Originally posted by luftfluss You got nice and close! Did the lucky bear acknowledge your presence at all?
It took me a few minutes on your Flickr page, but I found all 11 salmon.
It took me a few minutes as well
That was at Anan creek bear observatory with a lower blind situated right at creek level. The bears were primarily focused on the salmon traffic and avoiding larger bears. They completely ignore photographers and gawkers as long as you don't get between them and the creek.
This was the scene immediately upstream from the blind, accounting for the salmon logjam as they navigate the rapids. It also allowed me to use the computational feature (built in ND filter) in the OM-1