Landscape Photographer Drops Camera In River + Thomas Heaton Quakes With Jealousy

[@fototripper]

Have you read my book? www.fototripper.com/chasing-awe-landscape-photography-book-gavin-hardcastle/

[@vantagepointphotography]

Yes, 🙂 Still waiting for the next one !!!!

[@brendanhayes5565]

yes

[@T.M.G2014]

Only if you ship it to uk free lol

[@pal54321]

Nice Van, Adam's was very intricate and well made at the back, but he's now with car, God bless, but hopefully he'll have new supped up deluxe van with 5 star inter LED lighting soon. Gav, when we getting next Hardcastle Towers video? Thanks

[@keddy6live]

It's a good thing I'm not there with you guys, two Chris's are too many 😅

[@KevinNordstrom]

Patiently waiting for Thomas Heaton's reply LMAO I love how you all are friends but can joke with each other. We need more of that kind of banter in the photography community

[@NeilArthurs]

Great stuff, I love a good campervan tour! 😊 That remix of the chap falling into the water was pure gold! 🎉

[@BadYossa]

Stumbled across your channel and it's unlike any other Photography channel out there. Frikkin' hilarious mate. The banter is excellent!

[@markosberndt2065]

I have to say, Amanda excels at standing in place in the background. I liked the showing of the work that went into the van, I like that kind of stuff.

[@amv-photography]

Poor Amanda, just standing alone in the background. I hope she wasn’t bored. Another lovely video, always a joy to watch.

[@veivoli]

@amv000yt7 and @markosberndt2065 But what about the Hasselblad? 🙂📷

[@altrujillo3566]

Good to see Gumpton in your video again - he and you have a connection that makes them fun! My heart aches for Jason...I went into the drink in Alaska with my Canon and it never $tarted again. PS: Have a friend here who is doing a Delica conversion and its a total wreck. :)

[@JasonLorette]

Ha Ha, god watching that again makes me feel sick to my stomach all over again...updates on the camera coming soon! Dang, wish I'd gone to Meat Cove now...steak dinner, yeesh. Chris needs to add a snorkel to his van to keep up with Heaton now...and with the rain we had, we almost needed it! Great fun my friend...looking forward to next time! Oh and Ben...11/10 on that camera save! 😎📸

[@fototripper]

I really wish we had footage of the drop.

[@JasonLorette]

@@fototripper I know that would have been great for the video…need to set up a camera on a tripod and just film us all as we scuttle around.

[@rolandrick]

Man, I can’t remember how many years ago you introduced that running gag at 10:58 and it’s still good, also in the Leica variation 😁

[@Gavin-Akroyd]

Hello Gavin, I'm From Australia Love Your Video's, Can't Stop Laughing When I Watch Them.

[@marindacoetzee6760]

Time well spent watching this video! Amazing variety of content and entertainment....and oh boy, that voice....and Amanda!👌

[@curtisdauphney]

Perfect timing! I just went to this beauty set of Falls again yesterday, only to be greeted with about 15 cars... all of which were near full families. Ya love to see it, haha! Nice video, buddy!

[@westvirginianlivin9871]

This is looking like a really fun trip. I absolutely geeked out when you showed the drone shot from the last trip there.

[@aharshephotography]

Love this video. Laughed so hard at Adam's bit and the dance!! Been there, Got soaking wet in the river, Ocean and lake trying to capture a shot. So far splashed my camera with water just once, but never drowned it. Hope it is doing ok!

[@eliseenvisionz7588]

i love how you capitalize on the awkward moments with the brief silence and makes the moments better

[@DennisBater]

Thanks for the latest video, I love it when my bell rings with an adventure from fototripper!

[@roscot40]

Entertaining as always… never misses a beat. Great stuff, Gavin!

[@chantallabelle8571]

You have the best videos! Very good to learn new skills and having fun at the same time! I love it!

[@philipcooke9457]

My goodness Wow!!! I loved the focus stacked waterfall shots with the partially sharp freeze motion of parts of the waterfall....the rest of the water milky and smooth with motion blur. Very special indeed! This is something I have always wanted to do. Those shots of the lupins ......Wow again!!!! So simple in its own way but superb in the way the colours radiated out!!! Brilliant!

[@kennygo8300]

Grumpton and Chris! Close to the pinnacle of awesome landscape videos. Thanks for sharing!

[@joewelsh1804]

As well as the photography, I love the interaction between you lot. Keep it going, but when will we find out about Hardcastle Towers?

[@photographpaul]

Great movie. Lots of 😂😂humor, rain💧💧☂☂ , and photos 🎥🎥📸📸 👍

[@daviddyephotography]

thank you for lightening up the day with some nice chuckles. gave you a thumbs UP ! that will be 20 bucks !

[@happymystic9800]

Overall, the best video in a while. Highly hilarious 😂😂😂

[@phillipmccallum-o1m]

You mixed up nikon with Olympus when I get salt or mud on my EM1mk3 just rinse off under a tap

[@leelindemann7729]

‘Woodstove” You always crack me up. I’d like to see someone build out a Chrysler Pacifica. Mine is stalwart as hell-best vehicle ever.

[@QuietLightPhoto]

Shot shocks? Chris's van "journey" begins. 👍😘

[@fototripper]

It's the honeymoon phase

[@joehusband8479]

Couldn’t stop laughing at the sketch in the river, superb! Disaster dropping the camera in water, bet you’re glad it wasn’t one of yours. Nice one Gavin. P.S. missed hearing Amanda’s “meat Cove”.

[@SteveP_2426]

Great mix with the water stumbling Gavin. If anyone is going to slip over on wet rocks it's me so always take a tripod as a walking stick.

[@keithpinn152]

Hi Gavin: Always enjoy your videos. We were down east in June and went to the falls location you attended. That is once we were finally able to find the location. Also went up towards Meat Cove but didn't go all the way because an amazing fog back was rolling into the hills around Cap Stick. Keep up the great work. Cheers, Keith Pinn (Barrie, Ontario)

[@Flyers8810]

The wood stove suggestion made me laugh out loud. Brilliant. thank you!

[@515capncrunch]

Ben took his time through two videos to get comfortable with this channel’s comedic standards, but, that last remark was ‘tripper worthy! 😅

[@keddy6live]

Im going to try and make it to Meat Cove, not this weekend coming but the next. Probably the only place in Cape Breton i haven't been to yet

[@FAMUCHOLLY]

Love your videos G! Educational content with a chaser of comedy... or is it the other way around?

[@lottatroublemaker6130]

13:19 Those are not ferns in the foreground, that is grass! Beautiful grass, if I may say so! ☺️🤗

[@lindaw5890]

This is the first time I've recognized the falls you went to - it's on my bucket list but I'm a bit wary of the hike back up.... Fellas got some beautiful images!

[@fototripper]

It's steep but short. 15 mins if you're mildly fit.

[@lindaw5890]

Well that sounds do-able - thanks!

[@MichaelShainblum]

Damn that’s an awesome waterfall, when are we going?

[@fototripper]

Any time you want fella. Got a whole load more to show you too.

[@alanbarnes3236]

Thomas Heaton’s has got a snorkel on his van!🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@Darren-vf2qw]

He should have spent that money on an extra tow strap…

[@spidersj12]

I'm here watching your video of you folks in the rain as we've had little for weeks and a 355 km2 wildfire approaches my tiny town above the Arctic Circle.

[@PhotoTrekr]

Would have loved to have had a camper van for photography in my youth. Sorry to see the camera take a bath. Hope it will be ok. The drone shot and flower shot from last week (year?) are still magnifique.

[@1WillyK]

Great video at a great location with some great laughs. You actually got me to spend twenty two minutes of my life watching it. That'll be twenty dollars please.

[@fototripper]

Plus shipping and handling.

[@thinkvlog_4life503]

Nice Video And Awesome Shots With The Students, Will You, Adam, Page, Brent And Thomas Be On Another Adventure?

[@travelwithsanjeewa7978]

This is a cool location. Beautiful water fall. I was a regular viewer of this channel when you were in Vancouver Island. Once you moved to east I unsubscribed because those locations would be outside of my reach that I would be able to travel. But after watching this video you travel to amazing locations still within Canada. I subscribed again and added the location to my bucket list..😊.

[@fototripper]

So when I got to Scotland you'll unsubscribe again? Well thanks.

[@travelwithsanjeewa7978]

@@fototripper Or if you sell Hasselblad x2d.

[@JohnnyMotel99]

I live in the UK and many folk have bought a similar vehicle for conversion. I just don't get this when there are plenty of reliable small vans that would serve better.

[@fototripper]

Grumpton is to blame. He started the fad.

[@chrisburnard5157]

Brilliant and as funny as ever.

[@mister_yog]

Great video, but we don't learn whether the Nikon has survived the bath?

[@fototripper]

Tune in to Jason's channel for that

[@DavesRvRepair]

Lol great work saving the camera from drowning 😱🤣 Sorry about Jason’s camera. I hope it’ll be ok. Beautiful shots of the waterfall🤩

[@mountaingalatheart]

His van was nice but missing a copy of Chasing Awe by Gavin Hardcastle 😳

[@fototripper]

Valid point

[@robertallan5165]

Great video once again Gavin, Grumptons moving house , it'll probably move better than he's van. I feel sorry for jason, nothing can be more gut wrenching when that happens, hope it ends up being ok.

[@valeriesorrells]

just found your channel... absolutely brilliant! 🤣

[@MA-lv3bb]

Visited meat cove from Ontario in July, Love it but that road in is terrible ! I read that it had been graded the day after we were there.

[@smartiefox256]

WAIT; You wonna tell me the lupin shot is already 1 year ago?! Time flies!

[@MrMaster72]

As a fellow northerner I watched for the van build then turned off..I’m tight with my time..the annoying pro got in the way..only joking gavin your the man..😂

[@mickeystine3100]

Great pics☝☝☝☝☝❤❤

[@MLC48]

Another classic! Loved it.

[@denisesavage2382]

Good entertainment - oh and some reasonable photography going on there too! hahaha. I do enjoy these videos.

[@russellbaston974]

Rice Nooooo, microscopic starch grains on the rice + water = glue. Desiccated silica gel bags in a sealed container.

[@jonclark8271]

Love to see Thomas join this ensemble

[@srameypr]

Nice to see Grumpton make an appearance!

[@williams1075]

For what it is worth, PA photographer here, and the waterfalls you visited while here are covered with moving foliage. My solution to this is to create two focus stacked images, one with the proper exposure for the water movement 6th of a second. Then another image stitched together with an open aperature, but the same exposure. This normally gets me a fast enough shutter to capture water texture, and freeze the motion of any foliage. The only downfall is that the second image is normally a focus stack of many images because of the short DOF. After you have those two images, its just a matter of blending the images to achieve the desired results. Thought that might help someone.

[@TheJarnoldin]

Lol😂😂😂 I didn't know landscape photography could be so much fun until your videos😊👍🙏🤘👏

[@hansrookeliasson1950]

And the Oscar goes to...His Royal Grumpness! By the way, when wearing his hat, Chris looks like Terry Pratchett

[@derkarhu5079]

I have, sadly, some experienc with wet electronics, -battery OUT - vacuum cleaner (probably have one in your camper?) Applied soon, and carefully, maybe using a piece of window screen, or anything similar, on the 'snout' of the vacuum - get it somewhere warm, a bit of air flow helps, if dust free - and/or, apparently, put it all in a cloth or paper bag or wrapping, into a bag of white rice In my experience, the vacuum cleaner is a big help in getting out the water that is in places like card connectors, USB, video and audio port

[@DivisionStreetDrums]

LMAO, wood burning stove, I could heat that thing with 2 Dietz lanterns. The cutaway to Adam were priceless! Sometimes it's nice to be watched

[@wavesummit]

For any electronics that get wet, with the power off clean with distilled water, and use moving air to dry out. Tap water and river water will leave minerals when they dry up, distilled water will help clean everything out and the moving air will dry faster than rice.

[@veivoli]

@wavesummit Agree, but fresh water is better than salt water, and a lot of Yuppie water (our tap water is safe to drink) has added gunge and sugar so isn't much good either. I do have a bottle of distilled water handy for clean-ups. Rice is a myth as far as I can tell. And be careful of forced ventilation, sucking or blowing, as rotating fans can generate damaging voltages.

[@marcinszarmach3582]

I think with @thomasheaton latest upgrades to his van he's still way ahead of the game 😂

[@fototripper]

It was totally out of order of him to upgrade AFTER we'd filmed this.

[@RCBOSS1969]

Thank you!

[@michaelwhiles5282]

Adam Gibbs Lives !

[@DavidStella]

Very fun storytelling, as always!

[@alexSpunkt.]

Great one! We all need camper vans now 😂

[@deborahhammond8576]

Love Bens stacked shot

[@lottatroublemaker6130]

10:07 - C’mon guys, you shouldn’t have dangleberries!!! Even while camping you shouldn’t! 😂

[@DivisionStreetDrums]

So many classic moments😅

[@terrylstarks]

Jason, I’m so sorry for your accident!!!! My heart just bleeds when I see a photographer lose any equipment!!!!! I’m glad I wasn’t there because I couldn’t stop the absolute depression I would for you!!!!! I hope everything turns out well for you!!!!! Thanks, lichen, and subscribe!!!!!!!

[@radeondutch]

Triple like for camera wet song

[@ookiemand]

I liked the Leica shot the best!

[@JohnDrummondPhoto]

Too bad about Jason's camera! I hope the rice bath fixed it, else 💲💲. I remember those shots from last year. Do we get new images next week?

[@fototripper]

You do actually ;)

[@ChrisDarnell]

11:21 haha the best camera song ever written 💀

[@vantagepointphotography]

Fun video man, great location. Gavin do you know the status of the Nikon? is it out of the coma yet? would it fully recover?

[@fototripper]

You'll have to tune in to Jasons channel for that. Link in descrippy

[@Simon_PieMan]

8:33 - I’ll take his word for it!!

[@anthonymara4533]

Ahhh yes, I know well the pain of letting gravity win the fight to keep the expensive bit of technology from taking a bit of a bath. Two years ago I was out in the middle of a river, opting to head back to dry land and try a different angle. A friend who had come with me, to watch me splash around in the water I suppose reached out to take the camera for me, nice gesture, and I said "You know, I should hand him this camera before I drop it into the river, the stones here are quite slippery". So that's what I did, attached to the tripod. Then I made my way out of the river, or was trying too, when I began slipping about. My friend, in a bid to help opened the legs to the tripod, set it down....not realizing I had one of the legs adjusted rather short. He turned around just in time for me to lean down and grab the legs of the tripod and pull the camera out of the river. I will say, I pulled it out, patted it dry, checked the contacts, and internals. Not a drop of water got into the casing, sure my X-T3 isn't a medium format, or even a full frame, but apparently it doesn't mind a bit of water now and again.

[@allansisson355]

Another video I loved. Wood stove haha A long nap in the rice, I hope it turns out well.

[@ethan....]

You'll have to let us know if the nikon is dead.

[@alanpinn2266]

So many things I could say about this one! Let's see if Thomas or Uncle Grumpy chime in on this. Chris will be looking to install a snorkel on his Delica next. And with the amount of rain we get here in Nova Scotia - he might need it! Gavin you should be stocking bags of Basmati in your camper for times like this. You could sell them..... for let's say..... $20. Keep up the escapades! Cheers.

[@fototripper]

I can smell the money now.

[@nevillewatkins4997]

He could turn it into a burger van. Be a nice little earner. Do they have burger vans in NS?

[@T.M.G2014]

are any of the F4 coming back to the uk????? i wonder if one of them could bring a copy of your book for little old me lol

[@EKowallis]

Did his camera ever come alive?

[@derkarhu5079]

Focus stack? Oh, Right, no T&S lensI as much as people insist that tilt/shift can be replaced by focus stacking, there is always a limitation about movement of items in the scene, and, with any kind of effect like a specific type of look to the water, like capturing spray, stacking just doesn't work

[@thatdadgaming1]

Another fun vid. Well done and thank you.😊 👍

[@2DogAle]

You three feckers and the goddess you must have kidnapped, are too funny. Thanks but, I can’t believe you were in NY and didn’t stop in to see me, wow…

[@Eigil_Skovgaard]

Those expedition cars are very healthy instruments and investments and interesting from a psychoanalytic angle, as they are small personalized caves on wheels. Look how proud they all are (those who made them themselves). I created one based on a Land Rover once, superior in any aspect of course. Tosh's version is good too and seems to include a good portion of solid Canadian plywood. Mine did also (probably Swedish though), and that's the point where you tend to forget about weight (and diesel consumption) and let your inner timber man go berserk. ... PS: Now it's official - Grumpy is ready for the finger painting academy. Lately he's been seen with pre-historic abes!

[@richcower]

Nice cameo by Adam describing his crap van.

[@Joebnx1]

Ok I was primed …. When you started with “you know what you really need though is…”, I was expecting you to say … your very own copy of Chasing Awe…but the wood stove comment was pretty good also.

[@IslandAdventures]

LOL the river dance!!! we've all been there :) only lost a camera once, I've learned to sacrifice my body to save the camera! Healthcare is free, camera's aren't LOL :)

[@JohnDrummondPhoto]

"Healthcare is free" ... you must be Canadian. 🇺🇲 💲💲💲☹️😭

[@skiphorni]

I fell in a duck pond with a Nikon F2s. Killed it. Wasn't underwater for 2 seconds but even Nikon could not bring it back. Sits on my shelf as a reminder.

[@peterebel7899]

I did this with a Canon F2. I put out the batteries and continued shooting after I drained the water out of the lens. The body and the lens was OK for some other decades ....

[@tonyotoole6705]

Was he able to salvage his wet camera?

[@eddieboy1976]

Did Chris ever, around thirty years ago, work for Radio rentals or Rumbelows? Odd question but I did many years ago as a teanager and had a mate of a similar age called Chris and there is an odd decades later resemblance.

[@donschiffer7400]

I once fell into a river with a brand new 5d IV and 70-200. Friend tried to grab my arm to pull me out, I yelped, ‘forget me, grab the camera!’

[@WJMPhotography]

Hi Gavin - Forest Forest has your wood burning stove with the chimney in his van, LOL. And yes...he does most of his van life hiking in Canada. He can be found at: www.youtube.com/@forestyforest. I was heavily influenced by Mr Heaton and used 8020 in my van build on a 2022 AWD Lifted Toyota Sienna. It came with the inverter and it can get up to 36mpg when not loaded down. I opted for the microwave and Keurig in mine along with a sink and a fridge. For me, it's less about the camping and more about getting my butt out early to shoot and getting back after the light is gone...hence the microwave. Love the videos! Keep them coming!

[@powderedtoastman3093]

Nah that vans shite… it hasn’t got an “Amanda” 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@LeighWoodIT]

Thomas Heaton is more mechanic than photographer these days 😂😂

[@cgriggsiv]

That's pretty true right there Adding more stuff to the photo lab on wheels