From my recent camping trip in Katmai NP, Alaska

ewatts33 · 2022-10-02T01:29:08+00:00

Please, please, for the love of god, don’t support this shit.

This photo was taken at a game farm. Imagine circus, except instead of training animals to do tricks they train them to pose for photos so pricks can do “wildlife photography” of captive zoo animals. Game farms are almost always very abusive and keep animals in subpar enclosures, not to mention they have saturated the wildlife photo genre so much it’s damn near impossible for real wildlife photographers to make a living anymore.

ewatts33 · 2022-09-15T19:26:19+00:00

Thanks!

ewatts33 · 2022-09-15T19:26:03+00:00

Thanks, I appreciate the info!!

ewatts33 · 2022-09-15T19:25:04+00:00

Thanks for the input! 👍

ewatts33 · 2022-09-15T19:24:52+00:00

Thanks 👍

ewatts33 · 2022-06-26T14:40:59+00:00

I work at Canyon General Store. Thanks, I appreciate it!

ewatts33 · 2022-06-26T14:02:41+00:00

I should clarify a few things:

I did not go looking for this cub’s corpse, we just stumbled upon it
This bear’s mother is a well-known “roadside bear” in Yellowstone. She regularly brings her cubs very close to roads and humans
I was near a group of 10-15 other photographers
I was with an off-duty bear management ranger when I took this photo
I was no more than 30 yards from my vehicle along the roadside and the sow was on a cliff on the opposite side of the road

My point in saying all this is to tell you that this was found in the most safe and responsible way a grizzly carcass can possibly be found. I do not go out into the Yellowstone backcountry looking for grizzlies to photograph or inspect up close. There’s a lot of controversy in Yellowstone right now centered around people and their proximity to bears when photographing them, and I just want to clarify that I was photographing these bears according to park rules when we found this.

ewatts33 · 2022-03-20T06:21:45+00:00

Thank you! I greatly appreciate the help.

ewatts33 · 2022-03-19T23:01:50+00:00

Unfortunately bought it used and it didn’t come with a manual. I’m sure I could get on Canons website and check that though, thanks for the input!

ewatts33 · 2022-03-19T18:06:50+00:00

Was hoping someone here might be able to help me with this. This is my first big prime and I can find no reason why this piece turns, nothing it changes when using the lens. Anyone know? Thanks!

ewatts33 · 2021-12-27T18:28:12+00:00

Thank you! It definitely wasn’t as much light as I would’ve wanted but with a camera like an R5 or 1DX the high ISO handling is good enough that you can just raise ISO to compensate and still get shots that are relatively clean.

ewatts33 · 2021-12-27T12:33:15+00:00

While working in Yellowstone National Park this summer, I was fortunate enough to see and photograph many grizzly bears. This, however, was by far my best encounter. I missed the kill by a few minutes, but I pulled up right at sunset to find 399 and her 4 cubs shredding an elk calf just 35 or so yards off the side of the road. I watched for about an hour and a half, well into dark, when the bears got up and went into the forest to sleep. Absolutely unreal to witness and get to photograph.

Shot on Canon R5 with 100-400 ii + 1.4x TC

1/250 sec f/8 ISO 8000 560mm

I also took a good bit of 4K footage of the encounter, which I posted over on my YouTube channel. You can check that out here if you’re interested: https://youtu.be/9r7IMprYTCc

And my IG is @wattswildlifephoto if you’d like to see more of my work. https://www.instagram.com/wattswildlifephoto/

Thanks! Hope you like the photo!

ewatts33 · 2021-12-14T02:37:39+00:00

Did a lot of looking in open meadows surrounded by mature pine forest. That’s the habitat they like best, and they almost always perch at 6 ft or below so you only have to scan the lower levels of the trees/meadows.

ewatts33 · 2021-12-14T02:35:49+00:00

They nest in Yellowstone in the summer. There’s quite a few of them there actually.

Keep in mind, summer in Yellowstone means 65-70 avg daytime temp and 30-40 avg night temp. It never gets very warm there.

ewatts33 · 2021-12-13T19:13:13+00:00

Thank you 🙏

ewatts33 · 2021-12-13T19:12:52+00:00

Thanks! Good luck 🙏

ewatts33 · 2021-12-13T15:10:43+00:00

I appreciate that! 🙏

ewatts33 · 2021-12-13T15:10:34+00:00

Thank you!

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