Wildlife pic of the year

[GetCarter]

Usuall stunning and depressing (in equal measure) pics

IMHO this one should have been the overall winner (no, not 'cos he was using a D2X, but because he's alive to post it!)

http://www.nhm.ac.uk/visit-us/whats-on/temporary-e...

homepage here: http://www.nhm.ac.uk/visit-us/whats-on/temporary-e...

btw: it looks a LOT better, larger (in the BBC magazine)

Edited by GetCarter on Tuesday 13th November 12:31

[S. Gonzales Esq.]

GetCarter said:

because he's alive to post it!

http://www.nhm.ac.uk/visit-us/whats-on/temporary-e...

Full name: the Brown Trouser Bear.

[TonyHetherington]

That bear photo is superb!!!

[MudwiG]

Wonderful stuff, and unachievable on a cannon

[flat-planedCrank]

MudwiG said:

Wonderful stuff, and unachievable on a cannon

Yeah, the cannon ball gets in the way of the sensor

Would be perfectly fine on a 1d mk3 / 1ds mk3 though

[tuffer]

Can we get a high res version of that anywere?

I have a similiar picture I bought in the states a few years back of a brown bear eating a salmon, have it in my dining room.....kind of apt!

[MudwiG]

flat-planedCrank said:

MudwiG said:

Wonderful stuff, and unachievable on a cannon

Yeah, the cannon ball gets in the way of the sensor

Would be perfectly fine on a 1d mk3 / 1ds mk3 though

Bugger

[KB_S1]

The bear is trying to work out if the D2X will be as hard to digest as last weeks Hasselblad.

Great picture.

[crmcatee]

Right place, right time I guess - where as when I go looking for bears, I get the lazy ones.

[GetCarter]

tuffer said:

Can we get a high res version of that anywere?

Yep. Here: http://www.nhmshop.co.uk/pod-swpy-2007/bear-glare-...

[Reidy10_0]

The bear pic is superb, i like the bears confused look (What the F&*£* is that?)

[VxDuncan]

It was taken at 12mm focal length! 12mm! That must have been stupidly close!

[GetCarter]

VxDuncan said:

It was taken at 12mm focal length! 12mm! That must have been stupidly close!

"I’d been so busy taking pictures of the salmon in the Ozernaya River in southern Kamchatka, east Russia, I didn’t notice the bear until it was a metre away. It was a terrible shock. I kept calm enough to take the picture but only later did I realise how" ... etc

[bramley]

...and in the BBC mag it looked to me like the flash fired?? Can't be a good idea that - that close to a big bear and you fire a flash in it's face! Brave man.

[jackal]

i love the frogs
really brought a smile to my face

[Famous Graham]

bramley said:

...and in the BBC mag it looked to me like the flash fired?? Can't be a good idea that - that close to a big bear and you fire a flash in it's face! Brave man.

Bloody good idea I'd have thought.

Blind the bugger and leg it

[VxDuncan]

Yeah I thought that - am sure the red-eye's been shopped out! Don't think the eyes are quite right, but then I don't see a lot of bears up close. Unless I'm on a night out in B'ham obviously.

Did see the comment, but at 12mm (on APS-C) that's got to be closer than a metre!

Nicely composed though...