Hello, guys, so i'm talking to you
From the Salamonie River State Forest, somewhere farther south in Indiana. I wanted to get out
Today and tomorrow
Because the conditions are gonna be good for photography or for the kind of photography that I like, and what I mean by
That, is that it's gonna be foggy or it's supposed to be foggy, because
The last few times that I went out
Expecting fog it wasn't that successful it was not foggy... but after last
week's snowstorm, now all this snow an ice is starting to melt
It's getting much warmer now so all that moisture has to go somewhere, and i'm hoping that it creates a cool
fog today and tomorrow
hoping to photograph the last of winter maybe here i think it's pretty much over i'm afraid
I love it, I love to photograph
snow and snowy landscapes but. So yeah trying to make the best of what we have left here
Hopefully finding a few shots. It's always really hard for me to tell what
What's gonna happen in a video because my plans always change a lot depending on the weather, and whatnot. I'm not always
Making the best decisions but i like to change and to be flexible. But as usual you are more than welcome to come
along with me, so let's do it
As I walk through the forest i realized, that the snow and ice were melting much faster than I thought
There wasn't much time left to enjoy this winter wonderland that was fading away
I had a lot of fun shooting here this winter. I believe that this place has helped me improve
my photography more than any other so far
This was a brand new landscape for me. Flat, without
clear subjects. There are no big vistas, mountains, or rock formations here like the ones you can find out west
You have to work much harder to find the subject
There's a lot of driving involved too and not so much hiking
But the winter and the extraordinary conditions that this land offers you at times can make it a very extraordinary and beautiful place to photograph
The gods of photography waited until i was heading back home to give me
just a brief glimpse of that foggy weather I was looking for
Also an amazing sunset
But it was going to be the next day, when i got what i wanted
Good morning. So I wanted fog, and I got fog. A lot of fog
Now it's up to me what to make out of this day. I'm ready. A little bit tired, but ready
So let's drive to Michigan City
Okay, where do i start, oh my. A few things have happened in the last few hours. So the drive to Michigan City
was a little bit frustrating because I saw
a lot of scenes that I wanted to photograph really bad, but it was so foggy
and snowy. It's really hard on those roads, they're kinda narrow
and the shoulders as I said many times
They are covered in snow, so there is no place to stop
And there is quite a bit of traffic so yeah, not a good idea. But I kept taking detours here and there
So I think I took a few photos. I don't remember too well now,
but I think I took a photo of a tree in the distance
Then I think I took a photo of some ducks
They were there kind of cool too, but I don't know if the photo is gonna be any good
What else? Oh, I took three shots at an old gas station
that I found on the highway, so I could stop there
And that was cool although there were signs of no trespassing everywhere so I couldn't get any closer. And then the fun began
Because I got to Michigan City. So I had directions to Washington Park, that is at the shore of Lake Michigan
But instead of going there I went to a park, right now I don't even remember
the name, but I saw it on google maps driving into the city I was like... I should check it out
Because it could be cool. And this place was so cool.
It was foggy, full of snow, very cool trees
So I don't have too many clips from that park, because I was focused on taking photos, but whatever I have i'm gonna play it now, I'm gonna show
you the photos that I really really hope turn out
If those photos come out as I imagine them right now in my mind
this trip was already worth it just for that. But after that it was still 10 a.m.
I decided to come to the Indiana Dunes, here, for many reasons but one of them
was that I had to go to the bathroom and i was here last week and I know that there is a
nice bathroom here, and the other reason it was to check out Lake Michigan
Because there is a nice view of the lake from here, and to see how
how the visibility
was. It's pretty terrible as I thought, you can't see anything
And then it happened. I was there at the dunes taking some photos and I decided to, I don't know why
it wasn't even a good photo. Two trees in the distance
that looked kind of cool, they were not but I don't know
Why I decided to try it, try to take that shot, and in order to
To get a clear view of those trees, I had to go down just a little bit, down a slope
And I fell.
And my camera fell with me.
This that you can see here is the shape of my camera in the sand.
When I picked it up it was full of sand, and snow, and ice. It was a mess, oh my god.
I thought I'd lost the camera. So I spent the last two hours cleaning it
It looks fine, it doesn't have sand anywhere now.
The lens works at every aperture and every shutter speed, and the camera works of course.
The lens focuses and doesn't make any noise you know, when you have
some sand in there, I think I really cleaned everything really well. My main concern right now
And the only thing that I couldn't open and clean is the film back
It fell on this side, where the
dark slide is and of course, I didn't have it in, because I was taking photos.
So it fell like this and this was covered in sand and snow
So i'm afraid that some
Sand and snow got in
That's not a problem because this roll of film, I just started this roll of film there, so I have two photos in it
I'm not gonna lose any photos, My main concern is that that sand and ice might have ruined
the seal here, and this film back might have light leaks now
I don't know. But yeah, this has been my day so far
it's 1 p.m. now
It's been frustrating at the beginning, then I took
I was very very happy because I think took amazing shots, or at least the shots that I really like
And then, disaster happened. And right now I don't know if I've ruined my camera or not, until I see the film developed
Luckily, my camera was just fine and after that I went to the marina where I took some photos of boats
And then, I headed to the main destination of the day finally
Okay, so I got to the beach and the fog is a little bit too thick but I still think that there are
some photos to be taken here. I'm gonna be recording videos with my phone now
because i'm afraid that this camera might just break or something with this
rain
This place was exactly what I was hoping for
I knew I was walking on a beach, and there were houses a few hundred feet away
but I couldn't stop feeling like I was in a very, very faraway place. A different world, almost.
And then the rain stopped and the fog started to clear up. A new whole landscape was showing up
I still can't get over the frozen Lake Michigan. I'd seen plenty of frozen lakes before but never of this size
The ice went on and on far beyond where my eyes could reach
This was so beautiful. It;s all cleared up now, but half an hour ago
it was pretty awesome. I don't know if I've got the photos. The photos I don't think they are gonna be that good from here.
Maybe, I don't know. But I still have
more hopes for the ones that I took this morning at the park of those trees. I might be completely wrong
It was a struggle to take photos here today but i had a blast
This is what I like.
I like to work hard for the photos, and I loved it, I loved it. I don't know if the camera is gonna be okay
or if the photos are gonna turn out
if I'm gonna mess up in the development
but it doesn't really matter. I had a lot of fun and that's what matters, right?
I hope I communicated a little bit of this, the struggle and the fun
through this video, but I don't think so because i was pretty focused on taking photos
So I apologize for that but, yeah thank you so much for watching again, guys. And see you in the next one!