I'm heading to the airport but not because I'm getting on a flight but
because I'm picking up a guest youtuber and I'm excited for it
we little driving we're at the airport gonna pick up this collaborator
collaborator sounds like yeah like a revolutionary which is another youtuber
that I'm super excited and to be honest a little bit nervous to meet his flight
supposed to land in about 5-10 minutes so
so I got Morten Hilmer and what is that a 1dx yeah I come to the airport and I'm
thinking oh it's gonna be intimidating I've got the big camera the microphone
he shows up with this rig 1dx the big rode mic yeah so Morten is here he's an
amazing wildlife photographer if you don't know his stuff go check out his
YouTube channel there's a link somewhere up here and then there's this big assist
and we're gonna load all of Morten's gear onto Pegasus I'm gonna drive them
to his Airbnb and then we're gonna cruise down to the port and I think
we're gonna do a Q&A today
so I'd stole Morten's footage from from this from the quad ride it's fun having
somebody on the back there filming because I never shoot footage of myself
when driving we picked up Jodie magically as well so Jodie here and we're just
gonna head down to the port and Q and a Morten Hilmer.
I asked the group the Facebook
group and if you're not following that Facebook group go and check it out I
asked them for some questions and we're gonna talk about those questions when we
get there but yeah a little wander through old town to the port it turns
out Morten's a bad influence on Jodi because Jodi's I got one ice cream in
Morten's I got one ice cream too so now instead of being down at the port
filming like they're choosing between Kinder Bueno mins ice cream
no offense to Morten Hilmer who's also eating ice cream but I think Jody makes the
better funeral and scream either told you iceberg when you're filming
I'm not eating ice cream because I'm sugar free that's my diet sugar free
except for on Fridays so these guys are just rubbing this in my face eating all
the ice cream increased because these guys are smashing down ice cream we're a
little bit late getting to the port so I'm an ask important to Q&A questions
myself and then we'll get to hear your questions the first question is do you
have a job aside from photography no hundred-percent photography photography
it's like more for me than just making pictures it's a it's also about you know
getting the message out to me like with exhibitions and lectures and stuff like
that I reckon that's under photography as well yeah I think that it's something
I used to talk about with the ingham octopus photographers never just make
their money from their photos they always make their photography from
teaching photography or giving lectures or having exhibitions or galleries and
things like that there's always other ways and most successful photographers
they have multiple streams of income that I don't think any photographer in
this modern era just makes their income just from their photos second question
that I already forgot have you ever taken a long exposure photo yeah should
when I have to photograph stars yeah like after last time I was in no way
photographing muskoxen when the peak light is turned off and left with the
you know the darkness and then sometimes we yeah with the Northern Light Northern
Light and also a little you know when moving water but yeah it's definitely
something I do all the time okay we're gonna by the end of this trip get Morton
to do a long exposure selfie I promise you I can see of the port of that way
has Morten questions what the hell a long exposure selfie is I can see the
port we're almost there we're gonna take him out onto the
water a little bit and then we'll get your questions
okay so we're kind of gonna be shouting at the camera a little bit because we're
a little bit far away from the we wanted like this beautiful scene behind us and
it just works the questions are coming from the Facebook group and the
hilarious thing is the exact same thing happened when I did the video with
Thomas Heaton and then I asked for you guys to do video comments or video
questions and everybody nobody did it we did it
the breat instructions anyways we'll get to the first question - first one from
Adam Russell aka logic catcher more question for Morten you finding the
climate change is actually making easier or harder to photograph wild animals
enjoy the arctic conditions that's a really good question at first it might
get easier because like things like polar bear it might get closer to the
towns there are more observation of polar bears because they get they're
forced to get closer to the town because the ice it is is not so far away you
might see more polar bears and get the impression that they are more polar
bears but that's just not true so yeah first it gets easier but then when the
all the animals there or some of the animals start to disappear it'll get
harder do you think any wildlife will start going into the towns because
they're desperate yeah I think that's like you can just see if we have a like
in Denmark if we have an ice winter you can basically photographs almost very
very shy birds and mammals because there's a desperate to get food or water
hey Brendan I'd like for you to ask Morten if he's ever been to the States
and any wildlife photography like in Yellowstone or Grand Tetons someplace
like that so the question from or Michael Orsbon
is has Morten never been to the US to photograph the wildlife no unfortunately
not I have only been in just when I returned from there from the special
unit in the military the serious Patrol I went to photograph a wedding for one
of my yes and that was all the wildlife I got yeah
really really like to where do you want to go but like everywhere what what
animal were part of the wildlife in North America do you think now I eschew
most I would really really like to photograph the bison in the winter and
of course the the Grizzlies and the wolf like the wolves
the wolves are my number one like I would like I would give everything to be
able to observe wolves why you just need to come to my hometown yeah in my
hometown there's actually bison just outside of town yeah no I have it on
camera with Jodie there. Jodie doesn't believe there's bears in Canada but when
I go to Canada when I'm home we see bears all the time grizzly bears I used
to go for my morning jog in Jasper National Park bears all the time it was
kind of scary but they're they're wolves so one time winter conditions on the ice
fields Parkway and there was this beautiful gray wolf raid on the road I
got lots of shots oh thank you for attending rubbing that in but yeah come
to Canada same time I'll show you the next question from our boy Greg Snell
Greg do some work stop asking questions hello mr. BvS and Morten Hilmer
wondering if you guys have ever done any underwater filming and if so where and
what was it I have made a few clicks with a GoPro that's it but yeah i'm yeah
i would like to here's the thing about underwater wildlife photography it's
expensive when you're underwater you lose so much light that you need like
lights on the side of the cameras you need underwater housing and you should
probably have good gear it's expensive and as a Travel Photographer I can't one
can't haul that gear around with me all the time and to its it's expensive
but I wanted me to like lend me their gear just one so I here do it and I
think it's really really challenging like I think like for me I'm tempted to
do all kind of photography but I like if I have to like concentrate and like now
to conservation photography wildlife I think if I had to go into underwater
photography or take so much time before you actually get to the level where it's
getting interesting I also think that it opens like a whole new can of worms
users the underwater is scary because there's
so much under there and I don't understand any of it so it just opens a
new can of worms with a photography I think it can be addicting as well so I
don't want to get into it since nobody answered in video form I
think that we have one more time for a question oh so the question is from Vera
about his video about Morten's video wolf and bears - how many hours of video
did you condense into 16 minutes and 46 seconds way too much way too much yes
because this whole video YouTube thing is so new to me so I just I just make
way too much ending up with like so much footage that I have to go through but I
mean for now until I get a little better to actually record I just need to shoot
on everything yeah yeah so a lot that's actually the first video of his I ever
watched and if you haven't checked out Morten Hilmer's channel go check it out right
now wildlife photography out in hides and out nature it's awesome it's good
times and Morten's here for like four days so I'm gonna make Morton do some
landscape photography I'm gonna make Morten do a long exposure selfie
hopefully and I think I even want to try to maybe do some mobile photography just
to see if we can do it I'm ready so yeah I guess we're gonna pack up and go get
some dinner thanks for questions you're welcome
it's really good. I forgot there was another dish but I'm going to fight
through it welcome to Crete!
thank you so much
and that was fun I knew what was gonna like Morten Hilmer yesterday finally we can
correspond it so long on you know on emails and stuff like that
and I knew I was gonna like him finally yesterday because yesterday he sent me
an email saying I'm arriving tomorrow I don't have a place to stay where should
I stay or even better is there a place for me to put up my tent and that's just
me I'm the type of guy that lives in a tent so yeah that was that was funny and
he's a really good guy really nice guy refreshing and I think we're gonna have
some fun he's here he's a wildlife photographer and I'm gonna try to push
him out of his wildlife photography box for a bit and I guess I'll see you guys
tomorrow Peace