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@@irajart ah yes, I can see where you make the connection to Turner, I had not thought of that. It is a great location, I’ve visited the area many times over the last 15 years, but not explored it photographically that much, just the odd photo trip. I’m planning to do much more in the area this year.

@@TheLDunn1 Grate! And I'll be happy to see the results, of course the journey in itself is equally important, if not more... Have a beautiful day! Your New Sub.

@ many thanks! I aim to put out a new video once a week. Where are you from?

@@stuleeds6104 thanks Stu, I’ve messaged you via 617.

@@paulwbakerphotography well, I did need the 28th off to rest & recover!

@@TheLDunn1😂

@@TheLDunn1 I’ve not been out for a couple of weeks now, van is in the garage today to be checked as it is making some strange noise! Just what I need.

@ my van developed an issue on the way back from my last trip out, so I’m going to have to book it into a garage too. 😕

Van update: I had a thought and have tried something out on my van, I’ll test it properly tomorrow, but I ‘may’ have fixed it. Won’t know until I do a test drive tomorrow.

@@Sousadrone1 obrigado. não fiquei feliz com esse vídeo, não tirei muitas fotos e a luz não estava boa. às vezes você simplesmente tem condições ruins, espero que meu próximo vídeo seja melhor. No momento, também estou restrito à produção de vídeo porque tenho um PC muito antigo e fraco. Espero construir um novo PC em breve, e assim poderei fazer mais na produção de vídeo para melhorar a apresentação. você está no Brasil, eu acho? onde está? já visitei o Brasil, passei uma temporada no Rio e também nas Cataratas do Iguaçu, foi deslumbrante.

@@mad1961md many thanks, that is very kind, although personally, I was not so satisfied with the content in this video. Too much walking & talking, not enough taking good photos! However, this is showing the reality of doing this stuff. Sadly, we don’t get ideal light & beautiful subjects to take photos of every time just because we got up early & were out before dawn. The reality is that often the dawn light is not what we hope for, and you have to try and make do with the hand we are dealt on a given morning. I’m looking forward to hunting for the elephant tree again though, there are 3 different starting points, they all involve a significant walk to get to the woods where it’s meant to be. I will be trying one of the other starting points next time, and I’ve been given a clue to its location, but need to look closely at my OS map before I go again!

@lightinthemeadow thx! Yes, it was an ace start to Boxing Day. Just spent today editing the video from the trip on the 27th, where the light, and the photo opportunities were not as easy 😬, very thin pickings, don’t think I’ve ever walk so far for so long and not got my camera & tripod out! Pity we can’t have every day like dawn on Boxing Day.

@@robintaylor-hunt5875 cheers Robin! Boxing Day dawn was well worth it.

Many thanks! Still feel there is alot to learn on teh video front, & I'm currently restricted in what I'd like to do on the post production side, thanks to a PC who's origins are from 2008 - yikes!

@@TimAldworth thanks Tim. With a 50MP sensor, I feel relatively comfy taking liberties & cropping in.

Many thanks Stephen, you get what you get don't you? Got to try & make the most of it!

@@russhawker1718 yeah, lots of opportunities down that way. I mentioned to my in laws over Xmas about inviting myself down to them and going a number of photo walks in the area.

@@Sousadrone1 muito obrigado!

@@paulwbakerphotography I only had an hour or so there, due to parking, the light caught my eye as I was walking toward the light house & I was drawn to that and the old crane. I’ve shot there multiple times before over the years, my wife’s parents live there, so we go down a lot. Used to cycle along the coastal path at the top of the cliffs all the way to the light house, until the cliffs collapsed and they closed the foot path. There was one part where I didn’t feel comfy riding my bike, & always had to walk it.

@@paulwbakerphotography I’ve just driven back from a few days in Weymouth. Got out yesterday afternoon and at dawn this morning. Very misty/foggy down that way,min fact, we left Xmas morning and there was no mist in Southampton, but in the middle of the NF, it started to get misty around Stoney cross, and by the time we got to Burley it was more fog than mist. The light in Weymouth around midday on Xmas day was beautiful, misty, but with sun trying to burn through, so immediately after Xmas dinner with family I headed out (after doing the washing up duty). Within 10 mins of leaving I was setting up for my first shot, and the mist thickened and I lost the sun. I waited & waited, but no joy, the sun trying to burn through didn’t return on Xmas day. This morning at dawn, I did catch it though. Went to the southern tip of Portland Bill and there was sublime light there. Am considering going out to the NF for dawn tomorrow, I’ve not checked forecast yet, but just driven through and it was very misty. What about you? Any plans?

Update: I’ve just checked the Beeb, and there is no forecast for mist or fog tomorrow, but I d t think there was for Xmas day, or this evening, and yet, we have had mist & fog…..so, I am thinking it might be worth taking a punt.

@ I don’t really have any plans. I fancy going out but not sure where to go as I have given little thought. I live in Fareham.

If you give me the what three words I can try and be there for 7-30 to 8 if that suits you. I’m struggling with my legs so probably not good to walk too far!

@ ….i’m just contemplating what to do tomorrow….

@@CamillaI Merry Christmas Mark! I know fellow photographers in the north of UK have commented that they had a poor autumn, but in the south I feel that the autumn colours hung on for quite an extended period. Where I am currently, we have had mist, and there have been moments of beautiful light, I was out pre dawn this morning (Boxing Day) shooting coastal stuff, and the light was magical. Maybe in ‘25 we can find time to meet up & do a photo walk or something.

@@TheLDunn1 Yes we can certainly do something in 2025 👌

@ let’s make it happen!

@@stigfloberghagenphotography many thanks, really appreciate the watch and comment. I managed to get out on Christmas Day & Boxing Day, where I am visiting has been misty, hope to get the video out for Sunday.

@@Sousadrone1 oi, estou escrevendo para você! muito obrigado por assistir e comentar... e obrigado por traduzir no Google!!

@ estamos junto amigo

@@GrahamMarkham first time I went it was very foggy at the top, could not see a thing, but I figured there was a good view there. This second time I went, it was a glorious morning, but cold with a stiff breeze, and it confirmed that the views are great, especially if you have a long lens. I shot a couple of panos with a 600mm, the panos I showed at the end of this vid were considerable crops on much bigger panos. A long lens up there is great, you can scan the surrounding landscape and pick out features. The windmill has a metal railing around it now, which kind of ruins it for photos I felt.

Yes was! I had hoped to get up there again a couple of weeks later, but I wanted some sun to help illuminate the tunnel, & we have not had much of that. With the wind last weekend & this, I fear its too late now. Merry Christmas & happy New Year too Stephen, lets hope we all get out & do more photography in 2025!

Think I am enjoying the video side more now, but I'm having computer issues if I try to do anything too clever with the video post production. I've tried & had multiple PC crashes, so I removed practically everything so I could render it & post it. Maybe in the New Year I will sort out an up to date PC, then I can take the next step....my PC dates back to 2008.

@@TheLDunn1 ouch 2008... Yep a newer generation pc will give everything a proper shot in the arm. If you need some pc parts to build a new one, I have some available. Intel i5 11th gen, 16gb DDR4, Radeon 6600 8gb and a WD Black NVME.

@@russhawker1718 My PC is the proverbial 'Triggers broom', its had so many upgrades over the years to 'keep it going', but its the end of the road now, there is not much more I can do to it that would be worthwhile.

The Chichester pano shot is actually quite a small crop of a much bigger pano that extends to the right & covers Portsmouth too. When I was looking through the camera initially I thought I could see Fawley. I wonder how many times Portsmouth has been mistaken as Fawley before 😂...I did feel stupid when I used a longer lens & could see it was Portsmouth! Still, great view from up the top there all along the mid south coast

@@TheLDunn1 haha pretty good chance of that. It's nice shot.

Hi Sarah, thank you so much for leaving a comment. What Paul did was really kind, I had no idea he was doing it until I watched his video! I still have all my old Canon gear, going right back to my first an Eos 620 which I got at launch around 1987 I believe. The Eos system launched in 1987 with the Eos 650 & Eos 620, but the 620 became available about 2 months after the 650 from memory. My father bought a 650 around the same time. I used the 620 for quite a few years, but then got the Eos 5, which again I used for quite a few years. Around 2001 I went on a 'round the world in 87 days' back packing photo tour, & bought a cheap Eos 300 because it was much smaller & lighter than the Eos 5, & I needed to offset the weight of a 17-35/2.8 & 70-200/2.8 that I was taking. In 2006 I migrated to digital with the Eos 20D, but I had become so dialled in with my lenses on 35mm film, I struggled at the wide end with the 20D, there just wasn't many options to get very wide back then, Canon offered a 10-22mm but it only covered the EF-S crop sensor, & back then, I felt that the crop sensor was just a temporary step before full frame came in, so I didn't want to put any money into EF-S lenses. So, when Canon launched the Eos 5D2, I jumped to that at launch, what a fanatastic camera that was for the time! Around 2011, I started getting into astro photography, & when out doing that, I would sometimes get the 5D2 out with a wide angle & shoot nightscapes from low down on the ground, that soon had me wishing for an articulated LCD. The 5D3, then the 6D, then the 5D4 came out all with no articulated LCD. The 6Dii did, but there were also negative comments in the reviews about other aspects of its performance which put me off, so I stayed on the 5D2 for close to a decade. Then over the Aug bank holiday in 2016, I had a Sony A7R2 on demo for a long weekend. It was my first expoerience of mirrorless & crucially, it had a tilting LCD (only in landscape sadly). I had a bit of a roller coaster long weekned shooting with that camera. The aspects I thought would be an issue were not, & aspects I'd not considered as issues were. Ultimately, I handed the camera back & said it wasn't quite there for me yet, but it was close, & there were many aspects that I found great. At the end of 2017, Sony launched the A7R3, I went to a photo show the local camera shop used to run just before Christmas & I was able to try out the A7R3, & they had addresses most if not all the aspects I had identified as an issue for me on the A7R2. Further, they let me try out my Canon 70-200/2.8 on the Sony with the Sigma adapter. & I was amazed that it focused as well as it did. Subjectively, it felt as fast as the 5D2 (maybe I should not have been too surprised, it was nearly a 10 year old camera by then), but it was way more flexible because it could focus anywhere on screen, where I had got very used to using just the central AF box on the 5D2 & focus/recomposing, because the central AF box was much better than the few others dotted around the central box. So I bought the A7R3 at the show with an adapter & predominantly used the Sony with my Canon lenses. Since 2017, I've slowly added a few Sony lenses, when they have been on a double sale & the price has been too good to let slip by. So I now have Sony 20, 24/1.4, 85/1.4 mk1 & 200-600. The 200-600 is the only one I'm reguarly using though, because I have a Fujifilm GFX 50R that I picked up used & quite cheaply, & I adapt lenses to that. I love using the GFX 50R, but its AF is not great. So I tend to use the Sony for wildlife, Sports, action where good AF & IBIS is beneficial, & I use the GFX 50R for static type subjects, predominantly where I'm on a tripod, so things like Landscapes. The two systems partner each other really well. Before I bought my first Canon, I was on the old Olympus OM film system, & that is where my love of photography developed (no pun intended). I did a photography O-level at college during this period & got seriously into shooting, deveoping & printing, having pretty much open access top the college dark room. It was a great time. but my Olympus gear was stolen from my parents house in 1987, which is what lead to the switch to Eos. Around 2008 I realised that people were ditiching their film SLR's to go digital, & I took a look at the price of OM-4 on ebay & was surprised how cheap they were, so I got one, &, cut long story short, it started an Olympus collection, I just love the cameras as objects, but the convenience of digital is too much of a draw for me (I currently have a roll of film in a Canon 7 rangefinder body that I put in in 2020, & still have not finished yet, & when I bought the film, I bought the developer & fix for it too). The Olympus prime lenses I collected, I adapted those to the Eos, then Sony, & now to GFX. I have quite a few old manual lenses, of all different makes, that I enjoy adapting & using on digital bodies. What has been you photographic journey? Do you live in/around the new Forest area?

@@TheLDunn1 Hi Laurence. That is some journey :) . So I am just a hobbyist really. Back in the late 80's I had a Praktica manual camera with just a 50mm lens. This is what I learnt the basics of photography on. I kept using that along with a little Canon point and shoot 35mm camera until around 2002. Then I really wanted to upgrade to an easier SLR camera, and as I liked my little Canon camera, I bought the EOS 30 which I loved! I also bought a number of EF lenses including the kit lens. I used this camera to mostly shoot photos of West Wales where I lived and my daughter when she was growing up. I used this camera until I literally broke it's back (door hinge) in 2012. I was gutted to be honest as then I really had no option but to go digital and knew I could only afford to go the APSC route. I did keep my full frame EF lenses though. So I got a second hand 400D which was ok but I never shot in RAW so never really got the best out of it. To be honest, I didn't shoot with it as much as I used when I shot film. Then fast forward to 2017 and I was in a position to trade the 400D in for a second hand 5D MK II which was amazing! To have full frame again was just so good. I sold most of my older EF lenses and got the 24-105 STM lens which I really liked. Then in January this year, I traded that body in for a 5D MK IV - again second hand from MPB. Got a great deal on it - £1300 mint with less than 9000 on the shutter. With it's box and all original stuff in. They even gave me a decent price for the old mark II as I had really looked after it. So then I treated myself to the 24-105 F4 MK II L lens plus I got the 16-35 F4 L and the 70-200 F4 L as well. All second hand mind you. I love the 5D4 even though it has a fixed back screen. For what I mostly shoot, it's fine and I love the camera so much, I forgive it that. I also bought a little 250D as a little carry around camera and that is a lot of fun. Got a few EF-S lenses for it too. A few months ago, I really wanted to shoot some film again so from eBay, I got an EOS 3 body which is bloody amazing and a little 500N body as a lighter option for film. The EOS 3 reminds me a lot of the 5D series of DLSRs I live in Swindon but travel down to that area quite a lot - Hengistbury, Swanage and the like. Love that bit of coastline. I have yet to venture into the New Forest though, but I intend to do that next year all being well.

@@sarahneedham oh wow, we are not so different then! I'm just a hobbyist too & we both had a 5Dii. When I bought my 5Dii, there was a deal with its kit lens at the time, which was the 24-105/4, it made sense to buy the body with the kit lens, I could have sold the lens at the time sparately for more. I didn't have any plans to get the 24-105 so didn't plan on keeping it. but I started using it, &....ended up keeping it, its quite a useful lens if you just want to go out with one lens. I remember the Eos 3 - they were fantastic, I think I lusted after one at one point, but never got it, probably too expensive for me at the time. You have a nice line up of lenses there, the 16-35, 24-105 & 70-200. Up until recently, I favoured the 2.8 versions, but maybe as I get older &/or the cameras hi iso performance gets better, I'm starting to see the benefits of f4 lenses for the size & weight saving, plus, 70% of what I shoot is landscapes where I'm at f8-f13 ish anyway. I still like fast glass though, because it does give you some advantages still, just not as much as they used to. You should definitely plan to visit the New Forest next autumn for sure. I've not been out shooting since we had the storm a couple of weekends ago, & we have lots of wind today, so I doubt there is much left on the trees now, so opportunities may be less. I am anticipating shooting more coastal stuff during the winter. I have a base I can use near Weymouth/Portland, so I suspect I'll be shooting that region soon.

@@TheLDunn1 yeah the 24-105 length is super useful and by far, that's the lens I use the most. The EOS 3 was very expensive in its day and still fetches a bit now second hand. My copy is amazing as again, it came with the original box and instructions. Of course I have no idea how many shots it's taken but it is mint and looks like it wasn't used that much. I just hope the electronics in it keep going for many years to come. Of course it can share the EF lenses with my 5D4. Let's hope for some dryer and nicer weather here in the UK for 2025

@ yeah, we’ve had a lot of bland overcast flat light days this autumn, at least, it feels that way to me. We have only had a couple of misty days too.

@@paulwbakerphotography ….Russ & I didn’t make it out unfortunately, both for different reasons. I don’t know if you saw, but I did post suggesting you join us. The lake is across the road from the car park.

@ I went across and came across a pond 😂 I probably didn’t walk far enough

@@paulwbakerphotography did you go back there today then Paul?

@ I went yesterday. Too busy today

@@paulwbakerphotography ah good, so you did manage to find the lake then.

@@ClearVista 🤣….house was safe, I have a ferocious cockapoo, the burglars would not have stood a chance, they would have been licked to death! Many thanks for watching and leaving a comment! Glad you found some value in it. I’ve watched others doing this for years, but it’s only when I started to emulate them, that I appreciated the effort that’s involved. It is quite a commitment to do the trips, film them, edit the stills, then edit the video footage. I have a new found respect for what the guys I’ve been watching have been doing for years. Have people watch, comment, like & subscribe etc, really does help with motivation to continue. So truely, thank you. I’m new to this though, and trying to learn, so I’m open to feedback, what works what doesn’t work so well etc, what people would like to see more of. I’m trying new things with each video and learn, some of it you won’t see, it’s behind the scenes stuff, like getting more efficient on the editing / post production, but it all helps. I’m primarily doing this for fun and entertainment, since taking a very early retirement this year, I have time on my hands, and I enjoy trying something new.

@@TheLDunn1 You definitely need something to do in retirement. It's why my grandparents lived so long. Worst thing you can do it just relax. Early morning can be difficult, although winter makes them easier with the later sunrise. I took a few sunrise photos the other day of a valley in Surrey and the sunrise was 8am. Didn't even need to set an alarm.

@@ClearVista absolutely! I took very early retirement at end June this year, and I didn’t do much for the first month or two, I felt mentally knackered. It was a hard decision to stop working, I spent a year constantly trying to decide to go or stay. it was stressful trying to work out the optimum option to take, of many options on the pension side, all while trying to tie up lose ends at work, complete tasks, and hand over & train up the replacement for me who had been lined up. So when I did finally go, I just needed time doing relatively little to recover. Even now, 6 months later, there is part of me that questions if I should have gone when I did. I miss doing what I did, but, there were a number of aspects that had crept in over recent years which I’m glad to be rid of. But, it wasn’t long before I felt restless and wanted to get stuck into something, and here I now am, attempting to go out and do lots of photography and put out new videos each week. I’m enjoying it, I’m learning a fair bit on the video post processing side which I’m enjoying and getting frustrated with in equal measure! I’ve been waking up very early, 4 or 5 am quite often, so getting up for dawn’s not been much of an issue. I used to get up relatively early for work anyway, and every few months, had to get up at 4am to travel 125miles to visit a specific site. Think I’ve just got used to it. If you look at one of my early videos, the Alver valley one, that was summer, when I was working, and I went out and did dawn photography and got back in time to go to work. I typically only get about 5 hours sleep a night though, sometimes less, if I’m lucky sometimes a bit more.

@@StephenBrooks-e9m so what wildlife do you typically shoot? I go to Dorset a fair bit, Weymouth / Portland area, my wife’s parents live there. I will probably come down to Devon next year some time, for photography.

@ I’m very keen on song birds. But Exmoor ponies are a great subject especially with the foals. I often give mounted prints to The moorland Mousie trust to help raise funds for the care of the Exmoor pony.

@ we have large numbers of ponies in the New Forest too, one or two have made it into my landscape shots. Check out my 20241115 video, even if you just skip to the photos at the end, there is one in there that you might like

@ I watched that one, the pony in the twisted trees a particularly liked

@ that’s the shot I was talking about. I was driving home after the mornings photo shoot, I’ve seen the dead twisted bushes on the way home from a prior photo trip out and thought there was a shot there, and as I was driving home, I looked at this area and there were a few horses in the dead bushes, so I quickly pulled over, reversed up and just left my vehicle on the grass verge at the side of the road. Grabbed my camera and ran back further, and worked my way through the dead bushes to reach the ponies in it, and then moved around to try and frame the scene. It was a very opportunistic shot.

@@StephenBrooks-e9m ….i’m 70% Landscape, but, wildlife interests me too. My Bolderwood video was my second visit to that place. The first one I got a nice Stage, but the second visit was thin pickings, just got a doe in the mist. My 20241111 video has some bird images in it I think. I would like to try shooting more wildlife for sure. Where are you based? Where do you go to shoot your wildlife images?

@ I’m just getting into fungi photography

@@StephenBrooks-e9m now that is something I’ve only tried once before & that was only because there was a great opportunity while I was out doing Landscape photography a few years back.

@ I got a small torch so I can add some lighting, it’s quite a nice thing to photograph, unlike wildlife it doesn’t run away.

@@StephenBrooks-e9m 😃….yeah, that helps, the not running away bit. Shooting fungi is akin to shooting Landscapes, but just on a smaller scale.

@@StephenBrooks-e9m hi Stephen, many thanks for leaving a comment. Hopefully you got some value in watching my video. Please, if you do have any feedback about the video, share it in the comments. I’m still very much learning, so I’m very receptive to hearing what folk like, and what they don’t like so much.

@@russhawker1718 far from clueless! He knows all the special places to go!!

Yeah, it was a great morning Russ…..and yes, we have not seem much mist or sunrise this autumn.

@@paulwbakerphotography it’s a really good location, BUT, after last weeks storm, I suspect many trees will have lost their colour now. Maybe keep these locations in mind for next autumn.

@ I have introduced you to a few groups so you may notice your subs going up 👍

@ that is very kind, thank you!! I’m planning / hoping to do 1 video a week at the moment, I have another one shot, but need to edit the stills & video from it.

Paul, this is a great location after a hard frost. The pond freezes over very easily and there are some great ice patterns for the foreground, with the trees behind. Its great all year round if you get a good sunrise.

@ I’m looking for. Good location for this coming Friday. Could you recommend a spot. Thanks

@@oldcameragoodcamera hi, thank you for watching and commenting, not to mention the kind words! Like you, I am just starting out on TH-cam too, and experimenting and learning as I go. I am aware that I have a way to go on the editing / post processing side, and I have some thoughts and Ideas to help me develop on that side. I’m aiming to try and put out a video once a week, and each week I’m using it as an opportunity to try something new in the post processing and learn, but sometimes, I just have to draw a line under the post processing and move onto the next one, but I can feel the progression, even if I’m not at where I want to get to yet. However, what I like to call the ‘story telling’ part, the what I talk about on the videos when I’m out and what I video, that I’m really struggling with. I don’t have such a clear idea of what I should do or where I want to get to yet. I’m finding this aspect harder. You can watch TH-cam videos about how to do something in video editing packages like DaVinci Resolve, but, I’m not so sure that there are videos about how to learn ‘story telling’…maybe there are, it’s never crossed my mind until now to search for them. So you commenting positively about the detail I’m going into on the videos being inspiring is really appreciated! Thank you. It really helps motivate me to continue. I’ve been adapting lenses since around 2008, initially to canon eos, then to Sony Alpha, and now to Fujifilm GFX. Since 2008, I’ve collected many old & interesting classic & vintage lenses, I really enjoy using them on digital cameras. The Pentax 67 105mm f2.4 with the Kipon Baveyes 0.7x adapter has been a strong favourite since I first got it though, I find it hard to leave it behind when I go out shooting and take something else instead. I even have the GF110 which is a fantastic lens, but I’ve hardly used mine because of the Pentax! I do need to start using something other than the Pentax, just for a change if nothing else! Out of interest, how did you come across my channel if you don’t mind me asking? Where are you located?

Hi Jim, thank you for your kind words & for subscribing, much appreciated, really helps with the encouragement to put out more videos! So, are you in the New Forest area? I'm curious, how did you find my channel?

@@TheLDunn1 Hi Lawerence, Discovered it while trawling through TH-cam. I'm actually from Northern Ireland but living in Asia (Thailand) at present. Doing some travel photography.

@@jimhamilton8775 Thanks for responding Jim, think most of my subscribers have a separate connection to me. I visited Thailand around 2001/2 I spent Christmas day on a bus whcih took us from Bangkok to the border with Cambodia, & then onto Siem Reap. Xmas dinner was a questionable chicken curry in a dubious 'eatery' at the side of a dry dusty dirt track. I wouldn't have missed it for the world though ;-) How long have you been in Thailand/intend to stay in Asia?

@@TheLDunn1 Hi Lawwerence.I know from experience that some Thai food can be dubious. I travelled to meet my girlfriend and also an ex neighbour and his wife in Bangkok. I ate a bit of a Thai green curry and spent 3 days unable to leave the toilet. I am at present in Hua Sai about 40 miles from the main city Nakhon Si Thammarat. This is a rural area in the south of Thailand everything is cheaper but transportt appears to be a problem. I go to the city next week to extend my stay for 30 days. This is not a visa. You get 60 days on arrival plus 30 days extra on application. Then you leave the country and return for the same again. I have already been to Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia. So when this extension expires I will go to visit my brother in Bali for a couple of months. I intend to do a lot of travelling as i'm not confident for the future in the UK or Ireland.

@ you are bringing back many fond memories! We were only in Thailand a couple of weeks, as part of an 87 day, around the world trip. We just had a special airline ticket where we could make as many flights as we wanted, but, you had to keep going in one direction around the globe. So we flew from UK to Bolivia, made our way over land to Peru, flew from Lima to Mexico, went overland through Belize into Guetemala, then back into Mexico. Think we flew from North Mexico to LA, then from LA to NZ, then NZ to Singapore, then on to Vietnam, then to Thailand, overland from Thailand to Cambodia & back into Thailand. Then from Thailand to Nepal, overland from Nepal into India, and finally India back to UK. We spent around 2 weeks in each area/country we flew too. It was a fantastic experience. When we were in Thailand, I think we did a loop & visited Koh Chang, but, I’m struggling to remember now, white sands, turquoise waters anyway, paradise basically. I don’t know what you are interested in doing / seeing while you are away, but it was a big photo trip for me and we targeted the main tourist attractions. This resulted in visiting the sites of ancient civilisations a fair bit, which is ironic, because I never really enjoyed History at school that much! In my top 3 places / things we did/saw, Angkor Wat, near Siem Reap, Cambodia, where there are multiple temples of the Khmer civilisation, was in the top 3. If you have not been, I would really recommend going, you need at least two days there, possibly three. As this would be out of Thailand, you could use it to reset your visa too, and it’s only a days overland travel. I’m curious, why are you not confident about the future in the UK? What aspects are you concerned at? (I share your general sentiment though).

@@russhawker1718 thanks Russ! It really helps with the motivation having people comment. Still lots of things to learn with this video lark 😀

@@TheLDunn1 I can barely cope with taking a photo, so i doff my cap to you for doing a vlog as well. We must get out again at some point. Weather looks truly pants for a while though.

@@russhawker1718 yeah, I've not been out since our last trip. Partly due to weather, partly due to getting 'too' involved on the video editing & learning new stuff.....its a bit like astro in a way! How are you feeling now? recovered?

@@TheLDunn1 getting there. Really nasty bug. If we get some promising mornings next I'll be up for a meet up. Wednesday onwards.

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By the way you need to get out again I have now watched all your videos 😂

@@paulwbakerphotography 🤣….I’m just wrapping up editing the next one, and I have another one to start editing, but, I do want to get out and shoot again this week, I’ve been glued to the PC for days playing catch up!

@@paulwbakerphotography ….this video was not far from A31/Burley, but just North of the A31. How long ago did you have your accident? I assume your cameras survived okay? I’ve busted my ankle up pretty bad in the past, I’ve done the same ankle twice, but the last time, in 2005, I did a proper job on it, was close to it being amputated so I was told after I was out of A&E & emergency surgery. Ankle was broken and foot dislocated and pointing backwards…oh, & I was over a mile out in the Solent off Hill Head when I did it too, and self rescued. I can see in my videos that I walk a bit strange with my right foot. Are you recovered all ok now? I saw in your pier video I watched today that you seemed to move at one point and winced, and shortly I saw you had a walking stick, was this due to that injury?

@@TheLDunn1 I’m ex army, my knees are bad as well as my ankle. I have had a knee replacement which has not really help so you could say I a bit knackered.

if you do go out there, plan to go around April time, because from what I've read, that is when the lake is at it's pinkest. I just wish I had a tripod & a polariser out with me, but alas, I had to travel super light....quite a miracle that I managed to get a stills camera & one lens in, plus a Pocket 3!

@@paulwbakerphotography ah nice, love the Lakes, I hoped to go this year, but it didn’t happen. It’s quite a trek for us. I wild camped a couple of years ago, but my back pack weight was too much, with the camera gear on top of the camping gear….i need to rethink it for next time! Hope you get some great conditions up there. One of the guest presenters in 617 has been Nick Carver, and his presentation was about shooting local. It resonated with me. I have the New Forest on my door step, and up until this year, not really explored it photographically. There are lots of opportunities there. During this winter I’m anticipating shooting more coastal stuff too though. Im currently editing a video for another location in the New Forest that I shot at recently which was a very good location too. When the leaves started to turn, I prioritised getting out shooting, so it’s given me something of a stills & video backlog. Now the weathers not so great, I’ve been playing catch up a bit on the editing side, but I want to get out shooting again soon.

@@paulwbakerphotography part of the reason for me doing these videos is to keep track of the different locations I’ve visited in the New Forest, so I can refer back to them if I need to…..and, to provide something of a guide for others, so they can see the car park name I’ve started in, and then just explore themselves from there, it gives a small taste of what to expect.

Thanks Paul! I've now been there a couple of times, hope to get over there again soon. Just want to see how it changes. It is a nice location, & may give great images every time, however, it is a bit of a 'one trick pony', its hard to get anything original there, but still nice to go & see it in person.

many thanks Paul, much appreciated! I took a very early retirment in the summer this year, so I now have the time to put into getting out & shooting & plan to put out videos often. I'm primarily doing this for fun, but looking to grow the number of subscribers. Never know where it might lead to in 5+ years time.

@ good luck mate. Have fun.

@@paulwbakerphotography Paul, are you a 617 member? I've just subscribed to your channel, looks like you are alot further down this path than I am 😀

@ I have no idea what 617 is. Thank you

@@paulwbakerphotography ah, its a new photography club set up by Thomas Heaton & Simon Baxter. I'm curious, may I ask how you found my channel? For info, I'm based in Southampton, I'm guessing you are based in the area too, judging from where your videos are predominantly on.

@@GaryNormanPhoto oh ace! This video was just me on my own, but if you look at some of my other videos in the New Forest, they have been 617 meets that we have posted in the 617 event forum. There are 5 of us who have managed to meet up so far, Russ, Larry, Barnaby, Robin & myself, and I know of at least 2 others in 617 who live in the area but have not been able to meet up yet. You will have to join us for a meet, where are you based? Where is your daughter studying? My youngest son is at Peter Symonds in Winchester.

@@TheLDunn1 yes, a meetup sounds good. I am based in Bedfordshire, but happy to come and join you then go and see my daughter later in the day. She is at Winchester University.

@ what is she studying? My eldest is at Cardiff Uni. Keep a look out in the Events page for meet ups, we have been posting meets in the New Forest there, however, they have been relatively short notice, only a day or two, because of weather forecasting.

@@TheLDunn1 I'll keep an eye out mate... She's studying Primary Ed

@@GaryNormanPhoto ah, my wife is a special needs teacher, & I have an old friend who is a lecturer at Chichester who teaches how to teach.

Many thanks - I'm just in the process of editing stills & video for a later, second trip I did to this same location, where I got a little sun.

@lightinthemeadow …..ah, you spotted the Labyrinth reference 😂, that stuck in my head since I first watched, many years ago, I use it quite often! It has been great getting out with other members of the 617, hope to continue and to many more.

@ 😆 Same here. My wife and I say exactly the same, every time we come across some boggy ground!

@lightinthemeadow 🤣. In the video I uploaded last night, there were some very boggy areas, at times, I was having to be careful about water getting into my wellies, it was that bad. I’m rapidly coming to the conclusion that one of my most valuable photographic accessories are my wellies! They are just permitting me exploring areas where I would not even go in my walking boots, they do give you surprising freedom to not having to worry too much about where you are going. My wife bought me my wellies a few years ago, so I didn’t have an excuse not to go with her on dog walks in the autumn/winter when it gets really muddy, but I’ve found them so useful for photography out in the New Forest, the pair I have (Grubs, think they are the Frostline model I have) are surprisingly comfy & warm for me, which was pretty unexpected….first wellies I’ve had since I was a kid I think, and my prior experience was that they were relatively cold and uncomfortable things.

@@TheLDunn1 For years I persisted with walking boots and gaiters as being the “proper” footwear. It was having kids that changed things - there was no longer any time to faff with footwear - just needed something that was quick on and off, and fairly maintenance free. Now I am complete convert to wellies and it has to be something pretty extreme to get me in to walking boots. Wellies are especially good on beaches, in streams, bogs, etc. I have upgraded to a pair with proper vibram soles after some sketchy moments on rocks by the sea. I agree, wellies are probably the most essential items after the camera and lens. 😀

@ yes, that is the other benefit, the low maintenance of wellies! Just wish mine were a tad easier to take off when covered in mud!

@@russhawker1718 thx Russ, yes, I’ve been slow getting them out. I think I have 2 or 3 more to do.

@@richardbaileyphoto thanks Richard! I have footage of several other trips to edit, but, I’ve been prioritising going out shooting over staying in doors and editing….the autumn leaves won’t last long now.

@@jeffreywatson396 hi Jeffrey, thank you for watching & commenting. I still feel I have a lot to learn on the video side, I do sometimes forget the video when Im looking for still shots. It does help my motivation when people watch & comment that they enjoyed the video, although, I’m not sure if they are just being polite 😀 Are you a member of 617? Have you heard about it and wondered? Or is it totally new to you? If you have any questions about it I’d be happy to try and answer your questions. Last night, we had a Live video meet with Joe Cornish, who is recovering from a bad accident in a Scotland. Think it has made us all very aware of the risks we are in when we are shooting alone off the beaten track. On the prior two Mondays, Tom Heaton has done a 1.5 hour presentation from a recent shoot he did in Scotland, and the Monday before that Simon Baxter did a 1.5 hour presentation on his shooting. They have also had other guest presenters like Mike Mez & Nick Carver. All the online presentations have been excellent, I’m really getting a lot out of the club. We have also had multiple photo walk meet ups in the New Forest (near me) with other 617 members, which has also been very good too, very motivating to get out and shoot when there is a group of you.

@TheLDunn1 I am a 617 member, we had a little chat about a month back 🙂. I would love to give TH-cam videos a go but not sure where to start. Essex is very flat lol so need to pull my finger out. I did actually really enjoy your video, will look forward to watching more.

@@jeffreywatson396 oh sorry, I didn’t make the connection / remember! 😀…..I’ve been chatting with so many 617 members since joining! I probably mentioned to you then that I originate from Essex, so I know parts of Essex pretty well…..did we talk about Hadleigh castle & Mersea Island. It is the slight issue we have in Hampshire too, the New Forest could do with more elevation changes really.

@TheLDunn1 Yes, I remember now. You're actually from near where I live. We did mention those places, I actually wouldn't mind heading back over to Mersea island one day.

@@russhawker1718 ah fantastic! Great to know what that other building was!