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Hello everybody and welcome to another video Video where we hope to find and photograph snow leopards I have travelled from the UK all the way to the west of Mongolia in search of snow leopards The guide keeps saying so close, so close I think that means the snow leopard is very close But Mongolia has so much more to offer than just these elusive cats I have a feeling that every single photograph is going to look more like a painting In this video I'll be searching for and photographing snow leopards As well as taking advantage of the incredible light and scenery that Mongolia has to offer This was a photography adventure I will never forget So I'm in Mongolia and we've just arrived And I'm supposed to be arriving at our camp We're going to have some food, get settled in And then tomorrow we were supposed to look for snow leopards But we got a call in from a local farmer Who's had one of his animals taken by a snow leopard And that means that we now know where the snow leopard is So we're kind of out in the middle of nowhere Gearing up because I've just got off an aeroplane I've not got the right stuff on And it is pretty chilly So put some trousers on Get some appropriate footwear on Get the camera gear all loaded and ready And then we're off hiking into the mountains that you can see behind me So yeah, it's exciting stuff Thank you, thank you So we're just on our way to see the snow leopards And we got invited into this yurt for some hot food Some cookies And now we are fuelled up and ready for the hike up there About a kilometre into the mountains behind us Incredibly exciting I'm eating and talking, I shouldn't do this But it's incredibly exciting The hike has begun I have to keep my voice down I always get too excited I tell you what, it's harder than I thought it would be We're about 2,500 metres So you start to just feel it a bit with the lack of oxygen And of course, there's no footpath So it's all loose scree So it's kind of quite a long slog, long hard slog But I mean, I can already see the views are amazing And of course, if we make it to the snow leopard It'll be more than worth it So we push on, barely a quarter of the way into this Probably a fifth We've got a lot more to go Wow, what a place though I mean, look at it Yeah, incredible I wonder when we'll get a sight If we'll get a sight of the snow leopard There's just so much anticipation I can't believe it There's no rest on this trip It's just go, go, go The guide keeps saying so close, so close So I don't know if we're I think that means the snow leopard is very close So this could be it Better get geared up Get the 800 now on Everyone's getting so excited This is cool Can I give you this one second, thank you Thank you OK We are geared up This is really sketchy Like one wrong move and I'm off OK So there's no possible way That I can record the snow leopard on this camera But I've just been lying here With my 800mm shooting across Got some beautiful images of the snow leopard Walking across the rocks The rest of the gang have arrived now Yeah, this is just a beautiful moment It's fantastic To see a snow leopard in the wild Was an incredible experience And at the time I didn't realize How lucky we were Not only to see and photograph a leopard But to do so on day one of our trip Wow Oh, it's incredible It's moving now It was a brief encounter And before I knew it The snow leopard had walked over the ridge And out of sight Little did I know That it would be seven days Until we got another encounter With the snow leopard So it's just as well That our campsite was situated At one of the most picturesque sites In all of Mongolia Surely it has to be This place is incredible All right, so we have made it We have made it back Well, back We have made it to our camp This is it It's absolutely beautiful What a spot I mean you can't really tell on this camera But it's very dark Now it's basically sunset And it'll be pitch black in no time at all But we have these yurts that we're staying in I think there's three to a yurt But oh man Let's have a quick look at the views Cause it'll be dark very shortly Let's walk around Spin you around, have a look Wow So there's just endless views from here This is a great vantage point And I'm quite excited for sunrise To shoot all of this Get the 100 to 400 out These are all just open plains With mountains in the background And then of course we have These mountain ranges behind the yurts Yeah, it's gonna be some Definitely gonna be some Good shooting potential from here But at the minute The last thing on my mind is shooting First thing on my mind is eating The second thing, sleeping So yeah Get set up anyway Get all my gear I'll get organized in there Yeah, get some food So this is it This is home sweet home I'm in with Mike and Miles And there's a stove all going on Lovely and warm This is not bad at all In fact, I would argue That this is actually quite luxurious All right, just got word that food is ready Oh, I need this What Shall we just eat it all I think so, yeah Do a runner Well, good morning everybody My windy Mongolia So I apologize if there's any wind noise You can see the yurts behind me That's where I've been sleeping Or I believe that's called Gurs over here But man, what a morning It's not quite sunrise yet But the views from this campsite are phenomenal Just vast open spaces Mountains in the distance Big skies And I think when the sun comes up And we start getting some light and color There could be some beautiful images To be had from here Especially with a long lens Just picking out different areas Of this massive landscape in front of us Yeah, beautiful Absolutely freezing, but beautiful We've got a few camera problems But we're all right And you can see the light behind us The sky's just got this lovely pink band Across the lower half Obviously on this camera You're looking at, you see a lot of blue But with the 100-400, we're going to go in And we're going to take bits of the landscape And isolate them and crop them out And yeah, I think these are some of the most beautiful The 100-400 is the lens of choice For this vast landscape Just going to pop a polarizer on It should make all the difference OK This is incredible The light is just starting to come And the way that this I'm worried about that wind Can't have you blowing over again Oh my god The light is beautiful But I think it's only going to get better This valley is running from west to east The sun is rising in the east And already I can see the light Beginning to paint the distant landscape It looks incredible And I have a feeling That when that sun comes up The light is going to stream down this valley It's going to rake across the landscape And there's going to be images for the taking Oh, this is incredible What? I've never really experienced An environment as vast as this I'm so glad I've got the 100-400, man So the light is really coming now And I've just got my first shot But it's going to be so difficult for me To articulate my thinking and my composition Because it is just very instinctive All I'm doing is I'm taking the long lens I'm scanning the landscape I'm looking for light, geometry, shapes Symmetry, texture Anything that comes together to form What undoubtedly will be the most beautiful An abstract image Simply because of the way the light is right now The environment The fact that I'm shooting at such long focal lengths You can't always distinguish Exactly what you're looking at This scene in front of me Looks like a painting And I have a feeling that every single photograph Is going to look more like a painting Than an actual photograph So, yeah, man, what a... Wow, look at the light, it's incredible, man Look at this Oh, this is incredible It's just going to be over so quickly But the way the light is raking Across the landscape over here You can see there's a big shadow So we've got half the valley in shadow Half the valley in light And that transition between shadow and light With the striations of the valley floor Zoomed in at like 300 mil It's so abstract It looks like brush strokes It's unbelievable And I know we're only in the middle of January Or perhaps by the time you're watching this The end of January But these surely are some of my best images of the year How long before that joke gets old? I don't know Anyway, wow Oh, man, just perfect Absolutely perfect After that mesmerizing sunrise shoot It was time to set off again In search of the snow leopards The spotters scoured the mountains Looking for the elusive cats But didn't find anything But all I could think about was that landscape How would it look at sunset Because sunrise was incredible So with a lack of any leopard sightings Or photography during the day My trigger finger was itching For more of that long lens abstract landscapes Could I make more paintings With my Nikon Z8 brush? All right, well, I'm hoping That we can get a nice A nice evening shot The sun's just gone down It's just dropped behind the clouds in the mountains Over there I mean, I don't know if this evening is going to be as good as this morning The light this morning was spectacular And actually, I'll tell you what While setting up I better thank the sponsor of this video Which is Squarespace So if you don't know who Squarespace are They're an all-in-one website building platform So as a photographer If you want a website But you don't know where to start in building one And you don't want to hire a company to do it for you Like a web designing company You can just log on to Squarespace And do it all using their drag and drop system Simple, easy, intuitive, straightforward Anyone can do it You can even register your own domain Have an online store Your own members gallery Or members area, should I say If you get stuck They've got 24-7 customer support But as I always say You can just go onto YouTube Watch a tutorial And before you know it You'll have a website up and running in no time at all So if you fancy giving that a go Go to squarespace.com /.heaton And you'll get a free trial And if you like that free trial Use the offer code HEATON For 10% off your first purchase Right, let's crack on I'm going to put the 100-400 on It's just the perfect lens For when you're in an environment Of this scale and this magnitude After witnessing such an amazing sunrise I'd be lying if I said I was equally thrilled by the sunset The light just wasn't as dynamic And I struggled to make any images Before nightfall set in But the next day Just before lunch time When you wouldn't expect the landscapes come to life It seemed that once again The landscape had been transformed Into a watercolor painting And every frame that I pick out Feels like a painting It's difficult for me to show you And articulate what I'm shooting Because it's just a case of Moving the camera around the scene Until things click I mean, I'm probably at about 400mm now I'm looking for distant hills and mountains That fit nicely in a frame Typically a square frame And when you find it It's just lovely There's a lot of haze and atmosphere Which is going to soften the image But that's okay Everything through that viewfinder Looks like a painting So I'm embracing that And typically in a watercolor painting Well, they're not sharp, are they? It's not about the detail It's about the soft color palette And the arrangement of elements And that's what we're going for One of my favorite types of photography Long lens in an open environment Just I'd recommend it to anybody It's a great way to shoot images I'm going to go for a panoramic It's a bit ambitious But if it works It could just look fantastic It's just so vast All right Pretty happy with that shoot Lunch time Well, it has been a fairly quiet afternoon We've had lunch We've been relaxing And we've all been editing our images And we've just got word That we have to drive somewhere And you know what that means? Could mean a snow leopard