FILLING INSTRUCTIONS

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What to use when filling your Wild Grizzly Camera Bean Bag?

There are three camera bean bag fills that we recommend.Whichever you pick, try to fill completely.The more fill, the better the support.

When placing the Grizzly Bean Bag on a flat surface, perhaps on the hood of a car or picnic table, it sometimes works better if you use it upside down.The bean bag works great on the ground for close-ups, flowers, birds, small wildlife and everything low.

Light weight camera bean bag.Poly Beads have static, read instructions on back.

Use our Wild Grizzly light weight polystyrene beads sold on Amazon and the Grizzly website.These will make the Grizzly Camera Bean Bag very light and easy to carry in your hand, on your camera bag or birding bag, or on a backpack.The Grizzly Camera bean bag will still grip your car window, rocks, tree limbs, etc.But remember the lightness of the bag reduces its griping power, but the weight of the camera and lens helps to plant the bean bag.The polystyrene beads do hold static electricity, so please fill your bean bag in a large bowl, a box or the kitchen sink.They tend to jump around a lot.

Medium weight camera bean bag.

The Medium weight provides a little more gripping power to the camera bean bag and also more weight to carry if you will be walking or hiking over a great distance.Just mix out Wild Grizzly Camera Bean Bag, half and half with our Polystyrene Beads and one of the following; beans, split peas, rice, millet, buckwheat hulls, whole or cracked corn, sunflower seeds, bird seed and even sand.

Heavy weight camera bean bag.

For maximum gripping power, fill your Wild Grizzly Camera Bean Bag with one or more of the following; beans, split peas, rice, millet, buckwheat hulls, whole or cracked corn, sunflower seeds, bird seed and even sand.These will provide the security and steadiness when using longer lens, on a boat or in a windy situation.Naturally, when filled with these heavy materials, they will be difficult to carry over longer distances.

“Wild Grizzly Goes Where Want to Go”

The heavier fills are easy but the poly beads can be annoying.Please use our method below:

We have researched many types of poly beads for our Wild Grizzly Camera Bean Bags.Our current product, we feel, is the best fill for ease in carrying the bean bag and for holding the camera and lens in place.

But we know that the beads maintain static and therefore, difficult.Don’t become angry, become determined.

Filling Directions

“Pour Poly Beads into a large bowl, or box, or other large container.Use a large kitchen serving spoon to fill.As you fill, use the spoon to pat down the fill into the corners inside the bag.Pack the fill down well.As you near the end, keep putting smaller spoon amounts to fill the top of the bag.Close the bag and pat it down on the top to pack down the beads.Re-open and add more beads.Do it gently, then close zipper.If the top is still too empty, unzip and fill some more, gently”.

We have done this hundreds of times and it works well.

We wish you great images, tons of fun and remember:

“Wild Grizzly Goes Where You Have to Go”

I have been a professional photographer specializing in nature and up close wildlife photography for the past thirty years. I have enjoyed traveling and conducting photography seminars, workshops and tours throughout North America.

Imagine being able to photograph normally unapproachable wildlife in “up close, very close” locations. Past photographic tour participants have coined my photographic trips as “Adrenalin Pumpers”.

I have enjoyed every minute of my time visiting the raw beauty and excitement of the great North American backcountry and wilderness.

THE DIRT ROADS OF AMERICA

Song writer Todd Grischke said it best.“The dirt road ends now at the edge of the highway, but if you look hard you can see for years.It carried the loads and it carried the weight, it witnessed suffering that allowed us to stay.”

As a photographer I love a good dirt road.When you first stop and look at one, they appear a little foreboding.What may be down there, where does it go, is it safe to drive.But a good explorer will always turn the wheel and drive into the unknown.Dirt roads are wonderful and provide a picture into the marvelous world of rural American and all the images that this can provide.Some of the interesting dirt roads I have found; Northern Maine with thick forest, small ponds and moose, Vermont with old farms and barns, forest and Beaver ponds, and Florida dirt roads through mangroves to view birds and bird of prey.Nantucket Island dirt roads travel through miles of moors and heather.Montana and Wyoming dirt roads take you over great mountain ranges, some interesting ghost towns and an abundance of wildlife.In South Dakota you will find exciting roads through the badlands and very narrow canyons in the Black Hills.

The dirt roads around Mt Rainer in Washington take you to incredible mountain meadows, cloudy, foggy, misty peaks, deep rain forest and rushing rivers and streams.In New York’s Adirondacks, the roads deliver you to some of the most beautiful small lakes anywhere.Kansas dirt roads go for miles and miles providing a glimpse of rural America.The dirt road over the Big Horn Mountains in Wyoming will give travelers a day of wondrous sights.

There are many, many dirt roads in New Mexico that take you to Indian ruins, colorful deserts, wild horse herds and blizzards in the mountains in October.One of my most memorable roads took me high into the Rockies of Colorado only to end over-looking large mountain peaks.Suddenly dark clouds moved in and the thunder roared and echoed throughout the range.It made me realize how small I was.I returned to my car, a bit frightened.It does not matter where you live or travel; seek out the dirt roads that still crisscross our country providing exceptional views of nature, rural life and often, wildlife.I have always found a moose here, an elk there, a bear over there and once a lost old graveyard with a resident Barred Owl.

Every state, every county in that state will have a few good dirt roads where adventure awaits.Get out, take a drive and partake in the beauty of a dirt road going out into the unknown.Don’t be afraid, just turn the wheel.

I have been a professional photographer specializing in nature and up close wildlife photography for the past thirty years. I have enjoyed traveling and conducting photography seminars, workshops and tours throughout North America.

Imagine being able to photograph normally unapproachable wildlife in “up close, very close” locations. Past photographic tour participants have coined my photographic trips as “Adrenalin Pumpers”.

I have enjoyed every minute of my time visiting the raw beauty and excitement of the great North American backcountry and wilderness.

ALBUQUERQUE BALLOON FIESTA

Every October, in New Mexico, the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta is held and is booked as the “World’s Premier Balloon Event.”It certainly lives up to its reputation.The annual Balloon event is a must do for everyone, whether you are a photographer or not.The Fiesta remains for nine wonderful days in early October at the Albuquerque Balloon Park.

To experience the Fiesta one must be up and out of bed at 4:00 AM, dress warmly and plan to arrive at the Park by 5:00 and on the field by 5:30 AM.You will find yourself surrounded by hundreds of fellow balloon enthusiast.Walk out into the field where you will experience a stirring, balloons are being rolled out in the darkness, fans begin to inflate the mammoth beauties.In the blackness you can hear them rise upward but are still tied to the earth, as they fill with hot air.

Suddenly music is playing, stirring music, and one of the balloonist fire their burners, lighting the beautiful colors of the balloon.Then a second balloon lights up, a third and hundreds of people crowded around you are cheering.The colorful glow of these monsters is spectacular.Soon another, and another, all firing their burners in unison.A loud horn sounds and ten balloons all fire together.They stand high above your head and in the light you realize you are surrounded, not by hundreds but thousands of people all looking up and cheering.The noise is deafening.The colors against the night sky are remarkable.Soon the horn sounds again and all ten balloons lift off, upward into the night sky.The crowd roars.

This is the Dawn Patrol which allows the other balloonist to understand the wind speeds and wind direction at different altitudes.The crowd is quiet now as they watch the Dawn Patrol drift off into the night with a marvelous burst of light every time they fire the burners.

As the clock arrives at about 7:15 AM, and the sun begins to peak over the Sandia Mountains which run along the east side of Albuquerque, the Balloon traffic police know with affection as Zebras, because of their black and white outfits, guide the launch.When we say launch, we mean launch.This is the Mass Ascension.The crowd is not as loud as earlier.They do not know where to look first, the huge balloons are rising in every direction, at least 500 of them, the spectacle is difficult to view, where do you look, where do you go, there are balloons lifting off in all directions.The colors are magnificent, the balloons in all shapes and sizes.I do not have the words to express the excitement.Perhaps my granddaughter who is not quite 2 years old expresses it best, she merely points her hand and finger upward and smiles.

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