Over the course of this past spring, filming grizzly bears close up and personal proved to be very challenging for me as one thing or another always seemed to go wrong and my best efforts would end in failure. I finally got a break one afternoon in late May when I spotted these two grizzlies (boar & sow) resting at about 80 yards of distance. I quietly backed away another 80 yards or so to get my camera set up and creep silently back to my original position. After quite some time they finally got up to feed on the tender new vegetation. There was a slight breeze blowing towards me so I was able go undetected till they got just inside 25 yards which was as close as I wanted them anyhow. I was filming from a low crouched position and under a camouflage cover which certainly helped to go undetected. /Leon Lorenz
