Nice video and great discussion Matt, was wondering where is the location?

you did know there are apps that help you identify birds by their singing, didn’t you?

Matt, I could see my beard growing while listening to you go on and on and on and on. Geesh man,find a topic you want to talk about and get to the fkn point!

Nice vid & photos.

This has just shown as a new upload! Hope your well and still photographing!

I compete with myself, and the equipment is not the one that creates !.....I love my Canon 500mm IS version 1 ....It's tack sharp .....

That sounds like a good decision, but I hope that you are not too disappointed with the fact that the lens sells for $1440 USD on the used market now. I wish you all the best!

I don't know how I missed this one from 6 yrs ago but I've only just found it! Anyhow, great video, thoroughly enjoyed seeing all the animals, and your lovely photographs and footage of them. The stoat made me laugh, so cheeky! What a fab prize to win!

Helloooooo….hello? Matt….MATT…! Matt? Where’d you go? Are you coming back to YT? Helloooo. MATT! Hi! Matt….will there be more videos? Hello👋🏻. Are you there, Matt?

Awesome

just get rid of all squirrels, no problem then

Racist not only to people but to animals too

How do you get the dark backgrounds for your thumbnails

I just had a rotten time at grigin farm my advice don't go there anymore.

What park is this

great video , matt

My way of thinking is we are responsible for so much habitat destruction! Thus less and less food for these beautiful creatures. Look at Australia, the Dingo has been part of Australia for over 10,000 years but they are treated like pests. Foxes and Dingoes are baited here by 1080 poison. All because farmers mainly sheep farmers do not like them... Also now with Kagari Island (Fraser Island) here in QLD. There has been a lot of bad press about the Dingo's due to attacks... But normally these are attacks due to human fault! We are in their home.... It is so sad because these Dingoes normally pay the price of their lives....

So what happened since you sold your lens?

Great Vlog Matt, I’ve just found you and been watching your back catalogue, then to release you haven’t posted in 9 months, have you given up, so sould I subscribe

Really Matt you need to pack your camera bag with an insect repellent in those environments, the amount of bites and stings you can get can ba a nightmare. I have in the past had as many as 30 to 40 bites/stings on each leg at any one time, the places these bites/stings can get know no bounds making for a very unpleasant few days after to the point of even a couple of days being very ill due to a horsefly bite. As I know how addictive it can be to photograph damselfly etc I really would recommend it, even to the point of wearing some sort of net over your head if in these environments for any length of time. Loved the photos by the way though Matt.

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Not to dredge up the conversation on the issues with baiting on an old video but I’m fairly confident that one of the baiters is @RoxytheZoologist, a well known zoologist/influencer who really should know better. Foxes in city centres are easy enough to approach as is without encouraging dependence and even closer contact with an animal with the potential to bite when not fed - imagine the consequences to both the fox and a child in that kind of situation!

Thank you for sharing this, Matt. Your work is amazing, and with your dedication and passion I am sure you are already on your way to fulfill what you talked about here. I found your video as I am considering buying that very type of lens :) Warm greetings, and all of God's blessing and inspiration on your work.

I am so glad I don't have to shoot film anymore. Digital with solid AF is just so much more predictable.

Super !

Is this about you and your friends ? Where is the wildlife ???? You should change title of your video....sorry

He is rubbing the velvet off his horns.

Beewolf is Asian Hornet from the beginning ,from the Triassic ,where incredible competition kept her head down The kt extinction event saw her leave the burrow become more social lay multiple eggs and get a shiny suntan Which is why Beewolf= Triassic Velutina= just 40’000 years ago

Go to a school, and get a solid profession. After that, you'll make enough money to get any (I mean any) camera/lens. And you'll be happy. That is what most of us do. And that is why we have nice jobs, families, and money for our hobbies. Good luck!

I couldn't agree more about still photography being saturated. I too am moving to video and just purchased the Canon r5c camera which is amazing. Video is challenging thou but in the end I think video is the future if not here already. Now I have to buy a nice versatile lens. Good luck!

Nose picker.

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Good luck for your future adventures. I would never sell my Canon 500mm f4 mk2, simply amazing bit of kit

Olympus, no doubt. Or, Oms as they are called today.

New subscriber Great to watch and love the enthusiasm 👍🦦I also have that passion for wildlife and otters 🦦 I’m currently on a project to film river otters 🦦

3 months later & no Part II 🤔

So at the end did you managed to shoot that badger ? At the moment I'm trying to shoot a fox ,even though I'm using a cheap trail camera bought off amazon.

I hope to get to Skomer island as it us the best venue for puffins in England and Wales. Love the fine art editing Matt which is my style as well !

Raven?

Ballz, mate!

Watching the pollen come off, When I see the photos I say yes, but my allergies say NO!

Great video and great pics Matt! 👌

I thoroughly enjoyed that. Being an aussie it was really interesting to see it from a different perspective.

I mean... we are breeding dinosaurs on a daily base.... chickens! In my opinion most people dont even have the right to brag about things like this.... They mostly dont even know how THEY AFFECT WILDLIFE with all their actions. Just a good example: Multiple hunters, mostly the older generation are always annoying me and friends when we are parking (!!!) our cars at nature spots, meanwhile they RALLY with 40mph+ around the ways, making more moise and dust clouds than we even could, sometimes even black exhaust smoke.... and WE, very silently standing, sitting or going around are disturbing the wildlife? We only shoot pictures from animals at a safe distance without disturbing... meanwhile the hunters dont care much about affecting their behaviours, in fact they even love to bait them to the places they want them to to SHOOT THEM..... In my area we had a big population of deers many years ago. Then the new generation of hunters, some even friends TOOK OVER the nature.... driving like crazy idiots, shooting a lot of deers and now.... its nearly impossible to find some! So a question.... who affected wildlife/nature more now?! The wildlife photographer not even baiting animals or the hunter which is nearly a "blood hungry", inhuman creature but still annoying normal, good people? Or Rangers.... they pretend to do good things... in fact most of them DESTROY NATURE with their Mono-Culture.... Wildlife and Nature is for a good reason WILD, not planned.

The problems with walking around is wildlife will spot you long before you see them , the secret is to sit and wait , and wait , and wait , and then wait more .

Lovely stuff! With the multi exposure thing, you need a dark background to allows the layers to show through without being blown exposure wise. You could try putting a black card (or maybe mottled dark green and brown) behind the bee, the heather should hold it well enough and the depth of field won't make it noticeable. It is nice having that faint ghostly look, which would be inevitable as some vegetation will be between the bee and the card, but at least this way it's less likely to result in a blown exposure (e.g. three consecutive bright areas). This could be done in post easily, just masking out each layer, but leaving it to chance is a lot nicer. The card should give you enough control to get a useable shot though. Just to make it clear: On the first layer, the bee and flower is on the right, with dark card showing through on the centre and left; second layer, bee in the middle, card on right and left, and; third, bee left, card middle and right. Anyhow, thanks for the video, lovely to watch

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What camera should I buy for wildlife canon 80d or canon 7d mk II

So glad to have a new video mat! How is the video camera project going?

excellent video Matt, been wondering what you´ve been up to since your last video with the new gear !