I entered this short video in the Art Salon at Hidden Earth this year and to my complete amazement I git a prize for the best work produced digitally.And here’s my prize, a hand-crafted statue of a caver made by Ceris Jones.It’s now proudly displayed i…
Earlier today I gained the 50,000th subscriber to my YouTube channel at youtube.com/keithedwardscaver. Channels with more than 100,000 subscribers are awarded a silver wall plaque.In January my subscribers went up by 2,448 – my largest monthly rise, if…
The traditional annual roundup video from Caver Keith Studios. 2018 was an eventful year in which I celebrated the 10th anniversary of my first upload and had many more views than any other year, but amongst the highs there was one slight disappointmen…
10 years ago today that I uploaded my first caving video to my YouTube channel. It now has 130 caving videos and is the most popular caving channel on YouTube.In the first twelve months I had 1.5K views.In the last twelve months I’ve had 9.3M caving vi…
Camera expert Sid Perou looks back over a career of often dramatic and sometimes risky filming adventures, including the risk of foot fungus, and explosions under his stairs. It is one of so many magical times that I will always remember … Lindsay Dodd and I were stood on the relatively flat top of a huge…
I guess I could be described as a lifelong learner. I enjoy setting myself challenges, acquiring new skills and working outside my comfort zone. I also take pleasure in problem solving. Making videossatisfies my creative urges, and allows me to experim…
In part one I wrote about how the idea for Keith’s Cavers was born and how it was key to get the opening credits sequence perfect, but at that stage I didn’t have an idea for the video. It was just like being a kid at school who has spent weeks creatin…
In 2017 at Hidden Earth I won the video salon competition, although the Hidden Earth website still credits my video to ‘The Dudley’. As a winner I was asked if anything needed changing and I requested that the correct credit to be given, but that was o…
Team: Antonia Freem, Duncan Hornby, Ollie Jone, Sally Richards, Alan Walsh & Tarquin Wilton-JonesTrip date: 24/2/18“Team Freem” had been wanting to film the furthest parts of Ogof Craig A Ffynnon for some time and last weekend had been a trip in th…
I’m Nearly famous 2Back in October I received an email from an intern working for Extreme on Facebook asking if he could use clips from Caving Claustrophobia Kill or Cure.ExtremeI said yes and a shorter edit was uploaded to the Extreme Facebook page on…
I’m nearly famousOn 30th January I got an email from Newsflare who thought they might be able to sell one of my videos – Caver Stuck in The Lobster Pot, Sidcot Swallet. It sold twice, to Right This Minute and MSM. The videos did the rounds of soci…
