Matt Swack

A lot of my followers are older.

One of the biggest things I find joy in is taking these videos and those people being able to see them and enjoy them.

And they're always saying how grateful they are.

The amount of victims in such a short time was unbelievable.

You can shoot real life beautiful things and still grow.

You don't have to shoot just, you know, horrible news and things that cause drama.

When I go on my feed, all I see is nature stuff.

So I hear a lot about all this horrible stuff on social media, but luckily I don't really see much of it.

I'm very glad that I'm helping shift the scale a little bit because these are crazy times and there are a lot of people that just doom scroll.

The first one I ever shot, I went out to a river about 15 or 20 minutes from here, right after like a fresh snowfall.

It was, I hiked through like three feet of snow, like powder to this like river bend.

And I was there and I didn't really plan on taking any videos or photos, but I was like, man, this is one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen.

Like the river was blue and you have the white snow and the blue sky and it was just incredible.

And so I just took this kind of simple pan or just kind of pan from the snow over to the river.

And so I posted it on Instagram later that day.

That one little video kind of sparked my interest in doing it more.

I was like, well, I love shooting this stuff.

And if people enjoy it, then that's kind of great to be able to show it to people and have them appreciate it.

How has spending so much time outdoors impacted your own mental health?

And what do you hear from your audience about theirs?