So I'm a QVW that yet again I've not really been present and to be fair there's a reason for that. The title below isn't clickbait, I really am giving up vlogging and there's many many reasons for this. But what I want to kind of make clear is what I feel vlogging is. So for me, vlogging is about me taking my cameras out and taking my phone out while I'm out working and talking to camera while I'm out in the bowel while I'm shooting sports while I'm working with commercial clients all that kind of thing. As opposed to me sitting down and talking to you as I'm talking to you now because it's the vlogging side of things that I find really really difficult and I've been trying to do it for the better part of what is probably nearly two years worth of me doing this, I think it's nearly two years. And I've always struggled to do the stuff out in public. And there's two reasons for that. One is a bit of insecurity and as much as vlogging as a whole genre on YouTube is fine in the States and other parts of the world, lots of people see people with vlogging rigs like mine and they're going back and I did. But in the UK you still would get looked at like you're a little bit crazy. And for someone like me who's a little bit on the introvert side that's quite difficult to kind of get past when I'm out working. And the other reason and the main reason that I'm giving up vlogging is that when I'm out working I'm really focused on what I'm doing and I don't often find myself thinking, oh I should record this or oh I should kind of like say something to camera now because it's really relevant. Actually what I'm thinking about while I'm out working whether it's with clients, whether it's a sporting event is what's happening right now, what's about to happen, what setting is going to need to be in, what positions do I need to be in. I'm so focused on that that it's really hard for me to then step to one side and do the vlogging thing. So this is my farewell. Thank you very much YouTube vlogging. It's been a pleasure. Thank you very much. So what I'm actually going to do is rather than kind of try and take my cameras around with me and vlog as we go and all that kind of stuff. I'm going to continue to do what I'm doing now which is sit to camera and talk to you guys and either give you stuff to think about or give you trips and trips trips. Either give you things to think about or to give you tips and tricks that will help you to get better as a sports photographer. Because actually that's the stuff that you guys seem to resonate with far more than me kind of taking my camera or grabbing my phone and doing some kind of piece of camera while I'm out working. When we're back traveling and stuff fingers crossed next year I'm going to make sure that I'm recording and filming as I'm traveling because I think that's kind of like good content to have in and I can talk about what I'm doing and all that kind of stuff and how it relates to everyone as sports photographers. I want to spend more time giving you guys quality stuff and quality information and that involves me sitting down and talking to you and helping you through that way. This is my I'm done with vlogging. Thank you very much but I'm not going to do it anymore and this is my moving forward now. We're going to be sat down and we're going to be talking and I'm going to be sharing as much possible helpful stuff as I can. It's been pretty tricky the last couple of months at the back end of the first wave of Covid. As of the other day we are in the UK kind of spiking again so we're going back into restrictions but for the last couple of kind of weeks, maybe six weeks I've actually been really busy. Work's been flowing again, we've had lots of clients come in, I've done a lot of commercial work, I've picked some sport stuff up as well. If you follow me on Instagram and if you don't why not you look in that I've been doing a lot of stuff with like life and sport whether that's cricket or kind of events and stuff like that. There's been plenty going on and it's been keeping me plenty busy and actually it's been really really good for me because what it's enabled me to do is to get out of the difficult slump that I was in and kind of move back into creativity and back into working and back into some kind of flow which makes me feel like I want to sit down and I want to share some stuff with you again. We're going to start fingers crossed moving forward on a bit more regular plate pace. I apologise I'm aware you've all missed me massively. Yeah, okay. But I'm going to start showing some bits and pieces with you. If you haven't already make sure you hit subscribe and kind of go back through the archive. What I'd spend some time doing over the summer is putting stuff into playlists. There is now a vlog ironically playlist but there's a tips and tricks playlist and there's things to think about playlist as well and hopefully that'll give you a bit of kind of stuff to get stuck into if you haven't already yet. I'm also going to do is make sure that I link below the link to my fourth photographer's section on my website which has got links to my UDemicore eBooks and stuff that you can grab, links out to my presets and stuff. And there's also going to be a link on there to sign up to the newsletter because I'm going to start sharing bits and pieces on the newsletter as well. So for those of you that have already signed up, thank you very much for signing up to the newsletter. It's really well worth it. I'm going to try and share some kind of like written thoughts as opposed to knee-chatting the way on camera so it might be a bit more concise and relevant. So yeah, that's it. No more vlogging. I'm done. That's it. Thank you very much. We'll see you again next time. If you haven't already, take a moment to hit subscribe so you'll get notified whenever I post new videos. At the minute it's about twice a week. I share most of my work on Instagram too. App and snap stuff so feel free to give me a follow. Till next time.