Recently, I posted about the upcoming contest, “Bushnell: $1,000,000 For Bigfoot Trail Cam Photo.”

I noted the outdoors products company Bushnell will soon be offering a million dollars for “a verifiable photo of Sasquatch with your trail camera.”

As was mentioned earlier, one of the most famous recent “alleged Bigfoot” photos taken with a Bushnell trail camera was the probable bear image (following) labeled by the media as a “juvenile Sasquatch”:

One of the other examples of a possible “trailcam Bigfoot” that I shared was the following one, taken on April 30, 2006, in the Mt. Hood National Forest, near The Dalles, Oregon, with a setup placed there by Klindt Kendall and Dianna Martin:

Various comment makers left remarks about the length of the hair or how clean or well-groomed this “Mt. Hood Bigfoot” appeared in this wooded setting.

In relationship to that photograph, I received this instructive communication:

In reading your “Bushnell: $1,000,000 For Bigfoot Trail Cam Photo” blog, I see some of your readers stating that they see long hair in the Kendall/Martin photo.

They may be right but after working with these cameras for many years I see camera blur. I’ve attached a few “what the heck is that!?” photos from my cameras for your own reference or to post.

Some pics can be very confusing (like the “foot” in #6) unless you also get to see the pics taken right before or right after the photo in question.

I’ve asked a couple people how far away from the camera they think the bears are. The average answer was 15 yards. In reality they are 15 FEET from the camera.

I hope Bushnell’s contest brings in a good photo (or two) but I fear there will be a lot pics of ‘long flowing blue jeans’.

Deb…Huntress

The following captions are those of the contributing photographer, Huntress:

#1 is a deer

#2 is me checking the camera

#3 is me again…wearing long flowing blue jeans

#4 is frost

#5 is a deer’s breath

#6 is two bears fighting

#7 the same as #6 but with the contrast adjusted

As we walk down this forest path, into the future Bushnell trail camera gallery of blogsquatch* images, blobsquatch photos and blurry Bigfoot, we should all do it with open eyes.

I certainly would be delighted if a good, clear, and worthwhile cryptozoological and zoological image emerges from this Bushnell challenge. Indeed, I would be very happy. But we have to be careful, skeptical, and open-minded about all this, too.

Ultimately, however, we can also be very excited by the forthcoming opportunity afforded by this Bushnell contest!

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*Footnote: I first mentioned “blogsquatch” at Cryptomundo on November 25, 2006, when I wrote, “Today, blogsquatching (this new term is the use of web logs to spread information on unknown hairy hominoids such as Sasquatch, Yeti, and Yowie across the internet) often freely shares and comments on the latest examples of blobsquatch images.”