I would like to share this photo of a brown bear with you guys. It is taken in north-east Finland about a month ago.
I wanted to include the beautiful landscape along with the bear to show a bit of the environment where the bear is living. The solution was to put a camera with wide angle lens on the ground and operate it with a remote control from the hide where I was sitting. I used a simple Hähnel remote control, no fancy mobile app with live view so I just had to keep the button pressed when I saw the bear got into position and hope for the best.
It can be a bit risky to leave expensive photo equipment like that. This time the bear did not care about the camera, but I had a very unexpected change of the weather. It was sunny and clear sky when I set it up in the afternoon so I did not put any protection or cover over the camera. But during the evening the clouds came in and it started to rain. Not just some light rain shower, but heavy rain that lasted for several hours. I did not want to go out in the dark with the bears roaming around so I stayed in the hide until daylight next morning, pretty sure that the camera and lens would be in need of an expensive repair. But guess what? Both camera and lens passed the rain test with flying colours
Canon EOS R+Canon EF 16-35mm f/2.8L III USM@16mm, f/11@1/250s, ISO 1600
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