WOW ! Just found your channel!! SOOOO enjoyed and so peaceful and Tranquil and animals JOY to watch!! You are Amazing your Eye for Beauty truly GIFT from the Lord🙏 Stay safe and take care of your Handsome self! God Bless 🙏🙏🙏🕊
Love the Great Grey Owl and Blue Bird photos are fantastic! Love those birds. Great video. Glad I came across your channel. Thanks for flashing graphic content or warnings so I can skip ahead.
Thank you for a brilliant video. I live in the UK but hope to visit Yellowstone next year and your video provide me with a lot of inspiration. Thank You
I feel it's so important to actually watch through the entire hunt, because it reminds us what is precious in life -*_Time._* I truly understand why you want to witness this because this is simply just a natural part of what happens in nature every single day. We got to take the good with the bad to get a balanced view of how this world actually works, and life and death is just natural. I feel it's important to see the greater picture of this as an ecological system in motion, rather than focusing on pain and suffering, because the following day a new life enters the scene. The sun will definitely rise again.
I enjoyed that a lot, and am totally jealous, haha! My husband and I live in Colorado and where you are is much the same when it comes to wildlife and habitat. I didn't start photography until I was 50 years old, but love it. Will watch more of your videos. Just found you today. Thanks!
Had to skip the hunts because I am a baby BUT so glad I stayed for all the amazing sights from the rest of your vlog. I visited (and vlogged!) my trip there in the spring last year and accidentally saw some fox/coyotes (not sure didn't look long enough) hunting a bison cub. I know it is a rare event for tourists and photographers but my little heart just couldn't take it, haha!! Hoping to see some more young wildlife when I visit next! Great video!
I go to Yellowstone in April and October each year and cruise for hours each day. I often wonder how many animals I drive right by because I didn't see them. You just have to be really, really lucky.
Epic trip with epic wildlife encounters. This is your best vlog yet. Great video and photo clips paired with just the right amount of narrative. Great choice of music. Well done!
Love watching your videos, was in the park 2 weeks before the floods and never made it back this summer . Am just learning about wildlife photography and enjoy your tips and photos
Very impressive photography and cinematography. My father is a professional photographer and I used to go with him when he did print judging for Professional Photographers of America. Your work is amazing. 💜. You should be so proud. Great work!
Thanks for sharing! Capturing that wolf hunt is so neat! Edit: the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem is such a neat place. So much to see and experience. Nature is fun!
@@wattswildlifephoto I agree! Not sure of any other places (perhaps Glacier, I haven’t been there yet) that allow you to see so many different animals and behaviors in such a short span.
Great video! Looks like we were tailgating each other to a few of these spots. I got some great photos during the black bear grabbing the elk calf and running up on the boardwalk. We were lucky since there was not a lot of people there at that time. Also lucky were the two ladies that were escorted off the boardwalk just before she stumbled on that calf. Thank you for this posting. Jim Burwell Photography
Awesome Channel. As an Offroad enthusiast and Jeeper from Colorado, I love being in nature as much as possible. Stumbled across your channel yesterday and have really enjoyed your content. Great to see your passion and skill in your craft of photography. As a fellow Clef Lip/Pallet person, It's nice to see the confidence you have in front of the camera. It's hard a times as I try to build my own channel. Congrats on all your success! Love your content!
Thanks man! Glad you are enjoying the videos. Yeah, it can be hard sometimes, but just keep putting yourself out there and you’ll get more comfortable with it!! Good luck, and thanks again. Have a good one! 🤙
Just found your channel thanks for all the amazing videos and info. Really enjoy all your input. I may not be number 100k subscriber but I’m here now. Hopefully we can use your insights on our upcoming trip.
Love your work! Thank you for sharing your adventures, wow! I’m heading to Yellowstone in January and I can’t wait. I’m so glad everything worked out after you were robbed. Godspeed!
That momma bear losing her cub got me. She was really grieving. Grown ass man crying over the harsh realities of the world, especially in our natural places. Thanks for showing it all. Young people need to know it’s not all peace and love in the wild. It isn’t what Disney sold them that’s for sure. Nice musical choices - I think that pushed me over the edge. Love these. Heading out with the masses summer ‘23 to see it all. Hate crowds so going to have to wake up early to avoid some of it. Wish you could get a drone shot just to give the context of the area. Maybe outside the park.
Thanks, I’m glad you enjoyed it! Good luck next year, you’ll have an awesome time. Yeah the crowds are a pain, but like you said if you get out early it’s not so bad. Also, get out and drive around when it’s rainy or cold. The park clears out on those days, but I find them to be some of the most productive days in terms of finding wildlife. I’ve always wished that too, I feel like drone shots would add so much to the videos! But oh well, NPS isn’t gonna allow it.
One of your best videos to date, the variety of subjects, the quality of the captures, the editing and your informative narration are all spot on. What a progression, good job! :)
The entire vlog and all the pictures are so so beautiful! If you're open to it, can you possibly put up your camera settings when you're showing the pictures in the next videos? I would love to know what settings you use for each picture, if it's not too much effort that is.
Evan we meet in the tetons a few weeks ago at the otters. Great meeting ya man. As a video editor as well I appreciate what you have done here with this one. Superb work and wow yeah you were on a roll with scene after scene that day. Cheers man. Steve
I was in the park for a week but had to leave the 14th and didn't get back before the flooding. Seeing the badgers, the wolves taking down the bull and the black bear getting the calf, I wish I could have stayed longer.
I know the feeling, it seems never enough time in the park unfortunately :/ I’ve been here since May and I am still itching to get out there every chance I get haha.
@@wattswildlifephoto I live an hour and a half away now and I came in for several day trips this year but couldn't stay multiple days because there was nowhere to stay closer than my house due to the road to Gardiner being shut down. The closest place open was West and that's not much closer than my place.
Really nice shots! I'm no photographer but can appreciate quality photos and videos. Yellowstone is such an amazing place for wildlife. We feel lucky that we own a cabin 30 minutes away from it🙂
An amazing variety of subjects for a couple of days. A few days after your time with Blondie and her cubs I had the fortune of photographing her as well. She truly is one of the most beautiful grizzlies I’ve seen. Unfortunately, her cubs had fallen victim to a boar as well just days after your encounter. You could see a noticeable difference in her disposition as it was her first siting since losing the cubs. Well done on the video, keep them coming.
Thank you 🙏 Yes, so tragic about her cubs. I really wish they had made it… hopefully she’ll come out with new ones next year, and maybe they’ll have better luck.
Great video. Life can be tough in the wilds. Most people don’t understand that. Since the demise of the Yellowstone cutthroats, the elk calfs have become a prime food source for the grizzlies.👍👍
@@wattswildlifephoto Before the illegal introduction of Lake Trout into Yellowstone Lake, spawning Cutthroats were the primary spring food source for the grizzlies. When they lost that food source, they readily adapted to harvesting spring elk calves. Not much can hide from the nose of a grizz. The grizz are probably more responsible for lowering the park elk populations than the wolves, simply by removing large numbers of calves from the population.🙂
Awesome video! Thanks for uploading! I've only been to Yellowstone and the Tetons once. Definitely planning a trip back. Quick question for you. You shoot with a 500 f/4. I'm currently considering one of Canon's big lenses myself. Keep going back and forth between RF 400 f/2.8 and RF 600 f/4. I have the RF 100-500 already but it's not good in low light. If you were going to choose one for your style of shooting, which would you choose?
Thanks! I’d go for the 600 f/4. I shoot a lot of dangerous wildlife so the extra range is a much for me. But, with that said the 400 2.8 would be incredible too when you can get close enough to an animal.
What camera do you use? The camera, not the lens. I am a bird photographer and I want to use the camera you use because the pictures and videos you take are amazing.
WOW ! Just found your channel!! SOOOO enjoyed and so peaceful and Tranquil and animals JOY to watch!! You are Amazing your Eye for Beauty truly GIFT from the Lord🙏 Stay safe and take care of your Handsome self! God Bless 🙏🙏🙏🕊
Thank you very much, I appreciate the support! I’m glad you are enjoying the content 🙏🙏
Just saw your comment on my video and came over to your page. Beautiful video man! The wolf footage is unreal!
Thanks man! I appreciate that! 👊 hmu if you’re ever back in the park, I can try to put you on some good wildlife stuff.
Love the Great Grey Owl and Blue Bird photos are fantastic! Love those birds. Great video. Glad I came across your channel. Thanks for flashing graphic content or warnings so I can skip ahead.
enjoy the channel! great work!
Such awesome photography. Brilliant job to these eyes. I love anything Yellowstone.
Thank you, I appreciate it!
Great to have you back!
I apologize for the inactivity!
Stay safe out there, handsome youngster 😊
Great trip
Wow muy bien
That owl footage at 11:13 looks so so awesome man!
Awesome!
🙏🙏
You do amazing work
Amazing
Thanks!
Thank you for the donation Marc!!
The photos of the bluebird was really good!👏
Thanks man!
Badgers are a dream animal of mine! Awesome shots!
Amazing video, I enjoyed watching it.
Beautiful photos, great info.❤❤❤❤
Thanks, glad you enjoyed!
Great 👍 videos 😊
Is it typical to see so much different wildlife right from the road in Yellowstone? That's amazing.
It is! The wildlife of Yellowstone is quite habituated and comfortable around humans.
REAL nice work Watts!!!
Thanks!
thanks for sharing!
Thanks for watching!
Great work Evan!
Thanks Randy! 👊
From italy…..you are simply the best✌🏻
Beautiful as always, Evan!
Thanks Michael!! 🙏
Love your videos and photos!
Thank you! 🙏
Yellowstone is truly beautiful I have never been except with people like you. Thanks for sharing your adventure
Absolutely, and thanks for watching!
You are awesome 😍
This video is great man, these pictures really inspire me
I'm excited I found your channel. I like filming wildlife as well for my TH-cam. Nothing beats nature, so calm and beautiful.
Awesome video! Yellowstone is on my bucket list.
Thank you! It’s definitely a destination that is well worth visiting in one’s lifetime.
@@wattswildlifephoto I will be on the lookout for one of your workshops
Amazing!!!
Thanks!!
Wish I could visit places like that.
What an amazing adventure.
I love Yellowstone.
Amazing! I really need to make it out there some day!
Incredible footage throughout! Appreciate your respect for the mama grizzly bear as well
Thank you for a brilliant video. I live in the UK but hope to visit Yellowstone next year and your video provide me with a lot of inspiration. Thank You
Thank you, I’m glad to hear it had that effect on you!
Great video. The life and death of Yellowstone is intriguing. Thanks
I feel it's so important to actually watch through the entire hunt, because it reminds us what is precious in life -*_Time._*
I truly understand why you want to witness this because this is simply just a natural part of what happens in nature every single day. We got to take the good with the bad to get a balanced view of how this world actually works, and life and death is just natural.
I feel it's important to see the greater picture of this as an ecological system in motion, rather than focusing on pain and suffering, because the following day a new life enters the scene.
The sun will definitely rise again.
This was one of the very best video you have done!!! The snow with all that beautiful scenery and wild life was fantastic
Thank you! I’m glad you enjoyed it so much.
I’ve been waiting for this one. Great work Evan.
Thanks Rod! I appreciate it. Hope you’re doing well.
Back home and already missing the park😃
Really great work 🙌🏻
Thanks, I’m glad you enjoyed!! 🙌
WOW, just came across your channel, you are a very talented photographer.
Thanks for sharing!
Thanks, I appreciate that and am glad to hear you enjoy my work!
Here from Wild and exposed pod 😁
Great videos, keep it up!
Thank you! I appreciate it!! 🙏
I enjoyed that a lot, and am totally jealous, haha! My husband and I live in Colorado and where you are is much the same when it comes to wildlife and habitat. I didn't start photography until I was 50 years old, but love it. Will watch more of your videos. Just found you today. Thanks!
What a epic trip you had! Amazing video 😃
Had to skip the hunts because I am a baby BUT so glad I stayed for all the amazing sights from the rest of your vlog. I visited (and vlogged!) my trip there in the spring last year and accidentally saw some fox/coyotes (not sure didn't look long enough) hunting a bison cub. I know it is a rare event for tourists and photographers but my little heart just couldn't take it, haha!! Hoping to see some more young wildlife when I visit next! Great video!
still can't get over the triplets omg
I go to Yellowstone in April and October each year and cruise for hours each day. I often wonder how many animals I drive right by because I didn't see them. You just have to be really, really lucky.
Wow, what an exciting an amazing video trip. You see more wildlife in one day than I saw in an entire month in Yellowstone. I love your work
Thank you, I’m glad you like it! It was definitely an exciting, wildlife-filled few weeks in the park.
Epic trip with epic wildlife encounters. This is your best vlog yet. Great video and photo clips paired with just the right amount of narrative. Great choice of music. Well done!
Thank you! I’m glad you liked it! Definitely the one I’m most proud of to this point 👊
Seeing such an experience like wolves taking down an elk is amazing! What an incredible thing to Capture
Love watching your videos, was in the park 2 weeks before the floods and never made it back this summer . Am just learning about wildlife photography and enjoy your tips and photos
Thanks, I’m glad to hear you enjoy them and find them helpful!
Beautiful stuff man. Shame about those bear cubs but ended with some awesome badger interaction!
Great video Ev! Thank you for the constant reminders on what we did this summer!!
Thanks Emma! It was an amazing summer
Wonderful video - thank you! If you ever offer a YNP photo tour, I’d be interested.
This is something I’m looking into doing in the future… definitely keep an eye out!
Very impressive photography and cinematography. My father is a professional photographer and I used to go with him when he did print judging for Professional Photographers of America. Your work is amazing. 💜. You should be so proud. Great work!
Thank you, I really appreciate the kind words! I’m glad you enjoyed.
Awesome video, incredible footage. What time of year was that snow storm?
Thank you! It was in late May.
Dude, what an awesome video! I can’t believe how many incredible hunts and moments you got. Killer job man 🙌🏻
Thanks man, I’m glad you liked it!! It was an epic few weeks in the parks! 👊
Thanks for sharing! Capturing that wolf hunt is so neat!
Edit: the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem is such a neat place. So much to see and experience. Nature is fun!
Thanks! It really is, it’s such an unique place we are fortunate to have here in the US.
@@wattswildlifephoto I agree! Not sure of any other places (perhaps Glacier, I haven’t been there yet) that allow you to see so many different animals and behaviors in such a short span.
Great video! Looks like we were tailgating each other to a few of these spots. I got some great photos during the black bear grabbing the elk calf and running up on the boardwalk. We were lucky since there was not a lot of people there at that time. Also lucky were the two ladies that were escorted off the boardwalk just before she stumbled on that calf. Thank you for this posting. Jim Burwell Photography
Gad you enjoyed it! Yeah, that was such a cool and lucky encounter with the black bear. Thanks for watching!
Awesome Channel. As an Offroad enthusiast and Jeeper from Colorado, I love being in nature as much as possible. Stumbled across your channel yesterday and have really enjoyed your content. Great to see your passion and skill in your craft of photography. As a fellow Clef Lip/Pallet person, It's nice to see the confidence you have in front of the camera. It's hard a times as I try to build my own channel. Congrats on all your success! Love your content!
Thanks man! Glad you are enjoying the videos. Yeah, it can be hard sometimes, but just keep putting yourself out there and you’ll get more comfortable with it!! Good luck, and thanks again. Have a good one! 🤙
This is a great vid. Fantastic sequences. Tough life for the cubs. Badger footage, both stills and video, is amazing. Well done.
Thank you! I appreciate that, glad you liked it 🙏
Those badger shots are pretty incredible man!
Thanks man!
Just found your channel thanks for all the amazing videos and info. Really enjoy all your input. I may not be number 100k subscriber but I’m here now. Hopefully we can use your insights on our upcoming trip.
Great video! I just recently found your channel and I’ve been enjoying it. Keep it up fellow.
Thanks, I'm glad you are enjoying it! Will do!
Great video. Wishing it would have been twice as long. Can't wait till your next one.
Wow that’s great to hear! I was editing it and was like “I’m afraid this is way too long” lmao. Thanks, I’m glad you enjoyed!!
Great video Evan! Loved the badger footage! You saw some amazing wildlife. Keep ‘‘em coming!
Thank you! Glad to hear you liked it. I definitely will! Gonna try to be more consistent with them in the future.
That moment bear was sure grieving😢
Love your work! Thank you for sharing your adventures, wow! I’m heading to Yellowstone in January and I can’t wait. I’m so glad everything worked out after you were robbed. Godspeed!
Thank you! Good luck on your trip, I hope you’re able to capture many great photos!
That momma bear losing her cub got me. She was really grieving. Grown ass man crying over the harsh realities of the world, especially in our natural places. Thanks for showing it all. Young people need to know it’s not all peace and love in the wild. It isn’t what Disney sold them that’s for sure. Nice musical choices - I think that pushed me over the edge. Love these. Heading out with the masses summer ‘23 to see it all. Hate crowds so going to have to wake up early to avoid some of it.
Wish you could get a drone shot just to give the context of the area. Maybe outside the park.
Thanks, I’m glad you enjoyed it! Good luck next year, you’ll have an awesome time. Yeah the crowds are a pain, but like you said if you get out early it’s not so bad. Also, get out and drive around when it’s rainy or cold. The park clears out on those days, but I find them to be some of the most productive days in terms of finding wildlife. I’ve always wished that too, I feel like drone shots would add so much to the videos! But oh well, NPS isn’t gonna allow it.
I believe Momma Grizzly is grieving her loss.
One of your best videos to date, the variety of subjects, the quality of the captures, the editing and your informative narration are all spot on. What a progression, good job! :)
Thanks! I’m glad you feel that way, I’m really happy with how this one came out!
Thanks for sharing your adventures; your story telling with video and pictures are very well done!
Thank you, I’m glad you enjoy them! 🙌
The entire vlog and all the pictures are so so beautiful! If you're open to it, can you possibly put up your camera settings when you're showing the pictures in the next videos? I would love to know what settings you use for each picture, if it's not too much effort that is.
Thank you! I have thought about doing that before… I may try it and see if I can do it for the next vlog. Thanks for the input!
Awesome work Sir! I just found your channel and I am very impressed with your work. Well done mate! One question... What rain covering to you use?
Evan we meet in the tetons a few weeks ago at the otters. Great meeting ya man. As a video editor as well I appreciate what you have done here with this one. Superb work and wow yeah you were on a roll with scene after scene that day. Cheers man. Steve
Great meeting you as well! Thank you, I appreciate that. Hope you got some good stuff with the otters that day!
Beautiful and well done. Please advise which month was this. I am planning this fall for a week hence please advise
Awesome content! I didn’t see any close enough grizzly this year, but there’s always until next time.
Thank you!! Good luck next time 🤞
I was in the park for a week but had to leave the 14th and didn't get back before the flooding. Seeing the badgers, the wolves taking down the bull and the black bear getting the calf, I wish I could have stayed longer.
I know the feeling, it seems never enough time in the park unfortunately :/
I’ve been here since May and I am still itching to get out there every chance I get haha.
@@wattswildlifephoto I live an hour and a half away now and I came in for several day trips this year but couldn't stay multiple days because there was nowhere to stay closer than my house due to the road to Gardiner being shut down. The closest place open was West and that's not much closer than my place.
Awesome footage! What were you recording video with? Inspires me to make the trip!!
Thanks!! This entire video was shot on my iPhone and my Canon R5!
Really nice shots! I'm no photographer but can appreciate quality photos and videos. Yellowstone is such an amazing place for wildlife. We feel lucky that we own a cabin 30 minutes away from it🙂
Thank you! That sounds amazing! What a place to have a cabin.
An amazing variety of subjects for a couple of days.
A few days after your time with Blondie and her cubs I had the fortune of photographing her as well. She truly is one of the most beautiful grizzlies I’ve seen. Unfortunately, her cubs had fallen victim to a boar as well just days after your encounter. You could see a noticeable difference in her disposition as it was her first siting since losing the cubs.
Well done on the video, keep them coming.
Thank you 🙏 Yes, so tragic about her cubs. I really wish they had made it… hopefully she’ll come out with new ones next year, and maybe they’ll have better luck.
Great video. Life can be tough in the wilds. Most people don’t understand that. Since the demise of the Yellowstone cutthroats, the elk calfs have become a prime food source for the grizzlies.👍👍
Thanks! Yep, it’s not easy being a wild animal in Yellowstone. Those elk calves get picked off by predators like it’s nothing in the spring…
@@wattswildlifephoto Before the illegal introduction of Lake Trout into Yellowstone Lake, spawning Cutthroats were the primary spring food source for the grizzlies. When they lost that food source, they readily adapted to harvesting spring elk calves. Not much can hide from the nose of a grizz. The grizz are probably more responsible for lowering the park elk populations than the wolves, simply by removing large numbers of calves from the population.🙂
Awesome video! Thanks for uploading! I've only been to Yellowstone and the Tetons once. Definitely planning a trip back. Quick question for you. You shoot with a 500 f/4. I'm currently considering one of Canon's big lenses myself. Keep going back and forth between RF 400 f/2.8 and RF 600 f/4. I have the RF 100-500 already but it's not good in low light. If you were going to choose one for your style of shooting, which would you choose?
Thanks! I’d go for the 600 f/4. I shoot a lot of dangerous wildlife so the extra range is a much for me. But, with that said the 400 2.8 would be incredible too when you can get close enough to an animal.
Fantastic content. I need to go back to Yellowstone again soon. Last time I only had an iPhone. After that trip I came home looking for camera gear! 😊
Thanks! Haha yeah… Yellowstone seems to make me want to but more camera gear too 🤣
@@wattswildlifephoto I have the same problem lol
Taman nasional yang sungguh sangat indah. Ini dinegara mana sobat??
What camera do you use? The camera, not the lens. I am a bird photographer and I want to use the camera you use because the pictures and videos you take are amazing.
Amazing video. Love it, but hate to see killing.
i feel so so so so so bad for the mama bear😞😞
Great video, music a little loud somewhat covering your voice making difficult to hear what you are saying.
Thanks! I agree, I definitely need to focus on better volume adjustments/levels in future videos 👍 I appreciate the feedback.
Why do all your videos list a 100-400 lens when it looks like you’re usually shooting with something bigger, no?
I hadn’t updated my gear list in a while but finally did just recently. I use an EF 500 f/4 ii most of the time now. Sorry for the confusion!
Wow very sad, I guess that's how nature works
I'm famous, my text made it into a Watts Wildlife TH-cam Video 😂
😂😂 yes it is, and the owl text you sent will probably be in one of my fall videos 😂
😆 pքɾօʍօʂʍ
Thanks!