This photography experiment started at the beginning of May in 2007. I was taking photos in a research area where I had several encounters. I had been gifting a fairly active group of Sasquatches and had been taking a number of digital images of my surroundings.

The quality of photo evidence from images that were taken at close or intermediate distance was not as good as the photos taken from a longer distance. I knew the area was populated and I knew they were following me around when I was there.

While I was getting what are commonly referred to as Blogsquatch images, the best I could come up with were indistinct and distorted by .jpeg artifacts.

After some research I decided to invest in a high quality digital camera, with a 300mm telephoto lens and the ability to take 9 megapixel images and save them as CCD-raw files with no compression at all.

After the files are transferred to the computer from the camera, they are converted to an uncompressed .tiff image file that is over 100 megs. I then can open them in Photoshop and adjust for color and levels, crop and save them as .Jpeg for display on the web. I would not recommend any of this unless you have a very fast computer, lots of ram, and a very good flat panel graphics monitor. These are huge files and take enormous amounts of hard drive space. By the way, I am approaching 1200 digital images so far in this experiment.

I have concentrated on images that need little, or no enhancement in order to keep the discussion on the images and not on the process.

Going back to my discovery of the tendency for the subjects to hide deeper within the foliage when they are approached too closely. I found that if I stayed back and panned the tree line and brush line in an area where I believed them to be, they would come to me. I let the telephoto lens do the walking and eventually they relaxed enough to let me take pictures while they watch from partial concealment. I have identified several smaller groups in daytime "resting areas" that make up what I believe to be a larger "clan type" population that lives at least part of the year in a watershed area. Some of the groups have become tolerant of my visits and hardly react when I show up, others duck for deeper cover and watch from there.

Now, when I look at the photos closely in Photoshop, I discover who was watching me. Sometimes I can see the image, or movement, as I take the picture, sometimes not. They are masters at concealment and camouflage.

I can share some of the photos, others I won't because they reveal too much information. That is a shame, but I am putting the wellbeing of these groups before the publics need to know where they are. At the same time I recognize the need to establish the legitimacy of the photos in the mind of the viewer.

When possible I will include the original image file, up to and including the raw data file, to show the photographers among you that the information is indeed in the original.

In some cases I have suggested interpretations of what is represented in the photographs. Those interpretations are my own and not necessarily the same as yours or the other contributors to this site. The interpretations could change as more information becomes available.

The goal is to get as many images as is possible without stressing the Shadowfolk beyond their tolerance. I am also looking for ways to improve the quality and to possibly obtain some video as well. Most of the photographs I have been able to capture, I have because The Shadowfolk allowed it.

The video presented from this project was obtained by the same technique as the "digital photographs". Shot with a Panasonic Digital Camcorder through a Raynox DVR-3000 3x or Promaster 1.5x tele-converter lens. It was edited in Final Cut Pro. The video is taken from a distance of 150 to 300 yards and is focused on areas of activity suggested by still digital photography.