And

Hello friends,

the next episode is online. I hope you enjoy it.

Take care and find a lot of gold!

Schwendi

8 hours ago, Valens Legacy said:

Very interesting video and I plan on viewing it again and take some notes on it.

Thanks for the information from a newbie.

You're very welcome! Thank you for your comment, I appreciate 🙂

12 hours ago, MSC said:

Thanks And, very nice presentation, and very true!

Thanks, I appreciate the feedback!

Hello my friends,

I tried to find out, what super-successful gold prospectors do differently and I started a video series about what I found out.

Have a good week!

Thank you guys!

@1864hatter: I definitively will produce more, but I'm not the fastest video producer, as it's only my second hobby after gold prospecting 😁. The video shooting itself doesn't take much time, but the editing...

@ everybody: If anybody of you guys is interested to be part of one of the next videos, please contact me! All you need is 30min of your time, a laptop computer with video/mic and an internet connection. It would be really a pleasure for me, to make an interview with you. The size of the nugget doesn't matter for the video, it's your enthusiasm...

15 hours ago, mn90403 said:

And

You really love the camera and the story.  I enjoyed this video very much.  You showed Hannes dedication to his pursuit of nuggets.  Many of us share that feeling with him and you.

Thank you very much.

Mitchel

Thank you.

Hi there,

My latest video is online. It's about one of the most experienced and successful gold prospectors of Switzerland. He talks about how he discovered a new gold region in the 90ties and of course about the awesome Nuggets, he found there. Some of them with extraordinary beautiful crystalline structures. I hope you enjoy it...

13 hours ago, Steve Herschbach said:

Well, the fact they are setting a guy up to handle warranty work the next couple years pretty much says they are done. No reason to do that were the company to pick up and go on as before. Dealers are liquidating stock. Just like Tesoro there may end up being no news at all. The factory is shut down, there are a couple places where you can get service for now.... game over.

OK. Thanks for the clear words. Sad but true...

Does anybody have some news about the future of White's? I can't find any information in the internet or from the dealers  etc.

My White's GMT is still with me on every trip to complement the GPZ (in shallow creeks). I still trust my White's GMT the most 🙂 and I often use it in cramped places in the creek. I'm thinking about buying a second one as spare, if White's really closes...

Steve, my deepest congratulations to your "coming out"! What you wrote about anonymity and the ego-thing and so on may be true and need to be careful thinking. But it's also very true, that it helps other people so much, to see, that everybody struggles in live, even a "bright star" like you.

Nowadays everybody tries to present only the best of himself in TV, social media etc.. This gives a very distorted image of how people are. This distorted image of flawless and successful people can lead to depressions because of the stress for many to reach this unachievable goal.

So I'm absolutely sure, your book will help many, not only regarding alcohol, but generally in life.

Thank you for your contribution, and God bless you, Steve!

6 hours ago, Mugsy said:

Great story and wonderful video.

thank you!

10 hours ago, Jonathan Porter said:

Kind of feels wasted on YouTube, a quality piece like this should be on prime time. Steve such a pleasure to see my good friend again, reminds of the wonderful time we spent together chasing gold in WA.

An absolute beautiful piece of gold worthy of the good guy who found it, well done to all involved I enjoyed every minute of it.😎

JP

PS LOVED the clunk. 🤣

Gosh it's about 15 years since I watched the first of your DVDs an tried to learn :). I still remember like yesterday, how a prospecting buddy of mine showed me a DVD from you and we were deeply impressed. So I am today!

3 minutes ago, Northeast said:

Great job And and Steve.  Well worth the watch 👍

thank you!

26 minutes ago, jrbeatty said:

And: Thoroughly enjoyed that. Like others here, I rarely watch gold videos, but I'm glad I made an exception for that one.

Steve: That's one hell of a nice piece. Like many, I've also found some crackers that others had started digging - and probably also left a few "junk signals" for others.  🙂

thank you. I'm glad, that you enjoyed it!

2 hours ago, 2Valen said:

Great video and nicely done, thanks for sharing everything with the finds and the video.

thank you!

3 hours ago, RickUK said:

Absolutely brilliant video,thoroughly enjoyed it,not only was it superbly made but you could tell from it Steve's passion and honesty was amazing.......one of the best videos that i have seen for a very long time.

Thank you for producing the video and thanks again to Steve for sharing your passion.

thank you very much! It was a pleasure for me to make this video! The credits go to Steve, it's him who makes the video so interesting.

13 hours ago, Steve Herschbach said:

You did a great job with the video And! My only wish is that my old Mac Air had a better camera. Time for an upgrade I guess. 😎

Steve’s 2014 Alaska Adventure (read before the 2013 story below)

Steve’s 2013 Alaska Adventure

Thank you Steve! It was a pleasure for me!

Just give a yell, if you want to test your new Mac Air with another video 😉.

2 hours ago, phrunt said:

I took a while to notice this, I saw video series in the topic and passed it over as I'm never really interested in peoples YouTube videos, I don't have the patience for them and end up clicking through them looking at little bits then just shut them down.

🙂 that's my "problem". The people I make this videos for, normally don't like youtube, they are rather out prospecting. To be honest, myself I also didn't spend much time watching videos on youtube before I made my own videos.

But 2018 I was asked from my Truck Camper rental in Alaska, if I could make a video for them of my trip for their youtube channel. This started everything. So I started also watching some other travel videos and tutorials etc. and I was very surprised about what excellent videos are out there. The problem is, you have to find them, there is also a lot of crap... It's like with prospecting, you have to find the nuggets in the crap 🙂.

Nowadays my wife, my brother in law and me we spend whole Saturday evenings watching stuff on youtube and having beers and fun. The stuff on youtube is nowadays often better than TV, it's more authentic because it's less "professional".

12 hours ago, GB_Amateur said:

And, that was extremely well done.  Yours aren't the typical YouTube vidoes -- far from it.  I see commercial TV quality in your work.  I'm sure it's many hours extra effort on your part compared to others, but it shows.  You are a craftsman.

Steve, compliments to you as well for your part of the presentation.  Having done a few interviews for both radio and TV ('few' means counted on one hand), I know it's not easy.  Here you talked nearly nonstop for almost a half hour without throwing in the 'uhs...' and 'wells...'.  Nicely done.

I have to admit that this interview got to me emotionally.  The ending text, music, and photos alone are priceless.  This video reminds me of where I've been, what I've attained, what I've missed, and most of all, what is still out there, still possible to achieve.  It wasn't about me at all, and yet I leave feeling a part of it -- past, present, and future.

Much thanks to you both!

 

Thank you very much! It's easy to make a good video, if the interviewed person talks so excellent. The nugget is Steve, my work was simply the showcase...

I'm glad about what you wrote regarding getting to you emotionally. I felt the same during video editing. I spent many hours with editing but I enjoyed every second of it, because it hit my heart, what Steve said. I was in fact happy about bad weather, so I could spend hours with video editing 🙂

Episode 2 is online. Thank you very much Steve, it was a pleasure and an inspiration to talk to you.

4 hours ago, Gerry in Idaho said:

Your interest in gold comes at a superb time for so many people and I hope to see more of the gold videos.  The good thing is, there are many famous nuggets out there and certainly a few bigger ones too.  I expect you'll be doing this series for quite some time.  Thanks also for asking those important questions, as the feeling and emotions overcoming ones body and mind is an amazing feeling.  Wishing you luck on your future endeavors And and thanks for allowing us to see through your eyes and camera.

Thank you Gerry! In fact my interest in gold startet 15 years ago and since than, I spent most of my free time out prospecting. It's what I love to do the most. My interest in videography startet later, because I took occasionally footage of our adventures in the creeks.

I'm glad, that you like my direction of questioning. It's exactly my intention, to also capture the emotions and the way of thinking. It's not only fascinating, it's also very helpful to know, how successful prospectors think. Because in my experience, the mind set is one of the most important key factors in prospecting. We are way more driven by emotions, than we are aware in the situation... And if we know that, we can cope with it and try to be more rational and smart. I always say: The nugget doesn't bother if I'm angry, when I don't find it 😉

The interview with Steve is done. It was great, thanks again, Steve!

It will take some time to edit it, but I give my best 🙂

On 6/13/2020 at 3:10 PM, schoolofhardNox said:

Very well done. Congratulations and good luck on your new series.

 

thank you

On 6/13/2020 at 12:49 AM, dgatleyDP said:

And - Very well done video!

Your production methods are very professional, which leads me to believe you are a professional.  Thanks for your efforts and we all look forward to your future productions.  Keep it up!

Thank you. I'm far from being professional. I make the videos in my free time. Therefore I'm quite slow and can't provide so many videos like pro-youtubers. And I'm really a lousy cameraman 🙂, but the new cameras have excellent image stabilization etc. so it looks quite good without much experience. I spend a lot of time editing, I love it, to combine good footage with good music to a story and optimize the image quality etc... And it's the icing on the cake, if you guys enjoy my videos, that's really a pleasure for me!

I work as an optical engineer at Leica Geosystems (Hexagon), i.e. I design optics for industrial cameras and optical metrology systems, Laser Scanners etc.... So I have for sure an interest in camera technology. But that's all, my profession has in common with my videos 🙂.

On 6/13/2020 at 8:50 PM, Tom Slick said:

Excellent Video! I really appreciate you sharing it with us. I'm looking forward to your next video. 

thank you!