatts]

Nikon D3s (my body) Nikon 600mm VR lens and Wimberly II support (rented)

I really want that lens!! Wish I had an extra $10,000 laying around...

A real Man would get those close up shots with a 50mm,

 

[Dunatic]

A real Man would get those close up shots with a 50mm,

Count me out then! I don't wanna be a real man

There is a reason they make super telephoto glass!

 

[TURBOMAN]

Very cool pictures!!

 

[Sunridge Sledhead]

I think this looks like a very good example of natural selection at work!

 

[sledhead ut]

Amazing Chris.

Wish I needed a job. Looks like tough times for sure.

 

[JustinB]

Chris amazing I need to get back into photography.

 

[DRAPE]

Duner, thanks for sharing buddy. Those photos are of epic porportions... breathtaking. I'm super jealous. Glad you had a good time.

ps. it is true, all those things fordtuff says about you???

 

[JohnnyQuestUtah]

I like the fuzzy bear picture............

 

[sledchick]

The bear is thinking..."Cover yourself in honey and come back to me." I bet every person that has been attacked by a bear, wish they never "played dead"...look where it got them!?

 

[Dunatic]

The bear is thinking..."Cover yourself in honey and come back to me." I bet every person that has been attacked by a bear, wish they never "played dead"...look where it got them!?

I bet that if he really wanted to eat them, honey really wouldn't matter...



We had a couple come that close. It really scared me the first time. I read somewhere that Denali National Park has around 500 bears in it, Yellowstone has around 300 last I read. Katmai has around 3500! I was only a few miles from where Timothy Treadwell and his girlfriend got eatten, our guide had flown him over there a couple times, he had some pretty funny stories about the guy.