 to the lower falls and last time I was here I'd noticed some dippers, some birds on the rocks in front of this waterfall. That's the time I didn't have a long enough lens so I didn't try to make a picture. Today I brought the 400 out just in case having if I could get one of these dippers to jump upon a rock in front of the waterfall might make a really really cool shot. When I first got here I did see him kind of splashing around but since I got set up I don't see him right now. I did bring 400 speed film today just in case. The bird is kind of working its way downstream towards me just really oblivious to what I'm doing. Well I might reposition to see if I can get a little lower. I probably should have focused on the bird more than trying to make some videos. He came right through here and I wasn't set up in my tripod. It would have been perfect. I shot a few Hilmer shots. I doubt they're going to be sharp enough. That's basically hand holding. This is a fairly heavy camera and I've got a weight of the tripod underneath it. It might steady just enough to get a useful shot. You can if it's not tack sharp it might be sharp enough to use. It flew off. I'm gonna hang out here for a little while longer. See if it comes back. Oh man. I really wish I just had a better position to begin with. My biggest mistake was setting up for the bird to be further away downstream not anticipating it to come my way. I really would have liked to be in right where I'm at now at a lower angle but I kind of started shooting right away and I think I made a mistake of not getting in a better position to begin with. Part of that was just trying to do two things at once. Basically this was one of those shots that I thought would be kind of cool to get a little wildlife long creek. This is a pretty dark bird in black and white. It meant I didn't show up hardly at all. I don't know if you can hear me because all this rushing water. I don't know how else to do it but I'm going to hang out here for a while see if the bird comes back. That was really what I was here for today was to see if that bird was gonna be around. I did look around the corner and that bird is just down the way so you might get used to me in the area. You might just come flying back here a little bit. I think I'm gonna stay in this area for about an hour and see what happens. So now I'm gonna go ahead and see if I can't make a shot on one of these blooms that are gonna hang it out. Pop my digital camera on to see if I can get a few video clips. It's quite a ways away but at least you get a better idea of what I'm looking at. I'm calling it a dipper. I'm not up on my bird species but I think that's what it is. I'm sure someone's gonna read me for misidentifying this bird. That was excellent, I think I did get a little bit of a useful video on that bird when it transferred back to the film camera and see if the bird will still play ball. You got close enough I probably could have shot it with film camera but I was already shooting digital so I didn't shoot in still frame with the digital just video because that's what I have to do. I've got to focus with the still loop on the back of the camera so it's a little awkward. So fingers crossed that I got something interesting to put in this episode. This gives me a deeper appreciation for what the guys and gals went through to give wildlife photos back in the days when I was just filming. It's a lot harder to shoot wildlife with film than it is digital. It's probably why we see so much wildlife photography now on social media. It's really quite easy. It's a lot easier than digital. Better than shooting digital when that bird came through here. I could have up my ISO, I could have handheld the shots. It would have been no problem. But with film I got all these limitations. If this wasn't a film project I'm not sure I would be trying to shoot wildlife with film. Although you know it might be kind of cool to have that film look with wildlife photography. So maybe that's something that looks more but then some you know if I make your life harder it's on the move again. I'm always impressed with a vertical element in the forest. I know and that weird what vertical element. You know the trees but these trees really do seem to stand out on the sale side over here. I think it's the light nature or the light tone of their of their bark that's catching my eye. Although it may not be that much lighter than the foliage. You just might be a color difference that I'm seeing. I'm going to set up a shot between these two big trees. I see nice little window for photograph and right now the light is still pretty good in here. So let's I'm gonna have to probably hurry because it's sun's rising pretty fast. So I'm gonna go ahead and see if I can't set up a shot right here. Well we've got a about a half a second exposure here even with the 400 speed film. I shot some vertical and some horizontal section of forest. I don't think I'm quite getting what I'm seeing. I'm there's something here that I need I need to work maybe it's just the angle I'm at. It's a lot thicker in here than it was last time I was out here this last fall. I think I'll try a couple more frames on this before I give up completely. I think the shot speaks to the vertical nature of this little canyon that this creek runs through. How steep the sides are. I think these trees really help illustrate that how long they have to be to reach up to the sky to get enough light. How straight they are. There's no no limbs down below. There's things all up really high. When I first set the shot up I really didn't care for the composition and it's it's I almost didn't even take the photograph. I kind of set it up and said no too simple too basic not going to work. But the more I look through the look at it through the viewfinder the more I'm kind of liking it the more it's starting to grow on me. This is one of those I probably won't I'll have to live with it a while to see if I'm actually want to use it. There's not a lot of options as far as changing my angle of view. There's just there's too much brush around so I really am stuck with this really small area here. So if it doesn't work here it's not going to work anywhere else. I've been shooting across the ravine here after I got my shots. I looked down and saw this pine cone kind of hanging on this limb just kind of stuck. Oh there's a photograph. I've got a few frames left. If I don't find anything else it's it's not a big waste. I had a pretty this is a 36 exposure roll so I don't mind wasting a few frames. I'd like to get this film developed. I don't like to waste any frame but today I may have to make an exception. I'm life's not going to be my friend here. I think this this might be the last time you see me in this video unless I happen to see something on the way out. So I think we're going to end today's video right here. Nice backdrop. Until next time, thanks for coming along for the ride.