 How's it? How's it? So, you know, photography on YouTube, there's, we know, there's like thousands and thousands of people talking about lenses and post-processing and all that kind of stuff, and it's great. But what we're really interested in are the photographers who are thinking about the art form, who provoke discussions within us about the art of photography. So many of these channels get hidden under this flood of all the content that YouTube thinks you might want to watch. So, today I thought what I'd do is I will introduce you to a few channels that I enjoy watching. I think you'll really enjoy and hopefully help you discover photographers and people who talk about photography that will help you in your own creative journeys. So, the first is a guy called Theo Crawford. Theo Crawford? I'm he's a photographer from Austria, although I have a feeling that he grew up in South Africa and I see a trend here that is myself and there's Sean and so many people from South Africa. But anyway, play that as it may. So, Theo, he, you know, he's a younger bloke and I like the way that he is thinking about photography that, you know, he's slowed down. His videos have a very thoughtful pace to them that, that, you know, he's talking us through the process rather than being one of these photographers like, yeah, in your face, bang, wow, wow, sort of thing, that he has a very mindful way of approaching the process of taking photographs. And I find that really interesting that when we look at the thought processes that go on behind a photographer and their approach to making images that goes beyond simply talking about, you know, the f-stops and the using stuff like that, it helps us connect more with our own creative processes, the journey that we as photographers also go through when confronted with the opportunity for taking an image. Alex Soth is probably a great example of a photographer who's very well known, who's very good, but doesn't really either care or want to play the YouTube game. So that means that his channel, which is full of extremely interesting, extremely thought provoking, you know, discussions about photography is somewhat hidden, somewhat lost. Unless you knew Alex Soth, unless you knew that he had a photographic channel, you wouldn't know it's there, because he doesn't play the YouTube game. He's not into making, you know, clickable thumbnails, for example. And that's perfectly fine. He doesn't have to play because he is, well, he's a magnum photographer, so, you know, he knows what he's doing, and I'm sure he gets his creative hours in many other ways, taking photographs, you know, obviously, sort of one. But I would really recommend that if you are not familiar with his channel, that you go and go and have a look, because it's like I mentioned with Theo, that he is talking about his photography, he's talking about the things that inspire him and move him in his creative endeavours. And this is really, I think, the most beneficial thing from these channels that we will look at is, you know, that we get an insight into the thought processes rather than the technical processes. And that really is going to help make your photography so much better. The next channel is a channel called AWS by a guy called Adrian. And this channel was recommended to me by one of the viewers of the channel, a guy called Heinz. So thank you ever so much, Heinz, for suggesting this to me. And this shows the power of, you know, exchanging information that here is a channel that it does okay, you know, but it's again, its content is not really being surfaced for whatever reason that, you know, that it's being lost amongst the noise. And till somebody like Heinz points it out to me and says, look, this is a guide that you might enjoy. So throughout all of these, you know, the videos that we're looking at and the channels that we're thinking about, then, you know, please say hi to them, say hello, you know, drop a line in one of the comments of the video, say, Hey, the photographic guy sent me here. And I'm really enjoying your content because the more that you do this with all these channels, the more that you engage with them that you subscribe to them, not only does that, you know, help YouTube go, oh, you know, people like this kind of content, but it also encourages the people making these channels to make more of this content. And that's really what, what, you know, certainly I would like to see on YouTube. And I'm sure you would too, is to have more of this kind of thoughtful comment to distill or dilute, if you want to call it that, the flood of, of, you know, of gear reviews because gear reviews are fine. But really, you know, they don't really help us improve as photographers. And these are what all these channels are about, which is why I'm sharing them with you because I want you to be able to improve your photography in any way that we can facilitate that is great. So go and, you know, watch these guys channels, drop them a comment, drop them a like, say, do you know what you're what you're doing is great, man. I really enjoy it. Subscribe to them. You'll be surprised how much of a boost that gives the creators and encourages them to make more of this content that we all enjoy. Moving a little bit closer to home now, and somebody who's photographed on my patch, which is always an interesting thing. And that's a guy called Ben Harvey. He does kind of, you know, a broad range of photography. He talks to me in landscape and his journey and he plays with some, some gear, you know, so all he kind of fairly, you know, obvious stuff so far. But what I find interesting and probably why I enjoy his channel is because I've always loved it when I see places and things that I'm sort of somewhat familiar with being photographed. That's always a great doorway for me to kind of start looking at somebody's photography, their thought processes. Because when you can put it into a context that you understand that you see this thing that you're always interested about how they interpret it. And you know, I have to admit, there's a video that he has about going to Felix's, though, which is a seaside town near here. And I, for some reason, have visited there a lot. My little point was for you now. But, but for the last two years of asking what he wants to go, he goes, I want to go to the beach. And then Felix, he means Felix, though, albeit that there's like an hour from the house. But anyway, so we go there. And, and I love the way that I can see within Ben's photography, something that I have completely missed the whole time that I'm there, you know, granted he's photographing, specifically landscape things, we'll have you. But, you know, this is just a reminder to us that the opportunity for photography is all around us. That, you know, that when we start seeing the possibilities, that even places that we kind of dismiss, I've looked at Felix's from a completely different viewpoint. I haven't seen the landscape necessarily, but I've seen sort of the rundownness, you know, the down, the slightly down at hill seaside town and reminded of a Smith songs, you know, the seaside town they've got to shut down. And that's kind of the thing here. But I like his photography. I like his, his journey talks about, you know, the process a little bit in there. And, and it's great to just yet to see places that are familiar to me, photographed in a way that, that makes them beautiful. Aperture are another organization that doesn't really play the YouTube game. And that's absolutely fine, because we are here to, you know, show you these people. So you don't have to worry about it too much. But this is this is part of the problem is right there, unless you actually actively go and look for aperture, you seek them out, that is unlikely that you've seen any of their content, which is a great shame because they have some fantastic interviews with, you know, with up and coming photographers. I love interviews. B&H do a whole series of photographers, but, but of course, you know, B&H is a big name. They have a built in baked on audience that will see their contents. They don't really need to worry about it too much. But aperture don't. And I would encourage you to go and listen to some of the new voices in photography to see their work. It challenges a lot of ideas about what photography and what image creation means in the 21st century. And of course, they have all their wonderful books. And, you know, this is not a plug for aperture, although go and buy some because they're awesome, right? There's some really, really good stuff on there. And if you can get a copy of the aperture, minor white years, some of the articles in aperture magazine from that period are just mind blowing. Matthew Storum is a landscape photographer from Australia who creates some wonderful videos talking about the process of landscape photography. Obviously, there are many photographers on YouTube who take landscapes, who share their journeys. And you know what? There's some big names there. And I get it because, you know, the format is suited to, you know, the platform of YouTube. But what I was really taken about with Matthew's videos is that there's a playlist about him being a Sylvania where he talks through the whole journey about landscape photography. And I think that's kind of a really important thing. If you are into landscape photography, then it's so much more than just finding a location and, you know, wait until the light's right and then sort of snap and shutter. There's a lot of thought processes go on into creating a, you know, a great photograph. And he's also not afraid to show the failures that he has, that, you know, the times it doesn't go right. And I think this is something that is often missing in the landscape of YouTube is that we only show the winds when it all comes right. Because then it makes us look good, doesn't it? It's like, oh, I didn't even make any mistakes. But by showing fails, showing mistakes, then, you know, you get to see and learn from other people that, you know, you can see that this is something that didn't quite work for you. And it also encourages you to think about how you could, if you find yourself in a similar position, change things up. So I would highly recommend that you go and visit Matthew's site. Again, I will link to all of these channels in the description box below. Go and have a look at them. Say hi. If you like the channel, subscribe, drop a line. Say, hey, you know, Alex sent me here from the photographic guy. I love your content, man. This is so cool, right? And if you have any channels that you enjoy watching that you think maybe nobody else knows about, let me know in the comments section below. It would be great to have more of a list of these channels. Now, I would just give you a little heads up about that. I need to manually approve the links that go into the channel description, not then to the content box. So if you do, and it doesn't show up straight away, let me know. That's okay. I will manually approve for you. If you're looking for other channel content that you may have missed, then I'm going to link to the previous video that I did about this very same topic over here. Thank you ever so much for watching and I'll see you again soon.