The next National Park in the UK will be in Scotland and today - 29 February 2024 - is the final day that areas can submit their application. The two front runners are Lochaber - which is home to the iconic Glen Coe and Ben Nevis and Dumfries and Galloway (where I am currently based), whose spectacular Southern Uplands and fascinating history are in competition with the spectacular geological splendour of Lochaber. Copy and 4K aerial video also available on my video stock footage and stock photo database.
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NB Please note that since I wrote this post, Pond5 have standardised pricing on all my clips as I am non-exclusive. So my whole clip collection is now available at the bargain price of 84 GBP (roughly US $100)!
I am reviewing my distribution of video stock, so grab a bargain while you can! Throughout January, I have been busy uploading and tagging dozens of new clips on Pond5. This includes recent clips from Greece and Romania, plus a lot more of my footage from the Scottish Highlands. Prices are set high on the clips, though Pond5 are very flexible on prices and do contact them if you are working on a project with a low budget. I have also uploaded a lot more of my drone footage from the UK (mostly Scotland, but some England as well!) and hope to add much more UK drone video stock footage over the course of 2022. Tagging, editing and submitting clips to Pond5 does take time (aside from the actual filming) and it is always a good idea to contact me with specific needs, as I may have it in my archive, but not got around to uploading it. Likewise if you have an ongoing need for specific subject matter in the UK, especially drone shots. One set of clips that are useful in 2022 is the two drone sessions I did at Hadrian's Wall in Northumbria National Park, as this year is the 2,000th anniversary of the completion of the famous landmark. I hope to film some more aerial footage of Hadrian's Wall later this year. I've also uploaded - though not finished tagging - lots of clips from the late part of the civil war in Nepal (which sadly are in 720p) from 2009-2010 documenting daily life in Kathmandu (pre-earthquake) and the messy peace process between the Nepalese state and the Maoists. I also have started supplying the specialist wildlife agency Nature Footage with both ground and aerial wildlife-related stock footage video clips and now have almost 300 available. Some of the work I will upload to Nature Footage may not be also available on Pond5, so please check out my collection there too!
Like most artists, I have been taking a close interest in the NFT phenomena. Having recently realised that Opensea opened a gas-free marketplace, I was busy uploading some of my photographs and artwork as NFTs.
View my NFT portfolio on Opensea All the images in this portfolio are priced in ETH (Ethereum), though actually the Opensea uses Polygon (which is on the ETH platform). The average price is ETH 0.46, though some are less. It is a good time to invest in my NFTs (and those of others). Aside from my photographs, I also mint NFTs of my digital paintings, which I started making in 2021. In recent months, I have been busy uploading and tagging several hundred 4K UHD and HD stock video footage clips onto Pond5.
https://www.pond5.com/artist/atlas4k I have a back-catalogue of HD video dating back to 2009, totalling several thousand clips. I have footage from the UK, Portugal and Nepal. Recent subject matter includes stormy seas at Penzance and Porthleven in Cornwall, the M1 Smart Motorway, the M6 Motorway in Cumbria, wildlife in the north of Scotland, the new Scottish spaceport at Talmine, Scottish wildcat kittens at Edinburgh Zoo, to name but a few. With the addition of Reuters video, Newsflare and Cover Media onto the Pond 5 platform, it is fast becoming a great resource for film makers for editorial video stock footage. I'm also editing highlights of my clips onto my YouTube channel and video researchers can find an increasing amount of my work viewable in a more easy format than individual clips on Pond5. These are not films per se, rather the highlights of the footage I shot at a given location. You can view my YouTube channel with the following link: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCc3iwbBT9OOt4HMozGRJ8qw One of the highlights of the autumn and winter months in the Scottish Highlands is the amazing and beautiful Aurora Borealis - or the Northern Lights.
I was fortunate enough to capture this display in the Dornoch Firth in Sutherland, Scotland, UK. It is not easy to snap the auroras, as they are relatively rare and sometimes short-lived or obscured by cloud. Getting to the right location in time is no easy business and of course, on clear nights in the autumn, winter and spring, very cold. As I now have 4K UHD video capability, I hope to see this breathtakingly beautiful phenomena again to make some time-lapse footage and of course, more amazing images! |
AuthorJonathan Mitchell - seasoned photojournalist and photographer. Also 4K / Drone Pilot / UHD camera operator / film director / NFT Artist and producer and journalist. Archives
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