I Made a Mistake & Now I Have One of my BEST Images

Thanks to NordVPN for sponsoring this video. Mistakes are easy to make in landscape photography. In this video I make 2 mistakes. One cost me an image and the othermistake made me an image. Watch as I sleep in my van and wake up early for unrise photography in the Lake District with a Nikon Z7 II.

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[laurabronson]

Watching your videos is a zen moment for me. An opportunity to slow down and appreciate this wonderful world we live in. Thanks for all you do.

[burrdaddy]

That first shot - what a stunning location!

[SummersSnaps]

Do take care Thomas. I shoot waterfalls and streams in the Blue Mountains Australia and once joined the creek with camera in hand from simply slipping on a completely large flat piece of rock quite far from the river. There must have been a moss of some kind that was like black ice, I tried to get back up from the spot I slipped upon but no joy and I steadily but slowly started to slide towards the river and there wasn't a thing I could do to stop it. I had to hold the camera up and accept the fate that I was joining the cascades. Fortunately there were no major waterfalls and after a few meters down the creek I could pull myself out. But the lesson here is sometimes we think where we are is safe spot but in reality it might not be at all. It's not always about where you currently are situated but where you currently COULD become situated should unforeseen events unfold. Use rope, anchor yourself to a tree or something when near cliff edges and dangerous spots, it will only increase your respect for your fellow viewers. You simply can never be too careful or safe, over engineering is best practice.

Stay safe.

[LandscapePhotography]

the results are very stunning bro.. the photos are so cool, success always bro📸📸📸

[antonoat]

Proof that with experience comes the ability to see! I’ve felt that for at least twenty years wide angle lenses are actually rarely the best choice for landscapes! Great work Tom👏👍😀

[aquietreality]

“No one will hear me scream.” that took a dark turn! 😅 Love your videos Thomas!

[Meraxes]

Dude the mistakes are where the magic happens. I discovered my style as an artist from “mistakes” (happy accidents). Learned so many new techniques this way.

Of course most mistakes are just that, but those few happy accidents make it so worth it

[louisburley]

This is the only channel I that I really love the long formats. I look forward to these! I want to buy a 10 Stop ND filter for times similar to the end of the video. No light? Let's just blur the clouds with a 5 minute exposure and make it black and white.

[allansisson]

Fantastic video, you made another flawless one.

[williamlong]

Love the explanations about what goes on in your head before pressing the shutter. Thank you Tom.

[Trblmkr]

I gotta tell ya Thomas, every time you get close to an edge, I just get a knot in my stomach for your safety. PLEASE please be careful on those edges!!! I wonder what the trees and the quarry would look like in Infrared ?? Great Video as usual.

[danncorbit]

Liked the images, especially the two lily pad shots. But you can't fool me. That second one was definitely a Van Gogh. ;-)

[calieeldalie]

Nice mistake indeed! My favorite is however the very first one photo, with the stone wall ondulating (not sure it's a word..) and wrapping the forest. I'm maybe also biased because I love fog. I can't wait to see a nice crisp and clear photo of the upside down tree. And on this one, maybe a bit of fog in between the cliff+ tree and the trees in the first background to provide more separation between the star of the photo and the overall image. Thanks again for sharing all this!

[phawkinsphoto]

Thomas, Thanks for another great video! The Lilly pad shots reminded me of some images I made last year. I have been shooting B&W Infrared since the late 1970s as a teenager. In recent times I have started to look at subjects for IR that I never used to, and I did a whole bunch of Lilly pads in IR and was blown away with the results. I was drawn to a couple of the IR images you made on cloudy days, which made me rethink IR subjects. As for making mistakes, that is how we learn and move forward.

Peter

[helmutNO]

Great video, as always! I just love your chill vibe :)

[ReidDickson]

"Sit back, and enjoy today's video" -- I am, indeed, fully reclined. Wow, you got some nice weather that morning.

[mstraitefamily]

Thank you so much for sharing your mistakes as well as your victories. Makes the rest of us feel human. Thats a good thing. :)

[nevvanclarke]

It’s funny Thomas because I teach photography locally to community members and one of the things I always say is take at least three shots of the same scene especially when you’re a beginner but I do like the analogy of learning from mistakes as well and I say in photography there are actually no mistakes they’re just learning opportunities if we can change our mindset to the art of creation and that we learn more from our steaks than we ever do from what we do well when we take a great image we tend to just look at it and feel good but we don’t analyse it for the critical aspects. But when we take a photo badly we will sit there and analyse it because we want it to be better.

[markattardo]

I beg to differ regarding the dangling tree comp. At some point, it is in fact going to go somewhere😂 Interesting photos this week. I like the moving lily pads.

[sergueilarionov]

Good one. Thank you. Something new there ( I mean video).big fan