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Agony! I Feared I'd Never Walk Our Woodland Again. Winter in Our Corner of England. In November I began filming the final part of my year-long series of videos documenting the changing wildlife and landscape of Our Corner of England. It is a modest acreage of family-owned woodland which is being regenerated from open cast coal mining in the English Midlands. For centuries, this part of the country was crisscrossed with railways which were built to transport what was then black gold - coal, along with other minerals and industrial freight. From Medieval times the landscape in this part of the English Midlands was mined and dug deep and surrounded by massive spoil heaps, pumping stations and foundries. It was a black, despoiled blight on the land until exhausted mines were closed, railways abandoned and the scars left to heal over as best as they could. Then the National Forest was a created, an ambitious 20th Century project to re-forest much of this land, to open it to the public, to bring back the flora and fauna to what was once poisoned and grim land. Our Corner of England is a tiny, privately-owned part of that massive project. As I filmed the land as it plunged into winter, I somehow damaged a nerve in my spine resulting in a severe case of meralgia parasthetica, preventing me from walking more than a few yards. One day in December I left the wood in for many, many weeks, virtually immobile and confined mostly to home and unable to walk our woodland. During this agonizing and worrying period, my trail cameras, looking out over our badger sett, were my eyes in the woods. This is the story.
I'm Mick Grewcock, retired from business and now self-learning the art of film-making.
My subjects are many but centre on our English landscape and its wildlife and I often feature our own woodland - Our Corner of England.
My Gear:
Panasonic GH5
Panasonic GH4
Panasonic 14mm-140mm f3.5-f5.6
Panasonic 100mm-400mm f4.0-f6.3
Tokina 11-16mm f2.8 EF
Lumix 25mm f1.7
Sigma 18-35mm EF Art
Vintage Helios M44-2 58mm f2
Vintage SMC Takumar 135mm f3.5
Vintage SMC Takumar 200mm f4
M42 to M43 adaptors
Viltrox Speedbooster 0.71 EF to M43
Viltrox Macro extension tubes
Variable ND filters
Canon G7X
GoPro Hero
GoPro Session 5
iPhone 11
Velbon DV-7000 tripod and fluid head & Reveille Video Tripod
Mini slider dolly
Koolertron 1M slider
Zhiyun Crane Plus
DJI Mavic Air drone
Neewer ND filters for Mavic Air
Rode Video MicPro on-camera microphone
Rode SmartLav lavalier microphone
Zoom H1 field stereo audio recorder
Final Cut Pro X
MacBook Pro 15"
iMac 27"
GTech & My Passport Storage
Filming usually in 4K (quad HD) and HD for slo-mo 8 & 10 bit. Cine-like D picture profile, modified.
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