I've been following you for the last five years and each time you post a video I save a bit of special time to watch it. I live in iran and right now the government is killing people in the streets. Your video was a brief scape from all the heartbreaking news. Thank you Thomas.

You are so lucky to be out in these landscapes on your own - The WORST scenerio is when you have someone tagging along who hates and just doesn't understand photography.

Do take care Thomas. I shoot waterfalls and streams in the Blue Mountains Australia and once joined the creek with camera in hand from simply slipping on a completely large flat piece of rock quite far from the river. There must have been a moss of some kind that was like black ice, I tried to get back up from the spot I slipped upon but no joy and I steadily but slowly started to slide towards the river and there wasn't a thing I could do to stop it. I had to hold the camera up and accept the fate that I was joining the cascades. Fortunately there were no major waterfalls and after a few meters down the creek I could pull myself out. But the lesson here is sometimes we think where we are is safe spot but in reality it might not be at all. It's not always about where you currently are situated but where you currently COULD become situated should unforeseen events unfold. Use rope, anchor yourself to a tree or something when near cliff edges and dangerous spots, it will only increase your respect for your fellow viewers. You simply can never be too careful or safe, over engineering is best practice. Stay safe.

Watching your videos is a zen moment for me. An opportunity to slow down and appreciate this wonderful world we live in. Thanks for all you do.

Dude the mistakes are where the magic happens. I discovered my style as an artist from “mistakes” (happy accidents). Learned so many new techniques this way. Of course most mistakes are just that, but those few happy accidents make it so worth it

A touch of the Bob Ross's "happy accidents" there.... great shot of the lily pads.

the results are very stunning bro.. the photos are so cool, success always bro📸📸📸

The “blurred “ water lily are superb!

Proof that with experience comes the ability to see! I’ve felt that for at least twenty years wide angle lenses are actually rarely the best choice for landscapes! Great work Tom👏👍😀

I saw the first image you names "House in the hills" but I immediately thought of "Tucked in" like in under a blanket. Looks so calm and cozy.

Seeing the water tension around the liliypads is so cool

“No one will hear me scream.” that took a dark turn! 😅 Love your videos Thomas!

I love your explaining the process of how you choose to compose the image. To me, that musing is what makes each image so personal. And, I love how personal and open you are on film and how totally terrified you are of a complete stranger passing by 😅. I can totally relate.

That first shot - what a stunning location!

Wow love the 4 lily pads, seeing the viscosity of the water where the lily pads are sat and the smoothness of the water

I gotta tell ya Thomas, every time you get close to an edge, I just get a knot in my stomach for your safety. PLEASE please be careful on those edges!!! I wonder what the trees and the quarry would look like in Infrared ?? Great Video as usual.

Take an improve class if you have adult night school or acting classes nearby. Part of the problem is you need to not care who's there and focus on what you are doing. But better off enjoy entertaining someone. I was told in acting school that even if you are looking at a lens, picture someone to talk to through the camera! Cheers and GREAT PHOTOS!!!

As one of the long time viewers I just wanted to say..... stunning!

The pedestal one was wonderfully funny 😄

The water tension around the lily pads looked amazing, really nice image.

Another fine trip afield with the camera, Thomas. My favorite was the serendipity shot of the lily pads. :)

Just made the same mistake this morning. Lined up my composition, took the shot, checked exposure and moved on. And it was soft , didn’t check the focus…. Wonderful video again.

I liked the way you display your pictures at the end. Seeing the completed photo twice reaffirmed what I had seen the first time. Thank you for doing that. Keep up the great work!😊

My heart stopped when you tripped backwards 😬 I love both lily shots❤️📷

Glad to see you going out taking photos. Last two weeks I had time to go to take photos and it's absolutely chucked it down. So it's a bit much you rubbing my face in it to see you going out and enjoying your self. But as I can't go out at least I can watch your great videos while I drink a nice hot coffee.

The ‘opportunistic image grabbing’ you mentioned at the start is what I used to call “harvesting photos”.

love your video lad keep up the good work

I bet this guys photo portfolio is amazing. great work as always.

"Original Gangster", which is what you are, Thomas! You are an OG of landscape photography vlogging and we love ya for it. 😁

Even the first image looks like a painting ❤️

Thomas, I’d love for you to do a video on how you focus. It sounds like you have a process, and it would great info for you to share! Thanks for another great video!

"Creative story telling that has an impact", that's what this is!! 👏👏

Good video!!! Those misty mountings looks great.

You showed us that there is always hope to be able to get a wonderful shot. Thank you!

Not a bad day! However, my favorite is the shot of the lily pads in calm water.

Fantastic video, you made another flawless one.

Thomas - Saw the last two photos on Vero - OUTSTANDING!

"Sit back, and enjoy today's video" -- I am, indeed, fully reclined. Wow, you got some nice weather that morning.

Thomas, the word that leaps to my mind is “ Vicariously”!!!! Next is well done!!!

You continue to deliver even on difficult days. Enjoyed!!! Being a professional photographer for 40 years you always have to deliver.

Thanks for a great video Thomas, love the lily pads. Just proves the old adage less is more. Thanks again..

What a beautiful view right off the bat! Stunning. And funny enough, all of my best selling prints are what I initially considered "mistakes" in the field. Thankfully I'm too lazy to delete until I get them loaded up at home and saw the potential. Beautiful images!

Good to see you out again working your photography Superpowers! Thanks for always making it fun and educational!!

Hi Thomas ! Since I follow your channel, you convinced me to go visit the Lake district. And I just did it last week ! I spent 4 days hiking alone and it was "absolutely stunning ! 😄 So thank you, and I will go back for sure !

That lily pad image is stunning 👌

This is the only channel I that I really love the long formats. I look forward to these! I want to buy a 10 Stop ND filter for times similar to the end of the video. No light? Let's just blur the clouds with a 5 minute exposure and make it black and white.

Strange, I usually fond that weather app really reliable for shooting. Still got some shots none the less. A nice honest video !

I would pay top $$$ to tag along on your journey and learn one on one! Simply love your work. THANK YOU!

Love the explanations about what goes on in your head before pressing the shutter. Thank you Tom.

2:44 Amazing composition just about every line in the image goes to the house! 5:59 Yes I agree you can return to this anytime! 7:59 the Larches are beautiful, personally I don't mind the boulders, I like the texture contrast between the harsh rocks and the sort Larches 12:03 I love it? simple and close is best! 14:36 Yes, I think this one is the best of the Video, simplicity, closeness and movement! WOW!

I think your last image, slow shutter of the lily pads, just seems a little too busy for me to feel at peace while viewing it. Reminds me of some of the older glass with such sharp and gnarly bokeh that it makes your head hurt a little. For me the best was the one looking down into the quarry from above. But that tree hanging off the edge has great potential too. It did seem to have lots of green foliage - so it either fell recently or it is doing fine. If then latter then I'm hoping you get a second chance soon when the colors are changing. Combine that with a chance glow of light on it and you'll have a beautiful shot. Plus I'm certain you'll not only nail focus on it but also take more than one click! Great work as always, sir.

Great video, as always! I just love your chill vibe :)

I was at work late this afternoon and I suddenly realised it is Wednesday and there’ll be a Thomas Heaton video ready to watch. My mood was lifted! As usual I can relate as I’ve got one of those shots (unintentionally camera movement) that looks like a painting. A masterpiece lol

Always enjoy the unique style of your videos.

Beautiful video--I love it when you go out for a misty morning woodland shoot. English woods have such a lovely mysticism about them it seems. Cheers from USA.

Ive had problems with the Z7ii autofocus too. You can focus while using the + and - buttons to zoom in to the exact spot you want to make it much more reliable.

I love the lily pads! Both photos were beautiful!

Liked the images, especially the two lily pad shots. But you can't fool me. That second one was definitely a Van Gogh. ;-)

Wow... your "end up" drives look better than mine! LOL Very nice and a great video / story.

Thomas, Thanks for another great video! The Lilly pad shots reminded me of some images I made last year. I have been shooting B&W Infrared since the late 1970s as a teenager. In recent times I have started to look at subjects for IR that I never used to, and I did a whole bunch of Lilly pads in IR and was blown away with the results. I was drawn to a couple of the IR images you made on cloudy days, which made me rethink IR subjects. As for making mistakes, that is how we learn and move forward. Peter

I thought for sure you were going over the edge of the quarry when you fell Thomas, sketchy!!!

At 13:10 you missed the beautiful dead tree behind you, but you can still get it next time. Good job!

These videos remind how we all see differently. In the first scene I was jumping up and down pointing at the rock walls and silver birches above them. But you see rock walls every day. It is quite fun to see the wide angle video shot and then what you came away with versus what I saw. I do tend to extract vignettes more than landscape photographers on You Tube. My 70-200mm is on the tripod as much as the 24-70mm is.

like the quarry and trees shot

Stayed in a cottage not too far from Lowestwater. A short walk found us next to this amazing body of water. I'm no landscape photographer but was happy to visit there on numerous occasions. The light varied from visit to visit and I was happy with some of the images I came away with.

I like th one with the downside up tree even if it is soft. Maybe it'd work on textured paper like Hahnemuhle's William Turner (?).

Great work again Thomas, sometimes we can make happy mistakes!! 👍

It was really cool getting a meniscus curve on the lilly pads, even the wavy ones 👍🏻 Mr Gray will be pleased that you still like the (un)intentional cm 😅

Super video. Thanks.... and Ian Post music is just right.

Nice mistake indeed! My favorite is however the very first one photo, with the stone wall ondulating (not sure it's a word..) and wrapping the forest. I'm maybe also biased because I love fog. I can't wait to see a nice crisp and clear photo of the upside down tree. And on this one, maybe a bit of fog in between the cliff+ tree and the trees in the first background to provide more separation between the star of the photo and the overall image. Thanks again for sharing all this!

I beg to differ regarding the dangling tree comp. At some point, it is in fact going to go somewhere😂 Interesting photos this week. I like the moving lily pads.

Nice to see you found the spot on Loweswater with the lilies. Personally I go there at dawn when it’s frosty. Anyway I’m the fool in the black Volvo that said hello.

Bob Ross always said "happy little accidents". And I try to stick to it. I am not the kind of person to "run and gun" everything and come back with 5.000 shots after a day. But when opportunity lends itself, I take shots that others would not and tinker around, test things and maybe keep myself busy while waiting for my "real" shot or better conditions. Often times it's these kinds of images that you will keep in mind because "you learnt to do otherwise" and "the rules say it should be different". I think in one of your old videos you said you need to know when to break the rules but you need to understand them. And this is one of these examples. Regardless of that: I appreciate the content and I am always inspired to head out and shoot stuff.

I like the impressionistic water coloristic lily pad shot.

Thank you. All the best. 👍📷😎

Your video so attractive and instructive, I think it will be so useful and full of experience for landscape photographers and nature lovers. I am landscape photographer too i worked 18 years of my life photographing trees, which I called it "The Passion Of Trees". I exactly understand what you feel in your video, Thank you Ali

" I need to be careful here" - immedately leans over the edge with the video camera 😂

@14:47 A wild Pac Man and his cousins, great photo.

Hi Thomas, i ve been folowing your chanel for a couple of years now. I started when i found your videos mentioning the canon 5d4. Been using this cam eversince and very happy with it, although you have upgraded sincethen. It always makes me smile when artists say gear doesnt matter 😉 Anyway, this week my girlfriend is away and i don’t need to watch my favorite youtube channels on the iphone; so i cast your latest video on the livibg room home cinema with a big oled tv screen and… it looks so beautiful! What you are saying is intetesting as usual but i realise the work you put in the production of your videos! The image and the sound are superbe! Many more tx for your wiork!

About the House in the Hills. I would have cropped the image so that the house is much closer to the bottom left corner. More like 1/9 rather than 1/4 from the left edge. That, of course, would change the balance and the reading of the whole image.

Great video! (as usual). As a photographer some of my best photos have been happy "mistakes"

I like how this photoshoot went.

I wonder what the monthly rent is on Lilly's pad?🤣😂 encrypting your internet is important especially when travelling and using public wifi but encryption / decryption does have a performance penalty whether that's encrypting your storage drives or your internet traffic. It's just reality. Security comes at a cost in multiple ways.

That was a fun video to watch -- thanks! I guess that cow watched you set up a camera, walk by, come back to get the camera, and walk by again? Forget what the joggers think, worry about what the cow thinks :)

Cool shots Thomas

Really enjoyable video as always, cracking locations, that quarry was spectacular! Just love the images at the end of the lily pads, really struggle with those intimate scenes.

No mistakes that I can see. All are quite interesting images. A little bracketing of the shot wouldn't hurt.

Love that lily pad photo the surface tension on the water really makes it pop. I’ll be curious to see how that upside-down tree looks with some fall color. Keep up the the good work!

Thank you so much for sharing your mistakes as well as your victories. Makes the rest of us feel human. Thats a good thing. :)

Thomas, don’t assume that dangling tree will be there during autumn. Go back and get a shot, then do it again with the color.

That dead tree in the background at 13:06 was what I'd have been exploring. It looked like it was crying out to be photographed. Alas, it's cry was not loud enough.

The first image and the last image 👍👍

I’d send the drone on that upside down tree on the cliff could probably get some neat angles.

Beautiful thank you. How about carrying some safety gear for some of those one of a kind shots.

Love the shots, was there a conscious decision to not polarise the lily pads? It's so interesting how different people approach a shot, and I was thinking I'd have grabbed my polariser. Reminds me of that shot of yours in the pond in Grizedale. Also, were you in the Coniston/Tilberthwaite area in the first location or am I losing my mind 👍

It’s funny Thomas because I teach photography locally to community members and one of the things I always say is take at least three shots of the same scene especially when you’re a beginner but I do like the analogy of learning from mistakes as well and I say in photography there are actually no mistakes they’re just learning opportunities if we can change our mindset to the art of creation and that we learn more from our steaks than we ever do from what we do well when we take a great image we tend to just look at it and feel good but we don’t analyse it for the critical aspects. But when we take a photo badly we will sit there and analyse it because we want it to be better.

..lily pad photos...both fantastic, love the second

Amazing images, as always. At 13:41, there could have been a very beautiful image of the dead silver tree over the lush green trees and mountains in the background. Maybe you can visit that place again, and try to take the image

I personally consider the house in the hills to be one of your best images.

Thank you Thomas, …there are, may I offer, a couple of points-of view: your photographs, and also, of course, your process--aka, your channel. I learn something from both; thank you.