Wild Brown Bear Center Finland, Finland
Mika Wist
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Wild Brown Bear Center Finland, Finland
Mika Wist
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Wild Brown Bear Center Finland, Finland
Mika Wist
Mika Wist www.flickr.com/photos/…
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Wild Brown Bear Center Finland, Finland
Mika Wist
Mika Wist www.flickr.com/photos/…
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Wild Brown Bear Center Finland, Finland
Mika Wist
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Wild Brown Bear Center Finland, Finland
Mika Wist
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Wild Brown Bear Center Finland, Finland
Mika Wist
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Wild Brown Bear Center Finland, Finland
Reinhard Prinzmeier
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Wild Brown Bear Center Finland, Finland
Mika Wist
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Wild Brown Bear Center Finland, Finland
Mika Wist
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Wild Brown Bear Center Finland, Finland
Reinhard Prinzmeier
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Finland Wild Brown Bear Center Finland

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This is a commercial wildlife photography location (bear centre. fi) where you see the animals from a photography hide during the night. And what a night it was. I spent 14 hours in a photography hide (5 pm - 7 am) and I saw 8 different bears, a wolverine and 2 foxes. Distances were between 5 to 30 meters. It's said that a bear moves silently and that's very true. The first bear was about 6 meters from me when I saw it and I still couldn't hear it walking. From May to August it's great for this kind of night photography in Northern Finland since the sun is up about 18-20 hours a day.

Photography Tips

Longer lenses are needed because sometimes the animals walk across the swamp in a distance but even a 50-70mm lens might come in handy because the bears sometimes come as close as 2-5 meters from the hides (this happened to me). My primary lens was Nikon 200-500mm f5.6 (Nikon D810) and I had a backup body (Nikon D600) with Nikon 24-70mm f2.8 and Nikon 28-300mm f3.5-6.3 lenses and these worked just fine for me.

Travel Information

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Spot Type Outdoor
Crowd Factor Just a few people
Best Timing Blue hour/at night in summer
Sunrise & Sunset 07:41 - 17:51 | current local time: 04:24
Photo Themes bear Brown Bear Midnight sun Summer swamp Wild animals wildlife

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Spot Comments (2)

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Reinhard Prinzmeier
Reinhard Prinzmeier 31.01.2021
This is really a magic location. Every Euro we spent there was worth the experience. In one night we had six bear sightings plus a wolverine. For more images and infos of the proceedings see this blog post: https://www.herumkommer.de/baer-und-vielfrass/
Mika Wist
Mika Wist 31.01.2021
It really is my favourite bear location. I've tried several others but this one has multiple choices between different terrains (by the ponds, swamp, inside forest etc).

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Thank you Mika Wist for creating this photo spot in Finland and Reinhard Prinzmeier, Mia Pflieger for improving it with additional photos or content.
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