Wild Brown Bears in Finland - Part 2 of My Wildlife Photography Adventure!
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- Опубликовано: 27 авг 2024
- Join me on nights 4-7 of my trip to Finland as I search for bears in the pristine wilderness!
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New subscriber here. I live in California.
I’m so thankful I found your channel!
I love all nature especially bears.
Your experience brought me so much happiness. I burst out into tears watching you experience the magnificent bears.
Thank you so very much for sharing with us :-)
Thanks Sue, I’m so glad you enjoyed it! I also did a bit of crying when I was out there, it was really special :)
such a cool video, thanks for sharing!
Thank you! :)
Incredible! So happy for you that it worked out even with the rain! The photos looked fantastic!
Thank you! :)
Very nice video man! I've just find you and started to watch the video. Love it! Wish you good luck!
Thank you Jozef!
I was so lucky to find your channel! I'm bored with all the hidden cameras or drones, it's not the same. I'm a Finnish old lady living abroad who grew up on horseback in Finland. Got very close to the animals, they smelled the horse not me. Thank you and an amazing channel!
Thank you! It’s such a beautiful country and the wildlife is amazing, hopefully I’ll visit again one day
Wow! Thank you! Made me home sick. I'm living in Australia, but my grandmother is near Kuopio.
Thank you for this beautiful 2-part exploration.
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Thank you for the comment! It’s such a beautiful country, I hope I’ll go back again one day 😊
Absolutely beautiful shots of the bear in the forest. Hopefully after that you’ve realised that often bad weather is the best weather. It certainly makes for more interesting photography.
Really enjoyed these videos. Thanks for sharing this experience.
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it and I definitely agree that the bad weather can create some really cool atmospheric weather so I didn’t mind too much, especially as I was under cover!
Really enjoyed watching your trip to photograph the Bears and you got some amazing images 👍🙂 very Jealous 😂
Thanks Sean, glad you enjoyed it! :)
Absolutely stunning video mate! Wonderful footage and fantastic images, great stuff 👍
Thanks mate!
Awesome. I liked the rainy photo in min. 6:44 most. I hope to come back to that location one day for more than just 3 days.
Thanks! Yeah that rainy shot is one of my favourites, I’d definitely recommend a week there if you can!
Really enjoyed this and the previous video of your visit to the bears. Thanks for sharing. 👍
Thanks for watching and I’m glad you enjoyed them!
What a great time you had, I'm jealous! I was once in Karelia, on the other side of the border from where you were. Amazing experience!
Awesome - you had some great encounters there and got some really nice images :) That really took me back to my time with the bears - I want to go back now!!
Thanks Geoff, you and me both!
Thanks for your video and to take us with you👍
Thanks Carsten, hope you enjoyed it :)
Excellent video. Bear in rain shot is fantastic!
Thanks Duane!
Hey Olly, could have picked any one of numerous uploads - snow fox a favourite. New sub, always great to find new channels (to me). Enjoy also that you have a hold on the current and sadly ongoing crisis with our wildlife. My childhood friend is one of the small team relocating WTE's to the IOW. He ringed the first English chick only a few weeks ago 👍🏻. What was this FInland package for the bear hides? Ive seen a few listed over tge last few years ranging from this gentler approach to ones using a pig carcass. Would be a particular dream of mine to film wild wolves. Very best, maybe we can hook up in '24 - I'm midlands based. Have a fruitful Autumn '23. Si.
Hey Simon, apologies for the slow response. Thank you for the comment and glad you enjoyed the video! Foxes in the snow was one of my all time highlights - hoping we get some more this year. That’s amazing regarding the WTE’s, I hope they become a regular sight along our coastlines in the next 10-20 years or so!
The hides I went to wear called Wild Brown Bear, near Vartius. They put medium sized chunks of fish in the area but certainly not enough to sustain the number of bears in the area and they often disappear for weeks or even months before coming back so it’s clear they’re not relying on it. I did a fair bit of research before going because I’ve also heard of some places that seem a lot less ethical and I went to one about 7 years ago for a night which put out dog biscuits which I didn’t feel was very good so I didn’t want to go back there!
Love this mate. Your VOs are great and you’re storytelling is spot on. Want to start doing my edits? 😂
Thanks mate! Haha I can barely get around to doing my own videos 😂 going to try and up the frequency now though!
Great video young man I enjoyed part 1 & 2, thanks for taking the time to up load you journey to Finland. PS Subscribed 🙂🙃🙂
Thank you for taking the time to watch both parts and for subscribing, I’m glad you enjoyed the videos :)
Really enjoyed part two off this great video Olly, lucky you seeing those bears and getting those beautiful images, looking forward to your next photo adventure 😀
Thanks Raymond! :)
Great work man!! Congrats!
Thanks man! Loved your recent black bear photos in the dirt pile
Fantastic video - will be keeping an eye out for a coffee book to purchase when one appears on your website 😉 Keep it up!
Haha thanks Tim, will keep that in mind 😉 hope you’re doing well?
Great video Olly, brought back some memories of my 2nd visit this summer 🙂 If there's food involved, Hemuli will come out no matter what the weather lol
Thanks Richard! :) what month did you visit?
@@wildlifewitholly We were there in August this year. My visit in 2018 was in June.
Just breathless after Pt2 - fantastic job Olly. Question for you: did you feel in any way exposed when the bears were close-by? I've encountered grizzlies and black bears in Northern America when fishing and I have to say, I felt quite uncomfortable......very happy to exit, stage left (pronto!). I'm so glad to have found your channel and added my name to your list of growing subscribers - you're a tremendous inspiration.
Thanks Ian! As I was in the hide for all encounters I generally wasn’t worried, I’ve never seen grizzlies in the states but I have seen black bears and it generally seemed like they were a bit more confident and accustomed to people out there! Thanks for subscribing and commenting again :)
Interesting story, good video. Thanks Ollie! Does this place have a website where they film bears? Stas.
Thank you! If you search Bear Centre Finland then you should find it :)
Very good photographs and video. I understand your exitement. Your videos are well balanced between object and surroundings. Audio is not good, when you whisper. Sorry for my honest feedback on that, but all the rest is great. Your RUclips videos has a good length. Great to witness your true enthusiasm that I can understand. Keep up the good work and thanks for sharing.
Thank you for the comment and I’m glad you enjoyed it, I appreciate the honest feedback too!
many thanks for sharing. I will be there in a couple of week and I hope to be as lucky as you. just a quick one. how was the temperature inside the hide in the night ? 😁
Hi Fabrizio, temperature at night was around 10 degrees when I went in June, I think it will be a bit warmer in August and you can use the sleeping bags in the hide to keep warm. It might be worth bringing a good jumper and a woolly hat too - have a great time!
Great video, I have been there and I did 29 nights in the hides, hard going but well worth it
29!? Wow, what time of year was that? And did you see any wolves?
Mid April to mid May, no wolves unfortunately
good video! incredible! The first hide is a hide in the forest, I see that it is different from the others, could you tell me where it is? I'm going to Finland this May
Thanks Jordi! I went to a place near Vartius but there are lots of different hides down the Finland/Russian border, have a great time!
Hi Olly, really enjoyed this series. Would you be able to give any details of the hide or workshop ?
Thanks Mark, the place I went to is called wild brown bear, there are a few different areas you can go but I can highly recommend this one. think some others further north have a better chance of seeing cubs in summer but cost a bit more so it depends what you’re looking for!
It must be amazing to see this massive animal without him noticing you. Woods look very different compared with Florida woods. It looks just like forest in Estonia where I crew up. 👍
Yeah it was such a cool experience, I won’t be forgetting it any time soon. The woods there are amazing and full of blueberries!
Fantastic Olly. I knew your brother at Shrewsbury who advertsied you in Linked In. Do you do talks to schools?? Best wishes
Giles
Thanks Giles, I don’t do any school talks at the moment but have thought about it! It would be difficult to fit around my work commitments at the moment though
where was this hiding place? How can I book it?
It's crazy to me (an American) that your bears and birds are just chilling in at 10:30pm, even though it's still light. When do they sleep? Are they all walking around so sleepy until fall?
They’ll sleep during the day and then be active anytime from around 6pm - 6am but in Finland they have the midsummer sun so in June, when I went, it’s basically light all night long which is cool!
Finland is on the same latitude than Alaska, similar "white nights" in mid summer (and long dark winters), bears behave the same?