Author: Paul W. Baker

Paul W. Baker

Surgery

I went out on Sunday as I believed it was going to be the final opportunity after my knee procedure, which was carried out yesterday.

Although I was meant to be resting my legs I found it terribly boring sitting in front of the television, where nothing was on and decided to take my camera kit in the van down to the new forest to photograph a bridge surrounded by some of the most stunning colours I think I have seen in a long time.

Having had the surgery now yesterday! I today have spent the entirety editing the photographs and video for the blog which is due to go up this Saturday morning on my YouTube channel. (I’ll put a link below to the channel if you’re interested)

I’ll share one of the photographs on here to give you an idea of what I was able to capture, but I am not going to share with you the best images for that you will have to watch the Vlog! :)

What a beautiful location

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Paul W. Baker

Macro Photography

I took the NIKON Z8 and the Nikon Z 105MM F2 .8 S lens out to the new forest area to do some macro photography. You may not buy some of these photographs that it is clearly not my strong point, but I would like to share some of those photographs with you now and I look forward to your feedback.

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Paul W. Baker

Hands Free

Could this be the way forward for me? The weight of the backpack is clearly getting to me, but I do like to have my tripod and all the other equipment that I normally use with me.

On this occasion, however I decided that I needed to go weight free leaving the backpack in the van and just going with the Nikon Z8 and the 24 to 70mm F2.8 lens. And yes, I know I could reduce the weight further by going with the F4 lens, but this lens is an absolute beauty and the pictures it takes are with such clarity I couldn’t dream of letting her go.

In honesty this was a one off my legs after the trip to Poland are in great pain and I’m finding it extremely difficult to walk currently. It was a last-minute decision once I exited the van not to take the backpack tripod and all the other equipment that I normally carry with me. It clearly helped however, the pictures probably took a hit in quality? I suppose the viewers, yourselves are to be the judge of that!

I initially went to photograph of church where they are currently showing a blanket of puppies falling down the side of the church. I then on my way home stop off at a spot in the New Forest in New Hampshire here in the UK.

The colours of autumn are ripe and stunning. I will share a couple of those photographs on here, but please do pop along to my YouTube channel and watch the latest Vlog where you will see the new forest in all its glory. All of the photographs taken handheld as I’ve already stated.

Again, thank you for reading this post. I wish you all a great day.

LINK: https://youtu.be/xln_Aa5dwsc

Paul W. Baker

Poland

My wife and I recently travelled to Poland. The reason for that trip was I have wanted to photograph Auschwitz and Birkenau concentration camps for a very long time.

After much deliberation and planning we flew out in the latter part of October, I also decided some time ago that if and when we went I wanted to Vlog the visit, that as I feel that these locations overtime are being or will be forgotten for what they were, that being places of sheer terror.

I was originally going to do the video as one complete video, but after editing the vlogging section decided that it should be done as two separate entities as the first video was 30 minutes long, those being the Vlog and then a video of most of the photographs.

It has to have been one of the most difficult, hard videos that I have put together in the five or six years that I have been vlogging. It was hard enough walking around the grounds as every time I took a step I was thinking of those poor souls that took the very same steps, but never left in the way that I did.

Sadly, both videos have not been viewed as much as I had hoped probably because of what they are? I don’t know if it is because people would rather forget, which was the whole purpose of this video i.e. to ensure they are not forgotten, the people, the souls, the crimes committed within those grounds.

I therefore don’t know if what I did was counterproductive? I guess that is something the viewers of those videos can only decide!

Below, I will paste the links to those videos and I would be grateful if you could watch and comment on the videos on the YouTube platform.

Thank you for reading this post.

LINK: https://youtu.be/eOSYM4O7G3k

LINK: https://youtu.be/ABOnYDYWIZQ