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07/26/2007 10:55:07 AM · #1 |
I just talked to a friend of mine. His brother is a nature photographer. He was doing a shoot in Northern Wisconsin for a magazine, Not sure which one. He was supposed to be shooting Canadian Geese for an article about how they have become an unwanted pest in many areas. Anyway he was shooting along the shore of a river when he seen a bear cub walking towards him. Fearing that the mother or father bear might be close behind he turned and started to bolt away. I guess he had not paid close attention to his surroundings because he ran face first into a hornets nest, 238 stings to face and upper body. He will be ok, However I am told he looks alot like a Bright Red Shrek right now.
Have you ever been injured trying to get that shot? or trying to get away from one ?
Personally, I have never hurt myself while taking pictures but I did manage to do a backward roll down a flight of 12 concrete steps in front of a church one day while shooting video at a wedding. I was sore for a few days but not a scratch on my camera which was my biggest concern at that time.
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07/26/2007 10:57:31 AM · #2 |
| Usually I just suffer from sunburn and sore knees and a sore back (its hard being 24!!) |
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07/26/2007 10:58:17 AM · #3 |
| No inury here but talking about your video camera incident, I fell once camera in hand. Camera broke my fall, sorry dad its your camera or my face! |
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07/26/2007 11:00:51 AM · #4 |
Haha if I had ever said Sorry Dad its your camera or my face. It would have ended up being my face anyway. lol
Originally posted by RainMotorsports:
No inury here but talking about your video camera incident, I fell once camera in hand. Camera broke my fall, sorry dad its your camera or my face! |
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07/26/2007 11:04:56 AM · #5 |
Just yesterday I went into the river valley of Edmonton, and, trying to get a good shot of a particularly creepy old boat that was ominously floating in the middle of the river with no one in sight, I wound up losing track of the trail I used to get down there.
So, it was a long climb up the side of the steep river valley, though I escaped with only cuts and scrapes and a torrent of insect bites. (Found a species of ant I've never seen anywheres near here before. They feel like bee stings when they bite you, and they swarm all over your feet and legs.)
I narrowly escaped severe injury, though, when I was about half way up I stepped on a fallen tree which turned to rubble under my feet and made me lose my footing. I grabbed a small dead tree's trunk to catch myself and it ripped straight out of the ground. Luckily I fell forwards and grabbed a fist full of shrubs and stopped my fall. Would have been a painful 50 foot fall through tons of dense thorny underbrush and then rocks and then into a river. |
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07/26/2007 11:32:01 AM · #6 |
Originally posted by Bugzeye:
... 238 stings... |
OH SNAP!!! I've had five before, but 238!!!???!!! WOW!
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07/26/2007 11:40:36 AM · #7 |
I sprained my ankle once while I was hiking a trail taking photos.
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07/26/2007 11:42:21 AM · #8 |
| Strikeslip, Yeah that is what I thought too. He basically attacked the nest though, If you get that close and then physically disturb the nest the hornets go into a rage. It is a good thing he had the river to jump into or he would have been stung alot more. Not sure how long it took him to get into the water, But I imagine it wouldn't take more than a few seconds for a swarm of bee's to lay down the hurt. |
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07/26/2007 11:48:08 AM · #9 |
The onyl way I can see 238 bee stings is if this was the case:
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07/26/2007 11:54:15 AM · #10 |
| For future reference, don't jump into water if you're being attacked by bees. They'll wait for you for like a half an hour, depending on what species. I bet he got alot of them while he was in the water or getting out of the water, maybe he didn't notice because he was already stung so much it stopped hurting. |
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07/26/2007 01:17:12 PM · #11 |
Originally posted by ajdelaware:
The onyl way I can see 238 bee stings is if this was the case:
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Considering that a wasp can and will sting multiple times, it would only take a fraction of the number of bees it would take :)
(btw, the geese are just a small part of our Canadian advance forces in our plan for world domination... mwahahaha...)
Message edited by author 2007-07-26 13:18:26. |
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07/27/2007 09:44:16 AM · #12 |
| Bees can only sting once however. Unlike wasps, when bees sting, their stinger imbeds itself in the skin and it is pulled out of the bee's abdomen, along with a small amount of the bee's innards. If it's any consolation, the bee usually dies soon after stinging. |
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07/27/2007 10:18:46 AM · #13 |
Jeeeeeez. . .that gives me shivers thinking of that kind of pain on one's FACE!!! But I guess the alternative may have been getting mauled by a bear, so he may have ended up with the lesser of two evils.
The only injuries I have had have come from not paying attention to what I was doing and tripping over rocks or curbs. . .nothing seriously hurt but my ego :)
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07/27/2007 10:22:09 AM · #14 |
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