Great video. Thank you for sharing. great photos. Do you recall the dates you were out there in the fall? We have a photo of the same Bull Moose near the creek. What a beautiful place!
And this is a BIG reason things have gone "wrong" in these parks. Conversations like this used to take place in the park, between photographers camping next to each other, or shooting together. Now they take place on social media, where millions read them! Soon, areas like this are overrun with hoardes of people, and the bears no longer use them. This is what happens. No one cares as long as they got THEIR picture!
This was the last weekend of September/first week of October. There should be plenty of bulls around antelope flats outside the park and the Gros Ventre river. Just look for crowds and don’t be afraid to hike out a little bit if need be
I’d certainly make an argument against that. It’s the best place to photograph North American wildlife for sure, but the limited road network and safety rules about how close you can get to wildlife (and rightly so) make it very difficult to get good light/composition. That doesn’t mean that you can’t get good photos, just that you have to work much harder for them and get much more lucky compared to over wildlife destinations.
Yellowstone USED to be a fantastic place to photograph wildlife, and still CAN be, but good opportunities are few and far between due in large part to the huge crowds and also, in part, the policies of the Park Service. If your photo interests begin and end with bison, it's great. Wildlife "jams" can make it very difficult to photograph because any effort to maintain a safe and legal distance will be met with dozens of people between you and the animal. Maneuvering for a better angle becomes impossible. You may get some "snapshots", but getting that prize winning shot becomes extremely difficult. The Park Service has developed a short tolerance, and just as often as not they will crackershell animals like bears and wolves away from the roads, even when they are far more than 100 yards away (the legal limit). Ethical photographers very quickly get a "bad taste in their mouth" when trying to photograph in such conditions. Ask just about any photographer in the Park and you will be told that animals in general, for whatever reason, are not as visible as years past. This may be due to ever increasing people, many of whom do not know how to act around wildlife, being loud and obnoxious; and ever increasing traffic that makes road crossing hazardess at minimum and impossible at times. Lines of humanity will completely prevent it, and even rangers have trouble trying to "make a hole" for them to cross. It's just easier for animals to avoid the roads, or any area frequented by people, altogether. Some rangers (and some are great) seem to have a low tolerance for photographers, and will sometimes make them "move on" even when they are doing everything right. Not an "easy" place to photograph wildlife at all. Snapshots, maybe. But ethical, and publishable, wildlife photography, no.
@@karenross7895 she is not I’m afraid. I don’t believe we know who her mother is, but I know she definitely isn’t 399’s as all of her cubs are well documented.
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Wow! My dream is to visit Yellowstone some day, great videos and photos! Best regards from Sweden!
Thank you so much! It's an amazing place to visit if you can!
Nice vid. Thanks for sharing the nature.
Thank you! Nature should be shared by all in my opinion!
Very nice, you did really well with the osprey especially at short notice. Great work
Thank you! Definitely not a bird photographer but it’s one of the best bird in flight shots that I’ve ever taken
Very nice, and thanks for sharing!
Thanks so much for watching!
Man! Great stuff!
Thanks so much! I appreciate the support!
Thank you for the video and the sharing your experience and photos…I’m heading to Jackson Hole this Fall
Great video. Thank you for sharing. great photos. Do you recall the dates you were out there in the fall? We have a photo of the same Bull Moose near the creek. What a beautiful place!
Thank you! That particular encounter was on October 5th, 2023. It’s a very common area to find moose just outside the park
This was outstanding! You came away with some absolutely breathtaking photos in my favorite place in the country. Can't wait to watch more.
Thank you so much! It's a magical place! Stay tuned for more!
You nail it every time!❤❤❤❤❤
thank you so much!
Did not know about Pilgrim creek area to see grizzly bears. I will look for that area next year.
They aren’t always there but give it a couple of days and one will usually pop up right there or close by
Same! Adding that area to my list.
And this is a BIG reason things have gone "wrong" in these parks. Conversations like this used to take place in the park, between photographers camping next to each other, or shooting together. Now they take place on social media, where millions read them! Soon, areas like this are overrun with hoardes of people, and the bears no longer use them. This is what happens. No one cares as long as they got THEIR picture!
What month was this? I plan a trip in late Sept in hopes of finding bull moose.
This was the last weekend of September/first week of October. There should be plenty of bulls around antelope flats outside the park and the Gros Ventre river. Just look for crowds and don’t be afraid to hike out a little bit if need be
I don't know why, but the panning with the "???" on screen made me laugh way too hard!
Haha glad you enjoyed it!
Yellowstone is not an incredibly difficult place to photograph wildlife. It's one of the easiest places in the world to photograph wildlife.
I’d certainly make an argument against that. It’s the best place to photograph North American wildlife for sure, but the limited road network and safety rules about how close you can get to wildlife (and rightly so) make it very difficult to get good light/composition. That doesn’t mean that you can’t get good photos, just that you have to work much harder for them and get much more lucky compared to over wildlife destinations.
Yellowstone USED to be a fantastic place to photograph wildlife, and still CAN be, but good opportunities are few and far between due in large part to the huge crowds and also, in part, the policies of the Park Service. If your photo interests begin and end with bison, it's great.
Wildlife "jams" can make it very difficult to photograph because any effort to maintain a safe and legal distance will be met with dozens of people between you and the animal. Maneuvering for a better angle becomes impossible. You may get some "snapshots", but getting that prize winning shot becomes extremely difficult. The Park Service has developed a short tolerance, and just as often as not they will crackershell animals like bears and wolves away from the roads, even when they are far more than 100 yards away (the legal limit). Ethical photographers very quickly get a "bad taste in their mouth" when trying to photograph in such conditions. Ask just about any photographer in the Park and you will be told that animals in general, for whatever reason, are not as visible as years past. This may be due to ever increasing people, many of whom do not know how to act around wildlife, being loud and obnoxious; and ever increasing traffic that makes road crossing hazardess at minimum and impossible at times. Lines of humanity will completely prevent it, and even rangers have trouble trying to "make a hole" for them to cross. It's just easier for animals to avoid the roads, or any area frequented by people, altogether. Some rangers (and some are great) seem to have a low tolerance for photographers, and will sometimes make them "move on" even when they are doing everything right. Not an "easy" place to photograph wildlife at all. Snapshots, maybe. But ethical, and publishable, wildlife photography, no.
Is she the daughter of 399.?
@@karenross7895 she is not I’m afraid. I don’t believe we know who her mother is, but I know she definitely isn’t 399’s as all of her cubs are well documented.