In the short video I visit Croome Court in Worcestershire, UK and get some images as the mid morning sun breaks through the clouds and spills on to the wider landscape of the croome estate whilst illuminating Croome House and the Rotunda against a backdrop of blue and grey clouds. This is also a tale of caution of wanting for more and getting more than you wished for as the clouds thickened and the landscape was plunged into darkness and rain, whilst producing my favorite image from the days photography. If you like my content please give it a thumbs up and comment, do you like the final dark image as much as me? or is one of the lighter ones your favorite? As a general update: Hello all and Happy New Year, to all my friends, subscribers, and those people who leave comments on my little corner of Youtube. Despite the struggles of the world I know many of you have managed to still get out and produce some outstanding photography and perhaps in locations and scenes closer to home than you perhaps originally planned :) I thank you for your sharing your photography and videos and I hope you will continue to do so in 2022. Photography for me has been difficult in 2021. From riding the wave of creativity and ideas of 2020 in to 2021 quickly saw me burnout and crash with the worlds uncertainty. Frustrated with the lack of personal motivation, inspiration and energy, my photography and video output has taken a bit of a dive! As such I have struggled greatly in trying to keep the photographic flame burning. I think this reflected no more so in the limited number of images I have posted in 2021 and even less videos :( I'm quite sure im not alone in feeling this way too. Alas it's now the start of 2022, Thank you one all, for the continued support you have shown me throughout 2021! As such I forced myself out of the house armed with a single Vintage SMC Pentax 135mm Prime lens with the hopes of embracing the new year and kick starting my photography and videography mojo I hope you enjoy the ramble and results. Until the next video, take care all Geoff. Camera Used ---------------------- Pentax K1 smc Pentax K mount f/2.5 135mm Asahi Opt. Co. Japan 1983 Filming --------------------- DJI Pocket 2 Canon M50 & Canon 10-18mm UWA Stay Social --------------------- Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/geoff-moore/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/geoffmoorephotography/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/geoffmoore/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/GeoffMoore Music ---------- Title: Castles in The Sky - by the super talented Scott Buckley! https://www.scottbuckley.com.au/library/castles-in-the-sky/ More interesting landscape images of mine here https://goo.gl/nvvzn6 #vintageglass #chasinglight #135mm #pentaxk1 ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBUpqTeqU28

In this video I reveal the Pentax Afterdark Photobattle Winners, Provide a quick update on what I have been doing and what's coming up on the channel and I also share some frustrations in trying to produce video content for Youtube - Can you help? Lee Ivesons Winning Video & Image https://youtu.be/yFw4UzdFgyc Audience Winner Lisa Huston - Triple Eight Amsterdam @01:50 Camera & Lenses Used to Make This Video (????? ??? ????????? ?????) ------------------------------------- DJI Pocket 2 https://amzn.to/3RqSm0q Stay Social ------------------------------------- Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/geoff-moore/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/geoffmoorephotography/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/geoffmoore/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/GeoffMoore Music ------------------------------------- Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/avbe/night-in-kyoto License code: LSHDAMIJIOGSDU1M More interesting landscape images of mine here https://goo.gl/nvvzn6 ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPG4GnrccUk

In this video I visit Titterstone Clee Hill in Shropshire to photograph a sunset dipping over the majestic landscape that borders Wales to the west and the English counties of Cheshire to the north, Staffordshire to the east, Worcestershire to the southeast, and Herefordshire to the south. The plan was simple photograph and capture the late evening sunset colours in the clouds as the setting sun dipped below the horizon, which would hopefully set the sky a wash of oranges, pinks and purples. Once again my trusty Pentax K1 camera was matched with the Samyang 24 mm F1.4 and the diminutive Pentax Smc - DA 35 mm F2.4 AL (which is fast becoming one of my favourite lenses) If that wasn't enough I also wanted to make best use of my time on top of the hill to photograph the landscape and radomes in the blue hour; an opportunity to photograph the early evening landscape, in the cool blues using the DJI Mavic Air 2 drone to do some aerial photography, revealing details and textures that easily go amiss when from standard perspective. Waiting around for a few hours more I then planned on filming myself photographing the night sky and milky way, by doing some astrophotography over the tops of the National Air Traffic Services (NATS) radomes using my Pentax K1 and duo of lenses, the Samyang 24 mm F1.4 and the Pentax Smc - DA 35 mm F2.4 AL . However producing the video content for this was a challenge and the absence of light made it impossible to really show you how I had my scene composed and my camera setup. So unfortunately the video and story telling was limited in this part, but still, the resulting images taken on the night once I got home and processed them, produced some very pleasing wide field landscape astrophotography photographs. I hope you like them as much as I do. The photographic opportunities and views from the top of Clee hill and the wider area of outstanding natural beauty are some of the best in the Midlands and the area is quite often overlooked by photographers in favour in my iconic locations, its hilly landscapes makes for some fabolous landscape photography from the early mists of Autumn to the snow drifts of Winter to the breathtaking sunrises of Spring and Summer and landscape photographers dream. The hills that make up the landscape and the remoteness away from light-polluted cities means the skies above are amazingly dark. Views of the Milky Way from this region are fabulous on Moonless nights. There are also a number of publicly accessible Dark Sky Discovery Sites so camera like the Pentax K1 with it astro tracer functionality or for users of the popular Move Shoot Move systems are spoilt for choice for wide angle astrophotography landscapes. let me know your favorite image from the video, and your comments below. Until the next video, take care all Geoff. Images ------------------------------------- 04:38 Last Light (Pentax K1) 06:09 Sun Down (Pentax K1) 07:20 NATS 1 (Air2S) 07:26 NATS 2 (Air2S) 07:32 NATS 3 (Air2S) 09:15 NATS Stars Landscape (Pentax K1) 09:32 NATS Stars Portrait (Pentax K1) 09:51 NATS Stars Milky Way (Pentax K1) Camera & Lenses Used to Make This Video (????? ??? ????????? ?????) ------------------------------------- Pentax K1 https://amzn.to/3uGGJsN Pentax Smc - DA 35 mm F2.4 AL https://amzn.to/3AQj0bN Samyang 24 mm F1.4 https://amzn.to/3QvEl05 Filming ------------------------------------- DJI AIR2S https://amzn.to/3AZamcP DJI Pocket 2 https://amzn.to/3RqSm0q Canon M50 https://amzn.to/3nYbfuq Canon 10-18mm UWA https://amzn.to/3ausW1o Stay Social ------------------------------------- Vero: @geoffmoore Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/geoff-moore/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/geoffmoorephotography/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/GeoffMoore Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/geoffmoore/ Music ------------------------------------- Music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/zimpzon/calm License code: 3NPQK1SEMPT8X4J1 More landscape images of mine here https://goo.gl/nvvzn6 ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yu3F1xP9_E

Please let me know your favorite photo from the video in the comments section below. Until the next video, take care all Geoff. Camera & Lenses Used to Make This Video (????? ??? ????????? ?????) ------------------------------------- Pentax K1 https://amzn.to/3uGGJsN SMC Pentax-DA* 60-250mm F4 ED [IF] SDM https://amzn.to/3uIKxcR Filming ------------------------------------- DJI MINI 3 Pro https://amzn.to/4bWjgae DJI Pocket 3 https://amzn.to/3wIHA0i Stay Social ------------------------------------- Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/geoff-moore/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/geoffmoorephotography/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/geoffmoore/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/GeoffMoore Music ------------------------------------- Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/brock-hewitt-stories-in-sound/moving License code: YUTTFUK4IVCSCF6C Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/brock-hewitt-stories-in-sound/his-destiny License code: VXFITDKOWMLYWNSM More interesting landscape images of mine here https://goo.gl/nvvzn6 ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iU8uIVNlUU