Patience Rewarded Along the Snake River - Wildlife Photography in Grand Teton National Park
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- Опубліковано 20 сер 2024
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Welcome to my home country, Kenya. You'll love it!
A perfect example of why it's important to follow photographers like Steve - examples of where to shoot (ie. backlit or not, look for fog, environmental conditions etc..), settings and the BIG one - patience! You HAVE to let the wildlife do their thing and wait for it, but be ready for things to happen. Be looking, listening and observing all the time. Great video Steve.
Tottaly agree 💪🥂
Except in most places nothing will happen. You need to have the right location to begin with.
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Which is why you need to have the patience to find a great location...
The backlit shots are superb,love backlit photography
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Excellent video. Love the backlight Pelican….
Stunning ❤❤
Enjoyed your video! We visited Teton National Park last year and had a blast. We are hoping to get back in October.
Your wide capture of the Great Blue Heron in the mist showing the surrounding environment is stunning. Congratulations on another interesting and informative video. Your still and video work is fantastic. 👏
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WOW!!! Eagle and a Pelican catching fish!!!
That’s a good morning!
Great Shots Steve.
Awesome
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That video of the pelican catching the fish is awesome. Good stuff. Thanks.
I was in Yellowstone and the Grand Tetons at the end of May and beginning of June. Emotionally speaking I am still there. You are fortunate to be there on a regular basis. I can't say I am jealous but I can say I understand your experiences and hope to return sooner than later.
Proves that you just never know what's going to happen. Great job putting this together.
awesome shots love the back light
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Fantastic photos Steve of the backlit Pelican. I love back lighting in photos
Magical morning. Thanks for the escape!! Fantastic images too👍👍
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Wonderful rim light.
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Love and admire your style Steve. Cheers
Yes Steve, you are right! Patience truly pays off...... Great Pics and Video Sir.
Thanks for watching!🙏
Great Video!
A perfect morning for photos. Patience is the key to complete happiness, I think? Love this😊💛
Ahhh, complete happiness… wouldn’t that be great!?!
Great review.
Yes, i learned and liked the 'back light" composition from the "breath" elk video. awesome.
Awesome video!
WOW! Patience and hot yoga paid off (not to mention much talent and skill). I used to edit video for a living, but I live for the stills. Capturing the pelican landing close to the fish, paddling over and scooping it up was awesome video.Thanks for sharing your post-dilemma. I like the way it worked out. The stills are beautiful. Capped off with bonus eagle footage...Showoff.
Thanks for watching! Now I’m off to yoga…
That ending was awesome!!!
Dam str8 patients pays off! Well done! And perfect fricken light dude. I really like that back lit shot. Honestly so much fun watching these ones.
Love all your random photos and video. And I’m envious of such a lovely morning along the river.
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Steve, you ALWAYS make lovely images...
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Steve, thanks for sharing such an awesome morning. Great vid!!
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Hope to see you on the road in late September! My wife would love to meet you!
Yes!
Gorgeous morning, beautiful images as usual 👏
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Totally AWESOME….! My top watched photographer!! Thank you.
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Thnak You Matt 4 another amazing video 😊👌🥂
As always great photos and videos. Looking forward to your next video.
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Entertaining as always! Rewarded with some awesome Pelican photos!
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Funny how even your most laid back videos are super exciting, keep it up man!
Haha thanks!
Dang, but those backlit pelican shots worked out SOOOO very well. Stunning shots. Oh and BIF at 1/25... spectacular! Thanks for sharing.
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Beautiful video and amazing shots. Thanks for sharing Steve.
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Outstanding work, Steve.
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Smells delicious, I can literally smell my woods now. I bet you were super happy with that slow shutter speed photo of the flying Pelican
Definitely
A relaxing video! Steve! The grey heron in the fog is my favourite today:-))) Kind regards, Rolf
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Great Vid love the shots of the Pelicans,
Exceptional, as usual. That last eagle clip was amazing!
Love the atmospheric conditions in this one, Steve. Well done.
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I really enjoyed the vlog Steve. Your music selections worked great with the video content.
We have a lot of wintering waterfowl where I live (eastern North Carolina), and would love to get some backlit photos of the Tundra Swans.
Those birds are some pretty darn good fisherman. Awesome footage!👍👍
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Excellent as always. I enjoy seeing you in your element photographing other things in theirs. Keep up the great work!
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Great video Steve as always and some awesome pics of one of my fav birds.. Pelicans..! Great bonus shot of the eagle too at the end.. patience does pay off..! all the best.. g
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Excellent video Steve ( as always ) .. :)
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Thanks, great!
Great low shutter pan on the pelican. As a postscript, you’re making my sixty-something knees and ankles bark with pain watching you squat by your rig. Stop it!
My wife and I are really looking forward to our sessions with you at the end of September.
Thanks for watching, see you soon 👍
The Z9 is clearly a great wildlife camera. Thanks for sharing!
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Great video and Images Steve 👍🏻
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Beautiful shots!
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This was a fantastic video! I loved both the video and the stills of the Pelicans. The last add on of the Bald Eagle was so cool! The family of the Common Merganser is something I have wanted to see for years. Those moments when you have a place to yourself are so worth it.
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Great work. I am always amazed at what you are able to capture. What a gift. Thanks so much for inspiring me to get out there.
We were in GTNP the end of May and coming back the end of September or first week of October to catch the elk bugle. Hopefully we won't be too late.
You'll be on time 👍
@@SteveMattheis Thanks so much.
Great day for fishing! Great video and stills. I’ve always wanted a shot of a heron but they always see me before I see them. Keep the content coming.
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Gorgeous as usual! Amazing how a morning in the park can yield so many picture perfect moments. That's why the parks are so popular. I think it was a good call on the pelican video. That fish was huge! Some things just make a bigger impression on video, IMHO.
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Yup...but off the beaten paths can be great. Just have to watch out for the grizzlies in those Tetons. Here in Ontario, Canada, a pile of folks go to Algonquin Park which is world renowned because there are well beaten trails and crossings, but folks just need to find the same topography and hang tight to see the same amazing scenery and animals. We just have to do as your name says - wander and things will appear :). Good luck to all!
Fred Taylor--- Steve from an amateur photographer, do you have any idea how envious we all are of you. One as I am living in the East have been lucky enough to visit the Tetons a handful of time and only able to stay a few days, hoping to get on good shot of either landscape or wildlife. Whereas yourself you go out any time and weather any part of the year and we hate you, haha. I watch the roads you go on, and as an out of state plate looked at as a tourist by the locals, I'm sure, I have found hard to adventure out. You have the perfect photographer life and I hope you know that. Thanks for your videos, good luck to you in all your endeavors.
Thanks for the message 👍 yes I am very grateful… don’t worry about being a tourist, 90 percent of the ‘locals’ just moved here…
Really awesome video of pelican catching and eating fish. We have pelicans in South dakota but have never seen them eating the fish . I would havebeen torn also
GREAT SHOT.❤️ UR CHANNEL
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Beautiful at 6:39 .
Yes, beautiful backlit shots really love it. My Z9+800PF just can not track bird eye no matter what focus area selected when I shoot under backlit. I can not figure out if it is my Z9 or the 800PF giving me this issue. I wander if you experienced the same with your 400 f2.8 TC.
The Z9 AF used the viewfinder video feed (I'm pretty sure) to determine what to focus on. So if the image in your viewfinder is too dark to see the eye, then the camera won't see it either. Try increasing your exposure and see what happens.
Beautiful video! Great images! I just left the park earlier this morning and had a fantastic time photographing more environmental scenes of wildlife since I don't have a telephoto lens. Such an inspiration!!
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Your usual great work, Steve (I would say "lovely", but I think you have already used that term). Was made special by the pre-planning you had done and the narrative you gave us.
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Amazing images.
Even more amazing: your ability to stay in a crouched position the entire time. 😂 (My old legs would revolt!)
Haha, that's why I practice yoga 👍
Hi Steve great video and stills, you made mention of your camera and lens but no mention of your tripod and head. Rgds
Check the gear list link in the description 👍
We love that area. Have you found the grouse drumming. Makes a great video.
I wish I could afford more, but if I want to have that bucket list-level workshop with Steve, I need to save my pennies for the future!
@Steve Mattheis looks like the same scammers are stalking your channel that prompted Thomas Heaton to do a video.
Grrrr yep. And thanks for the superthanks!
Baby mergansers always make us happy.
Holy Molē I thought I had a strong stomach I can't imagine swallowing a 3 pound live fish that thing probably wiggled for five minutes before giving up the fight. BTW, awesome blog thanks for posting.
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I've seen you go out to Idaho and California, but you should head north to Glacier National Park or south to Rocky Mountain National Park at some point. Not that you don't have world class scenery in the Tetons (you're so lucky to live there), but both of those places could use a photographic eye like yours... the elk rut in Rocky Mountain National Park is next month. As usual, your video and photos are amazing!
Just gotta find the time… 👍
Canada geese....our gift to the world. Sorry about that. What a spot that is, Steve. Can you get a kayak out there?
Ha! Yes you can kayak there, PM me if you want more info…
@@SteveMattheis Thanks bud. Might one day. It’s a wee bit of a drive from here in BC. 😊
22:01 grooovy
My comment will keep you awake at night . ‘’That Pelican with the fish would have been amazing shot if it were a still ! 😉’’
Haha I agree...
Great video, I like to hang out with you one day like that with my D850 & 500mm pf. May I ask if what the plate for the lens foot is? That seem to be what I'm looking for as I like the length.
Shoot my first serious bit of wildlife on Saturday and decided I need to invest in some longer glass if I am going to really shoot animals. 70-200 is great but not long enough on full frame to not need to crop significantly
No lenscoat on this 400mm 😳!! I already have my lenscoat, replacement foot, replacement lense cap and hood!! Only waiting for the 400mm 2.8s to show up lol!! Nice video!! :)
I just got a lens coat. And I haven't found a foot that fits yet. Where did you find one?
@@SteveMattheis Hejnar photo. The 800mmpf foot is design the same as the 400mm 2.8s.
Thanks, I got one ordered 👍
@@SteveMattheis Alright!! :)
Another great video, Steve! Watching you kneel for so long makes my knees hurt (I'm closer to 70 each day). Do you use a stool or small chair for those long time sits?
That’s why I do yoga a few hours per week…
I’m planning to visit GTNP in mid October. I’m a local to Banff Canada so we’ve got similar wildlife but what I’m really hoping to see is some bull moose since those are very uncommon here. Anyone got any tips or favourite locations?
My heart is aching for the Teton range! I look forward to your videos, they get me through, until my next visit. Also! May I ask, what gloves are you wearing?
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Here they are amzn.to/3JM28qt
Great vid. Came away with some nice vid & photos. What is that mounted on top of your tripod? Leveling device?
Yep, check my gear link in the description
@@SteveMattheis I looked & didn’t see anything on the leveler. Never seen that one before. I’ll look again. Maybe I missed it.
I enjoy your videos. How do you like the Leofoto video head?
So far so good
Sorry dumb question but I’m a beginner for the backlight shots would you use the exposure compensation to the right or left? I never know which way round to go?
Also great video! What a beautiful place to be able to take photos!
Right or left depends on the camera setting. But darker is usually the right call…
@@SteveMattheis thanks very much for getting back to me! Look forward to your next video 😀
What winter gloves did you use in this video? Beautiful stuff, btw.
Those are made by valleret👍
Mosquito’s are an unnecessary hazard of wildlife photography,why are they even here?
Nice vid Steve,congrats on the marriage 👍
nope - not a "snake" person .. but will drop a like.
Wonderful video Steve and particularly love the backlit images. If I may ask, what is the brand/model of the gloves you are wearing?
Here they are amzn.to/3JM28qt
Where is this in the Park? ❤
Another great video. What tripod head were you using?
Check the gear link in the description 👍
what tripod and leveler are you using here
Check my gear list in the description
Pull a still from the video
I hear you but it's just not the same quality. Would work fine for Instagram though so I think I'll try it👍
my backyard. whats your IG?
Link in the description