00:00So hello my friends, good morning. I hope you're all doing well and welcome to another video.
00:07This will probably be the last video I make from here in Greece as I'm leaving for the UK in
00:12a
00:13couple of days, driving back up with the two dogs in the car. And I thought for the last video
00:21I
00:22would come down to the lake, which I haven't done in quite a while, and see if I can photograph
00:28some of the water birds here, especially the great crested grebes, which are busy doing
00:36their bonding and mating rituals. It's absolutely stunning, got lovely mist on the water here
00:47behind me. There's a partial moon up there, which you can barely make out. The sun will
00:55be up in a second over the mountains, which should give us some nice light, not a cloud
01:01in the sky. You can hear the reed warblers behind me and the frogs. It's absolutely beautiful.
01:10So let me get set up on the camera and I'll be back with you in a minute.
02:03So I've just been shooting some establishing shots, just landscapes. I've just been shooting
02:10a few silhouetted shots, and I'll start concentrating on the grooves. At the moment all I'm doing
02:21is silhouette type shots, because it's very low light, and the light is behind as well, whatever,
02:27the little light that there is is behind. So I'm just doing a few silhouetted type shots.
02:37Hopefully we'll get some behaviour as well, with the grebes. And change settings. Get a little
02:52bit tighter in on me. And with the low light I'm actually shooting at ISO 3200.
03:10What's this?
03:14How is it?
03:15How is it?
03:56We've stopped displaying for the moment, so I haven't got any of that footage yet.
04:07It seems that they're all very well established in their pairs too now, so I don't know if
04:15I will be able to get any of that displaying.
04:20Hopefully they will still display.
04:42The sun literally just rocked over the mountain and it changed everything instantly.
04:53Just a couple here as well.
05:10Just trying to find a pair to single out and catch them.
05:17And as soon as you find one pair that you decide you're going to stick to, they don't do their
05:24behavior.
05:44There's a pair of coots I think that is.
05:49And they've built a nest there.
06:12It looks absolutely stunning across there now.
06:15So let me turn the exposure down on this.
06:24It just looks absolutely beautiful with the mist on the water.
06:31I can't actually focus.
06:34We'll be able to heal for the next day.
06:36Let's go!
06:43Let's go!
07:24See if I can get a cup of stab still shots as well.
08:11See if I can get a cup of stab still shots.
08:14The sun came up, the greeds disappeared.
08:21I have one squawker on the reeds over here.
08:29There's a little coot right in front of me here.
08:33And the greeds have all gone behind on the other side of the boat and beyond the reeds out of
08:41my view.
08:48I managed to catch a little bit of the mirroring behaviour, but not the behaviour where they actually dive down,
08:59grab some weeds and then actually just rise up mirroring each other.
09:03I haven't been able to catch that yet.
09:08So, just hoping they will perform in front of me.
09:15There's just the one pair of greeds that reappeared.
09:19Everything else is way over there in the mist.
09:25I'm just hoping it's really hard focusing against the sun as well.
09:29And I'll see you in the next couple of days.
09:31See you in the next couple of days.
09:45I'm just hoping it's going to be a little bit.
09:49I could see you in the next couple of days.
09:58I'll see you in the next couple of days.
09:58weeds and about to do the display and they either come up with nothing or a
10:06fish. So it's been really hard shooting since the sun came up. I can barely see
10:17Oh, there's a nice spider. I can barely see the screen. Come on, get off. To either compose or frame
10:29up the shot or focus I should say. I've just got a little easier in frame at the moment and
10:40I'm hoping he or she will do some fishing for me.
10:57And the grebes haven't performed like I was hoping to. A couple of weeks ago when I brought my client
11:03down here, they were just going at it unbelievably. But today I had them briefly in front of me here
11:14and then they've all disappeared behind the reeds of the tree.
11:17over there. Too far away for me to get anything of any value really. But what I'll do is I'll
11:27put together a little sequence hopefully of all the shots I've got, stills and video and show that to you
11:35in a second.
11:38So, probably been a very brief one this video. Like I said, it's the last one I'm going to make
11:43from here in Kirgini in Greece as I'm going driving back to the UK in a couple of days time.
11:51But hopefully the intention is to try and bring you a couple of videos from there as well.
12:06So, yeah, thank you so much for watching. I hope you've enjoyed such as it is. And I shall see
12:13you again in the next one hopefully very soon. Bye for now.
12:15Bye.
12:45Bye.
13:24Bye.
13:45Bye.
