A lovely video to encourage the people to change their back yard to a nature photography studio. I am on the same project and will create my own set up for macro and bird photography.
What a fantastic set up! Very inspirational video, not only from a photographic standpoint, but from gardening/landscaping as well. Thanks for giving us a tour!
Fabulous! We are slowly working on changing our yard to native species and enjoying the dividends...Congratulations and hoping you have a very green spring!
I love it! It looks amazing. Trying to learn more about native plants, too. We have lots of blue tailed skinks, salamanders, snakes and toads in our suburban yard. And over quarantine we finally a hummingbird nest in our own yard.
Fantastic job you two! Inspirational. Doing what we can with a much smaller bit of suburbia, converting grass to native pollinator beds, a rain garden, and lots of Milkweed for Monarchs!
After pushing through the gut churning, shaky camera work on the woodland walk at the start, I really enjoyed the rest of the video. What a lot of work you've done. Very impressed! 😁
Steve and Nicole... You've done a fantastic job creating a photographer's dream! Quite a change since we last saw it. Congrats and best wishes for a successful future. Anxious to do a "backyard workshop".
Thanks guys yes you will not recognize it, we have kept pretty busy. Hoping to have a macro workshop later on this week. Just cannot get a break with the weather!
The scale of the meadow for native plants is impressive. I helped develop native plant gardens at my home and at my church. We have a couple rain gardens and several butterfly gardens at church, with the goal of enriching the health of the local watershed. I also do photography and I did some videos about the work at my church. I practiced taking photos out the window of my house in the last couple of years during the pandemic. My wife is from Michigan too. We go to Detroit area Metroparks when we visit her family looking for birds and other wildlife. I saw that you are in Livingston County, Michigan. I would love to visit your property. Best of luck. I subscribed too.
Thank you we have gotten a lot of happiness from the meadow. Yes the Metroparks are a great place to photograph we visit Kensington quite often especially in the Spring.
Looks awesome! I cannot even imagine how much hard work you guy put into creating it! From the images at the end, it looks like it is paying off in spades (bad pun intended!!).
Hey Brian Thanks for stopping by! Yes we have been productive with our time at home. Have to say no to the fish Nicole says they will eat our baby salamanders!?!
This is so awesome! I have shown the blinds to my husband, who is retired and always looking for a project. He reminded me that in our area, the snakes and spiders would love to have a cool dark place to call home. I hadn't thought of it - was having such a lovely daydream about the blind and reflecting pool, but reality is a dream-killer! I can deal with the non-venomous varieties, but we have several types of venomous snakes near our home as well as brown recluse spiders...also field mice from the farmland surrounding us. Do you have any of those problems, and if so, how do you deal with it?
@Steve Gettle great that you're free of all that! My brother-in-law told me that he doesn't believe we'd have problems. He grew up playing with siblings in their family storm shelter, and never had those problems. I think it's worth a shot!
Hi Steve, you can sign up for our pre-announcement list on our website - details are here: stevegettle.com/workshop/macro-photography-at-steve-and-nicoles-house/
You guys have been listening in on my fantasy life???! REALLY well-done, and what promise for the future! Questions: how big is your overall property? We’re the photo blinds integral to the landscape plan, or were they added?
We appreciate your kind words Jim. We are on 10 acres and have about 5,000 total square feet of meadow. The photo blinds were the first thing we put in, I mean we DO have priorities lol - We then just worked the meadows around them. Also the blinds had to go in where they are in order to take best advantage of the light. Please send our best to Chris.
Hi Steve, I have a few of your photos from Winterfair Columbus from years ago :) How did you dig your pond and did you use a liner? Did you sew any seeds by hand along with grasses or all plugs? Thanks for the info!
Hi David, We had a pond guy dig the pond and install the liner for us. for the meadow we did seeds and plugs we prepared the soil in the fall and sowed seeds (mainly as insurance) then in the Spring we followed up with plugs. Both seeds and plugs did very well.
Hey Jim the pond is hose fed. We are on a well so that works, evaporation is not bad unless it is in the 90s, with no rain. We have topped it off a couple times this summer.
You have a wildlife garden to die for: it is absolutely stunning.
Thank you we really enjoy it!
My 37 year old wife thinks this is very cool!! 🙇
Extremely interesting
Beautiful yard work and photos! Amazing!
Thank you very much!
Great job,all the work will reward you making your time together so rich
Thanks and yes... we do get untold rewards every day from all of the hard work!
So beautiful!! Love your work!
Thanks so much!
Beautifull! Please keep doing macro photography tutorials videos! I love your back yard and the way you guys explain!!!
We really Love Macro photography - more to come for sure!
Great project and video. Thanks for the video tour.
Thanks for watching!
Congratulations on your 5K subscribers. Thanks for planting native plants.
Hi Carlos, just wanted to let you know we are doing a Bird Photography program for Houston Audubon Photo club -- thanks for the referral!
NICE!
A lovely video to encourage the people to change their back yard to a nature photography studio. I am on the same project and will create my own set up for macro and bird photography.
Good for you. We have gotten so much joy from our meadow project - as well as countless images!
Yard goals for sure! That's an amazing place, both to enjoy nature and to enjoy photography.
Yes we Love how it feeds our soul and it has paid countless photographic dividends as well!
What a fantastic set up! Very inspirational video, not only from a photographic standpoint, but from gardening/landscaping as well. Thanks for giving us a tour!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Found you on my friends playlist, nice work
Fabulous! We are slowly working on changing our yard to native species and enjoying the dividends...Congratulations and hoping you have a very green spring!
Thanks so much we are really enjoying it!
Elegant work you have here
Thanks
This is awesome
Thanks so much!
I love it! It looks amazing. Trying to learn more about native plants, too. We have lots of blue tailed skinks, salamanders, snakes and toads in our suburban yard. And over quarantine we finally a hummingbird nest in our own yard.
OMG Susanna!!! That is awesome about the hummingbird nest!!
Fantastic job you two! Inspirational. Doing what we can with a much smaller bit of suburbia, converting grass to native pollinator beds, a rain garden, and lots of Milkweed for Monarchs!
Thanks! Good for you as well. In many ways those suburban islands are even MORE important!
Fantastic landscaping. So much enjoyment ahead of you. Excited for you!!
Thanks Barbara. Hope to see you guys soon
After pushing through the gut churning, shaky camera work on the woodland walk at the start, I really enjoyed the rest of the video. What a lot of work you've done. Very impressed! 😁
Ha ha valid feedback! Thanks for pushing through. We are learning as we go, in fact we just received some new (better) equipment!
Steve and Nicole... You've done a fantastic job creating a photographer's dream! Quite a change since we last saw it. Congrats and best wishes for a successful future. Anxious to do a "backyard workshop".
Thanks guys yes you will not recognize it, we have kept pretty busy. Hoping to have a macro workshop later on this week. Just cannot get a break with the weather!
What an incredible inspiration you guys are , great videos, and great images , please keep em coming x
Thanks so much. We have a lot more coming!!!
The scale of the meadow for native plants is impressive. I helped develop native plant gardens at my home and at my church. We have a couple rain gardens and several butterfly gardens at church, with the goal of enriching the health of the local watershed. I also do photography and I did some videos about the work at my church. I practiced taking photos out the window of my house in the last couple of years during the pandemic. My wife is from Michigan too. We go to Detroit area Metroparks when we visit her family looking for birds and other wildlife. I saw that you are in Livingston County, Michigan. I would love to visit your property. Best of luck. I subscribed too.
Thank you we have gotten a lot of happiness from the meadow. Yes the Metroparks are a great place to photograph we visit Kensington quite often especially in the Spring.
Looks awesome! I cannot even imagine how much hard work you guy put into creating it! From the images at the end, it looks like it is paying off in spades (bad pun intended!!).
HA HA Thanks Bruce!
Dang, you did a massive load of work, to get to a photographer's backyard, NICE. Now if you want any goldfish we have a bumper crop this year.
Hey Brian Thanks for stopping by! Yes we have been productive with our time at home. Have to say no to the fish Nicole says they will eat our baby salamanders!?!
@@SteveGettle The goldfish have been multiplying way to fast the little buggers put rabbits to shame. Working on finding a pond for them.
This is so awesome! I have shown the blinds to my husband, who is retired and always looking for a project. He reminded me that in our area, the snakes and spiders would love to have a cool dark place to call home. I hadn't thought of it - was having such a lovely daydream about the blind and reflecting pool, but reality is a dream-killer! I can deal with the non-venomous varieties, but we have several types of venomous snakes near our home as well as brown recluse spiders...also field mice from the farmland surrounding us. Do you have any of those problems, and if so, how do you deal with it?
Never had any kind of problem with anything like that???
@Steve Gettle great that you're free of all that! My brother-in-law told me that he doesn't believe we'd have problems. He grew up playing with siblings in their family storm shelter, and never had those problems. I think it's worth a shot!
Great job, beautiful location. So how someone get involved in you macro workshop?
Hi Steve, you can sign up for our pre-announcement list on our website - details are here: stevegettle.com/workshop/macro-photography-at-steve-and-nicoles-house/
You guys have been listening in on my fantasy life???! REALLY well-done, and what promise for the future! Questions: how big is your overall property? We’re the photo blinds integral to the landscape plan, or were they added?
We appreciate your kind words Jim. We are on 10 acres and have about 5,000 total square feet of meadow. The photo blinds were the first thing we put in, I mean we DO have priorities lol - We then just worked the meadows around them. Also the blinds had to go in where they are in order to take best advantage of the light. Please send our best to Chris.
I know you have a great deal of energy but you hired a local person to plant right? You also have a good amount of native plant vendors there?
Ha ha!!! No, we dug every hole. Found some great native vendors!
Hi Steve, I have a few of your photos from Winterfair Columbus from years ago :) How did you dig your pond and did you use a liner?
Did you sew any seeds by hand along with grasses or all plugs? Thanks for the info!
Hi David, We had a pond guy dig the pond and install the liner for us. for the meadow we did seeds and plugs we prepared the soil in the fall and sowed seeds (mainly as insurance) then in the Spring we followed up with plugs. Both seeds and plugs did very well.
When will you rent me a room?? I loved the tour. I will wait for more
So glad you enjoyed it Susie! We'll make more :)!!
I wonder what would have happened if I made this
Happiness
Hey guys, is your pond spring-fed?
Hey Jim the pond is hose fed. We are on a well so that works, evaporation is not bad unless it is in the 90s, with no rain. We have topped it off a couple times this summer.
@@SteveGettle Cool. Next time I'm in Brighton I'll be hoping for a tour!
Extremely interesting
Extremely interesting