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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.

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.

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.

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

Enjoy 10 hours of heavy rain with fall foliage scenes for sleeping or relaxation.

One fall day we had a heavy rainstorm come through the area and through some careful placement of the camera and microphone setup we captured this heavy rainfall and mixed in these vignettes of the rain falling for visual effect.

Often when we are thinking about peaceful natural scenes we don’t think of wetlands but wetlands can offer a peaceful space and sounds when trying to relax. You know from our previous videos that we provide peaceful scenes like you see in places like CBS’s Sunday Morning Nature Segment and these scenes may remind you of some of those. Wetlands are some of the first places to see foliage changes and since our videos are delayed by several weeks these scenes were shot in early September and you can see colors starting to show up in the foliage!

August was a busy month at the Tree of Life. Summer is waning but still at its peak in the beginning of the month and we get to see a full gambit of critters on our Zopu trail cam. In August we saw the usual deer (along with the baby deer we first saw last month!), coyote’s, raccoons, bobcats and even smaller critters like the squirrels.