[Leica] Buffalo shot from Sam Abell's Lewis & Clark: Voyage of Discovery [was: Telephoto Lenses]

["phong (Doan huu Phong)" <phong@doan-ltd.com>]

American Photo features this picture in their current issue.
With a 24mm lens, half the head of one buffalo (length wise)
occupies about a third of the frame.  That's how close he was.
(Tech data: Kodachrome 64, EOS 1n, EF 24mm 2.8)

- - Phong

From: Eric Welch <ewelch@ponyexpress.net>
> 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.