What is the most valuable lesson that you have learnt over the years? What piece of advice would you give to someone just starting landscape photography?

One piece of useful advice I have earned is "There is always a worthy composition to be had within a few feet of where ever you are.

Happy new year to you too Chris.

That is a beautiful capture.

Most valuable lesson for me is one you mentioned, to slow down. I'd also say that striving for perfection is a bad path. For me, striving for perfection is frustrating, leads to missed opportunities and will have you chasing gear forever. I thinking striving for improvement is a better attitude. My advice for someone starting is to share your images with as many people as you can. Feedback is an amazing motivator. One last thing for you, is consider adding to your outro, a reminder to click the bell to be notified of new posts. For those of us subscribing to a lot of channels, videos can sometimes be missed. The bell feature notifies me when a new video gets posted. Once again, I really enjoy your channel.

I enjoy your library of videos. Going back and watching all of them. Thanks again

Thanks again Chris......your tips are very helpful.

Another great video and images Chris with some some wise words.

Lovely advice ... Merry Christmas to you too Chris .. and thank you from Eastern Canada!

Good advice, Cris. Thanks for taking the time to share.

gorgeous background music and a nice set of tips. Happy New Year!

Enjoying your wisdom great work love your selfie 👍

Great advice Chris and another superb video. Christmas Selfies rock! 🙌🙌

well said Chris great advice as ever thanks have a great new year mate cheers - Graham

Enjoyed the video, good advice Chris... and nice ending!

Your best video yet. Looking forward to your 2018 vlogs. Happy new year.

Beautiful place and great lessons. 👌! and Happy new year. Chris.....,

This is my favourite tarn in the lakes. Wow.

Parkamoor Jetty - nice to see some tastefully done HDR. Nice set of images overall, and proof that you don't always need sunshine.

Great video Chris. I was guilty of the first mistake too and now concentrate on improving my technique not equipment. Cheers

This will be so helpful as I move forward throughout my journey. Thank you so much!

Another great video and some lovely shots too

Thanks for sharing your thoughts Chris, a great Vlog. Happy New and best wishes with your photography in 2018.

What a great video filled with wise words and stunning images. I hope you had a great Christmas and all the best for the New Year.

Great video... really enjoyed the content, beautiful landscapes and you paired it all with the perfect music too, well done! 🙂

Well done mate, great tips!

That reflection is perfect

Loved it, great work

Good advice there Chris there in your cool, calm and calculated manner. Lovely shots mate. You mentioned it already, just get out and shoot but keep your compositions simple as possible and aim to come back with 1 really good shot. It’s been a pleasure Chris in the last 6 months to interact and as Dave says, we will catch up in the new year. Thanks for your inspiration

Great tips and entertaining vlog chris...have a great 2018 m8..keep up the good work..

Great video Chris! And good advice. I like “embrace the grey”. I also love “untitled #2” for those stunning straight trunks on the island and the beautiful light. Looking forward to watching more videos!

Chris, wise words in this video buddy. My favorite, “there are no shortcuts in photography”....well said. Enjoyed the images. Well done 👌

Great Advice Buddy, I like your Style Easy piece

I'm a bit late, Chris; but Happy New year. I really enjoy your videos. They always leave me with something to think about or consider for my own photography. They really have helped me along with improving my Landscape photography. Which, by the way is my favorite of all the genres. Thanks again. The most valuable lesson I have learned over the years, is to make an image, not just take a picture. Which goes side by side with telling a good story with the image.

Great video with some great tips Chris. Your point about slowing down really resonates with me. I have gone from taking some good pictures with point and click cameras to being a little overwhelmed with all the features on a Mirrorless Sony A6300. Patience and not obsessing with the kit are paramount. Thanks for sharing

*_Great recordings, great, and the song is great video! Greetings from Germany, Angela_*

My first trip to your vlog and good, sound, casual video delivered in a relaxed and easy understandable manner, I enjoyed it and will be back, now subscribed, Happy New Year mate.

Absolutely brilliant video Chris. Some awesome advice in there as well. My #1 tip is “patience” every landscape photographer must have patience. Some absolutely stunning images, any one of which I would be proud to put on my wall, I will definitely be seeing you again in 2018!!!!👍👍👍👍👍📷📷

Great video Chris and good advice! I would add that watching good KZfaq Landscape photographers like yourself is a great way to learn and gain inspiration to get out and shoot! Happy New Year to you

Untitled #3 is a stunning shot,

Great video Chris. Agree with embrace the grey. I live in Ambleside so we get quite a bit of that. Good tip re slowing down. I think I'm guilty of trying to get to many different compositions so will try your tip. Thanks

great video, very good advice... NOW i need to listen and take note... Thank You

Another interesting video and some sound advice from you. With some really goods shots thrown in. Any beginner would benefit from watching your video's. Looking forward to your 2018 vlogs.

Hi Chris, good Job and a happy new Year. PS not only your photograhy is excelent, also your music taste...regards juergen

Great video bud🤙 haha love the selfie! 🎅hope you had a hood Christmas and have a good new year bud see you in new year

Happy new year Chris.

I can confidently say I have committed every single mistake u highlighted . But better late than never .. excellent 5 tips .

Chris, I just "found" you! Immediately hit that subscribe button! I'm looking forward to your 2018 vidz! Keep up the great work! Cheers!

Hi Chris, just found your videos and have subscribed. I like your style as they say. the tips are good and the shots you share are beautiful. Thank you for sharing and i look forward to 2018.

Thanks for looking at my site. There’s a lot of work in vlogging, you do it very well.

All 5 great advice BUT slow down the best imo. The shot " untitled #2 " loved that. Hope you had a great Christmas. Happy New Year to you.

wow!! what a location!! and what a day to film!! incredible..! those pics were stunning mate!! great vid dude!! top tips!! :-)

Hi Chris, just watched this as my first video of you, manymany congratulations to your work! looking forward to seeing more and please keep going on. servus from Salzburg

Great Tips Chris, Totally agree with what you said. Great video and congrats on the growth in your channel, you deserve it. soon 1K Cheers man and happy holidays.

Great video and pics, untitled #3 my fave, good advice too, a couple of then I need to heed. All the best John

Don’t know how I missed this one Chris, some great tips buddy, thanks. Happy Christmas mate. Lol One piece of advice to give newbies; just have fun

Beautiful place with great mood in this location, wish one day could visit Lake District. Have to work to be active on Instagram or Twitter, one day.....lol!!! Selfie must have for sure, excellent, my tip would be :Don't try to take a short cuts, earn it!!! Marry after Christmas and excellent great year of 2018, nicely pit together, thank you, your American friend Verdon!

Chris, believe it or not, this video was your best, not because of the photos (they were great), but because you're a genuinely great guy and the selfies are your trade mark...! Thanks for all the great tips too. I will put them to good use. I'm going to the Oregon Coast to shoot some amazing scenes on Sept...2nd.

Watched them all now, go out and make some more. Cheers

Untitled #2 was simply stunning Chris. All the best in 2018 and I look forward to more of your content. Cheers. :)

I like your videos, I have not long started photography and I learned that the camera doesn't take good photo's its the photographer takes good photo's.

I just found your channel, subscribed and starting following on IG. Great video.

Nice work Chris! My first was a 600D which failed on me twice,but the composition is the key part.

A superb video Chris! Even though the pace was fairly slow I wasn't bored for one second :) Also very nice tips :)

Glad I finally stopped by your channel, Chris! excellent advice and great images to boot. All the best for 2018. At the end I thought you were going to jump in the lake, haha,

Practice, practice, practice. Then practice some more 😀

Many thanks, Chris, I enjoyed this video, both the advice and the images. I think slowing down is extremely important. I'm a new subscriber, a serious avocational landscape photographer. I look forward to following your videos in 2018. Tarn Hows looks beautiful-I'll be shooting in the Lake District in early February. Cheers, Bob

Great advice, especially, slowing down. I do tend to rush the shot and not look at the overall composition. The areas you photographed make we want to visit merry old England! Might have to visit the Ancestral Homeland soon.

You're lucky to have Lake District within your reach, I could see a couple of nice compositions just from watching the video. It's really tough to keep the spirit up where I live, the sky has been overcast for months, rain day in day out (with few and very short breaks in between, which for some reason always seem to coincide with my working schedule). I'll be in Lake District in June though and I'm already looking forward to it.

Chris, really enjoying your videos. Interesting comments about RAW. Any chance of seeing how you edit your images?

Self-portraits are tough. I've been trying to get one for an online forum, and am about ready to go get to a portrait studio. Really like your style.

Great video Chris, have really enjoyed your work over 2017. Advice for someone starting out would be to stay away from photography forums (they're full of armchair experts) and just get out there with whatever gear you have and enjoy the freedom of being outdoors.

Sage words, Chris. Of the 5, I say, for me, it's ssllllooooww down. I've enjoyed your videos this year and especially your relaxed delivery style. One piece of advice from me, don't just watch/read about photography, do the same for all art forms: visit museums and art galleries. Cheers.

Nice vlog you have built a great channel look forward to seeing you in 2018

Nice and easy vlog with some relaxing misty images over the Tarn, just the thing to sit and watch and chill out for 10mins. The main lessons I have learnt as a new comer is that there is no substitution for getting out there and practicing. Additionally, for me at least, planning my days shooting has help tremendously, there are some great photo guide books out there and some of the content on You Tube is really inspirational. Finally....aim to take less bad pictures ironically that will automatically mean you have more good ones (and less time deleting failed shots at post processing). Sorry that’s 3 bits of advice, great vlog, have a great new year and I look forward to seeing more.

As a 'non photographer', just someone who enjoys taking shots, I learnt off another 'non photographer', my dad, who just like me, wanted to capture memories. He started in the late 50s taking shots that were transferred onto slides, which you would then view via a handheld device, which you had to look up to the light to see the actual shot. He then progressed onto taking 35mm cine film, which just before he died, I got transferred to DVD after previously transferring the original to video. He always took photos as well, almost up till his death a few years back. Funny thing about the slides, I got them and all his old 35mm film tapes and I got the slides transferred onto a DVD and was astonished how vibrant some of the colors were today, almost 55 years later! The only bit of advice I remember him telling me was, never shoot into the sun, which is funny, as a lot of my favorite shots now are with the sun in front of me. Not full sun but with the sun just peeping over the sunrise or breaking through a tree. Was a bit worried mind, at the late arrival of the selfi, thought it was been binned, had to LOL when you put on the Christmas hat and had a quick look to the left to see if anyone was looking! The Selfi and the Parkamoor shot were real good, loved the sky and the reflections of light in the lake. Cheers Alan

Enjoyed todays video again Chris , thanks for showing. Dabbled with photography for a few years now and because it was limited to 36 exposures in the film days. Perhaps 6 exposures on a day out things were very slow. Frustratingly Too slow.But I agree slowing down with digital and thinking what mood or atmosphere you want to develop with the conditions available ,asking yourself why you are at the chosen area for. Every time you go out take a camera, just in case you spot something.

NIce video. I wish you the best in 2018.

I wish to have a mentor like you

Happy Christmas Chris and thanks for producing these videos to share your photographic journey with us. My love of photography also began at Christmas time when my parents gave me my first camera a Polaroid Instamatic in 1975. Can I ask you a question please Chris (sorry if it's not appropriate here) but I have been thinking about joining Instagram for ages. How do you feel about cropping your images to Instagram's square format? I cannot bring myself to start butchering my 3 x 2 and 4 x 5 etc after the careful consideration at the time of composing the photo.

Very nice video man! Enjoyed it a lot, has a really relaxing feel to it, the music place a big part in that. But, don't you maybe think that some photos don't have a clear subject?

Great lessons Chris. Having got my start with film photography, I understand the importance of "slowing down." With only 24 exposures, you can't afford (literally) to take random images. As I moved more into digital over the last couple years, I've been guilty of moving too fast because I'm limited only by the size of my card. But the tip is an important one. Also, I agree about the gear and have no intention of enhancing what I have until I master composition - it's still my Achilles heal of sorts. Thanks for the history lesson on the Lake District - always wondered why the hills were so manicured. LOL. Happy 2018 and see you soon. (btw - untitled # 2 was smashing).

Great video mate (and even better selfie). Great tips and we presented and integrated with your trip out with the camera. "Embrace the grey"...well, I don't know who this Julian Baird is but he sounds like he knows what he's talking about! lol

Shot shot shot shot shot and do it everywhere. Carry your camera everywhere you go and shot shot shot. Just keep shooting every day.

haha its so hard to slow down when you're thinking..."that light's gonna disappear any minute"

Chris,what's the title of the music in this vid please?

What's the music on this vid Chris?

again it`s me. Is it possible to get a raw of the Untitled #1...such a great pricutre!