My wife and her friend, Brenda, had been up on the bypass on Roaring Fork, part of the Great Smokey Mountains National Park earlier in the day, and they had seen what they were certain, a male bear feeding. The day before we had come upon a bear feeding on a deer in Cades Cove, but I thought it was too gruesome to shoot. Judy and I decided to try the Bypass one more time late in the afternoon. We came upon a mother bear and two cubs. Mesmerized, I suddenly realized I was right in the dense woods with the bears. I was too concentrated on camera settings and trying to keep up with their movement. It was late in the afternoon and dark, very dark in the shadows of the canopy of the woods. I had finally worked the ISO up to 3200 and still barely had the shutterspeed to cope with the bear's movement.