That "way cooler when I was there" is a bit like the mental "weight" of a lion when you're on safari, snap!! Wow! Get it home, and the lion is almost microscopic; -) similar thing, where emotion amps up the image...but, hey, you did some really nice work, for being prepared for a 'nothing' outing!
I keep saying this, but it's a damn shame this channel is sub 100k or even sub 1 million. No bullshit about gear, just "let's go for a hike and take some pics" with ASMR voice over. Keep up the great work. I love this channel.
I really appreciate the kind words, I love making these videos. Perhaps I could grow this channel very quickly if I did weekly videos, but I would really have to degrade the quality. Thanks for your support!
Thanks for this video. I've experienced the same feelings of excitement for a certain location I visit often, only to be disappointed when importing my photos into lightroom. Your words really resonated with me. The point is to get out as much as possible and enjoy the journey, treating each outing as an opportunity to get closer to nature. Getting the occasional "great shot" is just icing on the cake.
I have been to the Mammoth Lakes area twice now. It is gorgeous and yet I always come back with crap photos. Everywhere I look there is beauty but when I get home and look at the photos, they're bummer time... I feel you
Thank you Michael for the inspiration! After watching this, I'm going out and going to find the things you taught. I am hoping for good winds as I am going to photograph the waves splashing one of my favorite lighthouses in Port Washington, Wi. Thanks buddy!
You got some lovely images there Michael… I have forests that don’t seem to deliver and then suddenly some fog and light appear that reveal what I’m looking for
I live minutes from a trail packed with tall maples and oaks, 5 waterfalls, and Lake Superior, and I have very few pics I like - as they don’t did the experience justice. Thank you for the video, I won’t give up!
Every video you make is like a mini-masterpiece I swear! The cinematography, the compositions, and the storytelling make it so much more immersive than most of the content out there. Nicely done on the shots too! Stoked you were able to get some cool photos after all of these years!
Wow Michael! I just love your photos and videos! They are truly inspirational I had the good fortune of driving from San Fran all the way to Olympic National Park! It was the trip of a lifetime for someone who loves adventure! One of the absolute highlights was The Redwoods! I did a 6 hr hike during covid and saw only 2 people the entire time! All I could hear were the birds in the sky, my own footsteps and my own heart beat! It was Epic beyond words! It’s an astonishing part of the world! Thanks again for the video and photos. 👌👌👌
Magnific work and beatiful photos. Congratulations from Extremadura in Spain. Thank's for this trip. I really felt there. I have loved redwoods since I was a child. You have a new follover.
For me, I have realized that there are places that are amazing for the eyes, but not photogenic for the camera. That's one of the reasons why we struggle to get a composition.
I struggle with forests. The dappled sunlight on undergrowth of fern and moss, the sense of calm but foreboding as you stare of into a seemingly never ending landscape of vertical boles along a curving landscape, the fog or mist that sometimes rolls thru. I can never get it right. Thanks for this video!
The Hoh Rainforest .... shot my first frame there in 1978... and in all these years, ive never felt i could capture the feeling i get walking through that landscape...
Yep! I am the same way. I visit beautiful places in the Pacific Northwest. Glacier National Park is one of them. I have taken some nice photos, but it seems I am not quite happy with them. Thank you. Very nice video. Your photographs are beautiful.
Thanks you for this beatiful video and those beautiful images. After seeing this, I am even more motivated go back to my woods, scout, and try new compositions
5:30, yes that was a really good one! 👏 A tip: Take a red jacket and place your self in the redwood forest with all these trees, that would help a lot to really see the majestic trees there.
Hi Michael. Thank you for another beautiful and inspirational video. I can only dream of having an eye like you do - not jealous at all lol. Your videos are always such a joy to watch and your editing is sublime. Thanks again - Sam
Always enjoy Michael!!! Great work! Have been to the Redwoods once for photography amd I aswell struggled a bit. Headed back there in June 2024 and so excited. The beauty of that location is almost overwhelming
Photographers are like musicians, We're are own worse critics. I see so much beauty in your still shots you have no idea. Sometimes mother nature reminds us just how small we are compared to her. We would have to be 100 foot tall giants with 2 ton cameras to get the big picture of the beauty of the Redwoods. Your video quality is 110% too. Good work man.
Great video, Michael. It was great to meet on Memorial Day weekend. Thoroughly enjoyed talking with you as we walked on the Damnation Creek trail. Your beautiful photos make me want to use the Sony kit and shoot on the Tripod.
Hi what say really resonates with me my wood is called Great Wood in Quantock Hills Somerset England I have visited many times quite busy and cluttered lots distractions! But will return! Great video wonderfull scenery and photos best wishes Anthony😊
I really enjoyed your philosophy to not give up. Thank you. I live in Northern Nevada and am surrounded by the endless skies and sage brush seas. I live here surrounded by beauty and struggle to capture that beauty that I see to share with everyone else. I have be shooting this area for 20 years and still struggle to get that shot.
Man, I only just discovered your chanel. After watching a few videos, I gotta admit, you're my favourite YT photographer at the moment. Great photos and videography too, nice balance of technical and artistic approach, and very fitting choice of music to match the mood and the tone of your voice. Well done dude. Keep up the great work!
Winston Churchill gave a good bit of advice once “never, never give up” and I think of that every time I try and photograph mossy trees in the Caitlin’s or Fiordland in NZ. I love them, love taking pics, but my images almost without fail, fall short. But I will keep To never giving up, and enjoying the adventure. Nice vlog Michael.
@@MichaelShainblum yup I know - we all know too - that is why so many of us (at least me) try to leave some comment. Even if it is what I had for breakfast ;-)
I've done photography in the Redwoods. It was difficult for me the first couple of times I visited too, but I was able to start finding compositions after my third time the. It's a fun area to photo. Really enjoyed your shots at 9:53 and 8:38.
Hi Michael, I found your channel through Nigel Dansen's video where you critiqued his photos....that was so good! But, wow, this video has really inspried me. I live in Eureka, California at the Redwood Coast and have never found a redwood composition that I loved. I drive to Oregon a lot, as my son lives there, and it is almost always foggy up near Crescent City. So....thank you, I am going to drive up this weekend and walk through the redwoods to see if I can find a shot...or two.
Dude I’m so pumped! I’m taking a trip to crescent city in two weeks and although it’s a family vacation I have planned lots of time for photography and this series on the redwoods is perfect timing! Can’t wait to get out there myself and do the same! Great video!
I've learned to look at places in 2 ways: one is the beauty I can see, which I know can never be captured with a camera; and the other is what looks good in a picture that CAN be captured by a camera. Both amazing in a place like the forest, but they are different. Sometimes you have to focus on small things and how you see them, instead of just seeing the huge 360° that there's no lens for.
Mike, since I live in Southern Nevada, my place is the Valley of Fire. It is just so busy that nothing works besides getting very small and almost do macros and of course not so small either. But to think you are going to do a landscape there, forget it. Just too busy. Keep up the great work Mike. Sorry if you prefer Michael instead of Mike. My first name is Gregory, but I prefer Greg
thanks for the forest inspiration Michael. My home is surrounded by forest but it can be difficult to find anything original. At least now it is mushroom season so lots of fungi to capture.
Your honesty made me laugh in recognition. Somehow, it's affirming to know someone of your photographic caliber has similar challenges and frustrations. Your work is so inspiring and a personal presence to match. Thanks so much!
really the photos are so interesting, the photo composition is so cool and the location is the right location to produce a work that is so special, I am a subscriber to your channel, brother, I come from an Indonesian country. regards 📸📸📸
What an incredible place…certainly on my bucket list…looks like you chose the perfect day …very painter,y quality images…stay blessed and thank you for sharing
Michael , you could make a small photo book just with the photos that you shared on this video - so many fantastic images ! The walk , the purposeful journey and the experience in that amazing place - combined with some great fog/mist helped to make this a gorgeous day for photography. I do agree about spots that we sometimes look at with awe - sometimes we just don’t know where to look or we miss the obvious . Fantastic video and great work
I have tried this countless times as well until I found the reason why I was never satisfied. As with your photos there are just two dominant colors, green and brown, brown and white/grey or green and white/grey. This gives an image a melancholic or even depressive mood. Then it dawned to me. There needs to be something that stands out. This could either be a colorful flower (or a field of flowers) or golden sun beams in the haze (just two examples).
I live on Vancouver Island, and I find woodland photography here on the west coast to be so difficult. I mean it must be difficult everywhere, but man I'm sure there's something to be said about the chaotic wild growth on the coast. Many times I've been out and just as you've said, been so caught up in the beauty and the overall experience that I'm running rampant with my camera to shoot anything and everything, only to not like anything back at home. This last time over the weekend, I went for a good walk in a beautiful area in decent conditions, but nothing stood out to me. I didn't even take out my camera, but I don't regret that walk at all. Really is a relief, and inspiring at the same time, to see that you have had the same struggles! Wonderful images of course! And can't wait for good fog on a morning or evening off now!
I guess in addition to all the other necessary components, landscape photography is like real estate: Location, location, location. What a location!
I shot in redwoods on P67 with 45 mm wide angle, on...6x7 VELVIA 50
Delightful
What a treat Michael thank you.
Your work is inspiring!!
That "way cooler when I was there" is a bit like the mental "weight" of a lion when you're on safari, snap!! Wow! Get it home, and the lion is almost microscopic; -) similar thing, where emotion amps up the image...but, hey, you did some really nice work, for being prepared for a 'nothing' outing!
I keep saying this, but it's a damn shame this channel is sub 100k or even sub 1 million. No bullshit about gear, just "let's go for a hike and take some pics" with ASMR voice over. Keep up the great work. I love this channel.
I really appreciate the kind words, I love making these videos. Perhaps I could grow this channel very quickly if I did weekly videos, but I would really have to degrade the quality. Thanks for your support!
Already got soo excited once I went into the video!!
Brilliant, Michael! really stellar work.
3:17 this is such a beautiful shot
Totally agree. I really like this shot!
Pity you couldn't capture the images with smell a vision. Or maybe you did!!! Looks so refreshing. Thank you.
Thanks for this video. I've experienced the same feelings of excitement for a certain location I visit often, only to be disappointed when importing my photos into lightroom. Your words really resonated with me. The point is to get out as much as possible and enjoy the journey, treating each outing as an opportunity to get closer to nature. Getting the occasional "great shot" is just icing on the cake.
I have been to the Mammoth Lakes area twice now. It is gorgeous and yet I always come back with crap photos. Everywhere I look there is beauty but when I get home and look at the photos, they're bummer time... I feel you
Mr. Shainblum, you inspire me to keep going out to take photos.
Thanks for inspiring me to go out and shoot today. Brilliant video.
Thanks for sharing ...3 best things in this video , photography , video , and your commentary... i enjoyed watching it
Thank you Michael for the inspiration! After watching this, I'm going out and going to find the things you taught. I am hoping for good winds as I am going to photograph the waves splashing one of my favorite lighthouses in Port Washington, Wi. Thanks buddy!
You got some lovely images there Michael… I have forests that don’t seem to deliver and then suddenly some fog and light appear that reveal what I’m looking for
I live minutes from a trail packed with tall maples and oaks, 5 waterfalls, and Lake Superior, and I have very few pics I like - as they don’t did the experience justice. Thank you for the video, I won’t give up!
Every video you make is like a mini-masterpiece I swear! The cinematography, the compositions, and the storytelling make it so much more immersive than most of the content out there. Nicely done on the shots too! Stoked you were able to get some cool photos after all of these years!
Fantastic video Michael, really liked your images and the video really captured the mood of the misty forest 👍
Wow Michael! I just love your photos and videos! They are truly inspirational
I had the good fortune of driving from San Fran all the way to Olympic National Park!
It was the trip of a lifetime for someone who loves adventure! One of the absolute highlights was The Redwoods! I did a 6 hr hike during covid and saw only 2 people the entire time! All I could hear were the birds in the sky, my own footsteps and my own heart beat! It was Epic beyond words!
It’s an astonishing part of the world! Thanks again for the video and photos. 👌👌👌
Magnific work and beatiful photos. Congratulations from Extremadura in Spain. Thank's for this trip. I really felt there. I have loved redwoods since I was a child. You have a new follover.
Breathtakingly beautiful pictures!
Your work just makes me have goose bumps. I normally get those when I’m overwhelmed with amazing imagery. Well done.
Several great compositions! Thanks for sharing!
the quality of this week's video is top notch. Very nice and thank you
Quality immersive videos and the pace and music are so peacefull!
thank you so much!
Well worth the wait.stunning work.
Well done ! Yes - been there too many times. Your words an ideas are spot on, and your images are sublime.
For me, I have realized that there are places that are amazing for the eyes, but not photogenic for the camera. That's one of the reasons why we struggle to get a composition.
your videos are always highlights for the weekend. relaxing and inspirational.
I struggle with forests. The dappled sunlight on undergrowth of fern and moss, the sense of calm but foreboding as you stare of into a seemingly never ending landscape of vertical boles along a curving landscape, the fog or mist that sometimes rolls thru. I can never get it right.
Thanks for this video!
Wonderful landscape photography.
Really magnificent work done by you Michael.
The Hoh Rainforest .... shot my first frame there in 1978... and in all these years, ive never felt i could capture the feeling i get walking through that landscape...
Great video, Your first shot is fantastic! Such atmosphere!
Those top-down drone shots were excellent!
Yep! I am the same way. I visit beautiful places in the Pacific Northwest. Glacier National Park is one of them. I have taken some nice photos, but it seems I am not quite happy with them. Thank you. Very nice video. Your photographs are beautiful.
I love how the fog just gives you a mysterious mood.
I was in the red woods in april... such a wonderful place🙏🏼...great Photos
WOW how beautiful!
Thanks you for this beatiful video and those beautiful images.
After seeing this, I am even more motivated go back to my woods, scout, and try new compositions
5:30, yes that was a really good one! 👏 A tip: Take a red jacket and place your self in the redwood forest with all these trees, that would help a lot to really see the majestic trees there.
Hi Michael. Thank you for another beautiful and inspirational video. I can only dream of having an eye like you do - not jealous at all lol. Your videos are always such a joy to watch and your editing is sublime. Thanks again - Sam
Man this was an insanely good video and the images resulting from it were 🤯!!
Thanks Mark, hope you are doing well man :)
What an amazing location, them trees look huge. Nice images buddy
Aaaaaand now I want to go to the Redwoods and take some pictures. Those were amazing photos!
Excellent !!! Saludos desde Mar del Plata. Argentina
Always enjoy Michael!!! Great work! Have been to the Redwoods once for photography amd I aswell struggled a bit. Headed back there in June 2024 and so excited. The beauty of that location is almost overwhelming
Photographers are like musicians, We're are own worse critics. I see so much beauty in your still shots you have no idea. Sometimes mother nature reminds us just how small we are compared to her. We would have to be 100 foot tall giants with 2 ton cameras to get the big picture of the beauty of the Redwoods. Your video quality is 110% too. Good work man.
Love the compositions! Great images! Thanks for shooting them.. Definitely inspired to go try n try n try!
Great video, Michael. It was great to meet on Memorial Day weekend. Thoroughly enjoyed talking with you as we walked on the Damnation Creek trail. Your beautiful photos make me want to use the Sony kit and shoot on the Tripod.
Hi what say really resonates with me my wood is called Great Wood in Quantock Hills Somerset England I have visited many times quite busy and cluttered lots distractions! But will return! Great video wonderfull scenery and photos best wishes Anthony😊
I really enjoyed your philosophy to not give up. Thank you. I live in Northern Nevada and am surrounded by the endless skies and sage brush seas. I live here surrounded by beauty and struggle to capture that beauty that I see to share with everyone else. I have be shooting this area for 20 years and still struggle to get that shot.
What a great inspirational video. I miss my redwoods! Thanks
Extraordinary photos as always! :D
Thanks Mads, hope you are well!
hi Michael, Like your the pictures and videos as always. It is so encouraged!
Man, I only just discovered your chanel. After watching a few videos, I gotta admit, you're my favourite YT photographer at the moment. Great photos and videography too, nice balance of technical and artistic approach, and very fitting choice of music to match the mood and the tone of your voice. Well done dude. Keep up the great work!
My first visit and I loved what you presented. Thanks
Great video. I love "Sea to Summit."
Beautiful images especially with the fog...so ethereal 🌿
Always spectacular !!!
Beautiful video, epic
Some lovely woodland shots. By the looks of things, there are compositions to be had all around.
Great photos in an enviable place to be!
Thank goodness for tilting and articulating screens. 5:02 😊
so nice to have!
Winston Churchill gave a good bit of advice once “never, never give up” and I think of that every time I try and photograph mossy trees in the Caitlin’s or Fiordland in NZ. I love them, love taking pics, but my images almost without fail, fall short. But I will keep To never giving up, and enjoying the adventure. Nice vlog Michael.
1:04 no never buddy its always spot on
I spent a week camping in those redwoods last year. And literally just finished filming an elopement there. Such a beautiful location
Awesome as always! You don't need the "leave your comment below" - the quality of the work speaks for itself all the time!
Thanks so much, Amit I really appreciate it! Haha I know, I know just trying to play a little bit of this UA-cam game ;)
@@MichaelShainblum yup I know - we all know too - that is why so many of us (at least me) try to leave some comment.
Even if it is what I had for breakfast ;-)
I've done photography in the Redwoods. It was difficult for me the first couple of times I visited too, but I was able to start finding compositions after my third time the. It's a fun area to photo. Really enjoyed your shots at 9:53 and 8:38.
Hi Michael, I found your channel through Nigel Dansen's video where you critiqued his photos....that was so good! But, wow, this video has really inspried me. I live in Eureka, California at the Redwood Coast and have never found a redwood composition that I loved. I drive to Oregon a lot, as my son lives there, and it is almost always foggy up near Crescent City. So....thank you, I am going to drive up this weekend and walk through the redwoods to see if I can find a shot...or two.
Stunning Footage! Absolutely beautiful
Thanks so much!
Fantastic! Thank you Michael, love the video!
Dude I’m so pumped! I’m taking a trip to crescent city in two weeks and although it’s a family vacation I have planned lots of time for photography and this series on the redwoods is perfect timing! Can’t wait to get out there myself and do the same! Great video!
gonna try landscape photography! thank you for the inspiration, inspired me alot!
I've learned to look at places in 2 ways: one is the beauty I can see, which I know can never be captured with a camera; and the other is what looks good in a picture that CAN be captured by a camera. Both amazing in a place like the forest, but they are different.
Sometimes you have to focus on small things and how you see them, instead of just seeing the huge 360° that there's no lens for.
The drone frame at 15:01 almost looks like the mountain line at Yosemite. Great shot.
Glad you dig it man, thanks!
another great video amazing photography and composition cant wait for the next adventure tnx for sharing
well, your favorite is my favorite. great shoot - different enough from usual yet really interesting. neat!
Thanks so much, glad you liked that one as well!
Mike, since I live in Southern Nevada, my place is the Valley of Fire. It is just so busy that nothing works besides getting very small and almost do macros and of course not so small either. But to think you are going to do a landscape there, forget it. Just too busy. Keep up the great work Mike. Sorry if you prefer Michael instead of Mike. My first name is Gregory, but I prefer Greg
Great images.
I've seen others go to the redwoods and struggle for images too!
Stunning photos and footage. Especially watching in 4K.
thanks for the forest inspiration Michael. My home is surrounded by forest but it can be difficult to find anything original. At least now it is mushroom season so lots of fungi to capture.
Thank you Michael for these videos.
You are a big inspiration for me ! Keep going your video are beautiful
Sturgeon Bay, Michigan. One of my favorite places to me, but photographically, I've come up short, 100% of the time.
One "thumbs up" won't do justice to this episode! Mindblowing!
Gorgeous images. Heading there next spring and don’t know if I should be scared or motivated from this vlog!
Thanks Michael for again an inspiring video!
Great video and amazing images Michael, cheers
Your honesty made me laugh in recognition. Somehow, it's affirming to know someone of your photographic caliber has similar challenges and frustrations. Your work is so inspiring and a personal presence to match. Thanks so much!
Thank you so much! Glad my situation here was relatable. We can’t win every time haha!
really the photos are so interesting, the photo composition is so cool and the location is the right location to produce a work that is so special, I am a subscriber to your channel, brother, I come from an Indonesian country. regards 📸📸📸
What an incredible place…certainly on my bucket list…looks like you chose the perfect day …very painter,y quality images…stay blessed and thank you for sharing
I liked all the shots taken on the wide angle lens. I have an oak and beech wood near me in the UK is beautiful but have yet to nail a shot there.
Michael , you could make a small photo book just with the photos that you shared on this video - so many fantastic images ! The walk , the purposeful journey and the experience in that amazing place - combined with some great fog/mist helped to make this a gorgeous day for photography.
I do agree about spots that we sometimes look at with awe - sometimes we just don’t know where to look or we miss the obvious .
Fantastic video and great work
I think this was the trip Michael. Great shots love them all.
Thanks so much Bill!
I love trees. These images are wonderful and perfect. Thank you so much!
I have tried this countless times as well until I found the reason why I was never satisfied. As with your photos there are just two dominant colors, green and brown, brown and white/grey or green and white/grey. This gives an image a melancholic or even depressive mood. Then it dawned to me. There needs to be something that stands out. This could either be a colorful flower (or a field of flowers) or golden sun beams in the haze (just two examples).
I live on Vancouver Island, and I find woodland photography here on the west coast to be so difficult. I mean it must be difficult everywhere, but man I'm sure there's something to be said about the chaotic wild growth on the coast. Many times I've been out and just as you've said, been so caught up in the beauty and the overall experience that I'm running rampant with my camera to shoot anything and everything, only to not like anything back at home. This last time over the weekend, I went for a good walk in a beautiful area in decent conditions, but nothing stood out to me. I didn't even take out my camera, but I don't regret that walk at all. Really is a relief, and inspiring at the same time, to see that you have had the same struggles! Wonderful images of course! And can't wait for good fog on a morning or evening off now!
Nice video thanks for sharing very beautiful
Thanks, I enjoy your videos and photos!