Patagonia is next level it's an epic destination carved from the Ice Age and
ripe for photography I've been coming here for nearly a decade yet it never
gets old every journey is an adventure every location is ever-changing and
every photo is a battle worth winning a month of photography and Patagonia
starts now it's 5:00 in the morning and I'm Way too excited for it to be 5:00 in
the morning because today we're off to Patagonia
Travel hack if you're ever flying sky Airlines in Chile hit the emergency exit
it's crazy there's more legroom than business class
okay minutes Punta Arenas
the boys are back in town just one year later back to wreak havoc on Patagonia
so good to be back in Patagonia obviously have Tom and Gregg here as
well and the group arrives tomorrow so we're kind of just wandering around
messing around today and yeah it just it's just good to be back I feel like I
have a new energy part of that energy comes from being back in Patagonia it's
good to be back in the wind and the ruggedness but as good as it is to be
back here it's also just nice to have that camaraderie of this photography
community back with me it's so good to just wind back and have a laugh with the
guys to Greg's back you haven't seen Greg for like a month
how does it feel to be back in Patagonia very very nice man
been looking forward to this trip for a while so yeah it's gonna be good are you
going to do anything cool on this trip yes I'm gonna have a very nostalgic
moment right here and share with you something that you don't know this hotel
was where we used to stay with G adventures when I was a cheerleader it
looks so bad right now not exactly an ad for G admin now it really isn't
yo what's it like being back in Patagonia amazing yeah my new head
there's like nothing in this world that you're more proud of than that head I
know myself got it off eBay secondhand. I love it he says you need new gear
guys let me jump into the video really quick because I want to talk about this
trip and next year's Patagonia trip this year Thomas Heaton and I are running
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now I guess let's get back to Patagonia back in Patagonia our crew arrived 10
photographers on jet lagged but bursting to get out and shoot so after handing
out some hats and getting mocked by Tom
good man we headed out for a casual sunrise shoot
in Punta Arenas
then we headed northbound on highway 9 to the town of puerto natales where
tonot alice is known mostly as the gateway to tourists Delphi in a national
park but we have plans to see if we could find the location maybe a little
less iconic oh my goodness ha ha hold on to your hats cuz we're back in Patagonia
it's windy and it is so good to be back Wales was awesome Norway was awesome
Philippines was awesome Singapore was fantastic everything's been great so far
but there's just something about Patagonia that just makes me feel alive
it just makes me want to take pictures it just makes me want to go explore and
yeah it doesn't matter that the weather's bad or the winds up for you
know you're getting rained on or snowed on it's just fun so it's literally the
first day of the tour and we're doing a location scouting day but it's so windy
now we're all holding onto our hats and try not to fall over we're gonna try to
take a picture at this place we found that's literally it's not on any Maps or
anything we don't even know what it's called Puerto that's or something like
that there's some stuff in the water there's some floats it is just cool so
let's try not to lose a hat let's take some pictures
yeah the winds of Patagonia were there to welcome us a little bit of trial by
fire for this group that's just arrived here but you can't really get mad at
these winds these harsh conditions that have molded this part of the world into
an absolute masterpiece
well the wind is howling I'm on the beach I guess with Alan who is a
participant and then Jodie and we're photographing this peak which is getting
really beautiful light and there's a boat in the foreground that's just
getting hammered by wind is getting knocked around and it's a really
dramatic photo actually and about a second but it brings you to the problem
that the boats gonna be way out of focus and I think this is again one of these
things that photography is totally subjective and I really like the boat
out of focus I think it shows the drama it shows the movement it shows the wind
if you wanna like blaze down to a thirty second exposure here you'd get purely
flat waters and there's peak and it would look like it would look totally
different than it actually is it would look almost tropical that would look
calm and peaceful and if you were to do a really fast exposure 1/100 1/200 you'd
sharpen everything and it would look dramatic but you wouldn't feel the
movement the same way I don't think so been playing around with the boat of
seconds and this boats trying to time it just right
get the boat right in front of the peaks it's been a bit of a mission with a
light so nice this seems so well lit that yeah I think it works
Oh way to explain the wind is really intense but I'm still having a lot of
fun I think we're gonna pack up here because the winds a little bit too heavy
and we're gonna give another location a shot morning
after our location scouting mission in the afternoon and a couple beers before
bed we decided to wander out to a much more classic location I first shot this
old broken pier in Portland and Alice nearly nine years ago and while I've
definitely aged myself this spot never gets old
the winds have come down this morning and we weren't expecting any light so I
shot like a moody image first thing in the morning of the pier this classic
Peter here
but now out of nowhere it looks like we might be getting some purples and pinks
in the sky and this could be really cool shooting pretty simple this morning 16
to 35 and then I've got a three-stop hard grad nd to hold in the sky and
hopefully this color the hits
yeah being back in Patagonia just brings out all the fields the images just feel
easier to combine the energy more electric the colors more vibrant there's
good reason this part of the world is exploding in popularity this is day one
in Patagonia and I'm so excited to have a whole month worth of images and
experiences coming up so like didn't explode the way we wanted it to but it
exploded there was just album glow and all the peaks but they're a little bit
far away so I still think I got a shot this morning it was definitely just good
to get out I feel like I have so much energy I just like constantly want to be
out taking pictures exploring and yeah it's just good to be back in Patagonia
there's a bunch of Patagonia videos obviously cuz we're here for a whole
month we're doing a back to back trip back to back workshops this year so yeah
there's gonna be tons of Patagonia content but it might not be
chronological or it might not be you know typical vlog style I got some
videos plans some ideas planned Tom and I might do some challenges as well we
might just throw in some photography challenges along the way as well and of
course film them so yeah there's gonna be some fun stuff from here in Patagonia
over the next couple weeks I guess I see on the next episode.
peace