Extreme Photography in the Mountains of Switzerland

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[@DaniConnorWild]

Sorry about the audio on the previous upload, I clicked video only by accident and didn’t realise 🥲 Hope you enjoy this video!

[@syednadal9142]

🏹💄🌺🧚‍♀️.......🧚‍♀️⚘🌠💘

[@ELCADAROSA]

Despite the missed opportunity, and loss of data on the drive, your photos and videos are stunning to view. You really go to “extremes” to get the desired results, and your efforts are greatly appreciated!

[@777pusher]

The quality of this production blows away most of the garbage on cable TV. When I was a child, I watched the Jac Clouseau, and now I watch you once in a while. Thanks for doing what you do!!

[@blucat4]

Wonderful! This has to be in the running for one of the most beautiful videos ever! I love the other birds, just as wonderful as the vulture, and the scenery, the moment with you and the squirrel, the music and the scenery, did I mention that? So peaceful and beautiful, this is a treasure. Cheers Dani. 🙂💙🤍

[@FloriTravels]

This video was truly breathtaking!

[@mariaulvw]

Wow, that last bird interaction with the vulture and the photos.. incredible!!

[@PhilVossen]

That sounds a lot better ;) Another great video.

[@uncleron9481]

Amazing, wonderful, stunning. THANK YOU. WELL DONE.

[@malc121]

Stunning photography ,wonderful views,your skills in taking beautiful photos of the amazing wildlife and landscape,thanks for sharing your work,take care and stay safe 👏🏻❤️

[@NYWildflower]

Thank you for the re-upload! ❤️ This has got to be some of your most EPIC photography/videography ever, Dani!!! Absolutely magnificent! Thank you for taking this incredible journey to capture these majestic creatures for us! I could quite literally feel the cold and wind on my screen, as I'd just come in from clearing over a foot of snow from our snowstorm here yesterday. 😂

[@AndoughPanda]

Yay! This one works fine, and has audio. :) Thank you for the re-upload. Super excited to bundle up and watch this. Looks incredible!

[@AndoughPanda]

Wow. Absolutely stunning!!

[@tomassanesson902]

Awesome beautiful video ❤❤❤

[@declanconway2903]

Great video again Dani Fantastic scenery

[@NaturePhotographer757]

Sweden very beautiful country 🇸🇪😍

[@wolfgangsuchy1025]

You never know, what nature will show ;-)) Its the surprises, that rewards you.... Beeing patient can get you great possibilities, but there is allways a chance for a surprise....

[@csabapapp8481]

Hey Dani! I'm just 4 minutes in, but feel a bit homesick. I work as a photographer in that part of the Alps during the summer. Got some photos of the vultures. They are flying on the top of the Stelvio pass in the summer almost every day, several times. Lots of people = lots of garbage and food leftovers. Some marmots are almost as friendly there as your squirells. End of May, first weeks of June is the best time in my opinion. The valleys are yellow from the flowers and there's still some snow on the mountain tops. It worth a trip that part of the year too. You can get some serious discount for long term booking (one month), that way you have time to discover the place. I live in Hungary, but I start to think that my real home is the swiss Alps.

[@nicolaj3294]

Dani your vlogs make my cry just for the shear beauty and your respect for wildlife. I love the message too, sometimes we need to put down the camera and just be in awe of the beauty of nature. Thank you so much Dani and Juan xx

[@carokind9538]

Wow! 🦅 Stunning shots🫠

[@mousehouse4617]

Thanks for sharing another brilliant video, Dani. Sorry to hear about your lost photos.

[@mtnshelby7059]

This is a superb video. Your photos capture the birds so beautifully, I was so moved watching the stills mixed with the live action. Thank you for sharing your adventure with us.

[@freddieqmercury5961]

It’s great to see Dani looking at the wildlife, she loves being there, it shows in her face.

[@kashesan]

Wait-the vulture came by for a visit on your last day when you weren't looking for them? That was a gift! Your work as always is poetry for the eyes.

[@barry10ish]

Dani THANKYOU I live in Cornwall and the Chough used to fly our cliffs but they are rare now the chough is the centre piece of the Cornish crest and the shots you took made my heart sing they were beautiful those lovely birds against a fantastic snowy background I am sure you WILL get the shot you were after but for me that blackbird stole the day.............Barry............

[@antonoat]

What a wonderful film, thank you for sharing it with us! We were lucky enough to see a Bearded vulture near Peterborough in the UK a couple of years ago now, it was a truly epic bird, we got a great impression of it's size as it was being mobbed by crows, they looked like sparrows! Very sorry to hear you lost your images and video film, very upsetting, I imagine you'll catch more amazing images and films moving forward. We've subscribed so we can keep up with your success! Seasons greetings!

[@christelle9122]

The mail joke is so Swiss. I burst out laughing.

[@TheSonoranCottage]

This video just bumped you to the TOP as my favorite youtube channel 🎉❤ Wow.

[@dianebaker5243]

That is beautiful place to stay. Thanks for sharing 👍 🥰

[@randyschwager2515]

Fantastic adventure! As always in wildlife photography, patience is the key ingredient! Thanks for taking me along!

[@TranceDivine]

Your videos are edited as if I was watching a BBC nature documentary with how your speak also ..spot on Dani

[@alinatekumara8541]

Congrats! Really nice Video. I like the slow Pace to be able to let it sink in. Beautiful pictures too

[@oggg4604]

I’ve just booked a trip too Switzerland 🇨🇭 going be be a life time trip for sure . Beyond anything I’ve ever done and I’m super excited to see the wildlife here ! Won’t compare to your amazing video and photos but let’s just wait and see what I get !

[@raylander6329]

Dani, another gorgeous video; just beautiful; I know Fabian from his channel; very well done video and very well put together; thank you

[@CJamesPhoto]

Sorry you didn’t get the shot, absolutely understand the frustration and beating yourself up for it.. but you still had a lovely journey and something great to show. Great video 😊

[@diannajepson8708]

Oh WOW, Dani! I'm definitely putting the Swiss Alps on my bucket list of places to go! You and Juan did such an amazing job capturing this beautiful scenery and bringing it to life for me! Thank you so much!😊💖

[@johnalden5821]

Your videos have me spellbound from beginning to end.

[@sylviaby9174]

Thank you for sharing your experiences with us. I totally enjoyed it.

[@Osmone_Everony]

5:00 Everyone else would say "No thanks, I'll stay indoors!" but Dani even enjoys it. You're a tough young lady. 🙂

[@reineh3477]

Ha ha. This is how Swedish winters use to look like when I was a child.

[@monkeybarmonkeyman]

You wouldn't believe just how many people lose their data due to technical issues. My best suggestion would be to always go with fresh cards every time you travel.

[@GojalRangeman]

Amazing so beautiful keep it continue and best of luck.... I hope you have a million views on evvery shot bc of ur hard work ❤❤🎉

[@lordstephen7813]

Lovely video you two. I used to see Choughs in Cornwall , England . A very playful bird indeed.

[@ulrichhauser-ehninger7669]

I am German, but live in Switzerland for 15 years now. I can confirm you swiss experiences. A very strange sense of humour, sometimes hilarious. Very particular about dirt, all over Switzerland. And the bearded vultures are everywhere, but you hardly see them, far less than the eagles. Their territory is huge. They are raised and released in a well organised program. Young ones fly very far, were found even up the french atlantic coast. But they tend to return to the alps after some roaming to find out where it is the most beautiful. These birds are enormous. they look big in your video, but, as you know, they are much more impressive live. Nothing compares to seeing such a creature soaring by with your own eyes. Your last day was just around the corner where I live. The mountains you shot are the view from my bedroom.

[@AdventureWithNature]

Lovely Majestic Birds...💚💚💚

[@simonpendleton6005]

Wonderful film and some brilliant pictures 👏

[@freddieqmercury5961]

Dani’s comment about putting the camera down and just enjoying the scene, without the camera, reminded me of looking down into a valley in Scotland, named, rest and be thankful, I could not have taken a picture and done it Justice, so I just stored it in the old memory bank.

[@cathymorelli7108]

What an absolutely wonderful video. I just watched with my 4 year old grandson and we both thoroughly enjoyed it. Thank you so much ❤

[@joncothranphotography9375]

That is sooo Awesome! Thanks so much for sharing this!

[@tomnorton8499]

May I suggest winter shooting gloves for these conditions? They will help keep your hands warmer than bare hands and they come in a couple different configurations that will allow you to use your fingers.

[@holysmokesphotography]

Wow! So beautiful! Glad I found your channel!

[@daveexplore3856]

Love your content Dani. Want to order one of your calendars soon 🌹🇨🇦

[@andrewna4095]

good effect in the tunnel at 1:48. Zooming in while advancing forward 🙂I like it!

[@wildlife351]

I think it is some kind of dolly zoom or something

[@frankpeters288]

Nice pictures Dani 👌🏻🦅. What a beautyful place thare in Switzerland👍🏻

[@hessranch]

Beautiful pictures as always. That hotel on the cliff. Wow!!!

[@fidelibus]

Ahhh u were near germany! i love ur work, keep it going!

[@AlexSouthAfrica]

We will be visiting the Drakensberg here in South Africa attempting exactly what your video portrayed. Traveling in mid summer we will not have to deal with snow, however afternoon thunderstorms will be the order of the day. Hopefully we will get to see the Bearded Vulture aat the Giants Castle Vulture hide. Love your work and we are inspired to get out there and tick them off🙏

[@robinsmith9734]

Place and Space through time and light, you nail the brief with great relief the Dani we all Love. Most enjoyable, magnifico, bearded or not, you gave us an experience in your time. Thanks, Dani...........

[@chrismartin7594]

All good.

[@c00lsteve]

Dont believe I have only just seen this. Amazing photography as always, even if you didn't get the one you wanted. perhaps it was shy and didnt want its photo taken close up 🤣 - so waited for you to go inside :-)

[@stevebrown4294]

Hey, I can hear you!!!!👍👍

[@keefr22]

Another simply beautiful video Dani, thank you so much for sharing your stunning photos and films of your adventures! Shame about the loss of your photos from the hard drive.

[@ashstubbings2603]

Those little Snow Finches remind me a bit of the Dunnocks we get in the UK. I love the Choughs too! I remember seeing lots of those when I visited Switzerland many years ago. Those shots you took of the Golden Eagle are awesome by the way! I've got a bit of a soft spot for a Golden Eagle!

[@petermiadok1094]

Beautiful Video Dani, love it👏👏👏😊

[@emiliasees]

I loved the storytelling in your video! Life always presents us the situations, people (or in your case, a vulture) when we least expect it :)

[@athollmcnicoll1028]

You see how it works Dani you go out to photograph animals and birds in their natural environments , ascending to ever higher locations and before you even set foot outdoors the winged birds have put out a message "Its that female with the long tube, our brothers and sisters have been talking about across the alps. It is see that tube she carries, it captures out very essences as if we don't matter to later adorn calendar pages, whatever they are? We're just birds and animals."

[@robgerety]

Great video. I think when you get away from the hotel life, and spend at least one week sleeping in tents, away from towns and restaurant, carrying or gathering your food, you might find that you take your experience, and your photography, to another level.

[@BMW7series251]

Stunning alpine shots Dani. That Vulture was amazing! Incredible amount of Choughs there. Best regards, John.

[@vidviewer100]

wow those black squirrels are amazing, I didn't know such a thing existed. When you go looking for a certain rare species you can 100% guarantee it won't turn up on that day.....

[@GAPTEXPLORE]

*_You can enjoy the beauty of the natural panorama of the mountains in several ways, like what Dani did... I also enjoy your work Dani... thank you... I'm waiting for your next video..._*

[@marcellejosephine9119]

Stunning location!! 😍❤️ beautiful video and photo’s! Better luck next time for the bearded vulture . I’m so sorry you lost your last day of photo’s. Still beautiful content!😍❤️

[@nicolascarrat]

Like the way your vidéos are made and the atmoshpere you give to them. Always pleasure watching animals you succeed to capture

[@johnmedici6655]

I think you have the best job in the world, if you call what you do a job 😉 keep up the nice videos, see you in the next one!

[@novainvicta]

Lesson learnt I hope regarding the hard drive! We have all been there and now I take two tough drives and back-up twice. Once at home I backup to a NAS you can never have enough copies. Great videos and why your not picked up by BBC Bristol wild life section I will never know. Your delivery is so much more human than many of the offerings they have. Keep going your only going to get bigger & bigger.

[@fatherdamo2]

We have 200+ physical servers and endless VMs at work and I know how often hard drives/SSDs fail. So all my pictures go to two memory cards within my camera, and then they get backed up to one external drive via a ravpower usb/ssd hub (no computer required, one button backup). When back at base data is then copied to my Surface computer and in turn online to Microsoft onedrive. When the memory cards are full, I change one to read only and archive it in a box! (I have so many in that box and probably have never used them to recover but I know everything is there for if the worst happens). I add another card into the system and format them both in the camera . Cards are so cheap now, there is in my opinion no reason to reuse them time and time again, once is enough in my setup. I lost data some 20+ years ago on a Psion series 3.... never have again!

[@opheliase7473]

This was so beautiful. And as ever, so calming an experience . I’m still sorry about the loss of your pictures, but all hail the heroes with you for being there with excellent images to kindly share. The black squirrels are gorgeous, looking as though wearing formal tuxes, with the white breast. They must almost look like puffs of smoke among the trees. Best of all is that this was a wonderful lesson of the meaning of the most important missed opportunities, and not to lose sight of others within reach if a set goal isn’t possible.

[@markhawhonolulu]

Thanks for your videos!

[@Adventures_with_Sog]

Ay up. Your videos are always a joy and an inspiration, thank you. 🙂👍

[@kartherton]

Been following you for a long time now Dani. You are becoming more and more talented, as time goes on. Keep doing what you are doing. Well done. 👍 from me as usual.

[@krisrodrigues1]

Love the video and images. It’s always so refreshing to watch your work. Outstanding.

[@oobihdahboobeeboppah]

Dani, you said that you failed in missing the shots you wanted of the vulture. Consider the bigger picture of now having an opportunity to revisit the location and perhaps get even better coverage. Time will tell and you still brought hundreds of more people with you who will never get to experience what you shared. You may have missed a few shots, but you (and Jaun) opened the vistas for so many of us. Thank you.

[@just36]

Oh dear - if that happened to my hard drive my wife says I would be so angry! So sorry to hear - much empathy for your loss Dani - great video anyway - beautiful footage

[@KariAndresen]

it's so much better with the audio. 😉 What a beautiful place! So sorry to hear you lost some photos. But it looks like it was a lovely trip.

[@sharonromero128]

It all turned out well after all. Thank you so much Fabian & Juan. Such a special video. Very enjoyable. Thank you so much, Dani. Your videos are always super! Many blessings

[@lisefriesen8329]

What a beautiful video, stunning shots up in the mountains, loved the end parts about the nutcrackers despite losing your pictures, nice shots of you filming. Helps to be surrounded by fellow photographers!

[@lilianadumbrava2703]

Amazing !

[@zviper]

I like to think when i put my camera down, im making memories and experiencing it all for my soul to enjoy. My Favorite encounter was sitting 6 feet under a bald eagle that just couldn't takes it eyes off me. Send your harddrives to Louis Rossmann repair, guys bloody magic. He saved my mums entire photo library of slides.

[@loriguercio4374]

Wow, what a beautiful video, Dani ❤

[@jingbar]

Stunning video Dani

[@danielcargill8019]

Awesome video, watching from Massachusetts.

[@paradiseburns2600]

Absolutely beautiful video

[@jeffolson4731]

Great video as always and much more informative with the audio track. 😆 I whole heartedly agree about sometimes just setting the camera down and enjoy what you are seeing. I already follow Fabian. He does a real nice job as well.

[@simonbooker]

Great video Danni - super quality and narrative - you are getting better & better! So true that most people have no idea the lengths you need to go to to "get the shot" and like most of nature's endeavours how often you have to bounce back from failure. Funny though how often I get my best shots on the way back or unexpectedly - animals don't read scripts🤣

[@jv7070ful]

This is one of your best video's i have seen,but you still have to work on your sense of humor.🤣🤣🤣

[@J5388T]

A nice video. Sorry to hear about your data loss issue, I'd investigate getting a NAS (Network Attached Storage) box and running it as a RAID 1 array which means you have 2 discs each with identical data and should one fail you've still got the other one and you fit a new disc and use the remaining good disc to repopulate it. QNAP or Synergy are the market leaders. HTH.

[@Daytona2]

Dani said a few videos back that she was getting NAS. But it has to work when she's away from home too.

[@c.douglaslyon9949]

Dani. I liked this very much. Congratulations on the Bearded Vulture those were great shots. I understand how disappointing missing the shot while having coffee but at least you got to see what you missed. I like to think the flip side of that can be getting an amazing unexpected shot when least expected. Keep up the good work, I’m a big fan. Doug Lyon wildlife photographer.

[@andreaschudzinski-buchholz4221]

That was really fun, thank you very much for this wonderful new video of your trip to the Alps 🦅🐿❤️

[@MangeSoderling]

Quick turn around!

[@arieknops6616]

Great video Dani! I really enjoyed it. I also realise that its sometimes good to be outside without the camera. Just enjoy the silence and be happy :) Keep up the good work🙌🏼👌🏼

[@samarpiene]

Breathtaking moments - Thank you, Dani

[@wildlife351]

I'm sorry for your hardrive loss😔. For the missed eye level vulture shot too. Hope you better luck next time✌️

[@shahzebnasir4692]

It's been a while since I saw one of your videos since I've been so busy as of late but this reminded me all over again why I subscribed to you years ago! What a wonderful video! I hope you go see the Cinerous Vultures in the French Alps!

[@jennyfulcher8035]

Wow, this was a stunningly beautiful video! I love the photos and videos of the Choughs, Golden Eagle, and the Bearded Vulture, as well as the spectacular mountains surrounding your motel in Switzerland. I'm an artist who loves to illustrate birds in color pencil and would love to draw from your photos. Jenny

[@clint_oreilly]

Love this video. I love birds. Thanks, Dani.