Replacing our black screen videos – Starting with the Frog Chorus

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Last month YouTube informed us that our channel could no longer monetized because we were reusing other peoples videos on our channel. You know that is false because shoot and record all of our videos ourselves. However, even when we showed that, YouTube would come back to us and say “after a careful review we have determined that your channel is reusing other peoples videos without significantly changing them”. It turns out that this may have to do with our black screen videos and so now we are replacing our black screen videos – starting with the frog chorus video.

Despite there being two parts to a video – visual and audio, it looks like YouTube only looks at the visual aspect. They don’t seem to care what the commentary is in the audio. We know this because we created the black screen videos to have audio we recorded in nature play while viewers relaxed or even slept. The audio would be half of the video but even though it is different than other people’s videos, YouTube still claimed we were using other peoples content.

They wouldn’t tell us it was the black screen. In our appeals we specifically asked about black screens and all they would say was “after a careful review we have determined that you channel is reusing other peoples content”.

Monetization is key to our moving the channel forward as it helps pay for fuel and equipment to capture more scenes from nature in different places. That being said, spending hundreds if not thousands of hours capturing and creating content only to be told by strangers that we were using other peoples content was an insult.

As a result, we are going to slowly take down and replace our black screen videos with dark screens to meet the requirements and hopefully move the channel forward. This week we are starting with our most popular video, the Frog (peepers) chorus. This new video features the wetland that are home to these critters.

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Someone recently approached us and accused us of reusing other people’s content in our videos. This affected us deeply because we spend so much time collecting video and audio clips. The claim was that because we are not in our videos we didn’t shoot them. This completely misses the point of our channel which is that nature is the star of our videos, not us. Also, if we were in our videos, we would be capturing us, not capturing nature which is the whole purpose of our channel.

Our homemade audio recorder/setup. The microphones are in wire wisks covered by pantyhose.

We capture all kinds of nature in our travels. Last year we traveled thousands of miles to different parts of the country to capture nature. Some of that nature is visual and other times its what nature sounds like. Early on in our capture nature career we realized that our audio recordings were not as good as we wanted them to be. We started looking at professional microphones and recorders. The problem was that they were out of our price range. This led us to look at what made those microphones so good and we attempted to mimic their design. We used a pair of wire wisks normally used in the kitchen to hold a pair binaural microphones in the middle of the wire frame. We then covered the wire frame with several pairs of pantyhose which blocks the wind and allows the microphone to capture a better audio recording. It’s not perfect but several times better than a bare microphone.

Just one of dozens of folders with our video clips

Over the past few years we’ve collected thousands of clips of video from different nature scenes and seasons. We’ve cataloged those into folders in an archive to be used when we need them. We typically like to shoot new video scenes so our videos are real but the archive is proof that we shot every frame of video that we show on our videos.

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Bigelow Hollow State Park and Nipmuck State Forest in Connecticut

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Bigelow Hollow State Park and Nipmuck State Forest in Connecticut | Aerial Tour with Music –

Join us for an aerial tour of a natural gem of the Quiet Corner of Connecticut – Bigelow Hollow State Park and Nipmuck State Forest. The park is located in the Quinebaug and Shetucket National Heritage Corridor and is part of a larger cluster of forests in what is referred to as the Last Green Mile between Washington and Boston.

On this aerial tour we see Mashapaug Pond at the northern end of Bigelow Hollow in Bigelow Hollow State Park. We then fly over Bigelow Pond and the Nipmuck State Forest on our way over Breakneck Pond. Bigelow Hollow sits in a big low valley which gives it its name and is surrounded hills. The evergreen forest is a cool place in summer with scenery similar to that of northern New England.

This is footage that we shot using our DJI Mini 2 and edited using Shotcut.

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Walk in the Woods during Stick Season

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Walk in the Woods during Stick Season – It’s late fall in New England and the leaves have fallen off the trees. It’s a season we affectionately call “Stick Season”. Snow flurries can be see some days but the ground is still bare. Join us as we walk to a beaver pond deep in the woods on a late day.

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Aerial Wintertime Forest Views

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Aerial Wintertime Forest Views | Drone Footage of the New England Woods in Winter with Music –

Enjoy the exceptional serenity of the New England winter landscape and admire the smallest details of every element! Fly above the forest and explore these natural wonders in all its glory! This HD ambient drone film will take you to the snow-covered landscapes of rolling mountains, frozen rivers, and crystal lakes. Plunge into amazing sceneries of hills covered with snow and take in the idyllic rural landscapes! Don’t miss the chance to see New England from above and enjoy the scenic winter views while watching this #drone footage. Let nature come into your home and create a peaceful atmosphere!

This was captured by us in late 2021 with our DJI Mini 2 over the hills of Northeast Connecticut.

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Old Saybrook, CT Shoreline in Winter

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Old Saybrook, CT Shoreline in Winter | Aerial Footage with Music –

Fly over the scenic shoreline of Connecticut during winter. In this video we fly over the beautiful shoreline of Old Saybrook’s Borough of Fenwick in deep winter with snow on the ground. We see the lighthouses at Lynde Point and the Saybrook Breakwater Lighthouse, Saybrook Point and Saybrook Point Harbor. Since it is winter we see ice floating down the Connecticut River and along the shore.

This is footage that we shot in February 2022 from the Fenwick section of Old Saybrook using our DJI Mini 2.

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What happens when your road becomes a river?

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What happens when your road becomes a river? | White Water Flash Flood on a road –

When several inches of rain recently fell in less than an hour, it turned a local road into a white water after a flash flood. We were the last vehicle to make it down the road and after the rain stopped there were several large holes and washed out sections of road. This what a flash flood looks like!

We recorded this when we found ourselves in a sudden downpour on Rondeau Street in Palmer, MA in late summer 2021.

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Fade to Black Ocean Surf Wave Sounds 10 Hours

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Fade to Black Ocean Surf Wave Sounds 10 Hours | Dark Screen for Sleeping, Relaxation, Study –

This video features ocean surf wave sounds as they crash on a beach. This video is being released in three versions. This version features a fade to black screen making it a great video for sleeping, relaxation, study, meditation or if you’re just looking for a background sound of the pounding surf and ocean waves.

We recorded these ocean waves and sound on a recent trip to Misquamicut Beach at Misquamicut Rhode Island using a Nikon D5300 DSL for video and a a special binaural audio rig that we created.

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Ocean Surf Wave Sounds 10 Hours | Dark Screen

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Ocean Surf Wave Sounds 10 Hours | Dark Screen for Sleeping, Relaxation, Study or Background Sound –

This video features ocean surf wave sounds as they crash on a beach. This video is being released in three versions. This version features a black screen making it a great video for sleeping, relaxation, study, meditation or if you’re just looking for a background sound of the pounding surf and ocean waves.

We recorded these ocean waves and sound on a recent trip to Misquamicut Beach at Misquamicut Rhode Island using a Nikon D5300 DSLR for video and a a special binaural audio rig that we created.

For more videos like this one, check out our YouTube Channel or click here for a list of our nature videos.