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Relaxing, indeed! A wonderful video! The setting and the shots were beautiful and created a meditative vibe for me. The music you chose to complement the video was perfect! One element that makes all of your videos relaxing is your narration. Your voice has a soft, intimate tone to it. That draws the listener in and produces a “cozy” kind of effect-even when you are photographing waterfalls!! Thank you! Another great start to my Sunday. One thought regarding the dark shot you took of the tree trunk leaning over the water. I’m wondering what kind of effect you would have had if you had raised the ISO so as to still the ripples. In that particular shot, the blurring of the water felt more distracting to me. (Just my personal reaction, not a critique of the shot. That’s what got me wondering about how it would have looked with a faster shutter speed.) As always, great work. I look forward to your next video.

Only you could take a simple grouping of reeds and turn it into a magnificent painting of nature. This was like sitting in the shade on a hot day and saying…ahhhhhh. 😊❤

@JohnMcKennaPhotography

2 ай бұрын

Thanks Trisha! :)

@trishaferreira2309

2 ай бұрын

@@JohnMcKennaPhotography …THANK YOU!!! 😊❤👍

Lovely video John. Stayed nearby one autumn day that started with a good frost and turned into a sunny day with beautiful colours. I now need to go back soon. Very peaceful. Thanks for sharing.

@JohnMcKennaPhotography

2 ай бұрын

Thanks Trevor! Im planning to go back in autumn too!

Super relaxing. Love the vibe 🙂

@JohnMcKennaPhotography

2 ай бұрын

Thanks Garry! Wanted to try something a bit different!

Special place💙

@JohnMcKennaPhotography

2 ай бұрын

Its a great location

Lovely video john 👍 wonderful lake to photograph….

@JohnMcKennaPhotography

2 ай бұрын

Thanks! Yeh i really should go back more often!

@spikeB2B

2 ай бұрын

I’m lucky to be able to have two weeks in Scotland next October November and I will put this lake on itinerary for sure thanks for your video … did you park at the menteith car park ….!

@JohnMcKennaPhotography

2 ай бұрын

@@spikeB2B yeh, parked in that car park and just crossed the road to the lake!

@spikeB2B

2 ай бұрын

Thank you for your help john top man 👍 could be a good sunset location 🤞

As soon as we were allowed to travel locally after lockdown I went to the Lake of Menteith and spent most of the afternoon there. I was the only car in the carpark all afternoon. No boats, no people, no planes, not the sound of a man made thing; just birds and buzzy things. Gave up the photography after an hour and just sat. I'm also one of the very few people that has done a full 360 degree of the lake on foot, through bog and ditch and mire, past the Roman camp, out on to the peninsula and past the Nick Nairn cook school. I got the feeling I was out of my comfort zone when I walked past a dead sheep stuck in the bog ... unsettling. It gave the truth to the story that 'Lake' is just an Anglophide mis-naming of Laich (low lying bog) of Menteith. Some really nice shots but you feel very isolated. I think a fair few of your shots on this vlog had that Japanese Zen feel to them.

@JohnMcKennaPhotography

2 ай бұрын

Thanks Iain! I'd never thought of doing a circuit of the lake. Did it take long? It's a lovely spot steeped in history and folklore (watch out for a "Tales from Scotland" from here soon) but one which most people (including me) speed by on their way somewhere "more glamourous". I've already got plans to return for a sunset sometime soon! (if access allows on the other side, I might even try a sunrise one morning)

@iainmc9859

2 ай бұрын

@@JohnMcKennaPhotography There is no path. What I did was reckless. Although I did get some nice shots of places (accessible by boat) there's plenty of drainage ditches and barbed wire fences to catch out the unwary and where's there's no drainage ditches it quickly turns into bog. There's a farm on the west side (Roman fort just flat fields) but the roadway would be intrusive and isn't close to the shore. Circumnavigation took about six hours in midsummer including cutting through what was probably Nick Nairn's garden, legs were rubber by the end and I was glad to get back on the east side road. Its not something I'd do again. If you wanted an excursion in the area I'd suggest the top of the Menteith Hills accessible by going up to the Pots of Glenny and then cutting over the fields; a steep walk but great views.

@JohnMcKennaPhotography

2 ай бұрын

@@iainmc9859 fair enough, I'll stick to the side I know!

@iainmc9859

2 ай бұрын

@@JohnMcKennaPhotography Having said that if you know somebody with a boat 😊

@JohnMcKennaPhotography

2 ай бұрын

@@iainmc9859 nope!

John all of the shots are really good the abstract shots and the pano in particular and you certainty achieved the relaxing mood.

@JohnMcKennaPhotography

2 ай бұрын

Thanks Malcolm!

Nice Abstract reflective shots John, It's ridiculous allowing those Fishermen out on the Lake when there is a Photoshoot in progress need to get back up to the Lake again soon, it's been a little while.

@JohnMcKennaPhotography

2 ай бұрын

Thanks Douglas! Me too, that was my first time stopping off since 2018!

@colintraveller

2 ай бұрын

The boat adds character and subject .

Wonderful, tranquil video. You can feel the calming vibes pouring out of the TV on this one. I'm trying to figure out where you are exactly? Is it near the car park on the B8034 north of Arnprior?

@JohnMcKennaPhotography

2 ай бұрын

Thanks Dougie. Yeh, at the little car park in the woods on the B8034 just a few hundred yards south of the Inchmahome Priory Car Park. Literally just crossed the road to the lake and did the entire video from that little stretch with the reeds.

Great video. I always find your content very "chilled"

@JohnMcKennaPhotography

Ай бұрын

Thanks mate. I'd had a bit of a week so this was my attempt at taking the edge off.

@glasgownightphotography

Ай бұрын

@@JohnMcKennaPhotography Hope everything is ok buddy 🙏

@JohnMcKennaPhotography

Ай бұрын

@@glasgownightphotography aye all good thanks! How's you? You going to Midge Ure at the Royal Concert Hall in December?

@glasgownightphotography

Ай бұрын

@@JohnMcKennaPhotography We are good mate, thank you. No not going in December but was at the Foo Fighters last night and it was brilliant. We are heading to New York in December so hopefully get some nice New York Christmas shots

@JohnMcKennaPhotography

Ай бұрын

@@glasgownightphotography I was there last night too! Great gig, eh?

Peaceful🥰💦🌾

@JohnMcKennaPhotography

Ай бұрын

Thanks! :)