Great video! What a beautiful place! I loved your images! Thanks for taking me along!

absolutely hear your frustration. Hope you have better luck next time. Keep the faith

Thanks James.

Great to see you back vlogging. Another fantastic video. Thanks for sharing. 👍

One benefit i often see during winter is that you dont need to get up that early / come home late when you want side lighting. Im usually someone that follows the mantra "work with what you have, not with what you dont have" so i just accept whatever condition i have whenever i find time to go out shooting. The latter is the real challange frankly. Work, Stress (burnout) and other things arent making things easy. Thus maybe i apprechiate it much more than others that during winter you can get nice side ish lighting troughout most of the day, heck even midday! We havent seen snow this winter in switzerland, and last year it was a huge load of snow but not that long. Generally yea... white winter season isnt really a reliable thing here anymore in the flatlands of switzerland. But i totally feel you. The White layer ads so much interesting contrast especially to usually very contrast less areas (like stone and mud) . On the other hand, if there is too much of it, it can be challanging to get any detail of the picture. And... well im ranting here sorry but photography made me apprechiate how good our eyes are so much more... every time i take a difficult shot i think during edit "well to my eyes it had lots of contrast n such" :D

@JamesBrewphoto

Жыл бұрын

Totally agree - Winter light is just the best isn't it! The lack of snow and Ice is rather sad though. I fear that in years to come these weather conditions are going to become extremely rare once in a decade events, in mild places such as the island where I live.

Another fantastic video and fabulous photos keep them coming thanks for sharing James

@JamesBrewphoto

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching 👍

Loved the video and photos! Thanks for sharing 😊

Always look forward to your videos. I have been to Scotland once and plan a return trip soon.

Nice video. Thanks 👍❄️

Beautiful photographs as always Mr. Brew. Glad to see you are back and just as enthusiastic.

@JamesBrewphoto

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching 🙂

Thanks James, you made my evening. Loved the new views of old friends. Don't be too disappointed with the lack of light. I quite like "monochrome" color winter landscapes. It's good to here from you. And don't complain too much. At my age (72 in a week or so) I go out and work in my yard a couple of hours, and it takes my knees two days to quit hurting. I'd love to be able to go out and hike the Texas Hill Country again.

@JamesBrewphoto

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching James - hope you are keeping well. New views of old friends - I like that phrase, it sums up my approach to shooting the landscapes of the island rather well. Hopefully I'll have some more videos in the not too distant future

@jamesoliver6625

Жыл бұрын

@@JamesBrewphoto It's a bit like seeing, as frequently as is convenient, a friend from primary school, who is still a friend, a few times a year. There are spots in creation where you feel "at home". There's a reason for that, but don't fall into the distorted reality of KZread. Take your time.

Cool vid and pics, James. Good to see you back at it. Don’t recall a snow venue in your collection before. Can sense your frustration at not getting all the conditions just right. Sound advice about not trying to chase the light. “Tripod Dance” a new one - nice.😊 Impressed by hatless and gloveless segments. How long did the snow stick around? Winter not over yet. Cheers!

@JamesBrewphoto

Жыл бұрын

Cheers Paul! Snow really is increasingly rare for us here on the IOM. As a child we would get at least 1 or 2 heavy snows right down to sea level every year. But even in my short lifetime that has competely changed and its now been around 9 years since the last heavy snow down to sea level. It makes me massively sad to think that potentially in years to come snow just won't be a thing on the island at all. The snow was here for around 3 or 4 days and then vanished.

It’s been a while since you posted on KZread, Nice work there James and different to see some images with the snow from you. Many thanks for sharing your part of the world.

@JamesBrewphoto

Жыл бұрын

Thanks very much for watching 🙂

Really nice compositions. With the last 2 shots it was definitely worth waiting for the light. In my own work I need to be more patient & wait for the conditions to be what I envisioned when I setup the shot.

@janfrosty3392

Жыл бұрын

Good point Cesar M, if it was me I would remove those two antenna towers as I would find it bothersome in final image.

@JamesBrewphoto

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Joel - yeah those little kisses of light made all the difference I think

Fantastic images, as always, and your patience and persistence were rewarded. We all come off the hill thinking I'm knackered, I'm frozen and I don't think I got anything. Two months later you re-look at the shots and you see that 'one' that you'd skipped past before and think .... yep, that'll do. Got it ! By then the chilblains have eased off a bit 😉

@JamesBrewphoto

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Iain - that's so very true! Discomfort in the field can lead to being overly critical and negative about photos, it's only when that short term discomfort is gone that images can be properly evaluated

Awesome video James. Your are one of my favorite landscape photographer, not just because you take great photos, but you share your technic on shooting landscape. The one photo of the ruins that you have the mountains in the background. One of the mountain has what appears to be twin antenna towers. Are you planning in removing those towers in post process? It would eliminate the modern world we living in now and give the photo a bit of history. Another note I was watching another KZread channel and the photographer was doing astrophotography and used an weather app that forecast cloud cover, that way he can go out on the nights that there is no clouds in the sky. This could work for daytime photography as well. The app is call Clear Outside, just a thought. Looking forward to your next video.

@JamesBrewphoto

Жыл бұрын

Thank you Cesar! I get where you're coming from on the towers but generally removing parts of the landscape in post is just not something I do. I'd rather capture it the way it is, than create something artificial. I'd prefer to demolish the towers altogether! I do actually use Clear Outside and it usually works very well. However it's not always totally reliable just like all forecasts, especially when it comes to cloud cover which can be difficult to predict at the best of time. Thanks for sharing your thoughts and speak again soon hopefully