Courtney, it looks like a majority vote: ALL OF YOUR VIEWERS HAVE MISSED YOUR DANCING! Glad to see the dance routine come back. I too live in a land of ferns, and the fiddle heads are fun to shoot. And they look good in monochrome. Thanks for sharing your day with us! We'll keep watching over your shoulder from Olympic Nat'l Park, Port Angeles, WA., USA!!! Take care.
From what I understand, you mostly get moss and plants growing on trees on the west side of the British Isles as it could be temperate rainforest. You're right that it looks mystical, that's a great description!
I'm not an expert in nature photography and I discovered this channel by chance, but I'm happy about it. Your content is fantastic, it's a pleasure to watch, it's very relaxing and informative. Congratulations again, greetings from Italy 🤌😁
There are many, many professional photographer influencers on RU-vid with all the necessary skill sets to take extraordinary photographs. That being said, there is only one Courtney.
Thanks you for nice video Victoria. I like your romantic feeling in your photography! Very nice and quiet photo. Don't worry about your imagination. This is just as you need to see something and create photo to spread a message! I hope to see next of your video.
Was just thinking we hadn't seen you dance for a while 😂 fantastic! Also, I love the first unfurling furn pic. Keeeeeep Dancing 😁 ... and taking photos!
The 43 min. phonecall on an insurance company hotline brought my blood pressure up immensely, but now after watching your lovely video with 2 fingers of single malt I feel much better again. I think the Daintree Rainforest here in QLD / Australia would be interesting for you.
Super!! So glad the dancin is back! Boogie Boogie. When I'm not photographing concerts I always look for something else within the shot just like you, dragons, elves or whatever it may be, that's the beauty of photography it's always special to the person taking the photo. Another great video Courtney, thank you 🖤
Absolutely a gorgeous video and I love your fern close-ups. I so look forward to each new installment of your photographic journey! Thanks so much for sharing.
It wasn't shaping up to be a good day. Then I saw you had posted a video. I love your attitude toward being opened minded about photography. Not getting a great image is nothing to fret about. Just getting out with your camera is a reward in itself.
Thank you so much for including us in your photo walks. You are a joy to listen to and now with the dancing back a joy to watch. You are a natural photographer, teacher and entertainer.
Wow. Hold up. Pure inspiration. Nat geo has not found this for a show yet? To observe your videos is like, my comments might be a title on most influential people in the moment. Incredible work from this creator. Inspire generations.
great video, loved it, esp. the personal moments!- NB: everyone, she isn't nuts, just some of us photographers let our 'creative juices' flow a lot more freely, hence the outbursts, just excess creativity finding it's way to the surface!!
Wonderful stuff, how about doing a behind the scenes. Show us the equipment you use and how you video yourself when your taking a photo. That would be informative.
Big shout out to MPB sponsoring you - we run a Pro studio and alway use them for stuff we can't get new or stuff we want to P/Ex - love your photography - we live quite near to you and are just about to open a space for photographers to showcase and sell their work. Reach out to me through here 1st if interested - take care
nice shots Courtney, but a tip, for the moving ferns at 4:28, use a LONG exposure instead, this automatically stops motion, like 1,2 or 3 seconds, you have to use a 3.0 stop ND (ND10) to get the highlights down, so this will work, or go to MF film (here you can stop down to f 32, or 45 on macro lenses, so cut the light even more, so no ND is required).
If you can’t let your imagination go and see not just with your eyes but with you heart, mind, and soul then you might become a great picture taker but you will never become a true photographer and artist. 😊. Enjoy and explore the artist within
Hi Courtney, I loved the "Touching moment" shot the most and your dancing in the forest was also superb although in another league. Keep on experimenting and sharing your art, please.
Courtney, my kit is very similar to your (an 850 and a 780). I find it useful to engage vintage glass (read economical quality) that restricts my options to force me to see from a forced perspective I wouldn't normally entertain. I have one of the old 35-70 f2.8 D F-mount lenses that brought images in view, from the restriction, that I wouldn't have noticed before.
Beautiful fern images there Victoria - I love how many of them have some character and connection to them. Great finds. Good luck with the elephant herd for next year!!
Hi I’m new to your channel. Glad I found you. Really refreshing, great tips and shots. Love your delivery to camera. Feels like you are talking to just me, that’s feels quite unique. Talking of unique…..’your dancing made me evening’. 👏👏
If you go down in the woods today, You're in for a big surprise. Courtney dancing, thinking she's all alone. Yay! I'd love to come across that. Any chance of coming to photograph in my local rubber plantations in Thailand? :-)
Hi, just watched a few of your vlogs. As a landscape photographer, I really struggle with woodland photography and finding images/compositions so thank you for sharing your ideas and thought process. I might even pop back down to my local forest 😁 Andy
Loved your video & love your philosophy on your images should be for you and not some judge at camera clubs competition. That put me off photography for years but you have inspired me to take up again
This type of photography generally is not my cup of tea…but I must say that you produced some great images! I’m motivated to give it a go! Thanks for the inspiration! And thanks for taking me along!
Very nice. I like the dancing. I am a horrible dancer. Every time I dance someone will call the Paramedics. I have ordered from MPB. Very nice products.
Courtney, you have no idea just how much joy and laughter you bring out of me when you dance. It's so much fun to watch you act silly. It reminds me that even though I'm no longer a young man, I can still be young at heart.
One of the best on RU-vid. You tell us what you’re thinking and you dont rely on being half naked like some who think thats necessary to succeed. Your images have a nod to Karl Blossfeldt.
Aside from the spectacular images, I love the names you give them. So creative, so poetic... they complement the image and enhance it, give it a soul... Definitely better than my IMG_693.jpg
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Thanks for sharing. I really enjoy watching all your RU-vid videos , I not only learn a lot but I feel soo relaxed while and after watching them ! Keep Smilin 😊. What a Great Dancer 🕺👍
This is the 1st video of yours that I have viewed. I love the forest and ferns too, but I also truly enjoyed the music sound track that you choose. Well done!
Love your video and style of photography. I’ve recently purchased the Nikon 105mm Z, S lens to go with my Z8, fancied a change from sport to macro photography. When’s the best time to photograph mushrooms and would I find them deep in the woods I’ve been into the woods a few time and can’t find any mushrooms. As you can see I’m quite a novice at woodland photography.
Courtney "the dancer"! Hmm... you seem to be a good photographer too 😄 Lovely photos 😍 BTW were you shooting in the "DX" mode all the time? ("DX" appeared on your screen)
What a wonderful video Courtney! I’m a little envious because the woods around here -Riverdale in the Bronx - have almost no ferns. I have only begun to appreciate ferns in the last few years. The photographs are wonderful. I love the ‘Mechanical Arm’ at 9:18 and the first image ‘A Green World’ at 4:02 where the shallow depth of field gives this photograph some lovely atmosphere. And underlighting the “Two Halves of a Whole’ was genius - gorgeous image, although I think I prefer the colour version. And it was wonderful to see you dancing in the forest. I like the elephant ferns ; I looks forward to seeing more of those.
Thank you for sharing your feminine and thoughtful perspective on forest/macro photography. Oh, bugs make fantastic subjects. They are also far more scared of you than you may be of them. After having a Phidippus regius jumping spider as a pet for macro photography, I got over my fear of spiders. She was far more scared of me. She died after laying her unfertilised eggs. Lonely and unforfilled. I won't get another, I felt quite sorry for her.
Surprised you needed headphones. All this time I thought the music was in your head. 🎶🎶 Anyway, just a silly comment to increase your engagement in the algorithm. Carry on. 👍🥂
Thank you for embracing out of focus. Gets a bit same ol same ol seeing subjects completely in focus from stacking etc. Nothing wrong with it, just a nice mix up and beeing free to photograph things which would be almost impossible to photograph using those other techniques :)
That magnificent tree in the beginning must have been felled by an equally magnificent storm, or weak roots perhaps! It parallels life in general, does it not?
newer to your channel...not one to make a habit out of judging books by their covers, but holy hannah I was not expecting the dancing, let alone that you are really good at it!
