WILDLIFE & LANDSCAPE PHOTOGRAPHY IN SCOTLAND | Red deer, heavy rain and First Man Photography
I am in Scotland to do wildlife photography and to meet Landscape Photographer Adam Karnacz from First Man Photography.
My good friend Joanna and I have rented a camper van and we are in the Glen Etive area - rarely have I seen something that beautiful. This landscape is absolutely awesome.
I am definitely more comfortable when I am doing wildlife photography but since I am meeting up with Adam, I am definitely also going to challenge myself with some landscape photography as well.
So join us behind the scenes on some of the great experiences we had during the two days in Scotland. this video highlights the best moments😀
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I get your newsletters but they are not in English! Which is totally fine ... I just can't read them! :-) Thanks again for a lovely video. My wife is from Scotland and we are planning a photography vacation next summer. She is going to show me all the great spots. We are going to drive up through the Highlands and then ride over to Orkney and the hopefully to Shetland. I think they have puffins on Shetland. I hope to see those beautiful birds and a deer or two! Thanks again Morten for the inspiration!
Morten Hilmer i would never ever unsubscribe you. You are my inspiration and my motivation love you and all ways make us feel better
That was great Morten. Lovely to re-live the moments again, it was such a good trip. Thanks so much for the kind words too, really appreciate it. Hope to see you again soon.
I'm so glad you like it. Yeah it was also nice to edit this one. Great memory reexpeeienced 👍👍 you deserve all the kind words you can get😀 see you soon.
You do know ..Morten lied to🤣 you about the *coffee*
😂😂😂😂😂 your not a coffee drinker????....mate, your addicted!
A man and his coffee. Never to be separated.
This should be used as a definition of "why weather sealing matters".
Hey friends, it is nice to see two of my favorite wildlife photographers toghether at work.
I’m so surprised that you are wearing a bright red jacket in this one. I really love your videos. Thank you.
Absolutely beautiful!! Thank you for sharing. 💖💖
Those photos in the rain were magical.
Morton your passion for wild life and being out in nature sure is an inspiration. I thank you for bringing us all along with you on your adventures. Keep up all your great work!!!
The way you say awesome is awesome
Another lovely video. I love your excitement so much, it is really infectious! Scotland looks so nice, i want to go there some time in the future as well. Im looking forward to the other videos from scotland. Cheers
Scotland is so beautiful, beautiful pictures
Great stuff as always Morten! Thank you for sharing your adventure and knowledge! I like the photos with rain and snow in them better myself as well for the mood they convey. Cheers!
As always a very passionate vlog - thanks for the great inspiration and motivation you illustrate
Brilliant Morten not much more to say to this one, moving , funny and fantastic photos I absolutely love your style you really do show the feeling of the moment.
I always love your photography..... And I enjoy it...
I am having a date night with wildlife photograpy on you tube and you, Morten! Such a beautiful experience you’ve lived! So glad we have many videos to enjoy, thank you so much for it!
This is awesome. These collaboration videos are just amazing. Absolutely stunning photos of those deer.
Amazing thank you for sharing!
Morten, you and Adam are my favorite nature photographers. I like the way you are learning from each other....
To new friendships! Well done guys.
I've been just binge-watching your videos! You're videos make me want to make more time to go outside and truly go into nature. I absolutely love watching these!
Thank you for these videos! I really appreciate the effort you go through to share these moments with us. Cheers from Austria
Living the dream - enjoyed your trip
Photos are amazing
You are such a lucky guy to see and been such beautifull places. just amzing! wonderful!
Fantastic and beautiful video as ALWAYS!!!
You and Adam are two of my very favorite photographers. You both do an excellent job of telling a story as well as showing how to capture an image.
Very enjoyable vlog! Stunning images as well 🤠👌👊
Beautiful, love your video. awesome !
Morten, I love your wildlife videos, you come over as ‘so passionate’ and you also come up with some absolutely lovely images. Patrick Rigley, Cornwall.
The Scottish nature was perhaps the first nature in Europe that I truly truly fell in love with. Thanks for these, loving them and yearning to get back. Strongly considering my first winter trip to Scotland as well because of your videos.
You’ve inspired a passion for wildlife photography in me and videos like this just make me itch to go get more photos!
Fantastic images in the rain I hope your lens is ok for the rest of your trip!!!!
Excellent vlog. I watched your time with Nigel Danson and then First Man Photography, all 3 of you are very inspiring. Thank you 👍🏻
Fascinating video with Maid Marion naked in the waterfall and a wet camera. That little white lie about ’the coffee’ - we heard it all. Morten, you are the best story teller ever. And the shots of the deer are just beautiful. So we have Maid Marion meets Bambi. Awesome. 😄👌
+1 for weather sealing +2 for Morten for making these amazing calming videos
Great video Morten! And fun to get Adam's perspective through his videos as well :)
Finaly time to watch your video Morten, really nice..... but I want to see more of the beautiful animals you make photos of. Take care my friend:)
the way you use the music adds more power to the powerful nature. Just Awesome.
fantastic places!
hey Morten! another great video. very inspiring and motivating. I don't know about anyone else but i would love to see some bush craft and wild camping mixed in with some wildlife photography. No one i know on KZhead does anything like that and i think it would be really great!
i love the story telling in your photography. simply love it :)
Beautiful!
Excellent video, testing conditions with outstanding images, nice one Morten👍
Oh boy, I have such a crush on Morten. Cant get enough of his passion and energy for what he loves to do.
Damn Morten, you make me want to drop everything and rush back out to the mountains tomorrow. Unfortunately I have to work a couple of more days before hitting the Tetons for the weekend. Love your enthusiasm, never let it go.
I don't think I have ever seen anyone who was so joyous about getting soaking wet! I always want a perfectly clear shot. Seeing your photos of the dear obscured behind the grass I can see that it is the mood of the image that is important not necessarily the focus or a clear view of the subject. Thanks!
I am fairly new to your KZhead Channel... but just wanted to say its one of the best !!! I love your comintary and approach to photograph. and your images are of the Best! Thank you for taking the time to do the videos, ..... Thank k you so much.
You're a top bloke and I love your style and enthusiasm. I've spent many a wild adventure in those Scottish mountains and absolutely love being up there. I need to get some proper camera kit one day 🙂👍
Great video, just goes to show , a little rain does not stop you getting great shots . There are a few good places in England to photograph deer you should try ☺
RESPECT!
Hi Morten, you are such a funny guy. Allways a pleasure to see you shooting. No KZhead videos has more "uuhss" and "aahs" of sheer pleasure like yours :-). Keep doing it and show your true passion for nature and photography. Great man. Love it
Morten: If I am lucky the rain pours down with heavy drop.... 2min later with heavy rain sound..... Ooooh this is very good! ahah Great! I love your adventures! Really!
Wow! You made some great images there! Normally deers are very shy animals, it was interesting to see them so accepting.
The deer in Scotland are amazing, I once saw a massive herd walk right through the middle of a village totally ignorant of everything around them. I also have a shot of the famous leucitic fallow deer of Loch Lowes in a field watching me with it surround by 5 of the usual colour deers. When Adam want to learn something he comes across as a sponge who wants to soak everything in. I think he enjoys shooting some wildlife as he has done videos of puffins and short birds in the Scottish Islands. I doubt it will ever replace his landscapes though, personally I get equally pleasure from both. Funniest thing Ive heard in any video but be Morten saying "I’m not a coffee lover…" I think you got some great landscape shots, especially all things consider such as the wrong kit. A non waterproof lens is no good for any outdoor photography, one thing I like about my Sigma is its build quality. I great video as always Morten, very well done indeed.
Hei Morten, I live in West-Norway and here is like this kind of deer is coming almost inside people's house. It is almost always back in my garden few of them 😊
It's Morten time 😉 it's Sunday, watch a Morten video and have a cup of coffee ☕ great
Haha great to hear Kristian. Thanks a lot for writing👍
Love your video !
Brilliant Video Morten :) I Love Scotland Myself Was There In 2017, God Willing I Will Get Back, Hope You Got The Lens Sorted :)
I really enjoy watching ya video
spectacular
Glad you had a great time. Have to say I am looking forward to winter now as that for me is when the landscape in Scotland really shines.
I can tell you that I am looking SO much forward to Winter as well👍👍
I feel your video is more beautiful when you are alone. Free and wild. My thought! Indeed a great video
Thank you so much for your thoughts. I really appreciate 👍😀 you will get a lot more of my lonely videos in the future👍
Man, sitting here eating Rum & Raisin ice cream with a big mug of coffee and Morten's video. 😀😀😀 🦌🦌🦌 Big fan of both you and Adam, so both in the same videos.... awesome!!!
Haha so awesome. I would love to sit and eat that ice cream and drink coffee with you. But then I would prefer to see one of Adams videos 👍😀
Great videos Morten! You should consider a trip north to Shetland to photograph the Otters, it would make a superb video.
thanks for coming tos scotland to photograph morten.
Hi Morten, beautiful video as always. I was thinking that if the replacement lens fails again then you might want to check out the Sigma 150-600mm Sport lens as I've heard it has very good weather-proofing. I use the Contemporary version myself but I use a waterproof cover just in case as the Contemporary is not as weather sealed. Hopefully you can make it back to Scotland in the Winter sometime soon.
Amazing Morten I love Glen Etive I have been visiting the area there for over 20yrs and never tire of the scenery or the wildlife :D Your images of the dear were wonderful I wish I could have been there too :D Severel years back I visited in Feb and the stags were so friendly then they came within touching distance looking for food!!! I was trying to capture an image of two of them and I had to keep moving away so I could take an image. I only had wide to short zoom lens on too because I was shooting landscape at the time !!! They just kept following me in the end I ended up with a head and shoulder portraite of a stag, It was a magical experience and my favourite wildlife image I have taken :D I love your vlogs I only discovered you recently and am working my way through your older videos, thank you so much for posting your amazing work :D Teddy
WOW WOW WOW very nice....
The best tripod is always the one you have with you. I've used a rock and a log because I couldn't be bothered to carry a tripod. While it worked ok, I would have given anything to have what you had. And given the beautiful images you made, I would say it wasn't too small after all.
I really love your videos and you are living the life I am dreaming of. I really 👏 you and I hope that someday I can reach your level
You are amazing Morten, just amazing human being. Keep killin it dude. All the best, from the south.
What an awesome comment 😀😀 thanks so much Leandro 👍
Hello Morten, hope you and your family have had a wonderfull Christmas eve. I got the answer of this question by an old hunter and farmer from the hills a few years ago. These deers can of course see or recognize the difference between a backpacker or a huntsman, a rifle or a walking stick, walking around or sneak and stalk. He drives in the dark with his tractor, lights on, close 20m of 10 and more deers ceeping eatin and grazing and do not escape. Stay lucky and healthy in 2022. Alex from the German Eifel
Another great production. Next time you should visit Dumfries and Galloway in the South of Scotland which is where I live. There are some great opportunities for birds...
Very interesting to watch yours and Adam's blogs of the same "subject". And I agree, one of the most special things you can experience is to be accepted by wildlife, when they know that you are there but don't consider you to be a threat is the best feeling ever IMO.
Thanks for the like. I've been binge watching you videos since I found them a few days ago. Great stuff, although I don't know how you handle the cold, I photograph in Australia and hardly even see a frost :) PS. Sorry if you got notified several times, I've had all sorts of trouble getting YT to log me in with the correct account.
I just love watching your videos, you remind me of myself, ha! Rain and snow are my favorite times to be out too, as you said, "Really makes me feel like I'm alive!" Agreed! Also, I enjoy your sense of humor too, "I'm not a coffee drinker but he forced me into it." Haha! What a beautiful place Scotland is, wow!
What a lovely comment Liesl. That is so nice to hear. Yeah there is something very special about being outside in the rain. The sound of the thousands water drops, the smell of wet nature and the feeling of calmness.
Great video once again Morten! Turns out I was also looking for red deer at the same time just a few kilometers away in the next glen - I think they had been hunting in that area recently though because the deer were very shy and I was less successful. However, I did get some awesome footage of a pine marten and badger from my remote camera, as well as some nice photos of a dragonfly covered in dew. I've actually made a video story about it, at least partly inspired by your work, and am uploading it to my own KZhead channel right now while watching this video :)
The super intense face at the very beginning is a great subtle humor cut mate. Overall stunning and beautiful landscapes and footage. The rain kinda makes it.
Hey Greg and thank you so much for your compliment 👍 so nice to hear
Hi Morten. Great footage and nice little adventure. I don't know, maybe it's just me, but this land is offering an amazing and picturesque landscapes which you can just dream about. Even in some rainy conditions. I noticed that all those portraits of deer you photographed are so close, that it even doesn't matter you would took it in Scotland or France. I mean they are great, but i think it's much appreciated also the background, the true environment the animals are living thriving. Seems like it's important only the animal. Yes the closeups are crucial, but today 99 % of wild life photographers are focused just on them. Even the lens you are using is more then perfect. And it's more then perfect for landscapes too. I wish you all the best Morten, you are an amazing and inspiring person. Best regards ;)
It just “AWESOME” 🤣
I'm from Ukraine and I can easily say that your content is more than understandable. I can recognize every word you say!
So great to hear. Thanks a lot. 👍
Really enjoyed Morten thank you. October is the time for the Rut here In Scotland most visitors have left and the glens become quiet again apart from the Stags bellowing across the glens but thats the norm and one could never get annoyed or tired of it, thats nature.
Thanks Phil. So is the rut started yet? It sounds so great as you describe it. Totally silent with only the sound of the stags bellowing 👍👍👍
Morten Hilmer Hi Morten around mid October the Stags start to descend from the tops as the weather gets colder. One of my favourite places is a Glen known as ‘Kinloch Hourn’ the Glen is a no thorough road and not for people who like to rely on help if getting into difficulties. There are warning signs at the start telling people to be careful. This tends to put most tourists off which leaves the Glen in a nice natural environment. It’s a 22 mile drive to the sea loch at the end all single track, surround by mountains on each side. Wildlife, Stags, wild goats, eagles, buzzards and with the occasional seals/ dolphins at the end if lucky. It’s a very wild place and winter is the best time of year. I would recommend putting it on your todo list it is superb if you like wild places as I know you do. Iam fortunate to live only 10 minuets drive from the start of the Glen, and never tire of venturing down.
Hey Morten, excellent video, I love your excitement and it's great to see your pictures, I'm really into wildlife photography - I've tried with birds but they are too fast :) maybe next time I'll try with bigger animals, it seem like it will be easier to focus :) BTW. have a look at Sigma 150-600 Sport - they claim that it has weather sealing - too much of a cannon for me, so I'm using contemporary version but may be interesting for you.
Fantastisk stemning der i skottland.Nydelige bilder Morten!
Tusind tak. Ja det er mega lækkert deroppe 👍
Great follow up to the first one. I look forward to the next adventure. Keep up the good work.
Thanks John. I'm so glad you like it. And thanks for writing 😀
Morton you look lost when trying to Photography a landscape! I think this is great it just goes to show how Specialized photography is. You can’t be a jack of all trades. Everyone has a specialism that they have worked hard on for years. We may dabble in other genres but we all have a comfort zone and you looked out of yours which was good to see
Amazing photography. Keep inspiring us
Thank you so much 👍
Lovely video
Always a pleasure watching your work and the connection you create with nature. Is that the new Gitzo mini tripod, very interested in that! The Tamron is like the Sigma C and has no great sealing.... heard that the Sigma Sport is fully sealed. Never tried using my 150-600 for landscape photography but good to see it is about the gear you have with you and making it work.
superb...
Love it Morten, making me very excited for my trip to the Isle of Skye in just over a months time! Love your channel as always, I hope one day we can go shoot some photography and drink some coffee.
That is going to be such a great trip. I hope you will get some awesome experiences and some nice photos 👍 yeah that would be awesome but we will probably meet one day
16:00 this is perfeckt video!!!
Good luck dear friend....
First person to like it 😍😍 love you for keeping us dreaming about your next videos every time you post one
What an awesome and encouraging comment. Thanks so much 👍👍👍
cool !
Incredible beutiful pictures, Morten! There are raincotes for long lences! BarbroSweden
Thanks so much. I will probably have to get one of those 👍👍
Thank you Morten for another inspiring video. Please give us an update on what you will do with your Tamron 150-600 lens after the rain ruined it. Will you replace it with another model, or send it to Tamron to get it fixed? And don't you consider to use a rain cover for your gear, when taking pictures on rainy days?
Yeah that's crazy how close you could get to the deer. Where I live, if a deer sees you, no matter how far away, if it just SEES you, it's GONE, lol. Same with most wildlife.