A couple of weeks ago when driving up to Lake Kerkini in the north of Greece, I set up my GoPro on the dashboard and shot a hyper/time-lapse of part of the road trip... after I posted it on my Facebook page a friend asked me if I could make a video tutorial of how to make a time-lapse video.. so this is it... standing on a hill just along the coast from Athens looking out to the sun setting over the Saronic Gulf to Aegina Island and the Peloponnese in the far distance... a quick "how-to" landscape photography / videography session for a sunset time-lapse.
Join me in Greece at Lake Kerkini for a behind the scenes look at wildlife & bird photography as I try to photograph Flamingos at sunrise from my hide on the shores of the lake... sorry this is a bit of a long one but I hope you find it worth staying till the end.
The flamingos are just one of many bird species that over winter on the Lake but are definitely one of the most beautiful and definitely vocal of all winter visitors here.. In the early morning they like to feed in the shallows of the western shoreline of the lake and as the sun rises behind them the opportunities for creating beautiful landscape/wildlife images with stunning silhouettes against the rising sun are hard to resist for any wildlife photographer. On this particular morning the weather didn't play ball and the sky was socked in by low lying clouds.. nevertheless opportunities for some lovely photos still came along in the diffuse milky light of a cloudy day at Lake Kerkini.
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Dear Friends,
A couple of years ago whilst filming the Hidden Wonders of Europe series, Greece episode, for Nat Geo Wild (a series produced by Off The Fence Productions) I was asked by the production company if I could shoot a story about these little Alpine Newts which inhabited the high altitude ponds in the mountains and forests of Northwestern Greece.
I jumped at the opportunity but not being an underwater specialist I had to improvise how I would actually achieve this. Watch the intro to hear how I went about it and then the short showreel I put together of some of the footage.
This is not the sequence the company put together for the episode that was aired but rather my own take on the story I filmed for them.
Hope you enjoy and please do drop any comments or questions below.. I would love to hear from you.
all the best
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Dear Friends,
I haven't done a macro photography walkabout in ages so thought I should take the opportunity whilst I'm still at Lake Kerkini where there are milliions of amazing bugs and spiders to photograph.
Following which I spent a couple of hours down by one of the harbours photographing and filming water snakes, lizards, frogs and terrapins.
This is likely to be the last video for a while as I'm leaving Lake Kerkini and heading down to Athens.
Hope you enjoy and hope to see you again soon..!
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Dear Friends,
Having sorted out my DSLR Camera Trap kit woes.. I'm back in the field again..!
Setting up the camera at a location I had previously tried with only limited success I'm hoping this time around I'll manage to capture images of some interesting creatures.
Hope you enjoy and please drop any questions or comments below.
best wishes to you all
g
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00:00 - Setting Up - "B-roll sequence"
01:13 - Intro & talk through set-up
05:43 - Forest B roll & Walk-in to check camera
06:25 - Checking the camera trap
10:54 - Sum up & Outro
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Dear Friends,
It's been a while now that I've been wanting to get out and shoot the spring.. and finally I've been able to get out and do some filming.
The light and conditions this morning at the lake were stunning.. a cold night of -2C and a bright sunrise made for early morning mist rising over the lake with water birds enjoying the lovely weather.
I also managed to finally spot a couple of Penduline Tit families building their incredible hanging nests and was able to get some pretty good footage of the building works in progress..!
Hope you enjoy..!
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Dear Friends,
After many days of bad weather the sun finally showed it's face again so I decided to head up the mountain to re-visit the Black Storks nest that I discovered last summer with a view to preparing the ground for a great shoot later in the year.
The objective was to find a better vantage point in the gully where the nest tree is located from which I might be able to get a better look in to the storks nest when they return in about a month's time... but not only that.. I wanted to find a route in and out of the location whereby I would create minimal to zero disturbance to the birds.
Doing this kind of prep work early on will hopefully pay dividends come the spring/summer when I will be aable to get even better footage of the Storks and be able to tell their story start to finish.. from courtship to fledging.
thanks for watching & hope you enjoy..!
g
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Dear Friends,
Welcome to part 3 of my latest Trailcam and DSLR Camera Trapping adventure.. hope you enjoy..!
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Dear Friends,
Just a quick update on the camera trap I placed in the mountain stream so as not to leave you hanging..!
In the event, over the 5 days it was in place, the trap recorded only one image of a little mouse. I had to take it down due to the authorities concern over an outbreak of African Swine flu that we have in the area so no chance of capturing anything else for the moment.
The trailcams I placed up at the waterfall recorded a Beech Marten crossing a fallen log over the stream as well as what I believe to be a female Goshawk calling to its mate. I have a feeling they're nesting somewhere in the area.
So that's about it for the moment... I'll be away for a lot of August and then in September I'll be coming back to the UK to lead a couple of drone photography/videography workshops, so that being the case I will return with more camera trapping videos in the Autumn.
Have a great summer and see you all on the other side..!
all the best
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Dear Friends,
I know I was meant to bring you along on shooting B-Roll for the Black Storks project but the last two weeks disappeared for me with guiding and then a chest infection that knocked me out.
Along with that, the weather turned back to winter and following some really heavy electrical storms I was anxious to see the storks and their nest were ok and intact. I also wanted the opportunity to film the female on the nest in the rain so as to provide part of a sequence in the final edit showing how dedicated they are to protecting their brood.
Anyway.. hope you enjoy.!
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