00:00so I think after this I'll probably try and go and find another spot to
00:07photograph from although as things stand now the Sun is just going to get stronger
00:12and stronger and the cloud has pretty much been burned off so it's just going
00:17to be sunny landscapes from now on for the rest of the day but we'll see what
00:21we can get, I'll see you in a while
00:37you
01:03I think because the weather is just so fine and the sunshine is just so bright
01:08there's no not really that much drama other than the snow covering the
01:14mountains here in the monasteries so the pictures that I can take from down here
01:20are nice but they're nothing too dramatic or special so what I think I'm
01:28going to do is turn it into a little bit of a drone session and see if I can get
01:35some nice footage video and some nice images from the drone so I'll just switch
01:44out the battery and take off and see what we can see so I've set the drone up
01:56pretty much ready to go just waiting for the temperature to rise the batteries but
02:03I can't actually launch from the road because there's a couple of stray dogs
02:06here that I'm worried about either scaring them or then jumping on the drone so I've
02:13had to put the drone on the top of the car there's a launch pad hopefully that'll be
02:19okay and we'll see what happens when I come in to land later
02:26but for the moment I'm just waiting for the temperature of the batteries to go up a bit
02:31because it's too cold to launch safely
02:39and once I've done that we'll see what pictures and video we can get
02:44and then we'll see what happens when there's been a roll out of the car
03:06and it's too cold and then we can catch up with the speed to have a little bit more
03:13of a used to worry about the day so let's see what happens when there's been a
04:04So I've come up to one of my favourite vantage points for sunset photos.
04:13At Matera but it's clouded over and it's a pretty bleak landscape at the minute and pretty
04:28flat light.
04:30So I'll hang on for a while and see if I can get anything, see if the light changes by
04:36the time the sun goes down.
04:38I've still got a couple of hours probably until the sun does go down.
04:41And in the meantime I noticed when I came up earlier that there was a bunch of cats here,
04:49stray cats.
04:51And with the cold weather I'm sure they're starving so I've got them some food.
04:57I'm just going to put it down somewhere for them.
05:00They're living in a little cave just up here.
05:04So I'll put it near the cave and see the cave where they're at.
05:14Just in there.
05:15Just in there.
05:16Just in there.
05:45Just in there.
05:45Kind of a feed.
05:49Okay so now the cats have been fed.
05:53Tourists have gone.
05:57and I have probably an hour or so, maybe more until the sun goes down and for me to set
06:09up any kind of shot so it's a little bit precarious because of the snow melt and the freezing
06:22and has made the edge where I would normally set the tripod up a little bit slippery, so
06:35I'm trying to get up this bit of a mound without breaking my neck.
07:02Okay, as you can see here, this is what I couldn't see this morning, the snow has melted off that,
07:13that would have been a bit dangerous to fall down through this crack. Now I can jump over
07:22from one boulder to the other and that is one of the best sunset locations for Meteora.
07:44So that's the Rusanu Monastery just down there, the convent and the sun should be setting beyond
07:52those mountains there. Hopefully in about an hour's time, through the gap in the rocks just
08:02in front of us. So I'll set the tripod up, get a composition set and I might even fly the
08:18drone as well. So back with you in a minute.
08:51I've been waiting for about half an hour so there's about 20 minutes left probably before
08:56the sun does dip behind those clouds and over the further peaks that you can see in the distance
09:02there. I've set up my composition here which is just a straight shot of the valley with the
09:11Rusanu Monastery which you can see just down there and the rocks here with the sunset behind. So it should
09:20make a nice composition. Quite an epic looking shot. My exposure is ISO 160 at f8, 30th of a second
09:30which I'm bracketing to make allowance for the fact that the valley here is quite dark and the horizon is
09:38quite bright.
09:40Using a 2 second timer to take the picture. I've also got on the front of the camera a 3
09:50stop soft grad filter to darken down the clouds in the distance there.
09:55As well as a polarizing filter to try and bring out some of the details in those clouds because the
09:59light is a little bit flat.
10:02So hopefully that will do the trick and give me a nice shot. Just a question of waiting now for
10:09the sun to reach its lowest point and hopefully give me a few beams of light coming through the clouds
10:14as it sets.
10:18In the meantime I shall bid you goodbye. Hopefully you'll be seeing these pictures in just a second but my
10:24batteries on this little camera here is about to run out so I better say goodbye right now whilst I
10:31still can.
10:33I'd like to thank you all for watching. I hope you do like this video. Please subscribe to the channel,
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10:41There's lots more coming up very soon. From here tomorrow I am driving up northwest of here to a mountain
10:49range called the Pindos Mountains to a group of villages called the Zagorohoria.
10:53And they are truly truly stunning villages and the landscape around them is quite magnificent so it should hopefully produce
11:03some nice images from there as well.
11:05So I hope you join me for that in the next video.
11:08Thanks for watching again and I'll see you next time. Cheers, bye.
11:24Cheers, bye.
