Still gonna try to answer both questions because I like them, but can’t add a lot to the matter of artiscit process.
For me that’s a very hard question, it’s like if all is art or nothing is, I know which photos of others I can call artistic, but for mine it’s a task that I can’t complete with ease. I always try to make the best shot possible if I feel like theoretically it can look good, but how it ends up as a shot? Not really something I decide. In the end I feel like I’m observing in two parallels of not being artistic and being bound to the rule of thirds forever with no ideas or seeing how something would be a cool surreal painting, but not a photograph. Looking over someone else’s photos it’s clear that in wildlife photography art is very limited, it’s very hard to find a good scene and conditions that would create something out of boundaries, I’m far from that level.
About process and gear, hm, now I use nikkor 105 2.8f and 500 5.6f, I like 24-70 a lot, but have no camera for it now, though it doesn’t have anything really artistic in its image, no “cool vintage” bokeh or anything, but a good lens for iNatting. Idea of a short bioblitz is a good one and realistic (shooting NEF without edit is not a good idea, uploading all the blurry pics sounds bad for iNat servers), would like to read what others do of similar fashion!
I like your video because it really made me feel like this bobcat is gonna sacrifice myself to the gods tonight, lol, never looked at flowers with heavy music, definitely a new experience.