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Good point. When you encounter a stranger and are both willing to talk it can take a little small talk to establish if they're 'safe' to continue a discussion with - i.e. not possessed with the woke mind-virus - and whether they're a normie/NPC. Often, you realise they might actually be worth chatting to and can end up still in discussion an hour later. Generally, blokes over 40 make up the greater number of the latter.
@@Clive697in my experience, generally blokes over 40 checked out a long time ago, kind of the reason we are in this mess, people abdicated their responsibility to be good stewards of our civilisation
@@jackworthington4660 Don't disagree with that. They're more aware than others what's going on but none are doing anything about it. Were there to be leadership or a movement to rally behind many would step forward to bring change. Without it they just vent their anger or frustration on-line - just like me! The spirits of our ancestors who donned armour and unsheathed their swords against invaders through the ages look down in disgust at our reckless tolerance and our apathy.
@@Clive697 don't disagree with that either, people knowing what the battle is, is half the battle. If our people knew the sides have been drawn, it is unquestionable that we would win, as we have always have before. We will win mate. o7
I second that. Photography or painting is capturing the beauty without, whereas what Morgoth does is transmute the beauty within into a tangible and consumable form.
We seldom stop to think of how wonderful it is to be alive on this beautiful Earth. We are so often caught up in the wanton destruction of it by evil doers, that we forget what a privilege it is to experience all the goodness that nevertheless surrounds us. Those photographs of the natural world are so uplifting they fill our souls with joy.
Agreed, but in the wild places you sometimes come across 'nature red in tooth and claw.' First time I saw a weasel it was pulling a shrieking rabbit much larger than itself, a second weasel arriving to finish off the rabbit savagely. Bloody carnage!
Thanks for this. Urban photographer here and completely alienated and isolated by my colleagues because I have pointed out that our city has a major problem of imported violence, trafficking, exploitation of women and abuse of children etc whilst my colleagues paint the people behind it as brave victims in the war against whiteness.
Mentioning women and children as victims of this system, but not men? No one suffers more unjustly in this system than men because no one else has the potential to build a better world. If you truly want the problems to stop then men, not women or children, need to be the primary focus and recipient of society in the same way as the oxygen mask must first be put on by the adult before the child or infirm.
The first thing I mentioned was imported violence which I myself and several other males, edit, males I know or know of, have been repeatedly the victims of.@@justinkennedy3004
@@Cornflakes-sr3nq that's a huge part of the problem. They focus on women and children more than themselves because it's relatively easier to make a woman or child happy. The real challenge is pushing ourselves to become what we are meant to be, and doing it without a pretty woman or laughing kid to motivate us.
A man observes another man observing nature, and attempts to dream the dreams of the second man. In times past, this was called the poetic impulse. Who else but Morgoth shares this dream with us today.
I've known guys like this. Almost without exception they are high performing entrepreneurs or corporate execs or engineers. They are above the dismal drudgery of modern politics because they are capable and self-sufficient. They're often boring. They'll be okay no matter what happens in their society and don't tend to be sentimental about the past. I envy them their level of remove and competent aloofness but I'm too revolted by modernity and it's champions to really understand them.
Today (normally) I'd be sitting in a deer stand in the middle of the woods and all the issues of the world really go away. I can sit so still, a few birds will land on my hat, flutter around, and move on. Hours spent in the cold all for a simple moment like that. Hobbies really do make us appreciate life outside of our "work" to live. Fantastic work, Morgoth.
I was moved by this one Morgoth. We really do choose "where" we want to live. They can shove the artificiality in our faces but only we choose whether to accept it.
As a passionate photographer, I can't put into words how well I think you've captured the meaning behind my fascination with this beguiling art form. All the best!
For me being in wilderness is a glimpse into the non-anthropocentric universe, a universe that does not need us.... and a reminder that humans do not enjoy a monopoly on consciousness. It is a glory beyond us, that which we have cleft ourselves from.
What you've just described is the spirit of the Northern European man, the man who adventures and cherishes discovery for it's own sake. He has the wild Nietzschean impulse to overcome in the pursuit of his sublimated will to power. He's probably not that powerful in his day job, at home or in terms of politics, but out in the wilderness with his camera and his goals, he's all powerful, he's overcoming, he's testing himself, he's overcoming, the skills he develops along the way are incidental but complementary to this. He is the will to power!
A White Pill like this was a welcome surprise Mr Morgoth. Maybe Dostoevsky was right after all when The Idiot told us that "Beauty will save the world."
I used to try and capture shots of lightning in the night skies during summer storms near my home. It always felt a bit like hunting and I would say it's a modern form of scratching that itch in a more accessible way than most can get from traveling to hunt. Idk, maybe it's a small part of it.
We have devalued the importance of our connection to nature at great cost. Wildlife photographers understand this as do ramblers, anglers, rock climbers etc. There is a special magic in nature that nothing can replace.
We appreciate our wild places whereas the newcomers overwhelmingly do not. Since these arrive in huge numbers the urban sprawl will claim the countryside around more and more. We risk Bladerunner-style megacities where our wildlife once was.
@@thewoodlander9868 Good evening, Woodlander. You reminded me I'll have to catch up with your rewarding videos soon. Bet this video's right up your alley!
I feel as though man is naturally inclined towards animism. It is the oldest form of faith, and it imbues the entire natural world with the sublime and sacred. And it is no accident that the word "animal" stems from the root word for "spirit", the Latin word "anima". Capturing these poetic images of birds isn't merely an attempt to record an image of the bird, or even an aesthetically pleasing composition, but rather it is hinting at something unattainable, the wish to convey the very spirit of the animal and the divine shining through the material through photography. A picture is worth a thousand words, they say, and has the power to capture the essense of a moment, object, or even a living thing. Little surprise, then, that the more traditional peoples of the world, historically and even to this day in many places, have often resented anyone taking their photograph, believing that it could capture their soul. The physical form is merely a reflection of something higher, the Imago Dei. We are all a product of God, and we can sense that holiness, that divine spark, in all that is beautiful.
These were the beliefs of our heathen ancestors - the people of the heaths, the wild places. The people lived in communities in the countryside they farmed and fashioned everything they needed from natural materials. The Druids and later Shamen communed with Gods who dwelled in the landscape. Now we mostly live sterile consumerist lives distanced from the wild, relieved to escape the dreary, crowded, anxiety-inducing towns for solitude in the wilds again. Are we really more contented or fortunate than our ancestors living simply millennia ago?
I'm a gardener. Like the photographer, it best defines me. The same transcendent joy is my obsession. Having learned my trade early in other men's fields, working for landscapers and as a groundskeeper, I set up my own garden and woodland maintenance firm. Now semi-retired, I cultivate seeds and grow salad and potted herbs. What I get to see and smell and taste, while managing MY time here on Earth is truly a revelation which defines me. We are all gardeners and photographers by our very nature, and so many other things too. Everyone's life is always about finding out and expressing who we are, and that's true for gardeners, photographers, authoritarians, humanitarians, globalist agenda setters, billionaire philanthropists, leftist stooges and right wing reactionaries. We shall be known by our fruits.
I sit in my room listening to strangers describing the various ways in which my country, my people and my dreams are being destroyed by other strangers, perhaps I need to buy a digital camera.
This was lovely. It resonates because I understand this man. I might not take majestic pictures of wild life but I understand the plain he is on. I image he feels the same way I feel when I pick up my rod and sit in silence, just staring at the water, waiting.
Last few months, i keep stopping at noticing beautiful things, so bizzare not something i ever really done. But i know something is happening.. the mundane is becoming beautiful, and not as mundane as i thought. I am even afraid to type about it because it feels special and something i cant quite capture.
The YT videos made by those who've gone off-grid often have millions of views - it's a dream for so many to escape modernity. The paradox is that if too many did return to the woods they'd likely spoil them as the urban landscape has been.
Once again Morgoth you have taken me somewhere completely unexpected. I have a old frend who is a staunch lefty who is crazy about bird watching, he's been going to a nature reserve embedded in a London suberb for a couple of years now. Although his politics very much differs from my own he has given me a perspective on this pass time I probably wouldn't even have considered finding myself interested in. When I meet with him a couple of times a year when he visits me in Sweden where I live or when I'm over in England, we often go out and about observing nature and disguss differences between things here and the UK wildlife. I always show a positive interest and try to carry on observing the natural events going on outside when he's gone home. I live out in the sticks here and he's opened my eyes quite alot. It had been a good escape for us as we are both into our politics and we like to keep our friendship neutral so this is great remedy. I theorise that he also escapes from himself in these ventures, away from the grinding political world he believes the left and right is creating. He never gets the bigger picture and I have long ago stopped trying to explain it to him and enjoy our time we have in that way together instead.
That guy is the classic Faustian man. In his ceaseless aiming for perfection he sees no limits. He is of us and we are of him. We do not share this thing with others.
Liked Chris when he just randomly inserted Smiths song titles into his chat. Then he went BBC-lefty with a XR tinge and I found him less appealing. Still admire his natural history knowledge but if he inserts politics into toad talk he can bore off.
It’s hard to watch people you know are narcissists and liars talk about anything as you always wonder if they are telling the truth on any given subject .
@@titanomachy2217 Racoon incest… I know the raccoons that hang around my home so I know who’s the mother and who’s the child. It’s their culture so it’s okay but I don’t want to see it.
That sparrow hawk flying toward you (the first photo) might scare the pants off you alone in the woods. Only scared once out in the wild on Dartmoor with a friend, a bunch of drugged-up hoodie wearers from the town decided to visit at nightfall. Almost got 'Deliverence' on us!
@@panderjitsinghvv8199 We don't have those characters here so that's interesting. There is, for instance, male on male action in nature such as in mallard ducks and penguins (necrophilia with the latter) but we shouldn't ascribe human behaviour and terms to the natural world. As debauchery goes, apparently Bonobos are much worse than raccoons. Of course, the most depraved by a mile are human animals.
Can’t wait to listen Brother,,, you have a special gift , high above all others , most definitely my favourite content creator 👍🏻🇬🇧🏴🏴🏴 WATP
Taking a break from editing a wedding video I shot for a client and this pops up, a lovely surprise. Only a few minutes in to the video but practicing video/photography/doing martial arts has been a great way for me to "go back to normal" these past few months. There is a way to dish out white pills and in many cases they wont be political. For example if you're doing a podcast you have to treat it as entertainment for your audience: in other words, it should have a clear beginning, middle and in the end a payoff, a whilepill, a couple going off into the sunset. For example, it's all very good that Morgoth has his politics but his partner still needs him to take out the rubbish during the week. It's all very good that you logged onto Twitter today but you still have to get a skill or a trade or I still have to pick up my kid after school. There is a world out there which isn't political and that's the world you can take control of. Remember to log off lads :)
@@therespectedlex9794 Maybe to you, but I've been doing martial arts since I was a teenager and enjoyed every bit of it. It even saved me from being robbed once. There's a beautiful sense of tiredness after every training session (which also ensures a night of good sleep :))
@@therespectedlex9794 Perish the thought, but if the OP had to protect himself or his family from an intruder his martial arts ability might be pretty useful.
Well said Morgoth.....that last line was a profound truth .....we can debate and resist and criticise the normies but some where. Someone like your 'photographer ' is just living .....
Masterful as always Morgoth. You have the magic eye, your ability to observe and de-construct in such a profound and poetic manner is quite simply majestic. BTW the closing tune from 'The Truman Show' wasn't just beautiful to listen to but also very apt considering the subject matter discussed. Truman was forever yearning for something real & authentic whilst living in a perpetual artificial merry-go-round. As with Truman, so too the bird watcher seeks out the authentic, with the hope of transcending modernity, if only for a little while.
A bird watching forum reported a rare bird sighting on a pond on the estate i work on and this pond was down a private track. I had to tell maybe three dozen loads of twitchers to turn back but despite my efforts, enough made it to the pond to disturb the birds enough to make them leave. I eventually contacted the forum to have the post removed, but the birds were already gone.
this is actually a good metaphor when you add in the decadent phase. Our attitude towards our civilization very much feels like the attitude towards a favorite hobby that was a whole lot of fun back in the day, but no longer holds our interest.
Great video!! I recently bought myself a beginners camera for bird photography. My new hobby :) In my local area (South Netherlands) there are quite a few rare species to be found within walking distance and there's nothing like the thrill of seeking and eventually finding a rare bird. To see them up close through a pair of binoculars for the first time gives a feeling of pure joy and excitement. I bet getting that perfect photo is just as exhilarating and now you have something to show for it. Like the barn owl picture with reflection at the start of the video. Absolutely stunning!
Early morning Spring time walks can be absolutely magical. For one of my walks in April last year, I drove to a natural park in my area where I came across a little secluded piece of woodland with hundreds of little songbirds, maybe 10 different species, flying in and out of the trees. I just sat there for 30 minutes enjoying the sounds and spectacle in the morning sun. At moments like that I forget about all the other stuff and just feel lucky and happy to be alive.
I can relate, I also do photography for a hobby but the subject I'm passionate about is more technological - old steam locomotives. I will travel three hours (or more) to see a particular locomotive running on a particular railway simply for the enjoyment of it. Also a desire to capture these things while we have them, they are expensive to maintain in working order and for how long will modernity permit these old coal burning machines to operate in the times we live in? Anyway I'm always amazed by the patience and dedication of nature photographers like the man you met. Trains run on a timetable and usually turn up eventually, they can be out there all day and go home with nothing.
Some older blokes I know into industrial archaeology and steam trains - met several volunteers on the Romney Marsh railway for instance - are very based. Eccentric, often but good blokes.
I used to be a wildlife photographer....you've captured the essence well. It's a pastime you can focus so so much time and energy (and money!) on. These days it feels like it's cheapened by digital overload, unfortunately.
I’ve always thought photography is a farce. Something easy to do, that now passes for an art form for untalented “artists.” But perhaps I’ve been too critical, and nature photography is a definite exception.
Friend of mine who did a Mickey Mouse BA in photography would agree with you. The pretentiousness of his fellow students surprised him. Creative people can capture a fine image but a non-creative with the right gear might also. With wildlife photography you need patience, some luck and often some natural history knowledge to be in the right place at the right time. But without the right gear there's no 'art'.
@@Clive697 tbh,I’ve used my iPhone on ALL hols for the past ten years or so…even though I have thousands of pounds worth of pro gear…I like the restriction it offers,and the simplicity,I never get any complaints, my shots get many likes,compared to others equipped with the same ‘phone’…the eye of the beholder?!…probably…I never went to uni,been snapping since I was 13…old school self developed b/w mostly …which I DO NOT miss,there is a wankyness (false fondness) to the dev/print process that I do not get,and I’ve done a LOT…Hipsters innit.
@@joelfildes5544 Hi Joel. I don't have an I-Phone (I'm anti-modernity) but have been shown one by a teen with zoom, video-making and slow-mo features and it's as good as a digital camera. This kid can easily take pictures like the ones Morgoth showed - and he's an eejit! The gear is what matters and - like you say - art is subjective. Maybe some people genuinely think Tracey Emin makes quality art and is talented, for instance?
@@Clive697 Yup I recently gave an old Scalextric to a mates kids,the slo-mo crashes we recorded on my phone gave it a whole new lease of life,and we hadn’t even got the lighter fluid out at that point.Of course art is subjective,but beauty is not…it’s where truth lies,as they say.
“Making music, listening to music, reading with all my attention, these activities are part and parcel of my life; To call them hobbies would make a mockery of them.” Theodor W. Adorno
Nice video. I used to collect a magazine called "World of Animals." It had some wonderful photography from many different creatures from Britain and around the world. Reading through them always made me feel at ease. 😊
Beautiful video Morgoth including your poetic but natural narration. The photos are magical because the artist managed to show the individual personalities of the birds and animals in a way that's startlingly human. I've often seen these expressions on the faces of birds and animals even though, like most people, I was conditioned not to see them that way. Turns out that the authors of animal stories for children were more correct than the science taught to people. The photo of the young fox is my favourite he looks so cute and the robins and and the water birds are beautiful too. Lovely music at the end.
I doubt there is, or has been, anything so incorrect as the "science" we've been taught this past century in the whole of human history. Maybe the children's authors subconsciously know something that many of us don't, much like how the children themselves have a purer way of perceiving the world. You're right about the expressions on animals' faces.
Taking pictures was my living for a quarter-century and whilst taking pictures was fun and rewarding the best lesson was that you have to see as well as to look ..... we look where we're going but we don't see what we're moving past and through, look up and the world is an entirely different and fascinating place ..... photography will teach you that essential skill and from there it's a short step to applying it to other circumstances in life. Thank you for the thoughtfulness and the observation so well expressed in the video.
the original aircraft industry was just a bunch of guys creating aircraft in their backyards. they used to compete against eachother to see who could fly the farthest. but it was entirely an individual hobby type thing. there was no boeing giant corporation creating the first aircraft.
Good on ya Morgs. You’re an increasingly rare brand of good bastard and one that invariably makes the choice of listening to your interpretations of the world, proven to be the correct one.
Wonderful video, thank you! Fantastic images. The people fishing off the local pier are not out there to get away; they are there to tune into actual life.
I live in smackdown in a European capitol. Very diverse, full of opportunities thus opportunists ... If I go just ten minutes away from electricity/heating and internet, that all goes away. Out there is Northern Europe. Cold, harsh and not particularly comfortable. You meet whoever can handle it. Mostly Europeans.
Sorry to bring this back to politics, but the money-making aspect seems to be why remainers don't understand the reason Brexit won or why we don't want mass immigration. What is the point of economic superiority if you destroy the country in the process? Being British IS the hobby, whereas being a member state of the European Union is the 9-5. I would also add that the line does not go up when you factor in all the variables of staying in the EU, but if politicians wilfully ignore our membership fee, the planned destruction of industries and outsourcing of goods, workers and pensions there's not much hope for the layman.
I’m getting tired of saying “another fantastic review”....but as always, wonderfully constructed and articulated....and another fantastic review....🤦♂️....something of the Heidegger in there as well ‘Alethea’ the revealing and concealing and additionally very much akin to MHs views on technology....and he wasn’t averse to wandering in a forest (nor indeed a graveyard!) ......
Professional and prosumer grade cameras are curious bit of tech. For example simple quality of life improvement like charging via usb came rather recently. For longest time one had to take the battery out and recharge it using separate charger. They still have rather complex array of buttons and selector wheels to control various functions while in any other piece of tech designers are trying to get rid of as much physical controls as possible. It could be because pretty much entire camera industry is ran by handful of Japanese (thus probably conservative) corporations.
Great thoughts Morgoth. Reminds me of a line from a hymn ... Heaven above is softer blue, Earth around is sweeter green; Something lives in every hue Christless eyes have never seen:
I've known plenty of photographers and there's 2 kinds. Those who capture the beauty of the world, and those the ugliness. Guess which political camp which belongs to which
Although it might not be a representative sample, every wildlife photographer I've chatted to - including the near-unique birdwatcher black dude - was down to earth (pun intended) and based on certain issues. I assume the leftists are snapping Stalinist tower blocks in Lewisham.
Yeah. I imagine we could pretty much just generalise the photographers that capture beauty as atleast somewhat socially conservative. I bet it would be an absolute arse ache to get it out of them though
I watched this video because I thought that it was a nature photographer's channel, and as a nature enthusiast, ( and eager but hopeless nature photographer ), enjoy such materiel. I appreciated the thoughts of 'Morgoth,' they were worth listening to, and if I should bump into him in another bird hide I am sure we would have a pleasant converstion.
Thank you MORGOTH! We have just had 'Citixen X and his good lady to stay with us for three nights: and your wonderful content came up during some excellent discussions. Wish you had been with us in Zumerzet!
Peace, happiness and meaning lie in the spaces between the moments. You simply need to look for them. Glad you found this one M. I'm searching for my own meaning, and nature always helps; I found more joy in a perfect dandelion today then any person should really have any license to.
I guess beauty is in our interpretation, not in the world. Some of us find it in Nature, some in Math or coding , industry, travel, Sci-Fi escapism, Art, love,... Generally not in Social media however.
When capturing that photographic moment, nature can appear to have a logic of its own, and a logic that we can perhaps begin to understand, especially whilst everything within in the image and all around remains perfectly still. The same could be said for capturing soundscapes. Something I intend of doing myself with a field recorder in the coming years. Wonderful video essay Morgoth, thank you.
I used to do pin hole photography, B&W photography, digital SLR. Non of it was a waste of time. Has the smart phone photography killed memories? Can we absorb this much visual information?
In fairness, while I'm not a bird person I do stalk a particular woodland just so I can see a certain sparrow hawk. I think I've only ever encountered three owls in the wild in my life, sadly one was dead by the side of the road. It's a rare treasure to meet one in the woods during the twilight hours.
