Just thinking about this... I haven't gone looking for Bigfoot in the woods, so it isn't based on personal experience (well, maybe a little.)

Thomas Steenburg, during his presentation at BIGFOOT DAZE, showed a portion of a video-tape made by a couple from England(?), who were travelling west to east on Trans-Canada Hwy 1, when they captured a Sasquatch on the tape. Suddenly, one of them asks, "What is that?" The image (being filmed from the front passenger seat) looking across the front seat, through the drivers' side window shows what may have been a creature moving along the Fraser riverbank (across the river, across the east-bound and west-bound lanes - in other words, a long way away!). One of them said, "It's Sasquatch!"

Yet they continued driving! They didn't slow down, they didn't stop, and they didn't turn around to try and get a better look.

Now my personal experience... NOT BF related. I went for a drive several months ago... up the Columbia River to Carson, WA, north on a paved forest road, coming out east of Cougar, WA (near Ape Canyon on the SE flank of Mt. St. Helens). I took two cameras, a Nikon FG with telephoto lens and the AF camera that I carry around in the truck, just in case.

I sat the cameras in the passenger seat within easy reach, to be able to take a quick photo, if I was lucky of Bigfoot, or any other wildlife I should happen on. Didn't see BF, but I did see 16 deer, as well as tree elk crossing the road.

And what did I get? Nothing, except proof that I drove on a forest road. Every time I saw a deer, it was on the side of the road and either I didn't get the camera up quickly enough or I didn't stop. And when I saw the elk, they were just coming down the right bank... I had enough time to slow down, grab the AF camera, turn it on and the damn battery took too long to charge the flash ( there were trees overhanging the road and it was beginning to get dark.)

Guess my points are...

1 - ALWAYS take a camera with you

2 - Always check that the camera is optimal condition, ie, fresh batteries, and if possible, a new roll of film.

3 - If you are lucky enough to see the 'foot, take the damn picture!

Always have that camera at the ready. (learned my lesson when I missed the turkey troup in Oklahoma)

I suggest practicing a lot on all types of wildlife. Just practice trying to get off a shot before they bound away. Since I started doing that, I have missed more than I have gotten. It just isn't as easy as it sounds.
Rabbits are really hard. However, that last one I got actually stopped and posed for me.
(*note - It's really easy to sneak up on a butterfly.)

I managed to get one deer that ran directly across in front of me through the windshield of my vehicle, but it is hard to tell what it is.

I can just imagine how hard it is going to be if I ever get that chance of a lifetime to actually really see a squatch.

Here's that shot of the deer...can you find it?

Oh, oh oh!!!

Pick me, pick me!

I nose where it is!!!

I can see it!

Can't see it's head though... interesting "morphology", Arky!

BTW, I have no idea what "morophology" means...

Whoa! Blobdeer!

See! See! They can blob into anything they want!!
Seriously, taking a photo of any wildlife from a car is exremely difficult.
By the time you come to a stop(or at least get controll of both the car and the camera), most critters are long gone.
The pics I have posted here, of a moose, and a bear, were both taken from the passenger seat, so I didn't have to worry about vehicle controll. The moose stood and posed, the bear was higtailing it away, and never let us get a decent close picture.
Getting a good photo of a sasquatch, from a vehicle, would be a monumentaly improbable event(hence, the reason it has yet to happen).

Yeah, the few times I saw a moose, it just stood there. Everything else is trying to get away so damned fast, you barely have time to recognize what it is before it's gone.

You think driving and trying to take a picture are hard, you ought to try steering with your knee and shooting out the window!

Not that I'd know anything about that, mind you.

Seriously, was the head on the right end or the left end?

I'm guessing right end...

I think left end Bipto, I am guessing mostly because of the bend of the legs(at least, what I think is the bend of the legs).

That's my point with Rules #1 & 2 - Always... ALWAYS... have your camera with you and be ready to snap that picture that will be dissected a thousand... no a million, ways on the Forum.

It's really easy to sneak up on a butterfly. Since butterfly starts with the letter "b" and Bigfoot... no, never mind.

As far as the deer... I can see it, just don't know which side I'm looking out. Thanks for understanding!

The deer was actually going from left to right across the road. The head is on the right side.

She wasn't in a very big hurry or else I would not have gotten that picture. Ranshirl was with me and tried to get a picture too, but she didn't get her camera up in time.

My camera was laying on my lap while driving, turned on and ready.

Bipto wins

Uhm...oh...uhhhh...I CAN'T HELP IT!!!

I don't know how your camera was able to drive while lying in your lap but I suppose I can understand how it was turned on and ready due to the location.

<--- runs away, ducking and dodging

YES! I ROCK!!

Sho' nuf! You're a regular Ozzy in my book.

SHARON!!!

I thought the same thing. ..wait for me......

GTMTA, Jim!

YOUR mind may be great,but I'm awake and alert,which for me is not a good thing,,,,

Who's the mod that's makes the rules stick,
and a sex machine to all the chicks?
Bipto!
You're damn right
Who is the man
that would risk his neck for his brother man?
Bipto!
Can ya dig it?
Who's the cat that won't cop out
when there's danger all about
Bipto!
Right on
You see this cat Bipto is a bad mother--
Shut your mouth!
But I'm talkin' about Bipto
Then we can dig it
He's complicated to some
but no one understands him like the cool members of Bigfoot Forums
You're damn right

Arky, ooops,, bigfoot research godess, sorry. Dont u ever wash your windshield? It looks worse than mine. Just kiddin.

Once again @ Volsquatch.

You guys are soooooo bad!

I guess I left myself open for that one. :|

LOL Pegleg!

No actually it stays quite dirty most of the time. Hey, it's an SUV, it is MEANT to be dirty!

If you want an animal to stop for a picture.Try whistling loudly.

It used to work,at least sometimes,with rabbits.

If you cant shoot them on the run.

Funny thing is, when I was climbing a mountain in NY State a couple of years ago, I had my camera at the ready and took a really clear photo of a deer, which was standing about 30 yards away.

When I got home, and developed the photo, there was no deer there - I have stared and stared at this photo looking for a 'blobdeer', but I just can't see it - it must have disapeared in the microsecond between lining it up in the viewfinder, and pushing the shutter button.

I don't fancy my chances of ever getting a squatch photo no matter how well prepared I am.


BTW: I have tried tracking down that couple from Britain, but non of my contacts have ever heard of them - I guess, in true british fashion, they are probably embarrassed by their bigfoot sighting.

RB doesn't get all the overtones regarding the whole lap thing... just nave I guess!

But if you want to snap a pic really quick...

Just hot-glue an instamatic to your forehead like I did...

I call it, "the RB melon-cam".

It has been very interesting... but most of the film must be destroyed, unfortunately...

... and all those messy seeds.

Volsquatch !! Nice Shaft. Uh Bipto I mean.
Peg: ?? There are outdoor windows that aren't dirty??
Regarding the whistle routine on a pic situation with some critter:

Works for me. Cats and dogs. Ain't tried it on bear. Got a coyote to follow me down a game path with it once. Great shots. I got him when I was laying on the ground. He didnt know what I was at first or else he wanted to check me out. Best damned coyote images I got so far. Took em some place in Montana.
He was a younger one though which certainly probably played a part in his curiousity.