My Favorite Photos of 2018 | Landscape and Wildlife Photography Discussion 

For me it's the mother and baby moose with Tetons in background. I love majestic landscapes with wildlife bonuses. Those are the type of images that I find the most rewarding to make myself. Thanks for sharing.

The flying B&W owl is for sure an example of everything coming together for a great photo, the snow reflecting the light perfectly, the perfectly posed owl in flight, and, of course, the photographer's (that would be you) perfect capture of the image.

I love all the wildlife shots, but my favorites were all animal-free. The infrared of the lone tree conveys to me a powerful mood of Zen-like calm. I’ve seen many sand dune photos, including Ansel Adams’ iconic compositions, and none is better than yours. The beautiful, muted colors of the Hawaiian beach, along with the soon-to-disappear footprints, elevate that photo from good to outstanding. Thanks for sharing.

I was in Jackson last Fall and I stopped into a studio run by two men and I mentioned that I followed you in RU-vid. They said that you cover more miles in the wilderness than anyone they knew and that your work ethic was without equal. I thought I would share that your peers really respect what your doing. May favorites was the B&W Great Grey Owl and the Bull Moose at Sunrise.

Loved the mama and baby moose with the Tetons in the background. The color the landscape the animals it was perfect!

Personally my favourite is the great grey owl on the wing, but I'm a raptor enthusiast. The mountain lion is right up there though. Taking into account how rare encounters are with these elusive felines, coupled with your quick reflexes - it's pure brilliance. The cow and calf landscape shot is a once in a lifetime image and something you should be very proud of. Thanks for putting the time into these videos Steve, it's really informative and inspiring. I hope to make it to your part of the world one day. Until then please keep these episodes coming. Cheers.

Hi Steve Don’t usually comment twice on same video but my wife asked if I would thank you for keeping your videos kid friendly. Our granddaughter who’s 9 loves nature especially owls and we don’t need to hold our breath through the video.

My favs are: 1) GGO and 4 trees, 2) Grand Tetons w/moose and calf crossing and 3) GGO on treetop. Thank you Steve. Love your channel.

I like the coyote one a lot, the black and white conversion give the photo and the animal a ghost-like feeling, which is exactly the impression I had for this animal when I visited the grand teton last year. But then I voted for the mountain lion after watching the whole video! It was just such a precious photo, an excellent shot, both technically and experience wise! Great job! Looking forward to more amazing photos and videos/adventures from this channel in 2019!

Incredible body of work for a year. Loved the father + son picture, it really does tell a story. But it is really hard to pick out a favorite given you got so many stunning images there.

My favorite image in this group was the leucistic Great Gray Owl with the Aspen trunks. Superb!

VERY hard to pick a favorite. First it was the lone tree then the coyote (loved the detail in his wiskers). Next the cougar (which I think is my most favorite) and finally the bull moose at the end. They were all just fantastic!

gosh the mountain lion is super and rare. we saw only one in the wild several years ago in Arizona an no photo. the GGO distant perch on the evergreen is special. gotta love environmental shots. 399 is special too. we got to see and even photographer her last fall crossing the snake. always love your videos Steve, can't wait until the next. all the best. danny.

Fantastic shots. All of them, well, nearly all of them. I particularly like that you don't overdo the postprocessing, like to many other photographers. And I very much like how you sort of connect your shots with a "story" and your own, very personal thoughts and feelings about a scene.

My favorite was " Moose at Sunrise". Next would be the mountain lion. Third would be the owl in flight. I also liked the Spring green prairie grass with the Bison. I like the dark cloud in that image also. Great work as always Steve. I really like your channel and glad I stumbled on it at the beginning of your RU-vid journey.

I really enjoyed your "favorite photos of 2018", and it is hard to choose a favorite as I liked/appreciated so many of them. So many of your wildlife shots are up close and personal, and fantastic! Thank you for the background you give with each photo and sharing your internal thoughts too! Your first owl photo is stunning, excellent shot! The owl in the Aspen trees is incredible as well! Plus the coyote and the bull moose with the calf really stand out. Also, the moose and calf with the Tetons in the background is winner as well. So I guess I just cannot choose a favorite! Thanks for sharing!!

Steve, great set. Really liked the cow and calf with the mountains, mountain lion and the bull with that calf.

Love the white owl with the aspen trees, so starling and well composed. The coyote and the mountain lion are fantastic. The one that struck me strongly was the bison horn. I don't know why but it just has great appeal and as you said, you know exactly what it is, but it is so different. All are great shots, I think for my taste I would prefer some more color shots but all are very good to great shots.

Steve I truly enjoyed this video! I am new to your channel and I can't get enough. Your art is breathtaking. I very much appreciate your content, you lead with enthusiasm, along with a dash of witty humor. You are a complete joy to watch, your passion oozes out into your videos. Just damn great stuff. I look forward to seeing more pictures and epic content. Much love and respect. ❤️ 🙏

I thought from the beginning it would be an owl but I think the father and young moose is my favorite. The infrared lends a dreamy feel to a very moving image.

I really like the infrared of the bull moose with the younger calves. Great shots Steve.

Fabulous set of pictures, Steve, hard to pick, but I have to go with the owls! The first, b&w owl in flight and the owl with the four tree trunks are my top two, but only by a whisker! I love the cow moose and calf by the lake, too.

Looks like 2018 was a great year. Some of my favorites are 1. Tetons with the moose (amazing image!) 2. Lone tree (infrared) 3. Sand dunes ripples (infrared)

It's very obvious you love what you do, many fantastic images there, thanks for showing them. I'm enjoying your channel, thankfully you have many videos I've yet to watch! Cheers from the UK.

Beautiful selection of 20 images. Tough to pick a favorite but I’ll go with the mother and baby moose at the spring pond. For number two the father and baby moose. Two very beautiful and impactful images.

It's very tough to narrow it down to one. The mountain lion and the owl with the Aspen Trees are probably my two favorites, but again very tough to narrow down. Excellent work and a another great year!

Fantastic images... my personal favorite would be the majestic mountain lion, absolutely stunning photo. I also really like your moose shots, particularly the more environmental ones. Love the moose in the willows along with the side lit surveying image. I do really appreciate close up wildlife portraits, but I think your shots that include the environment tell an expanded story. Great work.

Great selection Steve. Nice to see you shooting more black and white too. Stay the course, my friend.

#1 Grey owl coming at you!, #2 Owl looking around the corner of the tree and #3 last one of the Moose. Great Video and I really enjoy all of your videos.

Stunning images, and I so glad to see you shooting in IR.

Incredible work Steve. Your videos are inspiration.

Baby moose with momma at the spring pond is my favourite! So gorgeous!

A wonderful collection from 2018. 👏👏👏I imagine how difficult this selection task was.😲 1) Emotional picture of meeting father and son moose ❤️ 2) A beautiful and surprising image of a mountain lion in a monochromatic warm color❤️ I admire your artistry and passions, best regards from🇨🇦

Mountain lion and the moose/baby by lake. I enjoy all your videos but especially these yearly reviews of your top 20. I hope you'll make this a tradition.

For some reason I'm not getting notifications for any of my RU-vid subscriptions (has happened before - not sure why) - so I'm late getting to this. Enjoyed the image review. My favorites? Moose and calf at the pond, owl and hummingbird, and the coyote. Already looking forward to more.

Steve, since you asked, my favorites are the b&w owl flying toward you, the mama moose and baby crossing the lake, and number 3 is a tie between the bull moose in the willows and the mountain lion. All of them were beautiful. Rationale: Owl, just a beautiful photo nothing more can be said. Moose and baby crossing lake - as a wildlife and landscape photographer, this captured both of my loves. I live in the East so most of my landscapes are intimate up close. Love this one. Next 2 show the wildlife in their natural environment. Over the past few years, my personal wildlife photography has gravitated toward environmental shots and less toward wildlife portraits. The up close shot of a big buck deer does get the "ooh ahh" response but the shots showing the environment usually gets a more personal connection "I've seen them doing that" kind of response. All great photos Steve and thank you for putting this together and for the reminder I need to go through about 10,000 photos I shot in 2018 and pick my favorites.

Hi Steve, For me the image which stands out is the Mountain Lion shot because of the back story as you explained in a previous video. The leaf image was also very cool due to its apparent simplicity. Thanks as always for sharing 👍👍👍👍

Wow! Really hard but that first black and white owl is awesome.

Great vid and pics man! Thanks for sharing your work and creativity. I Loved the coyote and horn of the bison.

Enjoyed all of them. Before you mentioned the father/calf relationship, hubby and I thought the same to allow the male get so close. The white claws of the bear! Aspens and owls go together. The pond with moose and calf probably #1, but love them all. Would like to visit The Tetons again in our lifetime. Great work, Steve.

The moose on the ridge at sunrise was my favorite.

The first owl you showed, then the wolf and the mountain lion are my favorites. All good though, Steve, not a bad one among them.

It's almost impossible to pick a favourite photo from this selection Steve, as they are all GREAT. I'm drawn to the moose every time. My favourite is the Bull Moose and Calf. Closely followed by a joint second, of the Bull Moose on the Ridge in the morning light and also the very last photo of the Bull Moose. All Great Photos Steve.👍🏼

Fun! Faves are sunrise moose and the leaf or the mountain lion or...

A lot to like in those images but the mountain lion shot is my favorite. Just a great shot of an elusive cat and you caught it perfectly. The cat blends into the surroundings for a very monochromatic, soft look and those eyes are just staring right back at the viewer. Well done!

Hey Steve! My favorites are moose with calf, moose greeting, and of course the mountain lion. The stories really makes the images!

"Bad ass of the area", really liked the back lighting behind him, being able to set-up and catch it, Inspiring! thank you for sharing

Great images as usual, Steve. You mentioned one of the images was taken with the Fuji XF 100-400. I’ve recently watched your thoughts on the Tokina and Sigma 100-400 lenses, and the Nikon PF500 and 200-500 lenses. How does the Fuji hold up in comparison?

Steve, gotta go with the classic bison on the plain with the Grand Tetons as the backdrop. Absolutely gorgeous photo. You nailed it.

Liked all but coyote and moose were my picks. Great pics all round but always interesting what other people like better in my photos. Ones i think are so so other people love. Snap on

1st decently the moose in light dog next to the water, 2th the owl in flight and further all the other olws :) probably the white one with the Aspen trees, nice collection and Roundup from 2018

It was a tough choice but the Great Grey Owl (third image?) in infrared is my favorite; absolutely gorgeous. I may have to convert my Nikon D300S to infrared ! The other images were so good it was impossible to grade, but maybe the owl in the birches or the side-lighted moose at dawn would be second. A great year !

I love moose...but the owls were awesome! Cant wait for the book!

Absolutely love the owl pictures. Not a black and white fan but you could convert me. Keep it up as I really enjoy your channel.

I love the close up of the bull moose, it has a very dramatic and powerful feel. I also really like the leaf with the stark contrast between the leaf and the water. I'm glad you didn't place it there to setup the scene. I hate when photographers do that and when they put bait out to attract animals.

Very nice collection for the year. Quite different from last year. I like the respect you have for the scene and being there for the moment. Really like your work. Best...s

Great images!! That coyote shot is my favorite.

19 top favorite 1 second favorite. Lol, They are all great , A big Thanks for all you do. I enjoy your channel.

I really like the first owl, the coyote, and of course the moose and calf along the water edge.

Love the moose shots.

Coyote and mountain lion for me, really like how the colours of the surroundings and the animal blend, but still lets them stand out. Also loved to find out that you can take photos in America that look like namibian sand dunes and that there is such an animal as a leucistic owl 😊

The mountain lion is definitely my fave, followed closely by, your number 20, Mr. Tough Guy.

Such beauty in these compositions, Steve.

Steve, thanks for sharing your favs from 2018. It's tough to choose just 1 or 2 as my favorites from your set. So... I'm not gonna :) I really like the very first photo. It's a simple, elegant composition; a lovely artistic image. The mountain lion is my other very favorite. It resonates with me because I had a close encounter with a mountain lion, last summer. Your image is much better than mine, though. I also really like two of the moose photo. The image of the cow and calf beside the river with the Tetons in the background is just lovely in all respects. I also like the moose bull and calf photo. Your imagined story sounds good to me. It's a touching moment. That first B&W owl in flight photo is pretty spectacular. Great eyes on that bird.

Hey Steve, thanks for sharing these :) I have a number of favourites so I've narrowed it down to ones I would put on my wall. They are the coyote, the great grey owl small in the frame on the pine tree, and the b+w of the moose (last image your showed).

Thanks for taking us with on your foto journey 2019! Love it!

You've caught me in an "artsy fartsy" mood. I really enjoyed the IR lone tree and the aspen leaf in the stream...

I have ten favorites and ten second favorites!

I love this. I also really like how you preclude some important things. Best photos aren't always technically perfect. Technically perfect photos aren't always good. Personal experience matters (and that's ok). My number one personal fav photo I have ever taken has, on multiple occasions failed to make an impact when submitted to competitions, or even on my socials. It is technically ok. It is, however EXACTLY the photo I wanted to take. I guess objectively it isn't as good, but I cannot look at the photo and see anything else than 'this is my favourite photo, I ever took'. My fav of yours is definitely the moose with the mountains and the pond. I like it enough that I think I might be in touch later this year (if/when money allows, to be entirely honest) to buy a print.

AMAZING IMAGERY! I just found your RU-vid channel about a day ago & then in my bird photography group that just shared a post about the Audubon Photo Contest, I recognized your name in the winning image (of course of your gorgeous Gray Owls!). Love your work! 🤙🏽

It was hard to select from twenty but I did find two. The first is the Great Gray portrait (with hummingbird). Any birder would love to take the photo or just see the bird. The other is the black and white of the sand dune. That lazy s-curve really makes the photo work.

Great gray poking out of the aspen and the mountain lion. I envy your location. I should have stunning images of squirrels and sparrows....😂

Lovely set of images Steve..! I think my favourite is the one of the leucistic Great Grey in the Aspens... like you said.. a powerful image..! wish you all the best for 2019 and Happy New Year to you too..!! g

Those are some pretty cool shots, that mountain lion one is really cool

Infrared photos look so cool it's like a knew age black and white.

All ten are great pictures! But my favorite shot is the owl (04:30) ------ Thanks for sharing!!!

I love these videos you fo each year! I’m over in SE Idaho and hope to book you for a session one day! Enough with that though, who do you print your images through?

I'm obsessed with your photos!! They are amazing! I just have a question, how many lenses do you have? Just curious :)

I gasped at the leucistic ggo poking around the tree... what an image

Hard to pick favourite, the side lit moose would be my favourite. I liked the light and the mooses stance.

for me, my fav is the mono great grey!!

Really love the beach shot in Hawaii!

Great Video, Superb photography, Lots of favorites, for me. Big fan of black and white. Thanks for sharing! You da man!

moose with baby drinking water, owl with four aspen trees, and bison in the plains are my favorite. But they are all awesome pictures.

Hey Steve love the black and white of the owl, the coyote and the moose at the end. I was wondering about that shot of the moose cow and calf with the Tetons backdrop reflected in the lake and how that would work as a black and white image? I think I may be going over to the dark side!? But thanks for introducing me to black and white with wildlife!

Steve you had an awesome year, My fav's of your shots are #1 = the G.G.Owl in flight, #2 Moose Teton Reflection, #3 Mtn. Lion so unique not an animal you see every day or ever at that. Terrific collection for 2018. Question did you have company the day you photographed the Bison shot with the Teton range as the backdrop ?

Love the story of the bull moose and the calves, but my top image was the coyote. Those eyes!

I enjoyed the 1st photo of the tree the most until wolf photo came up. Both are great.

All top Notch, but like the young moose, meeting Dad

Do you have any advice to how can i find owls? I've seen an owl couple times flying but dont know how to get close.

I love them all! How do you convert a camera to infrared? Is this something you could do a video on?

What song is that you use in your videos? I absolutely love it... (the one that goes "it really makes me wonder")

#1) Gray Owl in flight, #2) Coyote, #3) tie Bison in the field and Bull Moose close up. Looks like I was partial to the wildlife photos. Yep!

Hmmmm? And Hmmmm again. But my A#1 absolute no question top choice is the coyote. It totally says "I am Coyote!" A tossup with last years (I think) Griz in the Snow. For romance, bison in meadow with Tetons. For humor, close up of moose "Ya wanna make somethin of it?"

Steve, Love your work. Is that another claw behind 399's back feet ? Can't blow it up to see.

The Great Grey Owl, Mountain Lion and the Bear are my faves, not a fan of the infrared stuff.

how did you convert your xt20 ?

#1 wassup Steve