I Decided Not to Take the Photograph

[@MadsPeterIversen]

Thank you Thomas for the suggested video! :) Also, I love watching these videos of you in the US... my fingers itch for just giving the hell about it and ordering some plane tickets :P

[@MicroFourNerds]

Does anyone else get anxious when Thomas talks about the composition and the lighting is slowly changing before he's taken the shot? Haha wonderful video as ever! Loved the mist it really made the photo

[@NWFackler]

Micro Four Nerds Yes! I am literally yelling at him, ”take the shot, then talk about it" nearly every video.

[@MicroFourNerds]

Nathan Fackler haha glad it's not just me😂

[@imageofoz3586]

Thought I was the only one thinking that mate.

[@jasonmac248]

haha yes every time

[@parinyaek]

Thinking the same thing!

[@MixedApparitions]

Mr. Thomas Heaton, you are the MAN! Edit, BTW, Your production quality has gotten so much better since you got that new motorized slider!

[@goldenstardust]

I think I want one, and I don’t even need one!

[@officialmattruby]

Love the slider shots!

[@tombuck]

I’ve been binge-watching your videos since discovering your channel this week. There are many things I love about your work, but I think the best for me is how you promote thoughtfulness and purpose in your work. Each photo is a journey and it’s totally fascinating.

[@timscanlanphotography]

Soooo jealous Thomas. You've lived my dream in this video. I know you appreciate every moment of these trips, and it's all down to your hard work, so good luck to you mate.

[@paulwayman5137]

Image or no image, it's always good to watch what you get up to mate. Thought that was Ben wading across the water. Thought my mind was playing tricks at first. 2 extra days in Zion can't be sniffed at Tom.

[@andyackerman9636]

You are right, it is tumbleweed. Nice photo. I've been to DV several times, wonderful and enchanting place, my wife and I are not campers so we enjoyed the wonderful hotels in the Valley. I got stumble drunk one night after leaving the restaurant and walking into the blazing heat. My 928 vapor-locked out there too. Car companies from all over the world test new models out in the Valley. They have lots of area to drive fast in the heat. Thomas, just as an FYI, DV is over 5,000 square miles, a big place, about 10% the size of the UK, inside California which is larger than the UK. Next time you go back go over to the borax mines where the 20 mule teams worked. Great video,, Rush, South Carolina

[@ColinZwirner]

This is hilarious because your video is almost an exact play-by-play recreation of my trip. I was 1 day behind you guys the entire time. I also stopped by the eastern sierras though.That mud-crack spot was cool but I was less than excited when I got there. It has been shot to death and IMO there was nothing really exciting about being there. Zion was absolutely incredible though.

[@prasb7]

Just out of curiosity, where are these mud cracks located?

[@goldenstardust]

Photography is a balanced blend of solo and social. You and your two mates got best of both worlds. I prefer to shoot alone, but love to share stories at the end of the day.

[@BriManeely]

Thomas, I really wish I could be as certain as you when it comes to compositions. I've never managed to simply walk away from a scene, even when I know it's not quite right. I always try to justify it with over-editing it post. Thank you for sharing this. I think it's the first step in being honest with myself and my photography.

[@johnsholian4318]

Always interesting and entertaining videos Thomas. You made lemonade from lemons. Damn nice lemons however. What a treat to be there in such an awesome place doing what you love. Thanks for showing us mere mortals that it doesn’t always work out the way you plan. It’s refreshing to watch your videos because of this honesty. Looking forward to seeing Zion through your eyes and camera lenses.

[@billonthehill9984]

Great shot on the baked mud, tumbleweed, morning mist, mountain & blue sky...Perfect conditions for slapping on the 105 mm CPL with that early morning sun rising up on your right... Thanks for the share. Bill Farr... :-)

[@oddbjrnaustevikfoto]

Nice entry! The composition which presented itself to you were gorgeous, a fantastic find. I really liked this episode, it had a nice tempo and feel to it. Looks like you guys had a great time over the pond. Looking forward to the next episode Thomas.

[@Elysianplains]

Is it just me who’s getting a very fast playback voice? Not happening with other videos

[@setlam2]

Jamie Burgoyne the same is happening to me

[@Elysianplains]

Fco Javier Huerta Tbe Music is unaffected it’s the voiceover that’s not working

[@CarolineFarrow]

nope

[@davesemmens9496]

Same here - tried it a few times and audio running really fast. Other videos playing fine

[@rbr6852]

Have the same issue, starts after lighting the stove.

[@BenHorne]

That’s so cool to see how the fog looked in that part of the valley. Very cool shot, and certainly a rare one for Death Valley. The conditions were a bit different where I was that morning.

[@muff441]

nice touch with your new slider, bring a lot more production value

[@robcarr1899]

Unlucky with the escaped shot. I am sure you will work your usual magic and get a stunning image from the wonderful surroundings. Stay safe Tom and I can't wait for Sunday's video. 📷📡📸📽📹🎥📸📸📷

[@kreygscott]

Great to see my two favorite photographers rustling it out. 😀❤️ Thank You for sharing.

[@PenGious]

Loving how you've included some foreground elements in your newest photos. It really adds!

[@MLC48]

Hi Thomas. Thanks for the heads up with these videos of Death Valley and Zion as I'm heading there in April.

[@philipstewartphoto]

Living the dream Thomas. Loved that mud crack foreground, shame it didn't work out with the conditions. Enjoy your well earned rest.

[@connorjpaton]

Great video Thomas. I have learned so much about composition since i started watching your videos about 6 months ago. Thanks for the help, and keep up the great work!

[@RobNitsch]

It must be the golden age of youtube! Thomas Heaton hanging with Ben Horn, Mckinnon with Niestat, me and.... Oh wait, thats embarrassing...

[@larsthoren3282]

That is a fantastic photo, love it.

[@adiagramonsnorkel]

When Ben said in his latest video that he was recently shooting at Death Valley, I thought "maybe he is shooting with Tom". And yeah they were shooting together! Two of my fave youtubers!

[@sergiu87arh]

I'm so excited to see your photographs in Zion... I've been there 4 times in the last 3 years and I still haven't gotten enough of it.

[@SabotPottery]

It's called safety in numbers. Love your work Thomas and thanks for all your postings. Regards from Paul in sunny Adelaide, South Australia (We had 44 C yesterday (111 F)). Hope to see you in Oz some time.

[@scotty4418]

long day at work so what better way to wind down by catching the latest release. Certainly a good way to de-stress and great to catch a glimpse of Ben. Off to watch his now :)

[@dadesmat]

I discovered your channel about a couple of months ago and I just couldn't stop watching your videos. So yeah, I just finished all your content. Great job, very nice videos and STUNNING pictures! Keep on going mate ;)

[@johnnymossville]

The one with the three weeds looks fantastic. Nice find Thomas.

[@GarethDanks]

WHAT A PLACE...!!! Would love to go there! 👍🏻

[@pbsalfen]

DAMN ! That was a LONG drive just to be turned back by the mighty Amargosa River! However, if you were headed to Zion anyway it was only about a 16 mile RT from the pavement. Great video!

[@karnalta]

I am amateur landscape photographer and I just discovered your channel. Your videos are really great, your pictures are too. Keep up the good work, I will definitely follow you from now ;)

[@MrDantres]

One photographer's uninteresting scene is another's scenic paradise. I'd lose myself there. But excellent video, as always! Thanks 📷

[@ceilihmcgrady4125]

I learn so much from your videos. Nice to see you come away with that beautiful photography! And nice surprise to see Ben Horne!

[@allandavies1187]

Hello Thomas, Still a very enjoyable watch. Looking foward to the next one ...

[@andykeeble1]

I wondered whether you would catch up with Ben so am really looking forward to seeing what you get up to! You really are living the dream Tom and it’s fantastic watching your adventures. As always, take care and stay safe.🍀👌

[@draxe9121]

I enjoyed the video. As soon as I saw the Toyota I thought that you had met up with Ben. Soon your Transit van may become a similar marker... assuming it is ever finished.

[@jwcoffer]

The photo of the mist is just awesome and I can't stop looking at it. You're inspiring me to get out more so that I can catch the unusual weather conditions that make these kinds of images stand out. Thanks for being a KZbinr.

[@rickhuntsman2764]

Thomas Heaton, I am so happy I found and subscribed to your channel last year. You are truly an inspiration to me and my photography. I hope that one of these days we might connect on a photography "adventure" as I call them. I am a landscape artist which is how I would classify many of the images you create. Keep up the awesome content you continually produce...love your videos!

[@edwardlee9990]

Looking forward to tomorrow. As alwasys, great video.

[@cman955]

Love seeing you in America! My girlfriend and I are taking a cross-country trip from Michigan to California next summer and its fun seeing you in the landscapes that Ill be seeing! Anyhow great stuff!

[@stuartschaffner9744]

Such a great storyteller you’ve become. I was doing what I often do which was looking behind you for other compositions. I was all prepared to get frustrated about the tumbleweed when you stopped and took a lovely shot. I‘ve perhaps mentioned him too often, but when you were complaining that part of the bad composition required a wide angle and the rest required a longer one I thought of Sean Bagshaw’s focal-length blending. He describes it in his tutorial “Northlands”. Don’t know if it would have helped for your composition but I wanted to make certain you knew about it.

[@yujinlandscapephotography.7787]

I have been learning for your video. It is nice photo. Thank! Thomas,

[@biffyeager611]

What a brillant opening! Great cinema! Awesome end!

[@koltface]

The color grading on that photo was outstanding. Well done!

[@sumanthkashyap8366]

Oh those panning shots.... gorgeous

[@deancorbett3939]

Awesome.

[@asimeshpal]

Awesome ! The stick ploy was really wonderful .. Sad some compositions don't get the perfect lights

[@DesertOryx]

I always like when you show situations where the light/sun etc. does not work as it is so bad most of the time where i live (flat, hazy, grey..). I feel better then xD Really cool surprise to suddenly see Ben in your video

[@EigaDruid89]

shoot the dunes.. honestly thought you said something else there for a second lol. keep up the good work sir, absolutely love what you're doing!

[@ammmullan7129]

Nice to see Ben Horne with you.

[@paulcomptonpdphotography]

Another day another great vlog nice one

[@anuar143]

i was just wondering. Could you do a challenge? Challenge like taking a landscape photo using equipments of under £1000 in total. I mean, I'm just a guy who takes photograph as a hobby, and my budget is really low. It would be very beneficial for me if you could do that challenge and show me how it's done. Plus, you're the one who said that it's not about the gadget, but more of the having at the right spot and the right time.

[@troyhowling2497]

Anuar Mahyu Yes! Good idea...

[@OFGW]

Anuar Mahyu I only recently upgraded to better equipment but I must say I am so grateful for the time I spent with barely entry level equipment. It indeed can be done. Just apply the knowledge you learn and shoot as close to every day as possible. When you can’t go out to shoot. Set up a still life on your table, photograph your door knobs. Just apply all the information you learn with each shot. I learned it truly is not the equipment.

[@WuschelofDespair]

I‘m using a Used Canon 60D for 250€ and a used Sigma 17-50mm f/2.8 and it works out! Going to invest in a polarizer next

[@AlGreenLightThroughGlass]

Mostly I shoot with vintage glass purchased for under $100 and superseded cameras. Works great - its technique, composition and lighting that counts for most.

[@QuarkCharmed]

Great second successful shot, crisp and atmospheric, thanks for sharing. I understand you're normally putting only high quality successful photos on display, but I'd really love to see the first unsuccessful shot, had you decided to take it - just for educational purposes. Captured on the video, that scenery looked great with those sunrise-red hills, mist etc. So it'd be very interesting to see why that potentially great scene didn't work.

[@erikheinowski1351]

Those slow motion control shots improve the quality of you videos a lot! Thank you for carrying the extra weight with you ;) It´s worth it!

[@TomHerriman]

The socks in the window! 🤣

[@muff441]

always get excited when u pop up in my feed with a new vid

[@wrongchannelnoob3642]

same

[@Leffe49]

Great video, with an Image I would love to have shot. It was a beautiful photo.

[@mccuejonathan]

Love the background music, fantastic video as per!

[@SukowatyPhotography]

And I think that is what makes a photographer and photographer. You HAVE to be ready to throw it away sometimes and move on. Great video once again!

[@CBusschaert]

I thank you, Thomas. You help me go through my weeks and calm down when I need to :)

[@foto_jaap]

Love your video,s and photos thanks for the isparation

[@robertblesse5108]

Well, thanks, Tom. You ended up with a very nice image even though the sunrise shot didn't work out. I've really enjoyed these two Death Valley videos, your given us such wonderful views of this place, lovely light, truly beautiful. I continue to marvel at your production skills. I've been meaning to mention that the quality of your videos have really improved since you got that new Canon vlogging camera. Thanks again, I'm looking forward to Zion on Sunday. -Bob

[@tinderbox218]

2:05 the video picks up such a beautiful predawn purple color in the background mountains, I'm surprised it didn't work as a picture

[@MichaelWellman1955]

I hope to make it out there this spring. Seeing Ben Horne made me think about the valuse of shooting film & LF vs digital. Do you think in today's world of 50 megapixel cameras that the extra cost and hassle of film is worth it? I shot film for 40 years. The last 15 was LF. I loved it but it's such a hassle. I know you play a little with your 4x5.. What are your thoughts?

[@HuntaDaKilla]

Welcome to California. I have been a resident my whole life and I have never been to Death Valley.

[@CJamesPhoto]

I was guna say its not like you to not get anything at all, and then you took that beautiful photo! what a great view, thanks for sharing and good luck with the rest of the trip :)

[@brandonkapana2453]

if i saw those paw prints from the other episode i wouldn't be out in the pitch black with food out lol

[@AlexMcDougallPhotography]

Anyone else have sync issues.

[@oceandrew]

Not today but in the past... yeah.

[@scottwanstall3449]

Yep.

[@eddeh0772]

Alex Mcdougall. That’s an understatement! At first I thought Tom might be starting something new to make a point about being patient while the world flies by... but took me waaaay too long to realize it’s a weird encode issue! I should be smarter than that!

[@timescapes]

Yeah! Fast audio

[@leeh6146]

Talking like Mickey Mouse.

[@PETAAAGAMING]

I think we have hearing new music. This is dope

[@MeAMuse]

I can't believe I am still itching to watch a photography video where the title is "I decided not to take the photograph". Just shows how much we enjoy your insights / storytelling....

[@robertwhite-photography]

Just a magic image!

[@horaciomillan4181]

Something strange happens with the audio of this video in this side of the world.

[@DJewell]

You know you got some great shots over the last couple of videos from the desert, nice to get to travel to great places. Oh, almost forgot, I should say great, music, Videography and Picture and Cheers. I think next year this time I'll take a photography mate of mine and head down there. I live in Idaho so it's not too far a drive for us Idahoan's, maybe a day.

[@jamesjohnston6765]

I was wondering if you had met up with Ben! Great times. Love that morning fog shot! How did you like driving on the "wrong" side of the road?

[@AdventureXuk]

Literally my photography hero!

[@heartlandlight6862]

Yes. I’m very glad you come to the States to shoot from time to time.

[@arcana1973]

Ben Horne! Now he needs to bring his camera to the Lake district

[@BenHorne]

Arcana73 maybe some day! 😜

[@sherrydavis3110]

For some very odd reason whenever I try to play this you sound like Alvin the chipmunk. What is going on? The sound is sped up but the video isn't. Strange.

[@stevechandler6171]

The audio is wierd. Most of it is fast speed “Japanese chipmunk” style. Goes in and out mostly out. Will try later

[@Bladvack]

Great Video! next time think about continuing west just a bit and south Only because you have already been to Zion. Joshua Tree is so different than most of our other national parks. Check that.. Just watched the previous video your here on assignment. Joshua Tree still worth a side trip though.

[@Carlosttmm]

THE BEST!

[@TonyButterworthPhoto]

For some reason the audio is running at high speed and unintelligible! 😕

[@zachforbes8621]

Thanks marker for saving my composition. *Whips it away mercilessly*

[@Station9.75]

Such a savage.

[@kelv52]

Wondering if you'll plug any more cracks in Zion..........love the stick thing.

[@daniellindhardt7876]

You could’ve driven through Zion and gone to the Coral Pink Sand Dunes. They sit just between Zion and Kanab.

[@chriseyrewalker]

I just imagine a tent in the middle of nowhere and a voice saying: If you need a website. Go to Squarespace dot com with offer code heaton haha (I get it... we all need to make money of course)

[@ConstantinosPanayides]

Thanks for another video Thomas. It's always difficult not to take a photograph, but what actually happens is take it and decide not to publish it because it's not up to the standard you would expect, right?

[@trembichmovingmoments8778]

Great video again :-) I really admire your restraint. I'd probably snapped away at the scene like an iddiot without accepting that it would not work and then be frustrated after getting back. Also: do you find it difficult to drive on the other side of the lane? I'd like to make a road trip around the UK but I'm scared to drive on the left :-D Cheers from Germany Sören

[@genewaggoner6232]

I would love to see what your google maps timeline looks like for your Death Valley Shoot. I bet it looks crazy. Do you track your steps and how many do you think you take during your time in Zion and Death Valley?

[@xdeerizx]

Thomas can you remember the area of Death Valley where these nice mud tiles are at? I will be there in two weeks and I hear mud tiles are hard to find. A little help would be greatly appreciated!

[@PereaPhotography]

xdeerizx if you find them let me know! I’m headed there in February.

[@chiragpradhan]

Not taking a photo in a location like this takes courage.. and stay positive after that!. that's phenomenal.

[@jmlr2011]

You were so close Thomas, 30 miles outside Vegas and the "Valley of Fire" was there for a sunset shot, Well next time.

[@markpursglovephotography]

Enjoyed the " Up close and personal" evening last night. Cheers. :)

[@RalphGoldsmith]

Good video as always. A good lesson on being flexible and being prepared to change plans if it feels right

[@RossMcLendon]

You're liking that slider a lot... I like it too - it's a nice touch :)

[@Elysianplains]

Excellent backward throw of that stick 👌🏻

[@xayed90]

I get totally excited when i see the notification for your new vid pop out of my phone...!

[@matthewwilkes6065]

watching on vr headset is strange, like watching a 30 foot Thomas heaton. 😂