A couple of months ago I was out in a local nature park with my hi - tech EM1X and EM1 mark III, and met a young lad studying photography. I stood and watched in amazement as he set up plate camera - hood and all. He was photographing a woodland image and just waiting for the sun to come to the correct position. Five years ago, my son surprised me when he sold his digital gear and bought a Hasselblad 6 x 6 - a camera I could only dream of when I was his age.
I am glad that you are enjoying discovering the challenges of film. My first camera was a 16x20 inch view camera using wet plate negatives sixty years ago. Enjoy!
Well done Ian. Very brave to show the results ‘live’ and I hope you get a lot of enjoyment from your new camera. It’s awful how some people show such disrespect for nature and makes me feel so angry.
Ian, thanks for taking us along on the learning journey. You took me back 55 yrs when I used to develop my own b/w. I look forward to your next outting with the big rig!
Ian yes do the developing film video. It has been over 3 decades since I developed film. I still enjoy using my Nikon d4 and you gave me a great inspiration to shoot some woody area after our snowfall with my film camera.
Wow! Congratulations on a tremendous job well done. I like your photographs and look forward to seeing more of your 4 x 5 work. Thank you, Peter from Tasmania
Great to see you having some wins already on your new camera. You appear to be having fun with the learning experience which is great. I wouldn't mind seeing how you designed the spring closure on the back for inserting the film holder. Darkroom set up also brought back some fond memories of days past. Looking forward to more. Jim
So sad about the trees. Thanks for sharing...you and I use the same recipe and tank for large format! Makes me feel good to know that for some reason :). So cool to see how well your new hand-crafted tool is responding! Stunning quality! Nice highlights in your son's eyes too.
Pretty neat dude. That was quite a journey to get to the final results, but it looked like a lot of fun and there's always something a little extra rewarding about making a great analog image, especially from a camera you built yourself.
Bravo Ian, for a first attempt that's very impressive. Can I just say for the record, it was not me that carved "Lloyd" into that tree! I agree 100% with your comments and sentiments.
The graffiti/carving issue is an interesting debate. One I was having with a friend recently as we looked at a beech tree in which someone had carved their initials about 50 years ago (barely legible now). At what point does the graffiti become a historical record? There's an old barn near us where local lads scratched their names and initials in the stonework over 100 years ago. One of them is commemorated in the local churchyard having been killed in the First World War. It's poignant to think of him larking about as a teenager before being sent off to the trenches to die. Anyway, I'm new to your channel and it's fascinating to see your journey into large format. Looking forward too seeing more.
Please take a tip from older photographer who very often loaded 40 or even more slides a day. Processed and printed from contact sheet to five foot prints. We where told to tap the slide holder when you take the slide out. To settle the film in case of movement. It does happen not often but and now you know. When you have lugged a case with 5 x 4 kit 3 lenses half a dozen slides double if you have to shoot b/W and colour, triple if they want E6 slide as well plus a lot heavier gytso Metal tripod. Add the time and cost. It’s worth a little tap to settle the film. For the one time it moves while shooting.
Really enjoyed this Ian, well done indeed especially with taking us straight into it to share as it happened on the dev side. I’ve got my 35mm but not setup dev yet. Looking forward to seeing more 👍
Well done Ian the results look fantastic! Sorry to see the carvings in the trees, there's a fair bit of it in my local beech wood too that I'm always having to clone out.
Great the camera is working you can will have great fun refining the camera and your technique. Who knows you may end up becoming a camera manufacturer when we go throught the digital phase.
Interesting to watch this journey. I agree with you about the Beech trees. You often find them carved in the same manner here in the states too. Really wish Treebeard or a Wood Elf would come to life and knock these fools out cold when they take a knife to a tree like that.
Don't worry about buying a flatbed scanner you will get better results with a digital capture , multiple shots blend and you'll have a hi res image consistent with your 4x5's potential. btw like your channel
Totally with you Ian, it's a disgrace what people actually do to our World. Things like that makes my blood boil, ignorant selfish people. However, rant over great channel mate, and good to see a fellow Fuji Photographer.
Unique post and super project, Ian - bet you feel a connection to pioneering photographers of long ago. Re spot meter, used to use an old Pentax spotmeter that had form-factor of small hair drier. Bulky but accurate. Why not use spotmeter mode of one of your digital cameras? Read where old time ‘togs would use “head clamps” on models to keep them still during long exposures. Downer for tree graffiti. Cheers!
Cheers Paul, indeed, I've been looking to pick up a Pentax spot meter but they are hard to come by at a decent price. That's what I've been doing, using the spot meter on my camera, it's been pretty accurate, just require a little more thought. 👍👍🙏
Wow, Ian. That's putting the fun back into photography. Really looking forward to seeing future progress. The hacked trees looked dreadful. Have kids/people got nothing better to do with their time?
Awesome video Ian fully enjoyed this episode congrats on the images pretty good start. Shame about the tree carvings in all honesty there’s a tree in Mary panel wood in Yorkshire with my name on it from 1975 seemed a good idea at the time as a kid not so much with the benefit of hindsight Gonna head over and check the build video now. 📷❤️
Yep, I agree with you - I'm fed up with the amount of litter that is left behind. And, yes I don't like the carvings in the trees. I told someone off for starting to draw in the algae in Yellowstone - its the same deal - it will be there for a long long time and if one does it.... more stupid people follow suit.... rant over ! :-D
Nice to see the approach. Would like to do it myself but not with a selfbuild view-camera. Is the scan with yoor fuji a pano (several images) of the negative? I do think a scan of 4*5 has to be done at max. Otherwise you only get the resolution of the digital camera. A pano could give some more resolution. The resolution (my main reason for taking a a large format photograph) is limited bij the digital camera when taking a single image of the nagative. I'am looking forward to see some of your large format landscape photographs!!
Thanks Ruud, when i have have my testing phase complete, I intend to send the images to be drum scanned. But for general proofing and testing, the digital camera serves a purpose for now. 👍👍
We must have been 500 yards apart. Yep, those carvings really are quite sad to see, same location a few weeks ago youths were terrorising some ladies on horseback with their dogs going nuts.
Ian, not sure what old 50mm your using as a makeshift loupe, but a lot of those vintage 50s are radioactive. I think it’s widely held that they aren’t harmful to use but holding them up close to your eye apparently can be harmful to your eyes. I’m sure you already know all this, just thought I’d mention it. Safety first and all.
@@Koji-888 I think Clinton left more than a trail of carved-up trees in his wake. The largely ignored and quite seemingly credible accusations made by various females is rather interesting. Especially in light of the seemingly rather unequal nature of press reporting of such accusations, in that, and other circumstances, and the credibility, or not ,of such claims ,which seem quite dependent on whom the alleged perpetrator is, and when the alleged bad behavior is most damaging to reveal. Given the timing, tone, volume and general nature of such reportage one might almost suspect things to be orchestrated instead of mere reportage. I am sure I am most outrageous to merely postulate the remote possibility that journalism today is mere editorializing and propaganda by other means or has reached a level of corruption sufficient to render it merely a tool of a propagandistic zeitgeist of some powerful echo chamber. Certainly I would not suggest such a thing. Someone might suggest it however.
@@ian_worth you inspired me to bring a trash (rubbish) bag with me on my last river adventure. I appreciate your positivity and that bit about the tree vandals ❤️
Great job on that beautiful camera ! That was truly some clickbait bullshit you did on that title ! You should be proud of that camera build accomplishment. Really great portraits of your kids as well ! Keep it up, get lots of practice, keep us in the loop, or loupe; if you will ! LarryMac
Hi mike, the image is displayed on the glass, its just a case of moving the back standard closer or further from the lens to obtain focus, not easy, but fun nonetheless 👍👍😀
There is an old Latin saying (though the grammar is not exactly classical), _nomina stultorum in omnium locorum_ (the names of the stupid [are] in all places. That shows the people of a certain type have been carving their initials to the trees for thousands of years.
Beautiful photograph indeed, I liked it very much. I love trees. Congratulations on having built a beautiful camera. The pleasure of creating a beautiful photograph on a self made camera must be immense. As for graffiti, I am with you 100%. What looks cool on a disused concrete wall is not acceptable on the skin of a magnificent tree. I am sad to say that this problem is rather international. I have been living in the UK for the past 46 years, but I was not born here. I was born in Tehran so by birth I am Persian/Iranian. Some time ago I read that the good people of Iran have written graffiti on the columns of the monuments of Persepolis, a national treasure and a world heritage site, and a palace that has lasted over 2600 years. This sort of problem was unheard of in Iran 50 years ago. Sad indeed.
Fine looking camera you've built there Ian. Will be looking forward to seeing some colour work. Are you planning on using colour neg or just transparencies for now?
From what I've been seeing lately DSLR scanning is maybe the preferred option these days, rather than buying a scanner. Assuming of course you don't plan to spend 1000s on a high-end drum scanner or whatever and already have a good DSLR and macro lens. I used to have a reasonable flatbed scanner in a previous life, but it's long gone and I'm getting back into LF after several years of using digital. I was baulking at the cost of buying a scanner so started experimenting with DSLR scanning and so far I have to say the results are great, arguably better than a $1300 Epson scanner in most respects (see Nick Carver's comparison video). Admittedly a lot more faffing around as I take multiple images and stich them, but I'm slowly nailing down the workflow, and anyway, how many LF photos do your take? Not many as a rule, so I don't mind if each one takes even half an hour to "process" into an editable positive image on the computer.
Ian that's a subject which annoys and saddens me beyond belief, I mean what sort of strange idiot(s) want to harm a tree. Huge congrats on the photos, brilliant. Looking forward to seeing how this project evolves. cheers. PS Can I ask where the wood is, the only Beech trees I know of near me are the ones outside Wicksteed park, at least they are not butchered with carvings!
Those carvings can be looked at in at least two ways; One as a destroying feature, or as a glimpse into history. It has always been done, and it will never stop. The Vikings carved in the Hagia Sophia. American GI's did it at the citadel of Bitche (france). Is it vandalism? Probably. Does it kill the trees? Probably not ( they certainly doesn't do them good). I would not encourage this kind of action any where, but sometimes the gain is greater than the damage. Imagine carving your name in a tree as an child, and revisit it with your grandhildren after 50 years...
If the tree is on someone's own private land, then fair enough. But these trees are in a public woodland and are preserved for people to enjoy, not be vandalised 👍
@@ian_worth People do dumb stuff all the time. Of stupid things to do, this is not the worst. I don't think you can avoid human traces in an urban environment. For my part, I see the litter as a bigger problem than some writings on a tree. I think it is a good idea to pick up extra litter when you are out taking photos. In Norway, this has become in focus, and "everybody" has been doing it for the last four five years. Especially when walking along the shore line.
A couple of months ago I was out in a local nature park with my hi - tech EM1X and EM1 mark III, and met a young lad studying photography. I stood and watched in amazement as he set up plate camera - hood and all. He was photographing a woodland image and just waiting for the sun to come to the correct position. Five years ago, my son surprised me when he sold his digital gear and bought a Hasselblad 6 x 6 - a camera I could only dream of when I was his age.
That's awesome Peter, 😀👍👍
I am glad that you are enjoying discovering the challenges of film. My first camera was a 16x20 inch view camera using wet plate negatives sixty years ago. Enjoy!
That is awesome! I bet that took some lugging about 👍👍🙏
Well done Ian. Very brave to show the results ‘live’ and I hope you get a lot of enjoyment from your new camera. It’s awful how some people show such disrespect for nature and makes me feel so angry.
Thanks Rodger, so true 👍👍😀
Ian, thanks for taking us along on the learning journey. You took me back 55 yrs when I used to develop my own b/w. I look forward to your next outting with the big rig!
Thanks Kevin, much appreciated 🙏👍👍
Ian yes do the developing film video. It has been over 3 decades since I developed film. I still enjoy using my Nikon d4 and you gave me a great inspiration to shoot some woody area after our snowfall with my film camera.
Thanks buddy, will do 👍👍
Totally agree on the vandalised tree, really cool to see the camera in use, good luck with it.
Thanks Derek 👍🙏
Wow! Congratulations on a tremendous job well done. I like your photographs and look forward to seeing more of your 4 x 5 work. Thank you, Peter from Tasmania
Thanks Peter 👍🙏🙏🙏
Great - no light leaks!!!! Looking forward to more videos to see how the adventures with your new camera progress.
Thanks Tony 🙏🏻😀😀
Hi Ian, good to see you out and about with the 4x5. Just going to watch your build project - looks great.
Thanks Craig, hope you're well bud. It's certainly a learning curve 👍😀😀
Great to see you having some wins already on your new camera. You appear to be having fun with the learning experience which is great. I wouldn't mind seeing how you designed the spring closure on the back for inserting the film holder. Darkroom set up also brought back some fond memories of days past. Looking forward to more. Jim
Thanks Jim, its essentially just a bolt with spring, it keeps the glass pressed against the back and allows for the film holder to slide underneath 👍👍
So enjoyable to watch. Congrats on a great first attempt with your home built 4X5.
Glad you enjoyed it! 😀👍👍
So sad about the trees. Thanks for sharing...you and I use the same recipe and tank for large format! Makes me feel good to know that for some reason :). So cool to see how well your new hand-crafted tool is responding! Stunning quality! Nice highlights in your son's eyes too.
Thanks Juliette. I've been impressed with the tank, it doesn't use to much chemistry which is nice 👍👍🙏
Pretty neat dude. That was quite a journey to get to the final results, but it looked like a lot of fun and there's always something a little extra rewarding about making a great analog image, especially from a camera you built yourself.
Thanks buddy 🙏🙏👍
Bravo Ian, for a first attempt that's very impressive. Can I just say for the record, it was not me that carved "Lloyd" into that tree! I agree 100% with your comments and sentiments.
Thanks Lloyd, I found a carving of Ian as well 👍👍
It was really cool seeing you build this camera and even cooler seeing it in action!
Thanks buddy 😀😀👍
Fantastic venture! Even in an experimental mode your images are Superb.
Thank you so much 😀
The graffiti/carving issue is an interesting debate. One I was having with a friend recently as we looked at a beech tree in which someone had carved their initials about 50 years ago (barely legible now). At what point does the graffiti become a historical record? There's an old barn near us where local lads scratched their names and initials in the stonework over 100 years ago. One of them is commemorated in the local churchyard having been killed in the First World War. It's poignant to think of him larking about as a teenager before being sent off to the trenches to die.
Anyway, I'm new to your channel and it's fascinating to see your journey into large format. Looking forward too seeing more.
Please take a tip from older photographer who very often loaded 40 or even more slides a day. Processed and printed from contact sheet to five foot prints. We where told to tap the slide holder when you take the slide out. To settle the film in case of movement. It does happen not often but and now you know. When you have lugged a case with 5 x 4 kit 3 lenses half a dozen slides double if you have to shoot b/W and colour, triple if they want E6 slide as well plus a lot heavier gytso Metal tripod. Add the time and cost. It’s worth a little tap to settle the film. For the one time it moves while shooting.
Interesting Gary, I'm all for taking advice from the more experienced, I will incorporate that into my workflow 😀😀👍
Really enjoyed this Ian, well done indeed especially with taking us straight into it to share as it happened on the dev side. I’ve got my 35mm but not setup dev yet. Looking forward to seeing more 👍
Hey Mali, hope you're well mate. Glad to hear you're shooting some film too 👍👍
Well done Ian the results look fantastic! Sorry to see the carvings in the trees, there's a fair bit of it in my local beech wood too that I'm always having to clone out.
Thanks buddy, yeah it sucks doesn't it 👍👍🙏🏻
Great the camera is working you can will have great fun refining the camera and your technique. Who knows you may end up becoming a camera manufacturer when we go throught the digital phase.
Thanks buddy 👍👍🙏
Interesting to watch this journey. I agree with you about the Beech trees. You often find them carved in the same manner here in the states too. Really wish Treebeard or a Wood Elf would come to life and knock these fools out cold when they take a knife to a tree like that.
That would be pretty cool to watch Julie 👍😀😀😀
I was waiting for this video. I'm so pleased for you that the camera actually works so well. What an adventure!
Many thanks Scott 👍👍🙏
Great video, very interesting project and the results (photos) you should be proud of.
Thank you very much! 😀👍👍
Don't worry about buying a flatbed scanner you will get better results with a digital capture , multiple shots blend and you'll have a hi res image consistent with your 4x5's potential. btw like your channel
Thanks Michael, I've been testing this out and have been very impressed by the results, Cheers 👍👍👍
Thinking of building one but I think the hardest part would be getting the ground glass aligned perfectly to where the film would be.
Totally with you Ian, it's a disgrace what people actually do to our World. Things like that makes my blood boil, ignorant selfish people. However, rant over great channel mate, and good to see a fellow Fuji Photographer.
Thanks buddy 🙏🙏👍
How cool, must see the making of the camera now.
Thanks Ivan 😀🙏🏻🙏🏻
Nice Job with the new camera!
Thanks Jim 👍👍
I've been checking your work on Instagram and I really like your style! Keep it up!
Thank you so much!! 👍👍😀
Unique post and super project, Ian - bet you feel a connection to pioneering photographers of long ago. Re spot meter, used to use an old Pentax spotmeter that had form-factor of small hair drier. Bulky but accurate. Why not use spotmeter mode of one of your digital cameras? Read where old time ‘togs would use “head clamps” on models to keep them still during long exposures. Downer for tree graffiti. Cheers!
Cheers Paul, indeed, I've been looking to pick up a Pentax spot meter but they are hard to come by at a decent price. That's what I've been doing, using the spot meter on my camera, it's been pretty accurate, just require a little more thought. 👍👍🙏
Wow, Ian. That's putting the fun back into photography. Really looking forward to seeing future progress. The hacked trees looked dreadful. Have kids/people got nothing better to do with their time?
Thanks buddy, yeah seems they don't unfortunately 🙏🏻🙏🏻
Well done Ian, tremendous result.
Thank you! Cheers David🙏🏻🙏🏻👍
Awesome video Ian fully enjoyed this episode congrats on the images pretty good start. Shame about the tree carvings in all honesty there’s a tree in Mary panel wood in Yorkshire with my name on it from 1975 seemed a good idea at the time as a kid not so much with the benefit of hindsight Gonna head over and check the build video now. 📷❤️
Thanks Paul, much appreciated 👍👍
Yep, I agree with you - I'm fed up with the amount of litter that is left behind. And, yes I don't like the carvings in the trees. I told someone off for starting to draw in the algae in Yellowstone - its the same deal - it will be there for a long long time and if one does it.... more stupid people follow suit.... rant over ! :-D
Thanks for the input, much appreciated 🙏🙏
Nice to see the approach. Would like to do it myself but not with a selfbuild view-camera. Is the scan with yoor fuji a pano (several images) of the negative? I do think a scan of 4*5 has to be done at max. Otherwise you only get the resolution of the digital camera. A pano could give some more resolution. The resolution (my main reason for taking a a large format photograph) is limited bij the digital camera when taking a single image of the nagative. I'am looking forward to see some of your large format landscape photographs!!
Thanks Ruud, when i have have my testing phase complete, I intend to send the images to be drum scanned. But for general proofing and testing, the digital camera serves a purpose for now. 👍👍
We must have been 500 yards apart. Yep, those carvings really are quite sad to see, same location a few weeks ago youths were terrorising some ladies on horseback with their dogs going nuts.
It's not good to see Gary, that's for sure 👍
Ian, not sure what old 50mm your using as a makeshift loupe, but a lot of those vintage 50s are radioactive. I think it’s widely held that they aren’t harmful to use but holding them up close to your eye apparently can be harmful to your eyes. I’m sure you already know all this, just thought I’d mention it. Safety first and all.
Thanks Jeffrey, I do own a couple of radioactive lenses but fortunately this one is not. I've got myself a loupe now, so all is good 🙏🙏😀
Thanks for the inspiration!
You are so welcome! 👍👍
Congratulations, your view camera is a success, and no light leaks, amazing. With that success, what did you fink saddening?
The tree carvings Rod, absolutely shocking 👍
Nice work!
Thanks! 👍👍😀🙏
Spare the rod, spoil the child, that's how trees get carved up and how fools get in office.
@@Koji-888 I think Clinton left more than a trail of carved-up trees in his wake. The largely ignored and quite seemingly credible accusations made by various females is rather interesting. Especially in light of the seemingly rather unequal nature of press reporting of such accusations, in that, and other circumstances, and the credibility, or not ,of such claims ,which seem quite dependent on whom the alleged perpetrator is, and when the alleged bad behavior is most damaging to reveal. Given the timing, tone, volume and general nature of such reportage one might almost suspect things to be orchestrated instead of mere reportage. I am sure I am most outrageous to merely postulate the remote possibility that journalism today is mere editorializing and propaganda by other means or has reached a level of corruption sufficient to render it merely a tool of a propagandistic zeitgeist of some powerful echo chamber. Certainly I would not suggest such a thing. Someone might suggest it however.
Great vid thanks for sharing. Can you tell me what tripod you are using for this please
Sure, its a manfrotto, the link is in the video description 👍👍😀
What a sweet setup! This is passion!
Glad you like it! 👍👍🙏
@@ian_worth you inspired me to bring a trash (rubbish) bag with me on my last river adventure. I appreciate your positivity and that bit about the tree vandals ❤️
Great job on that beautiful camera ! That was truly some clickbait bullshit you did on that title ! You should be proud of that camera build accomplishment. Really great portraits of your kids as well !
Keep it up, get lots of practice, keep us in the loop, or loupe; if you will ! LarryMac
That camera needs a logo. Awesome work.
Yeah it does 😀 Thanks for watching Trev 🙏
Great video and I know that was a lot of fun to see your creation work. What do you use for a focus point?
Hi mike, the image is displayed on the glass, its just a case of moving the back standard closer or further from the lens to obtain focus, not easy, but fun nonetheless 👍👍😀
There is an old Latin saying (though the grammar is not exactly classical), _nomina stultorum in omnium locorum_ (the names of the stupid [are] in all places. That shows the people of a certain type have been carving their initials to the trees for thousands of years.
Beautiful photograph indeed, I liked it very much. I love trees. Congratulations on having built a beautiful camera. The pleasure of creating a beautiful photograph on a self made camera must be immense. As for graffiti, I am with you 100%. What looks cool on a disused concrete wall is not acceptable on the skin of a magnificent tree. I am sad to say that this problem is rather international. I have been living in the UK for the past 46 years, but I was not born here. I was born in Tehran so by birth I am Persian/Iranian. Some time ago I read that the good people of Iran have written graffiti on the columns of the monuments of Persepolis, a national treasure and a world heritage site, and a palace that has lasted over 2600 years. This sort of problem was unheard of in Iran 50 years ago. Sad indeed.
Big foot is watching!
Fine looking camera you've built there Ian. Will be looking forward to seeing some colour work. Are you planning on using colour neg or just transparencies for now?
Hopefully both, I'm keen to try portra, ektar, velvia & provia 👍👍
@@ian_worth I love ektar. So much dynamic range. I'd recommend checking out the Negative Lab Pro plugin for lightroom for colour neg conversion.
You're doing a great job, keep it up.
Thank you Andrew 😀😀👍
From what I've been seeing lately DSLR scanning is maybe the preferred option these days, rather than buying a scanner. Assuming of course you don't plan to spend 1000s on a high-end drum scanner or whatever and already have a good DSLR and macro lens.
I used to have a reasonable flatbed scanner in a previous life, but it's long gone and I'm getting back into LF after several years of using digital. I was baulking at the cost of buying a scanner so started experimenting with DSLR scanning and so far I have to say the results are great, arguably better than a $1300 Epson scanner in most respects (see Nick Carver's comparison video). Admittedly a lot more faffing around as I take multiple images and stich them, but I'm slowly nailing down the workflow, and anyway, how many LF photos do your take? Not many as a rule, so I don't mind if each one takes even half an hour to "process" into an editable positive image on the computer.
Thanks buddy, yes from my experiments I'm thinking this is the way to go, 👍👍
Film is the future.
The past, present and future 🙏🏻😀😀😀
The tree is surviving and growing. Pesticides and the pharmaceutical companies we should be
concerned about.
You are right, but I think its fair to say we can have many concerns 👍👍
Ian that's a subject which annoys and saddens me beyond belief, I mean what sort of strange idiot(s) want to harm a tree. Huge congrats on the photos, brilliant. Looking forward to seeing how this project evolves. cheers. PS Can I ask where the wood is, the only Beech trees I know of near me are the ones outside Wicksteed park, at least they are not butchered with carvings!
Thanks buddy, yeah its such a shame 👍🙏🏻
Yes, it is really sad how people treat our and there enviroment
So true, Thanks for watching 👍👍😀
I like this!
Thanks buddy 👍👍
People are also doing it to rocks in national parks. Makes me unhappy as well
Yeah, I've seen some terrible stuff that's been happening in zion, recently 👍🙏🏻🙏🏻
@@ian_worth Well if they do it in the cities even less to stop them in our national parks.
We escape the suburbs to have a moment of freedom from the pollution, the noise and the graffiti, only to find it has become nearly inescapable.
So true, 🙏🙏👍
Most of the world agrees with you
Lets hope so 👍🙏
Those carvings can be looked at in at least two ways; One as a destroying feature, or as a glimpse into history. It has always been done, and it will never stop. The Vikings carved in the Hagia Sophia. American GI's did it at the citadel of Bitche (france). Is it vandalism? Probably. Does it kill the trees? Probably not ( they certainly doesn't do them good). I would not encourage this kind of action any where, but sometimes the gain is greater than the damage. Imagine carving your name in a tree as an child, and revisit it with your grandhildren after 50 years...
If the tree is on someone's own private land, then fair enough. But these trees are in a public woodland and are preserved for people to enjoy, not be vandalised 👍
@@ian_worth People do dumb stuff all the time. Of stupid things to do, this is not the worst. I don't think you can avoid human traces in an urban environment. For my part, I see the litter as a bigger problem than some writings on a tree. I think it is a good idea to pick up extra litter when you are out taking photos. In Norway, this has become in focus, and "everybody" has been doing it for the last four five years. Especially when walking along the shore line.
Some people suck, unfortunately it's as simple as that...
That's true, thanks for watching 😀🙏🙏
Old fashion hobby. Read any books by Ansel Adams?
Yeah loads 🙏🏻🙏🏻👍 the camera, the negative, the print are a great series to read 👍