*** This Week Through Your Eyes 2026.08.01 ***

I enjoyed this. You're a born storyteller. If it were me (which it's not - I've never got into video 😁) I would include a few closer-up shots to break it up a bit. Things like grasses waving, backlit fern, rowan berries.

Thanks for watching.

If you've watched any of my other videos, you'll see that they're typically tightly cut to music, but in this instance I wanted to try something different and use only the ambient sounds from the walk for the soundtrack; birds in the background, the wind in the trees and so on to see how that worked out.

Unfortunately, this also included heavy breathing when I'm operating the camera (which I dubbed out with some generic background sound from elsewhere), my surprisingly noisy shorts swooshing whenever I walk and very irritatingly, someone having flying lessons directly overhead. Ah, the sounds of the countryside!

Another reason for not using music is licensing. I have about 20 short tracks that I've bought licences for over the years, cover me for Youtube use amongst other things. Annoyingly, whenever I use any of them in a Youtube video, they immediately get picked up as copyrighted music by the content ID system and I have to then go through the hassle of disputing that I have the rights to use them. There doesn't seem to be a good way to whitelist my channel for them, so I have to do it manually and often end up waiting a full month before the dispute expires. The same tracks on the same channel, over and over again. It's a really broken system.

Point taken about walking towards the camera. I do actually do that in several shots, although there's definitely a lot more scenes where I'm walking away.

One side effect of filming these things on your own is that for every shot of me walking away from the camera, there's another shot of me walking towards it when I return to pick it up (and vice-versa), so maybe I should edit all of those in reverse order and switch the bias?

Thanks for that.

Yes, a few close up shots of ferns and grasses moving in the wind would definitely add to it. I think the reason there's nothing like that here is that it's not something I tend to be drawn to when I'm out and about. If you think about the sorts of pictures I usually post on here, for the most part they're either wide vistas or tree studies, it's rare that I'll post a close up of some grasses or a bit of moss, although these can be fascinating when you get up close to them, but I either fail to see them or, when I do, I'm disappointed with how I've composed them, so it's definitely something I need to work on.

It did cross my mind when I was editing it that some of the clumps of ferns on the woodland floor would look great in close up, but by that point I was back home and it was too late. I'll try and make a conscious effort to record some filler detail shots like that on the next one. The odd stream would be quite nice too, but I can't think of any around that particular woods. Also something to consider for the next one.

Nothing serious I hope. Wishing you a speedy recovery.

The D300 was a great little camera in its day and judging by the quality of your images taken with it, it still stands up well today. My first really good DSLR was a D200, the one everyone seems to be clamouring for these days because it had a CCD sensor and the alleged CCD look is in vogue at the moment. But as I remember it, when I replaced it with a D300 it brought a massive step up in image quality from its predecessor.

I gave it to my dad when I replaced it with a D7000 (not quite the upgrade I'd hoped for at the time), but I recently reclaimed it after he passed away. I'm not really sure what to do with it these days, I should probably see if the battery still holds a charge and take it out for a spin.

Looks great fun, some fantastic contraptions there.

Simply a cracking image. Light and composition are spot on here.

I am no Scorsese, so take my words lightly please. For the music, this might help you : www.bensound.com

Well captured, water looks indeed very clear. I like first shot, but maybe made it more abstract without this big stone in center, just shot of these small ones.

Is this some hidden message? I decoded it as 1001 111 in binary or 97 as decimal, what it means? :D

I like night shots with these light stars and water reflections. And this evening shot has fabulous colours, this contrasting yellow-blue combination is cracking.

Nice, great that you got 2 animals in one shot.

Nice video, I think I recognized some locations from your photos. I'm ok with nature sound, see no need for music in such videos, but I'd like to hear some narration or your thoughts during that video, otherwise it will be hard to understand or follow.
And I looked in "horror" how you carried camera with that tele lens :D When I walk with long lens on camera then I try to keep lens pointed down to reduce forces on mount. But that's just me, especially after I discovered that my teleconverter's screws were loose and it caused play between lens and mount I couldn't explain at first.