The internet allows for our inner (and often hidden) exhibitionist to come out. It's true that not everyone likes to be seen, but a lot of guys enjoy it when others are watching them, when they pay close attention to what they are saying, and if others are getting off while watching them, well that's a whole fantasy into itself, now isn't it...

Please meet Jay, aka VoyExhibBear. This handsome Bearish man discovered the pleasures of livestreaming on TubeBear. He told me that it's a real trip for him when others are watching him. I can understand why - he's got quite the body and an incredibly cute face. Jay then told me that he had some photos that he would like to share. I replied that the best place for that would be in the PlanetBears Galleries, in the Bear Amateur section.

So check out his newly added galleries and make sure to contact him, either via email or thru his profile. Also, keep an eye out on livestreaming section; Jay is on quite a bit and he looks real good live. And lastly, Jay stated that he makes his way over to Montreal sometimes, so I just might line up a photo shoot with him in the future.

A couple of years back, I was doing a lot of running around with Eric (galleries - profile), and whenever his buddy David (galleries - profile) from the States would cross the border, then the 3 of us would get together and take a lot of photos. Those days seem kinda long gone. Since then, I have sold my house and met the Bear of my dreams (that's right... Roger - galleries - profile). As for Eric, he too sold his house, he moved around a bit from place to place until he finally settled into a condo in Ottawa. As for David, he tried to get a Canadian citizenship awhile back and I think it's still in process, but for now he works at a Big & Tall store in Albany, NY.

Anyhow, they sent me some recent photos and I thought I would share them with you - check them out here. They are still a cute couple. As an aside, I do see Eric from time to time altho we haven't worked on anything in awhile. Here's hoping that we'll come up with some new material in the new year.

Roger's Nature Walk on YouTube (channel BearGhetti): "There is something that I have come to truly admire about Roger is his love for nature. I haven't met anyone else like him who is able to find the miracle in things that most people consider common. A simple nature walk becomes a glimpse into paradise".

This year I (Forrest - profile) dabbled into movie making. I have been working with Roger (galleries - profile) as well as a few others and what I've come to realize is I now fully appreciate the amount of work that goes into making a movie.

The hardest part for me is the editing. Writing the story and filming it is of course a lot of work, but it's the editing ~ sitting down and spending the whole day streaming the movie together into a coherent whole. I could work 12 hours on it and be lucky if I've completed a minute... or two (miracles of miracles). Of course I've never taken courses on movie making so it's a lot of learning, still... I think 'editor' should be the final credit seen at the end of a movie, not 'director'.

This section of Roger walking in the woods is a segment to a larger project. I am trying to work on this project as much as I can, but it's just trying to find the time. My goal for '09 is to work as much as I can and with a wing and a prayer, complete something for production.

Please let me know what you think of this 5 minute short of Roger in the woods. I think Roger has such a beautiful innocence about him that it instantly appears on camera.

One of the things I would love to be able to do is to bring all the archival news from the BearPress and Bear-Pics days over here to PlanetBears. I have thousands of HTML pages filled with news articles, and almost all the articles have a thumbnail photo accompanying it. I have so many logos and drawings from Bear groups and websites after 10 years of news, it feels like a shame that I don't have all of this stuff online. It almost feels like I have a touch of Bear history in my archives, something that should be made available to all to peruse. If anyone knows how to easily convert HTML into data, maybe this could be a reality. Email me if you're interested in assisting me in this project.

As I mentioned in the article above, I've moved over all of the BearPress and Bear-Pics Amateur Galleries over to the PlanetBears Galleries. However, there was one that gallery I didn't add. It's not like I forgot it, it's just that... well... it consisted of only 1 photo, this one, of the incredibly cuddly, furry, puppy-eyed Mark.

Now if you check out the BearPress galleries, you'll remark that the smallest galleries have at least 3 photos in them (remember... these photos were sent at a time before scanners and digital cameras were common toys men had at their disposal). And as I mentioned before in another article, the real reason why I put these BearPress galleries up is because they are meaningful (to me).

However, this one picture of Mark is probably the most meaningful of all (to me) because this was the very first picture someone sent to me for my 'then' non-existent Amateur Galleries. I had made a call in the news asking guys to send me in their photos, and Mark sent me just 1, but it was the one that started things off for me. This was before I was photographing men and had any material of my own, so... as you can see... it's got meaning quite a bit of meaning to me... and darn, Mark's just so frikkin' cute...! Too bad he didn't send me 3 dozen photos. I just thought I'd share that with ya.

The Bear Amateur Galleries have been filling up quite nicely lately, however you just might not have noticed since all of this is happening in the Gallery section. I have been working hard at filling those areas up. The past few weeks, I've added over 3000 photos from exactly 100 different cute Bears who, at one point or another, have sent me their photos, some of them dating back as far as '99. Also, ever since I reopened the Bear Amateur Galleries, I've been receiving a lot of new sets as well and I have more to add. Here are some quick links to check these out ~ Gallery #1 - Gallery #2 - Gallery #3 - Gallery #4 - Gallery #5. And here are the BearPress galleries (from '99 - '00). Make sure to keep an eye out on these galleries as I will be adding more and more photo sets and yet I don't always mention that fact here in the news.

If you're interested in having your galleries displayed here on PlanetBears, just email me (Forrest - profile) or use the contact form, add your photos, and if you've got a certain Bearish look about you, then in exchange I will give you a membership to PlanetBears.

This event took place back at the end of August and I've already given it extensive coverage, however I just received a CD in the mail by one of the photographers who was at the event, and his photos are just brilliant that I decided to share them with you.

On August 30th there was the Monsieur Bear Montréal contest at the Woof Bar. My partner Roger (galleries - profile) came in runner up. I made a video of the event (YouTube profile). For today's update, Ryan Lee (website) was there for Fugue Magazine and took excellent shots. Ryan sure has a great eye for capturing the best in a man. See these 151 photos here.

[Click Here] You know, there are some really hot looking men in this world and I thank our blue and green planet Mother Earth for that fact every day. That being said... I'm really honoured to present to you Scott. I have seen pics of Scott on the net for some time now (especially those of him next to his motorcycle), and have been a fan of his ever since my eyes came across his photos. I didn't know who he was back then, but then I landed upon his homepage.

Now here is one truly interesting Bear: he's a paramedic and he's right now working for a company in Afghanistan until the summer of '09. If you check out his homepage, you'll see some beautiful shots of where he's staying as well as some truly gross pictures of dead insurgents. Not that I'm a wuss or anything, I just decided not to place my attention on the results of war... instead I  focused my attention on Scott's incredible Bearish body. I also read his bio which is a really interesting read. He's open and honest; quality traits I appreciate in a man.

Scott gave me the permission to add his photos to the PlanetBears Galleries. Simply put, he's a Bear deity (heck, I'd worship him by sacrificing a few twinks). Seriously, he's got a body that doesn't stop and these wild green/blue/hazel coloured eyes that melt you like butter all the while burning a lasting impression onto your soul. I've been gawking at the 200+ pics that I added, and all I could think of is that I hope one day I might able to meet with Scott and work on a photo shoot together. He's got a body that I think my camera would love.

Click here to see some previews, and make sure to email him.

[Members - click here] Over the past couple of weeks (articles) I've been bringing over all of the Bear-Pics amateur photos over to the PlanetBears Galleries. That task is now done and there were over 75 different galleries that were added. Now some galleries had 3 pictures in them while others had 300. In total there's over 2500 photos. These were pics that cute Bearish guys had sent to me over the years while I was running Bear-Pics ~ between '01 and '06.

Well, I went digging a little further into my archives and found the original BearPress Amateur Galleries. These are photos that were sent to me between '99 and '00. In total, there's 21 gallery however there's only 85 photos. You have to remember tho, this was a time just before folks had digital cameras. Sure it seems simple now to add your photos to the net - just use your USB and plug and play... but a decade ago it was a process for guys to figure out how to get their images onto a computer. Also, slow connections didn't allow for hi-res, so a lot of these photos from the BearPress are just glorified thumbnails. Anyhow, the point here is that ~ back then ~ receiving 4-6 photos from a Bear was a big deal (for me anyhow).

Well, after I had finished adding the Bear-Pics Amateur galleries, I saw it only fitting to add the BearPress Amateur Bear pics as well - yet more out of nostalgia than anything else (altho the guys that had the galleries are cute, there's just not enough photos of them to fully appreciate what they have to offer). Nevertheless, as I was adding them, I began recalling the online conversations I had with these Bearish guys now dating back to a decade ago... ahh, memory lane.

What's next for the PlanetBear's galleries? I'm hoping you guys will once again start sending in your photos. I also have a few photo shoots lined up with some husky teddies, and I have a few other ideas, so stay tuned.

[members - click here] I've been an FOGB for years... what... you don't know what an FOGB is...? It stands for 'Fan of GagBear'... which I've been. Actually, I've been an FOGB for well over a decade... drooling over GagBears' photos and videos that he's produced.

His name is Jim Grrowl yet he's better known as GagBear. I first came across his pictures online back in '95 or so on this wicked site called 'Big Ad'. Now Big Ad was first a magazine with ads from Bears and Chubs, and they were one of the very 1st companies to try and market their product online. They had a great site which they updated every so often with photos of cute guys that were in their mag. Unfortunately the site, as well as the magazine, went defunct (reasons unknown), however I did copy/pasted those photos of Jim GagBear and kept them on my hard drive because these pics were some of the very first 'Bear bondage' photos that I saw on the net.

It wasn't until '02 (7 years later) when I came across more of Jim GagBear's material. This time he was working with a couple of guys who made a few videos under the company name 'Realman Kink Video'. I contacted Jim for the 1st time and he turned out to be one of the nicest and coolest guys I spoke to online. I asked him if he was the same guy from the Big Ad spread, and he said he was, and that's when my admiration for this man began.

At the time I was working on Bear-Pics so I helped him promote their videos, yet the company didn't last long and they ceased production. However GagBear went on to a spread in Beef Mag, photo shoots for BearBound, and lately he has been making his own videos which you can purchase from his site BD Bear Studios.

GagBear has sent me many photos which I used to have up on Bear-Pics and I decided to bring them over to the PlanetBears Galleries. You can see them here (there's just over 200 photos). On a personal note: I've always hoped to work with him on a photo shoot, and we were supposed to meet up at one point in '02, however his schedule didn't permit it, and since he's 3000 miles away... well... sometimes things aren't all that easy to organize. For now, I'll just have to admire GagBear like the rest of y'all; thru the pics he puts out on the net, and thank Heaven for that.

If you look at the top of this page, you'll see 5 thumbnail photos of cute guys... and when you click on any of those photos, it will bring you a preview image of their gallery.

Well you might be seeing more and more with the tag 'Amateur Bear Pics'... those are photos that have been sent in to either BearPress/Bear-Pics and now to PlanetBears.

If you wish to have your photos show up here on PlanetBears, simply email me or use the contact form, and if you've got that Bearish goodness, I will give you a year's membership to the site, which allows you access to all the Galleries as well as Videos.

GAME: just checking to see if anyone is reading or not. Now if you look at those top 5 images, you might see 1 or 2... maybe even 3 that have the 'Amateur Bear Pics'... here's a game - refresh the page and see if you can get all 5 saying 'Amateur Bear Pics'... if you can do that, and take a snapshot of your desktop, send it to me and I'll give you a membership for a month. You gotta be 21 years of age and older. This isn't impossible because it happened to me - all 5 had 'Amateur Bear Pics'... see if you can hit the BearPot...!

Everytime I mention GianOrso in the news, a thousand different praise words come to mind, such as; prodigy, excellence, beauty, style, master, professional, Bear goodness (that's 2 words), artistic, incredible... the list of words I can use can go on and on. GianOrso is just one great photographer and the photos he's taken of Bears over the years is just outstanding.

I have been graced simply by knowing this man. He and I have been in communication since '01 when he informed me that he was hoping to get his North American debut... and since then he has been an inspiration to all those who've seen his Bearish photos, making fans from all over the world.

I used to have a bunch of photos he sent me on Bear-Pics, and lately I've been bringing those photos over to PlanetBears. Today I put in almost 400 pics that he has sent me over the years, some you will not see anywhere else (and I'm also hoping he'll send more in the future).

You can view those he sent me in the GianOrso Gallery which is in the PlanetBears Galleries, and make sure to visit his website as well as his Flickr page. And if you care to send him a message like 'I'm not worthy, let me lick your boots', then check out his profile.

ps - that thumbnail - those 2 pics are both GianOrso... before and after the gray hair (wink).

Ahh... Roger... I can write a novel about this man... actually I am writing a novel about this man (and my dogs) but that's not what this article is about.

If you've followed anything concerning the BearFoot site, you know it's had its ups and downs. Recently I was planning on giving some life to the site by adding all of Roger's photos into it, as well as the videos. When I met and fell in love with Roger back in February '07... well... if you've ever fallen in love, you know that it's really intense in the beginning. And since I'm a photographer, I took thousands and thousands of poses of him since we've been together. He's almost a muse (as well as being an angel).

Anyhow, I'm already running 2 sites - PlanetBears and TubeBear - and time just hasn't allowed me to work on BearFoot, so once again I have put BearFoot 'on hold' (I think I've put BearFoot 'on hold' at least a dozen times ever since I bought the domain name).

Now I had a bunch of Roger's gallery sets up on BearFoot and I mentioned in the news a few times in the past that PlanetBears members can get to visit the BearFoot galleries, all they had to do was email me and I would give them a user/pw. I then realized that really nobody reads what's on the net since I got like a 10% response to my calls - I even made videos saying 'please email me' and still only a small handful of members replied.

Anyhow, what I've been doing is that I've been relocating those galleries that were on BearFoot over to the PlanetBears Galleries (Roger's Gallery is here), and today I have added 4 of those sets which means I added over 200 photos (bringing the amount of Roger photos to almost 900). And there's also a few videos of Roger in the Video section.

Click here for some previews, and to chat with Roger, visit his profile.

Members, click the following updates - Gallery #1 - Gallery #2 - Gallery #3 - Gallery #4.

Over the past couple of weeks, I have brought over mostly all of the BearPress and Bear-Pics amateur galleries over to the PlanetBears Galleries (some photos dating as far back as '99). Well now I'm starting to add the newer material; Bear photos that guys have been sending to me recently. And today I have added 2 galleries ~ photos from Bubba Harley and from Stocky Welsh Bear. 2 fine looking Bears with some pics in high resolution.

I have more photos to add from some more gents who have sent in their photos in the past while so keep an eye out for the Bear Amateur Galleries. The new stuff will be going in Gallery #5 and higher. As for the older photos, check them out here - Gallery #1 - Gallery #2 - Gallery #3 - Gallery #4).

Once again, this is a friendly reminder that if you're interested in having your photos up in the Amateur section then by all means send them in. You can either email me or use the contact form. In exchange for the photos, I will give you a membership to PlanetBears Gallery and Video pages. It's an excellent deal.

In the last poll, I asked what your thoughts were about in regards to Felching. The results were kinda split down the middle: 27% said it's disgusting while 26% found it a turn on.

42% said they don't know what it means. So I figured it was my Beartriotic (patriotic?) duty to fill you in on what felching means. The following is from Wikipedia (article): "Felching is a sexual practice in which semen or other fluids are sucked out of the anus of a partner. The acts of sucking the semen and then passing it, mouth to mouth or open mouth kissing, is referred to as 'snowballing'; although the latter is typically associated with semen ejaculated into a mouth from fellatio. Felching can also mean the licking or sucking of another person's anus, similar to the act of a rimjob. In the United states, felching is using a straw or tube to remove semen from the rectum".

So there you have it ~ the delicious art of felching. It's important to know these things such as 'felching' and 'snowballing'... it is... you never know when the word might come up in a conversation.

As for the image, that's a photo from John Rand's collection (website). I'm pretty sure that's spit but after learning more about felchism... I'm just not sure anymore. Check out more of John Rand's excellent photography here.

In the past little while, I've been bringing over all the Bear Amateur Galleries that were on the Bear-Pics and added them to the PlanetBears Gallery (article #1 - article #2). You can see them all here - Gallery #1 - Gallery #2 - Gallery #3 and in today's update - Gallery #4. In total, I've moved over 1600 pics. Now some of them are really low-res (remember, some of these photos date back to the days before digital and good scanners). Yet there's some which are also hi-res.

The next step is to start adding galleries with newer models, and I already have a few cute models to add. I will start working on those next week.

And if you wish to have your galleries here on PlanetBears, then by all means email me or use the contact form, send in those photos, and in exchange, I will give you a membership to PlanetBears Gallery and Video pages. It's a very good deal. So gather up those photos of yours, send them in and have a great weekend.

I have to admit that there was a time that I was watching my fair share of poker on TV. For about 3-4 months or so, that's all I would watch whenever I had the tube on (actually ~ poker and the news). There was this all-poker channel that I checked out and then there were the championship games on the sports channels. Not sure if you can call poker a sport, but some of these guys sure do sweat it out.

Thankfully I have never been bitten by the poker bug. I've rarely played it in real life and never even tried it online. Essentially because I don't like to gamble my money, and I find that there's way too much luck involved in the game. Sure there's strategy, I'm not denying that, but how do you strategize when someone keeps getting aces while you're getting deuces?

Also... if you've noticed... quite a few poker players are these husky guys. It makes the game all that much more fun to watch when there's a cute player at the table. Guys like Mike Matusow and Tony G... however the minute they open their mouths I begin to cringe... remember - I said I would watch poker, not listen to it.

I wonder how many Bears play poker ~ off and online. I know a lot of Bears like their MMORPG like World of Warcraft, but I'm not sure how many like playing poker. One day, when I'm rich and have a lot of free time - one of my philanthropic duties will be to set up an online 'Strip Bear Poker' server... in which guys can play online, cams on each of them, and any time they lose a hand, a piece of clothing comes off. Sounds good?

Not only have I been adding the galleries but I've also been sorting them out a bit better. You can now browse the galleries by the Bear who sent them in. Not sure how many sets are up but there are already over a 1000 pics to browse thru. I still have a few more sets to migrate over which I plan on doing in the next few days.

Good news: I already have some new photos to add for the PlanetBears Amateur Gallery. Mickey aka Bubba responded to this article and sent in a ton of great photos of himself. I will have these online as well real soon (and a little 'by the way' ~ Mickey was one of the 1st guys that sent me photos way back when I was running BearPress... so almost 10 years later he is submitting some new ones. He looks different but he's even cuter a decade later. Bearish Men just seem to age better).

So - here I make the call once again - if you have any photos of yourself you'd like to share and you feel that you're a cute Bear, then by all means email them in or use the contact form and in exchange, I will give you a 1 year free membership to PlanetBears. Send in more pics later on, get another year. Win-Win.

Click here for some previews.