Hi Espen. You have to love what you do, you clearly do . That’s why I have my channel, to share what I love. Great job again

@EspenHelland

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks Rich 😁👍🏻

Absolutely beautiful, thank you. Come down to the Norfolk Broads. We get hundreds of thousands of Golden Plover on Breydon Water, Great Yarmouth. Happy New Year, I’m looking forward to seeing where you’re off to next in 2021.

Love your Vid show plans dos not always go right But you show just enjoy wildlife and getting a good photo too is bonus

@EspenHelland

5 жыл бұрын

lord strong thank you 🙂 👍🏻

Thanks for sharing your trip. Its refreshing to see videos of the challenges and (dare I say it) failures that always accompany us when we are out and about photographing wildlife. Its the challenge that makes any success all the more rewarding. Keep up the good work, always enjoy your uploads. 👍

@EspenHelland

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks very much John, really appreciate your comments 🙂 good to make friends with failure, or learning as I prefer to call it 😉

Great vlog Espen. Enjoyed watching this

@EspenHelland

5 жыл бұрын

Full Stop Next Chapter thank you very much Mel 🙂

Loved this video Espen. I can relate to being at a gorgeous location and not seeing the birds you had hoped to see. The reason I like taking bird photos is also getting out in nature. Our photos represent our experiences, so are important.

@EspenHelland

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks Pauline 🙂 it's a great excuse to get out there 😁👍🏻

"Learning by doing!" Wildlife photography is like meditation for me.... Great video again!!!

@EspenHelland

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much Roar!

Great video man! Beautiful images. I loved those ptarmigan shots!

@EspenHelland

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks very much Brent :)

That was inspiring. I often concentrate on my work to home business only, forgetting about beautiful nature around. And this video again made me remember this adventurous feeling I encounter while being alone with the nature

@EspenHelland

5 жыл бұрын

Great to hear that Iskander 😁 Thanks!

What a tough few days. Still, a great experience. Thanks for sharing.

@EspenHelland

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you Glen 🙂

Hi ESPen as all of your videos,very informative fun and give us plenty of ideas being disabled the only way I see these places is from your videos ,thanks again for all your videos 👍👍📷

@EspenHelland

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much Paul, much appreciated 🙂

Loving your videos and the experiences you share with us. I do wildlife photography and to me it’s being out and sharing time with the magnificent wildlife we have, the photograph is just a caught moment in time to remember as I get older, and to share that experience with others less fortunate than ourselves who never get to see these beautiful creatures.

@EspenHelland

3 жыл бұрын

Absolutely, thanks Stephen :)

Excellent, Very much enjoy your videos Thank you.

@EspenHelland

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks very much for the continuing support Paul!

Thank you Espen, for reminding me why I joined the community of wildlife photographers... For me and my love of it! Always inspired by your episodes. Keep up the great work!

@EspenHelland

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for that Todd :)

Awesome video, I enjoyed it all, thank you

@EspenHelland

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you Steve!

Great video! And the photos you got were wonderful! I agree with what you were saying although I believe that nothing is stopping anyone from becoming as great as the best photographers...so keep at it

@EspenHelland

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks James! Absolutely, we should always strive for the best 🙂

Great video, great edit, lovely part of the world!

@EspenHelland

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much Jimmy 🙂

So amazing video! Thanks for sharing...

@EspenHelland

5 жыл бұрын

Video Natur thank you 🙂

Looked like an adventure buddy ! Love the hide too, kit envy lol 😉

@EspenHelland

5 жыл бұрын

Discover Nature Naturally with JP 😅 thanks!

Great vlog. Cairngorm National Park is my favourite in Scotland. When I lived in Aberdeen I spend every weekend in Cairngorms. I knew every stone on every pathway. I was able to suggest you to go by the Ancient Pine Forest between Braemar and Crathie. I saw male capercailles few times there. You can go to the Lochnagar alos to see red deers, roe deers, red and black grouses, ptarmigans, golden eagles etc. Too many favourite pathways are there. You can see Dippers in Loch Muick. Enjoy !!!!

@EspenHelland

5 жыл бұрын

Think Shetland thank you 🙂 I'll have to check with you next time I go! It is an amazing place 👍🏻

Hi, just found your channel. Not an aspiring photographer, but I've subscribed because your videos are awesome!!!! So beautiful, peaceful, and full of joy. Thanks.

@EspenHelland

5 жыл бұрын

G B that's really cool to hear! Thank you very much 🙂

Hi Espen. I started wildlife photography in 2016 & as much as I appreciate there are better photographers out there it doesn’t stop me from setting some personal goals which is the only way I can assess my growth as a photographer. You say you love to run but have already made up your mind you will never win a marathon which I think is quite a negative thought process as you’ve already lowered your bar! Yes, some may think it’s a realistic thought process, but I don’t. As soon as you stop thinking about winning a marathon you lower your goals. Your a bloody good photographer who has the time & knowledge to put himself into positions to get amazing images of some interesting subjects. You do great videos that a lot of people love to watch including myself. My attitude is the higher you aim, the higher your growth will be. I have always had a dream of one day walking up onto that stage at the Natural History Museum & collecting The Wildlife Photographer of The Year award, will it happen probably not, but as soon as I start thinking that I bring a negative into my thought process. I say aim big & set your goals high & you’ll miss small, if you set your bar too low you’ll never achieve your true potential. Great video especially in such difficult surroundings & circumstances. Mark 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

@EspenHelland

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much Mark! I agree that you should set your bar high and that positive thinking and attitude is incredibly important. However, I also think that if you set the bar at winning in everything you do you're setting yourself up for a lot of dissapointment. I'm not saying don't aim high and go for growth, but you have to be willing to make the sacrifice that comes with aiming for the win in something like a marathon. I have to much photography to do right now 😉

@SuperFucdat

5 жыл бұрын

Espen, that’s no excuse & I expect to see you sprinting down The Mall at the next London Marathon with Mo Farah struggling to keep up with you!… But take your point. Mark🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

@EspenHelland

5 жыл бұрын

Mark & Sue Parker 🤣

Hi Espen, I really enjoy your videos and find them both inspiring and informative. I am not sure if I have the right gear to be able to great great shots but each time I go out I feel I am getting better. Sometimes I just like to get out and enjoy the experience, for me it is sometimes capturing a moment that no one can see and being able to share that. In the short term I want to get shots that I can perhaps print and who knows one day take 'the' shot. Keep up the great work and know that your videos are enjoyed and eagerly awaited all the way down in South Australia.

@EspenHelland

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much, really appreciate it 🙂 I like to stay in competition with only one person, myself. If I can continuously beat myself over the years I'm doing something right 😁

Awesome - loved the ptarmigan images! Shame about the weather on your high camp, I’ve definitely had some ‘exciting’ nights camping in the Cairngorms, but looks like you still had a great trip. If it was the night I’m thinking of - a Sunday in early June - that storm was bad enough in relative shelter on the NW coast so I’m not surprised you moved to lower ground!!

@EspenHelland

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks very much Geoff! Sunday early June, that's the one 👌🏻 should have seen it coming 😅

Fantastic video!

@EspenHelland

5 жыл бұрын

eXplorer thank you 🙂

Hey Espen, just discovered your channel as I'm back photographing on Mull in a few weeks and was browsing KZread for videos to get me even more excited. Great content man, look forward to seeing more... Ps props for the aeropress use in this one!

@EspenHelland

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Phil! Aeropress is the BEST!! :) Have a great time on Mull!

Hi Espen. Again, Thank you this video. Thank you for sharing your thoughts, your honesty, your experience and your love of Nature and wildlife. I loved the answer you gave concerning what exactly do you want to achieve in photography... Well basically you put into words what I've been doing for about three years now. I dearly love my husband and my grown-up boys... but when I'm out in the woods, on in a field I just lose track of time, forget things that bother me or take up too much importance in my mind when they shouldn't. I have the regular 9 -5 office job. and I'm sure I would not be as happy in work if wildlife photography was not part of my life. It's what makes me who I am today. The point is not to become ONE OF THE BEST PHOTOGRAPHERS - it’s reconnecting with nature, yourself and of course progressing in photography - just as you said. I took my husband out into the woods last Sunday and we had two full hours with 5 very active Siberian chipmunks. OK not the most exotic little creatures but the look on my husband’s face (like a 5 year old with an ice-cream) made me so happy to share that moment. I will always remember his face when I’ll look back at the photos I took. Photography is shared moments and happiness.

@EspenHelland

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you Isa 🙂 Very nice that you can share those wildlife moments together. Btw chipmunks are great! You got some really nice photos of them 👌🏻

Enjoy the content mate, keep it up. Would be good to see some manuals in the future, foxes, badgers etc. All the best 🤘

@EspenHelland

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much Shaun! Would really like to do a longer project on an animal like a badger or fox, I just need to stay in one place for a little longer 😉

I very much enjoy your vlogs. I just started photographing birds 2 yrs. ago as a way of recording the species I’ve seen. In the end, I think that a lot of us photograph to remind us of the moments in nature that will have a much greater impact on our lives than the daily grind of our work life. Thank you for your inspiration and sharing your thoughts with us.

@EspenHelland

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much Joshua! I think I got started that way as well, just wanted to record my experiences in nature. Now it also gets me out into nature even more 😃

@alexandershepard3534

2 жыл бұрын

I guess Im asking randomly but does any of you know a way to log back into an Instagram account..? I was dumb lost the login password. I appreciate any assistance you can offer me

@judecolin207

2 жыл бұрын

@Alexander Shepard Instablaster =)

@alexandershepard3534

2 жыл бұрын

@Jude Colin thanks so much for your reply. I got to the site through google and I'm trying it out now. Looks like it's gonna take a while so I will get back to you later when my account password hopefully is recovered.

@alexandershepard3534

2 жыл бұрын

@Jude Colin It worked and I finally got access to my account again. I'm so happy:D Thank you so much, you really help me out!

Espen Helland. Good video: Prior to this, I had only seen a Ring Ouzle in books - well done. As for the windy night in your tent, had you been blown away whilst on the side of the hill, you could have carried out some aerial photography. I think you missed an opportunity there.

@EspenHelland

5 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣 thanks Pete! I'll think of that next time 😉

Will watch this later but had to comment.....Springwatch in the cairngorms, Espen in the cairngorms......missed opportunity? Or do I need to get caught up on Springwatch to see you? Oooooh the anticipation! 😂

@bbsphotography2187

5 жыл бұрын

A massive part of my photography journey is about mental health and general health. Skills, fresh air, exercise, brain activity, relaxation, distraction, it all keeps my anxietyand depression in better check. Other than that, I strive to be an award winning photographer, safe in the knowledge I probably never will be BUT......the closer I get, the better I get, the more keepers I get, the happier I am with the images I take. So its a no pressure, no expectation journey towards whatever heights I do or dont reach. And it's great!

@EspenHelland

5 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣 I did actually walk past some filming deep in Abernethy forest, think I saw Iolo Williams with a bunch of crew. For some reason they haven't invited me on the show this year 😉😅

@EspenHelland

5 жыл бұрын

Great attitude to photography Barry! I think it helps a lot of people with mental health 👌🏻

Again a nice video Espen. I especially like the part about why you like to do wildlife-photography, even when you know that you never going to 'beat' other photographers or make a $100K picture. It's all about being out there, feel a connection with the environment you're in and enjoying what you do. Another question on this subject: have you ever noticed that your senses are getting 'stronger' (more sensitive hearing, sight etc.) when you are out in nature? It sometimes happens to me, even during a visit to a blind for example. Whenever that happens, it can really make my day, even when I don't get one picture I like. Now a little bit more down to earth: my offer still stands, whenever you are in the Netherlands give me a call and I would love to show you some nice areas over here. A couple of nice cold beers from my fridge included :). Keep the videos coming!

@EspenHelland

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks William! Will let you know 🙂👍🏻 I feel that I hear and see more in nature the more time I spend in it. Things I wouldn't notice before. Especially with sound, maybe because when you start to recognise individual bird and animal song/sounds it gets easier to pick out what used to just be background noise.

Very much enjoy your videos. Wildlife photography, next to combat, creates a great awareness of your surroundings. Love the feeling of being surrounded by nature. Being out in the world of wildlife never gets old. Keep your videos coming.🙂

@EspenHelland

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks very much Terry! Absolutely agree 👍🏻

Lovely drone work and photography. At 15:20, roughly how high was your drone flying?

@EspenHelland

5 жыл бұрын

thanks Stephen! Not quite sure, I started it from a hill so it was looking at an angle further down the hill. Maybe 200m when looking down the valley.

Enjoy your calm and peaceful videos, they do inspire me. So many content creators get more and more wrapped up in the production of it as they get more followers. Please don’t do that, just do you.

@EspenHelland

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much Daniel! I know what you mean, though we'd probably all like to improve on production, it's a fine balance of making it take over at the loss of content.

@danieljohnston5306

5 жыл бұрын

Espen Helland the one that gets me all the time is knowing they are alone and seeing shots of them walking down the trail and passing the camera. I mean one or two shots of that in a 15 minuted video, no biggy, but every single person knows what they just did to do that....lol

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For myself while others may be better photographers or have better pictures that shouldn't stop me from improving myself. When they started they weren't masters either.

@EspenHelland

5 жыл бұрын

Absolutely, we shouldn't stop trying just because others may be better. Like you say, we all have to start from pretty much the same starting point!

@rmann22

5 жыл бұрын

Espen Helland and who knows how many photos were taken to get that one shot!

excellent video, can you link the bivvi please

@EspenHelland

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Do you mean the hide? There's a link on my gear page on website, it's the Tragopan Monal

hi! nice channel there! I was wondering what drone do you use please? +1 sub ;)

@EspenHelland

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks! I use the Mavic pro

What's a parking lot? Oh you mean a car park😉

@EspenHelland

4 жыл бұрын

🤣 What can I say, my english is half learnt from watching Seinfeld :)

hola amigo, con cual camara gravaste el video de las aves ? saludos desde Cozumel a mi tambien me gustan las aves fotografiar flic.kr/p/2gVhcEW y

@EspenHelland

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Nice photos :) I use a Canon M50 for filming the video, and Canon 7Dii to film and photograph wildlife.

I went to Scotland in February looking for snow and rain and got the warmest February on record. The results can be seen here kzread.info/dash/bejne/qGqpj9ejdqm7dJc.html

Hi Espen, i think you check the link to your Facebook profile it certenly dont look as you :)

@EspenHelland

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the heads up Stephan, I don't know how that happened, but I've gone back and fixed them now 🙂

if the main objective is to get home with 7 or 8 keepers, then we are all following a very wrong objective xD Nature first and photography second ;)

@EspenHelland

5 жыл бұрын

Nature first, let the good photos come when they come 😉

@JoeMaranophotography

5 жыл бұрын

Watch the David Yarrow documentary. He says he is happy if he gets that in a year!

@EspenHelland

5 жыл бұрын

Joe Marano yeah seen it before, he's an amazing photographer! The better we get the higher standard we have of our images

@JoeMaranophotography

5 жыл бұрын

@@EspenHelland The only problem then is it becomes a job or a chore and stressful and I never want that to happen. Killed numerous passions of mine over the years that has haha