How moving to see legends like you talking about what matters the most even if it is against the majority assumption that anyone with a camera can become a photographer. Without judgement, without haste, how genuinely you reveal the soul of this art-form. :-) Truth spoken so gently - a learning. So glad you are on TH-cam; may your art reach more seekers than ever before. Love from Bengaluru, India.
What a lovely message that resonates perfectly with what we hope to share with people - like youself - enhancing their view of Nature and embedding a desire to protect it rather than simply thinking of it as a resource for us to use any way we want
@@angelaandjonathanscott8862: Thrilled to see your response; thank you so much for making time to reach out. :-) True, it isn't at all about making images to have more followers on Instagram or other social media. It is about using photography as a tool to revere all-life and respect their existence and not reduce them to just "subjects" of our art. May more people learn such vital, urgent lessons from your videos. We wish you the best. :-) P. S. My husband (a naturalist, wildlife photographer who has been visiting the Mara for 8 years now) and I have your books in our library - Mara-Serengeti: A Photographer's Paradise, Big Cat Diary: Lion, and Big Cat Diary: Leopard. He says he has learned a lot from your work. So when we saw you on TH-cam, it was such a joy! :-) Love love love! :-)
@@SourabhaRao Thank you and we are just working on our latest book called Sacred Nature Vol 2 Reconnecting People to Our Planet - it will be published in early April 2021 along with a reprint of Sacred Nature: Life's Eternal Dance (HPH, 2016) that is now out of print. We are also starting a website called the Sacred Nature Initiative to further that message
@@angelaandjonathanscott8862 This is great news! :-) Looking forward to buying them. We'll also try our best to spread the word here. :-) Looking forward to the website as well. Best wishes to you both and your team, as always, for all the great work you've been doing. Love and strength to you from Bengaluru, India!
Great video on the thinking that is so necessary before clicking the shutter. I'm wondering if you are planning to do any videos on the subject of shooting video. Keep up the great work.
Thank you for another great video! Got me thinking about what I try to capture in my pictures. Mainly I love to watch an animal or group animals for a long time and soak up the feeling it gives me. And that's what I want to capture. The feeling I get looking at those magnificent animals. Wether it is a lion, a dungbeatle or a beautiful bird, they al are beings that have experienced a lot to get where they are at the moment I watch them. And when I look at my pictures at home, I get the same feeling as I had the moment I took them, and when other look at the pictures, I hope they feel the same overwhelming respect for the animals as I do. (Hope it's a bit clear what I mean, english isn't my first language.) Looking forward to your next videos!
I really want to learn to take better photos, in my case, before I go on Safari. I love my Canon , it's just a simple EOS but it really takes brilliant photos. Now however, it's much harder to take photos wearing glasses. I am certainly not a professional by any stretch of the imagination, but when I do take pictures, I want to say something about the animal(s) or people I capture. I love the idea of focusing on one thing every day as a way to learn to capture the image you want.
Thank you so much for writing - and yes using glasses is tricky - but the good news is that Autofocus is getting better and better - and face recognition and all that kind of technology - so there is hope for us that when we press the button the camera will do the focusinig as we would hope - that is the theory at least!!! We used to get a special diopter made to slip over the cameras eyepiece - once we had gone to the full range of +3 or -3 on the diopter on the camera - the little dial nest to the viewfinder. So it may be you can Google and find an optical specialist who can manufacture something specific for you. Angie wears a Contact lens for photography - I think just in one eye for that purpose - maybe take a look at that option too
As always, Jonathan always speaks directly to the heart, am always inspired and guided by your words. Asanti sana!
Thank you so much Simiyu - there will be plenty to more
How moving to see legends like you talking about what matters the most even if it is against the majority assumption that anyone with a camera can become a photographer. Without judgement, without haste, how genuinely you reveal the soul of this art-form. :-) Truth spoken so gently - a learning.
So glad you are on TH-cam; may your art reach more seekers than ever before.
Love from Bengaluru, India.
What a lovely message that resonates perfectly with what we hope to share with people - like youself - enhancing their view of Nature and embedding a desire to protect it rather than simply thinking of it as a resource for us to use any way we want
@@angelaandjonathanscott8862: Thrilled to see your response; thank you so much for making time to reach out. :-)
True, it isn't at all about making images to have more followers on Instagram or other social media. It is about using photography as a tool to revere all-life and respect their existence and not reduce them to just "subjects" of our art. May more people learn such vital, urgent lessons from your videos. We wish you the best. :-)
P. S. My husband (a naturalist, wildlife photographer who has been visiting the Mara for 8 years now) and I have your books in our library - Mara-Serengeti: A Photographer's Paradise, Big Cat Diary: Lion, and Big Cat Diary: Leopard. He says he has learned a lot from your work. So when we saw you on TH-cam, it was such a joy! :-) Love love love! :-)
@@SourabhaRao Photography is a wonderful way of expressing oneself and sharing your vision - can give such pleasure
@@SourabhaRao Thank you and we are just working on our latest book called Sacred Nature Vol 2 Reconnecting People to Our Planet - it will be published in early April 2021 along with a reprint of Sacred Nature: Life's Eternal Dance (HPH, 2016) that is now out of print. We are also starting a website called the Sacred Nature Initiative to further that message
@@angelaandjonathanscott8862 This is great news! :-) Looking forward to buying them. We'll also try our best to spread the word here. :-) Looking forward to the website as well. Best wishes to you both and your team, as always, for all the great work you've been doing. Love and strength to you from Bengaluru, India!
Great video on the thinking that is so necessary before clicking the shutter. I'm wondering if you are planning to do any videos on the subject of shooting video. Keep up the great work.
Thank you Terry - and we certainly will do something on video
Thank you for the video, inspirational and makes me think more about my own photgraphy,
So glad to hear that - focusing the mind on what you want to say is as important as focusing the lens
Thank you for the great video!
Thank you for letting us know - and we will be doing plenty more too
Thank you for another great video! Got me thinking about what I try to capture in my pictures. Mainly I love to watch an animal or group animals for a long time and soak up the feeling it gives me. And that's what I want to capture. The feeling I get looking at those magnificent animals. Wether it is a lion, a dungbeatle or a beautiful bird, they al are beings that have experienced a lot to get where they are at the moment I watch them. And when I look at my pictures at home, I get the same feeling as I had the moment I took them, and when other look at the pictures, I hope they feel the same overwhelming respect for the animals as I do. (Hope it's a bit clear what I mean, english isn't my first language.)
Looking forward to your next videos!
Thank you so much
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And thank you for your support of our work
I really want to learn to take better photos, in my case, before I go on Safari. I love my Canon , it's just a simple EOS but it really takes brilliant photos. Now however, it's much harder to take photos wearing glasses. I am certainly not a professional by any stretch of the imagination, but when I do take pictures, I want to say something about the animal(s) or people I capture. I love the idea of focusing on one thing every day as a way to learn to capture the image you want.
Thank you so much for writing - and yes using glasses is tricky - but the good news is that Autofocus is getting better and better - and face recognition and all that kind of technology - so there is hope for us that when we press the button the camera will do the focusinig as we would hope - that is the theory at least!!! We used to get a special diopter made to slip over the cameras eyepiece - once we had gone to the full range of +3 or -3 on the diopter on the camera - the little dial nest to the viewfinder. So it may be you can Google and find an optical specialist who can manufacture something specific for you. Angie wears a Contact lens for photography - I think just in one eye for that purpose - maybe take a look at that option too
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