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Thank you sir. I haven't been up that way for over a year now. Well overdue. Might try and find some snow in the winter. A pint would be very welcome 🍺

😊 Thanks for the feedback. I'm glad you like the BTS pieces to camera. I want to relate what it's actually like on a photo trip - not only the atmosphere of the place, but also the process behind images. You're a lucky man being so close to such beauty, but easy to take for granted when you're so close. I hardly spend any time photographing the Somerset levels or Dartmoor despite being close. My next trip north is on Friday - heading to Harris this time as I haven't been there for a couple of years. I'll be busy editing another series over a few months. Fingers crossed for good (good for photography) weather!

Hello 👋 thanks for the feedback. I'm glad you're enjoying the footage and storytelling. Next trip is next Friday, so I'll be busy editing another series over a few months. Fingers crossed for good weather!

Thank you sir. One of the most satisfying days I've had of landscape photography. Love it when they come along

Tell me about it! Although on this occasion, I think I had ballparked it later on 🏟️

As comfortable as it would be, the cost to use-time ratio doesn't justify a camper for me. I think it's best to use what you have and only upgrade when it becomes absolutely necessary. I have another trip in a fortnight - I've added a pullout awning and with a windbreak and that will serve me fine 🏕️

I'm glad it brought back memories 😊 I love that area. The f word is still in, no way to remove it after posting unfortunately - but I'm glad it's subtle enough to miss...

Thank you for that. I'm glad you enjoy the breakdowns too. It's helping my process to do these videos along with my trips and my edits back at home, so the fact that it's useful for you too is a good sign. Off back up to Scotland in a couple of weeks, so more to come soon. Hopefully I'll get the series finished this side of Christmas 🎄

@@eallistoneThat's great to hear. I'll look forward to those videos.

Thank you, sir! I'm looking forward to digging into your vids on film systems. I'm planning to get a 45 camera in the next year or so and cracking it out on the stiller days in Scotland - a lot to learn 😬

@@eallistone Aww, thank you, mate. 4x5 is where you get to slow down to proper "mindfulness". Haven't shot 4x5 in almost 20 years, but am keeping my eyes open for a good deal. New video dropping this afternoon.

It is spectacular. I can't wait to revisit when I have a chance. I spent way too little time in Loch Maree this time around

My wife said the same thing when she watched. And ultimately I think you're both right. When I was editing, I couldn't find a way to cut it without removing a story element that I wanted to tell, but it does detract from the peace of the video - and I probably should have tried harder to work that section without it. That's a grand total £1 in the swear jar at work 🤐

I'm glad you can relate. So many shots I get really excited about out in the field don't call me to edit when I first put them in Lightroom; then I go back to them a few years later and wonder why I didn't give them any attention. And then there are the reedits that you thought were done and dusted! It is a nice feeling to have a bank of shots to return to though. I think the light manipulation after the fact should be led by memory. Don't get me wrong, I don't like going too far from the visual experience of a place, but the moment that you capture a photo isn't the whole story: the way you feel about a place and the atmosphere often needs to come into the photo though creative contrast adjustments and (sometimes heavy) dodging and burning.

Interesting. I like the elements in those images too. I am just never sure about the visual flow of a landscape image. I place subjects in different areas and they feel a little less connected than they do in a vertical or square image. I need to practice grand landscape shots more more to see what works. I've been watching more movies recently and paying attention to the way the cinematographer composes for panoramic shots-hoping that will help :)

I'm glad it's not just me 😅

Oh. That is torture. I was wondering if they ever get submerged - we had such a wet winter, I thought they would be under in February if they were ever gonna be. I'm still gonna give them a little look in on my way up north in September🤞

Thanks for the feedback on the vids. I'm glad you found me on here and are enjoying the content. I very rarely think in BnW, but I do like a simplified colour palette - too much to think about otherwise. That image with the rainbow was borderline too garish for me to puzzle out! Totally agree about the Ben Loyal shot - very simple, but sometimes you've got to let the subjects do the work. If I was being ultra critical, I would have liked the foreground rocks to be a little closer to their mountain cousins to better emphasize their relationship, but I couldn't get my tripod any lower into the heather it was perched on. Some day I'll do an out take video with all the Twister-like contortions I get into while out shooting. I'm sure other photographers can relate 😂

Thank you for the kind words. Landscape photography is rarely a picnic, but when everything clicks, I can think of few things as satisfying 🏕️

Thanks mate. All that effort on learning motion graphics this spring wasn't wasted then 😅

That's true, but Bristol to Tongue while car camping and filming every waking minute is quite exhausting. If you can imagine the process: I drive a road, think 'that will look nice from the air,' find a safe place to launch the drone, set a path for it, and film that path with me driving a few times until I have the timing right. Rinse and repeat all day. Like that, the drive from Loch Assynt to Tongue took about 7 hours with some pit stops. I guess it depends where you mean about snow in the north of Scotland. Even the milder areas like the Hebrides get a little and my friend who lives in Tongue seems to get snowed in a few weeks every year. Likewise, I see the snow gates closed in the Cairngorms quite frequently when I check the webcams.

Thank you. I liked how that turned out too. It's quite different to what I had in mind. But that's one of the things I love about landscape photography - conditions are so dynamic, the images you come away with are almost never what you had planned. I was going to return to this location again soon, but I've brought my Scotland autumn trip forward to September, so I might not be back in north Wales until the winter.

I'm glad you're finding value in the way I deliver these. As well as the content discussing composition etc, I really want to make these videos immersive and take you to the place in the atmosphere. Some of these earlier videos suffer a little in sound quality, but I was really pleased with them for the resulting images, and they worked as a proof of concept; this whole Wales Summer 2023 series was filmed on my phone to see if I liked the process enough to take it more seriously. A year on, I am still enjoying the process and hearing feedback like yours is really gratifying.

Thank you. Glad you liked the vid 🙏

Thanks for the kind words. Good to hear that you're getting some value out of the videos. Totally agree about that image - needs a clearer anchor in the foreground. And less grass! I'm gonna do a day hike there the next time I'm in Assynt to figure out some more compositions around that loch.

Cheers chap. Do you think it would be an oversell if I update the video title to 'Masterclass in Landscape Photography Composition'? Might be a bit click baity 😅

Thanks mate. Probably my favourite day in terms of images. That landscape is insanely photogenic from the air!

Cheers dude. I really like breaking down the images at the end - makes me really think through my process.

I'm glad you like the atmosphere. It's one of the hardest things to get right, especially when the weather is bad - on still mornings like this, it's much easier to get the mood across. Blue hour peace is one of my favourite things about taking photos 👌

Thank you. I like that one too. I think the last one is probably my favourite of the day though. I still haven't printed those two out to do a final proof 🖼️

Yes. There was a thin layer on all the standing water ❄️

Thanks for watching and taking the time to feed back. That's definitely something I think about a lot; the relationships between different elements in the landscape. I love the challenge of finding images. Sometimes it's hard going, but you always look back on trips with nostalgia. Already planning my next visit north. And a few more postcards from this one in the coming weeks 🖼️

Thanks Ian! Always nice to get a good day after making such a long trip 😅

My humble apologies. Don't even want to know what you make of my Quinag and Allt Chranaidh in the next video 😬

@@eallistone No worries! If you like, I'll record them for you. Our dog was Cuinneag! (Quinag in English)

@@Tele-fk4cu Good name! Next time around I might take you up on that. I tried to find some local recordings of the names as I went along, but Google wasn't helpful for some of the less-popular places. I'm afraid I've recorded the voice overs for the last two videos of this series, so you will have to wince a few more times. Back up north in September to have another crack at saying Assynt.

Thank you. Yes. This one took a while. Learning on the job as well which is time consuming. I like the wider shots too. I still find it hard to compose in landscape, but I'm enjoying thinking about it a bit more - especially when I frame up for the video. I've wanted to do that for a walk for a while. I'll try to fit it in next time I'm there 🥾

Thank you 🙏 I'm glad you like the video and images

You are most welcome. It is such a stunning area of the world 🌎

I do shoot raw so breathing life back into it is important, but even if I shot jpg, I would edit almost as much. Digital sensors favour certain colours which can need subduing. On top of this, I like an edit to help the viewer to be led through the image - so a little bit of interpretative grading helps get across the feeling of the place.

Thank you. I enjoy dissecting the compositions for the video. Really helps me make the process of editing conscious. I've tried to make these videos something that I would find useful and engaging. I've always recorded videos to myself talking through thought processes, and when I started doing these photo trips, I was sharing them in IG stories. I thought that putting those two things together would make something that would provide value. I also naively assumed I was already doing 90% of work, so making a vlog out of it wouldn't be that hard - turns out that I was only doing 1% of the work. But feedback like this makes the effort worthwhile 👌

Thanks, Stig. I think this is my favourite video I've made to date. I was wondering if the intro was a tad too long, but I'm glad you like it 😁

Thanks mate. The conditions on this day were actually pretty good. Should have taken more advantage of it really. The next video is the best I've done so far in terms of editing and photos 🏞️

I'm glad you're enjoying them 😊 Unfortunately I'll always have a bit of a gap between trips and vlog series. (Unless I take this full time in the future.)

I'm glad you enjoyed it, Alan! The relaxing style of video is what I am going for-trying to take viewers there with the sounds of the landscape. I post intermittently, and I started less than a year ago, so who knows, maybe more followers will come :)

Tell me about it. Work has just not stopped this spring. Currently booking holidays and weekends away for 2026! Re the clothes, cabin was pretty humid and toasty by the time I parked up for bed 😂 Thanks for watching and the feedback 👍

@@eallistone toasty & humid 🤣 I can imagine mate...

Thank you sir. Love my trips up north 📸

Thanks mate. Glad it was more relaxing to watch than it was to film it 😂

Thanks man. Yeah, I really focused on getting the atmosphere across. A little bit asmr a little bit travel diary 📓

@@eallistone well, it worked 😀

Thanks mate! Pleased with this one. Looking forward to having the editing off my plate though 😅

Thanks for watching Gary. Episode 4 I'm up in the real north ✊

Thanks mate. Yeah, posting is always going to be intermittent for me - much as I would love to post weekly. I've been enjoying your videos in the interim. This series took an age to edit though - took too many side quests in after effects 😂

Thank you, I'm glad you liked it 😊

Glad you enjoyed it. I'm back up in Scotland right now so there'll be more in the next few months 🙏