Not having the camera though ugh... That reminds me of NCIS rule #9: always carry a knife. Maybe PDML should have a set of rules too. Rule #?: always carry a camera.
On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 11:21 AM, John <[email protected]> wrote: > On 6/6/2016 9:34 AM, David J Brooks wrote: >> >> On Sun, Jun 5, 2016 at 7:58 PM, John <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> I think we finished up around 1:30 pm. I drove straight through without >>> a break so I could get to the PetsHotel in Raleigh before they closed to >>> pick up Baxter lest she have to spend another night with strangers. >> >> >> I'm sure that was appreciated >> >>> >>> I saw a bear in the wild for the first time at GFM. It rained Saturday >>> night. >> >> > > They've changed the program format slightly from previous years with the > evening presentations ending early enough you can get to the overlooks > to photograph sunset. > > Saturday night, as soon as the presentation ended, I went down to the > overlook just below the entrance. When I got there, a woman made a > shushing sign (finger over lips) and then a "come over here" wave. > > I went over to see what she wanted; she pointed down over the wall and > whispered "Do you see them?" > > A few seconds later I did - two young black bears (or older cubs). > Didn't have time to go back over to the car to grab my camera, but I did > actually SEE wild bears at Grandfather mountain. > > Nothing came sniffing around the campsite in the middle of the night, > but there were two hoot owls late Friday night. Couldn't see them, but I > could hear them calling - one over near the campground entrance and one > down the path in the direction of the guest cabin. > > As far as wild animal photography goes, I managed to get a couple of > fuzzy shots of a chipmunk. > > It was a fun weekend. I'll do it again as many times as I'm able to. > > Stephen Fletcher is the Archivist at the UNC Wilson Library. His talk > was about digitizing the photography collections concentrating on > Western North Carolina photographers & especially the Hugh Morton > Collection. > > http://www2.lib.unc.edu/ncc/pcoll/inv/P0081/P0081.html > > http://blogs.lib.unc.edu/morton/index.php/2016/06/a-climb-to-the-bridge/ > > He also showed a few of his own photos & he's the one who said he bought > a K-1 just before coming to the GFM Nature Photography Weekend. > > PS: My family visited Grandfather Mountain more than once while I was a > child, and seeing the photos in that blog entry, I remember those dirt > roads going up to the top. > > > -- > Science - Questions we may never find answers for. > Religion - Answers we must never question. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- -- Reduce your Government Footprint -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
