Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/12/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>I've seen photographers get within 10 metres of bison, Sam Abell, in his book (with the historian Stephen Ambrose) on Lewis and Clark, one of the earliest pictures is of a buffalo about 10 inches away. Abell was under a pickup at the time, and the curious critter came down and took a close look. He was scared to death because the buffalo could have flipped the truck with little effort. I was about 6 feet from some of the buffalo when I was inside the herd photographing. It was a quite unnerving situation. I would have never been there without the Indian fellow who I was with. Wildlife (and these monsters are more wild than not) are not to be trifled with. But the worst animal I've had problems with, the only one to actually attack me besides a mosquito, leech, noseeum or a tick, is a human. A former boxer who was a photographer. - -- Eric Welch St. Joseph, MO http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch He who laughs last thinks slowest!