Magical Woodland Photography | Photographing Somewhere That Really Speak To You
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- Опубликовано: 10 фев 2025
- Join Kim for part 2 of her trip to an ancient woodland as she shares how to choose locations that really speak to you.
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I love to hike around wetlands with my camera. The B&W leaf shot was beautiful.
Wiser words were never said. Go back, again and again, to those places with which you are familiar. You will find new joy and life every time - I always do. Peterson Lake Nature Center and Arboretum, Collierville, TN. A beautiful, serene boardwalk and flat dirt trail for those of us with some mobility issues, winding through giant sweet gum, oak and bald cypress trees in this black water flood plain of the Wolf River tributary of the Mississippi. Never grows old, never ceases to bring joy.
Sounds like a very special place John! Delighted that you have somewhere that makes you feel this way ☺️
I love your videos and your ability to feel the magic of forest! The plant looking like clover is wood sorrel, Oxalis acetosella. It is my favorite woodland plant! Here in Finland it
blooms in June with delicate white flowers ornated by violet or pink lines. They are flowers of fairy land!
By the ocean, taking pictures of the waves and feeling the salty wind in my face😁👍
Great place!
Another wonderful video I love watching your videos because of your calm spirit and love of nature. I got into photography last year as a way to deal with depression and it has done wonders for me. I love doing wildlife and macro photography and i am more alive near water. I love looking for the small things that people would just walk by without a second thought and photograph it. I once found a knot hole in a tree that was filled with acorns which made a wonderful photo and once again it was something that most people would of walked right by. I love photographing bugs with the macro lens and really study the photo just to see how amazing God's creatures are made. We do have a wonderful world but not enough people stop and admire it and i hope my photos will help people to do just that. I look forward to your weekly videos please keep it up.
This is so beautiful to hear Rebecca! I am delighted you found photography, that it helps you and you see the smaller beauty that most don't see. I too hope you're images will inspire and open others eyes to the beauty of nature
Love your comment about taking time to connect. It is always amazing what you start noticing when you take the time to do so.
This is another wonderful video, Kim. Ironically, I didn’t get to see it though until late Sunday evening, because I was out early this morning in one of my favourite locations photographing red squirrels in a beautiful ancient Cumbrian woodland. It was a great day, including having one squirrel taking a nut from my hand - I’m still buzzing now!
Wow Martin!! Sounds like you had an incredible day with the squirrels! They are so good to see and photograph
Love the location Kim with great colour....yes it looks magical with many many opportunities to capture...I also love the B&W images... cheers from Australia 🦘🦘😊
Thank you Robert
Lovely video you’re right woodlands are a very magical place to be most calming feeling when you’re in them
thankyou for sharing your love and connection in woodlands in this video. i really fell more alive when it rains, the sound of the rain really exites and encourages me to do more every time.
The rain can certainly be great to get out in and enjoy. Thank you!
Thanks as always Kim. The place I feel most alive is the walk from newport to Freshwater on the island there is one place you van stand look straight ahead and see both coasts of the island the Chanel and the Solent
It sounds like such a beautiful spot Raymond!
Hi Kim, I have especially enjoyed your two videos in woodlands. It's where I'm drawn to most of the time and it's where I find most peace of mind. Since retiring in December 2022, i've been taking the opportunity to do a lot more walking and it's been lovely to see the trees change slowly through the seasons and benefitting from the rains. It is a fine day today so I'll be out again with the camera to explore a woodland I haven't visited in many years. Thank you always, for your inspirational videos, Kim.
Glad you've enjoyed them Paul. It's great to hear of your connection to the woodlands. Hope you enjoyed your day out yesterday
Thank you Kim for another beautiful woodland video. I find them so peaceful and truly appreciated your words and photos. I love taking my camera for a walk about and just enjoying the outdoors, beaches, parks and our woodlands .
They certainly are peaceful. Glad you enjoy photographing them too 😀
I really enjoy your peaceful, pleasant videos. … Any location and setting is fine with this amateur enthusiast. Any setting allowing thinking and creative composition. … And where my lens doesn’t fog up after getting out of the car. 😀
Sounds great Mike! Delighted you are open to so many opportunities
Kim, went out and spent time with ICM and was in the "zone" for sure. A place I haven't been in a while time stood still and felt very very good! Take care
Lovely Brian
Kim, this woodland is truly a magical place. The opening and closing scenes are stunning as are the macro images. Your eye and connection result in beautiful work. Glad you love your work. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you very much for your kind words. Really glad you enjoyed the video
The clovery plant would be wood sorrel; I love when raindrops collect on the leaves as round orbs instead of wetting them, kinda like on lotus leaves.
I live in Stuttgart, in the south of Germany. My happy place is in the woods to the north and west of the city (beginning as close as 15 minutes walk), specifically at the lakes created when they dammed a valley about 400 years ago to secure the water supply for the growing town. Especially in fall the ancient beeches and oaks, mixed with some pines make a stunning display. One of my goals is to eventually capture mist floating on the lakes, so far the most I got is a some fog making the far side pastelly (and nicely layered with distance).
Thank you for the wood sorrel ID Andreas. Much appreciated. Your happy place sounds so beautiful! Thanks for sharing
very nice concept of photography
Thanks Kim for another inspiring video. I have taken up macro photography more seriously because of you. Paying more attention to the small details in nature. While I also like woodlands, in Australia, for me it is the forests in the mountains that draw me strongly. It is here that I feel a deep spiritual connection to nature. Peter
Love the rain drops on the leaves. Turn the black and white into silver leaves. When out and about ,I seem to like a challenge with birds in flight or butterflies. But I really love studio portrait photography.
Thank you Roy. Great that heat your enjoying butterflies and flying birds. Yhur certainly are a challenge but great fun also 😃
These videos are such an inspiration. Been a while since i was in Scotland. The last time was Kentra bay wild camping
Thank you 🙏
Thank you!
Kim, well said ....
Thank you for another inspirational video, Kim.
My special place is a park and woodland close to my home. It's where I go to find peace and be close to nature and it's where I do most of my photography. Often, when I feel that there is nothing left to photograph there, it yields something even more special. Your videos and approach to photography really help me to go deeper into this place, so much so that I now know there are endless opportunities still waiting for me there.
A big thank you again. I look forward to seeing you every Sunday.
This is so beautiful to hear Mary! Delighted that you have such a deep connection with your local park and woodland. It sounds like a lovely spot.
Another beautiful peaceful Sunday morning video. Like you I really love woodland and beaches. Golspie is a great spot with Big Burn Walk for woodland and waterfalls as well as having the lovely beach. Both reasonably accessible too ❤
Sounds beautiful May! Golspie is somewhere I always seem to drive past. May need to stop there next time I'm up north
I love to go to the National Wildlife Visitor Center in Beltsville MD USA - it is in the Patuxent Research Refuge. A lovely piece of nature hidden in the metropolitan area just a few miles from Washington DC. I go there often, hopefully each season. There are woods, meadows, a lake, wildflowers, birds, wildlife..
the clover images are magical thanks for sharing. at this time I enjoy exploring the most, the excitment of finding new images. I do like to return to see familiar locations with fresh eyes or under different conditions
Thank you for your kind words and for sharing where you're currently at with your journey. Great that you're currently enjoying the exploration
What a lovely location :)
Should you ever come to Aust... (Toolangi NE Vic), or Tarra Bulga (long day trip SE of Melb) will find you in among the most amazing old growth forests too. Toolangi (first nations people word for 'tall trees') for me though is my happy place. Mountain Ash, Myrtles, mosses, cascading streams, and Fungi galore... :)
Hi Kim, you really made me rack my brains to think of a place that has the same effect as your woodland. Sometimes I don't get the chance to really 'settle in' to a place, as my partner is easily bored! I find it easier to connect when I'm on my own. 🙂
Ahh, yes Jacky! Can be very hard to settle somewhere when you feel rushed. I too find being on my own easier to connect
Good morning Kim, the area your in is beautiful, i like the opening shots but black and white were my favorite. I know exactly what you mean "a connection", I have several locations I have gone to, and looking back, I know the ones that I visit more often, and ones I don't. I at times think about a location, and not even being there. Thank you so much for this and every sunday video, your a blessing to all of us, have a safe and blessed week.
Thank you for the kind words and thoughts on the images. Great to hear you've noticed this in your work too. Connection can really help us enjoy the experience
Thank you for sharing the photos that you are satisfied with as well as those that you feel less happy about. I love to spend time in the woods, but I’m often disappointed with my pictures later on, except for a few.
You're welcome. Woodland are notoriously difficult to photograph but a fun challenge never the less. I find the more I zoom in and concentrate on the smaller aspects, the better the images. But that's just my personal process ☺️
A new home in a new area and I haven’t quite found that special place yet but it’s fun trying to find it.
Enjoy the journey Barry. Hope you find the special spot soon
Thanks Kim, another great video. For me, because of where I live, my place is the fells of the North Pennines. I always feel a connection. But I am going to search out some ancient woodland following your advise. Looking forward to next Sunday.
The fells sound beautiful John! All the best searching out some ancient woodland ☺️
Hi Kim. Woodland, especially mixed and coniferous, is my absolute favourite environment, and so I thoroughly enjoyed this video. I think your clover-like plant is wood sorrel.
aka oxalis. It's sour, from oxalic acid. It's flowering here right now.
Woodlands certainly are special places. I can see why the speak to you. I think you're right about the sorrel. Good to know and learn - thank you! ☺️
That's the kinda space I can lost in for goodness knows how long. Bush places with mosses, greens, big trees, or even just characterful trees, earthy tones, ferns, and lots that just makes me go, oh wow, look at that . . . . They're my kinda spaces.
I could certainly see you here Denise! There's so much to see and photograph
Kim, I think they are a type of wood sorrel perhaps. Here in California in the moist and fog-engulfed redwood forests, the wood sorrel is quite healthy and dense.
Beautiful lush forest and photos breathing fresh air and conveying tranquility.
Thank you for the ID and kind words Alex. I've just Google wood sorrel and I am certain they are ☺️
The High Sierras in California and their alpine lakes feeds my soul in ways no other environment does
Sounds so beautiful 😍
The ground-cover is Sorrel.
Wise words Kim and I couldn’t agree more. I’m lucky in that my special place, Mersea Island on the Essex coast, is only 25 minutes from my home. I feel a very deep connection to it and it definitely helps my creativity, especially since I’ve discovered using vintage lenses! The combination of 2 river estuaries, beach, boats and salt marsh I find just magical.
It sounds like such a beautiful location David! Delighted you have somewhere like that so close to home
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Have you ever considered using a portable light source, to light you up a bit when filming in a shaded location?
I find forests a great place to take photos but a nightmare for filming because they are so dark.
Thank you for the suggestion Frank. I personally love to use natural light for filming but can see why you may like to use another light source. I find the more equipment I have, the less I enjoy the experience too - that's just my preference 😃
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I fully understand and meant no offence. And I totally get about using minimal kit. There are times when I just go out with an ND Filter and see what I can capture.
I have been known to use the light from my phone to illuminate a subject, including my head.
I'm sorry if I caused offence.
... iin the nearby national park in Spring/Summer for orchids and wld flowers
Sounds lovely David!
The clover like plant is wood sorrel, it has a sharp apple like tast
Thank you!
I believe that the 3 leaf clover plant is edible and high in vitamin C. You would love the Redwoods here in California and Oregon in the US. You are invited if you’re interested.
Your videos are akin to a tonic for me Kim! Mindful concepts, slowing down, taking time and connection, well scripted, well presented and engaging, thank you so much 🙂
Thank you for the lovely comment. Much appreciated you watching and taking the time to write ☺️
Awesome trip out! Thanks for bringing us along!
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Try converting your photos from the past year to black and white. You might be surprised.
If your camera supports focus bracketing, try using it hand-held. I do it all the time
Google the Canon MP-E 65. There are hardy souls who bracket with that, hand-held. There might be videos about it on RUclips, on mentioning the lens and another photographing a jumping spider which is actually a peacock spider.
Check out Eva Polak's work. She's even weirder than Charlotte.
Thank you for the suggestions
@@kimgrantphotography Oh, thanks for having a chat with Lisa. You might try someone a little different, James Morrison, the Scottish painter.
What a fantastic woodland.
While watching the video i could see so many compositions with the trees and the moss on the rocks.
Some really nice image's as usual.
It's a beautiful place. There certainly is so many options for photos
Do you find your hand held telephoto pics are sharp enough? I ask because I don't like using a tripod.
Personally yes. I usually use high ISO values to compensate for this. Having the camera and lenses I do means I can get away with this more than less expensive cameras. Plus the Denoise features in lightroom make the high ISO values less of an issue. It's all personal preference though. Give it a go and see how you feel your images turn out. I like to advocate that tripods are not essential for many types of photography but they can help with keeping images sharp in low light 😊
@kimgrantphotography Thanks. I would rather be oportunistic and get the pictures that present, and sacrifice a little on sharpness. I find some of the obsession with sharpness a bit obsessive, as most people are not going to magnify my pictures to examine them.
Must be nice to not have allergies because those woodlands just scream allergies to me.
Lovely photographs of woodland flora something I photograph a lot myself in different places in Scotland
I am assuming the location of your video is a Forestry and Land woodland walk location or a National Nature Reserve because of the gravel paths. These places are open to the public and are not secret or for private use only.
I can understand photographers not sharing their locations with fellow photographers if they have trekked miles to get there or it has special scientific interest. But if it is publicly accessible walk advertised as such on the internet to encourage people to “feel the forest” why not share it with us all so we can all benefit from your woodland experience.
I doubt there will be a stampede of people or that it will affect your professional ambitions if you let us know the location.
Thank you Daniel. It is Reelig Glen
Thanks Kim based in Glasgow so will try and get there sometime.
Thanks!