Now in terms of FB size.  11k is not too big to pivot.  I made a major pivot on my main channel somewhere around 50k.  Its harder to pivot the bigger you get but as a smaller channel you're able to change direction.  Just give a heads up to your audience about the pivot and only make content that fits this new audience.  Don't go back to old styles of content.  

The best way to approach this is who is the audience that your content  previously was appealing to.  Did this change?  Is it the same audience that would watch your new content.  Always look through the lens of a viewer and try to figure out what kind of a viewer that you want to appeal to in your videos.  If something doesnt fit then you wouldnt make it.  An easy way to think about it is I do filmmaking tutorials on my channel so if I decided to do a cooking tutorial then thats the wrong audience even if I enjoy making videos about both cooking and filming.  When you're building an audience its not about you as much as its about the audience.  You're the center of the brand and their watching you but the reality is its more about them because you're trying to make content that reaches a specific group of people who will watch your videos etc.  

Welcome to the CFS.  Sorry for your loss.  

Looking forward to working with you on your journey.  I just read your story on your website and such a great way to celebrate your wifes life and story.  

Tom Replogle Thats what this community is for!  :)  A simple story structure for one of these photo trips could go likes. 

Hook: Quick montage (15 sec) of a few things that show the challenge of the trip or you could start right away with something like "I'm trying to capture X but (these are the challenges)"would be to setup at the beginning what photo you're trying to capture. 

Setup/Backstory:  What you're trying to do, what stands in your way, why this specific photo could be hard to capture etc

Rest of the video takes the viewer on the journey.  If stuff happens that is a challenge make sure to not shut off the camera.  At least have it rolling and set it off to the side so that you can do VO later.  The hardest thing is when a problem comes up remembering to keep the camera rolling.  

Resolution: Did you get the photo or not.  

Takeaway: Did this change you in anyway? What would you differently next time? Would you try this again?  Something that comments on the trip as a whole 

First thing that stands out for me is there is no hook for the audience.  Right at the beginning there needs to be something tells the audience why they should care.  The first 30 seconds is a montage getting to the location and its not super interesting for a viewer who just clicked on the video.   Overall using one music track makes the video kind of flat.  Theres no real pacing of the story.  For this kind of a video I think it would be more interesting if you setup your objective of what you're trying to photograph at the beginning and setup some challenges that you face to get there.  Raise the stakes so someone asks "what happens next."   Checkout this video I linked.  Its in my shorts course but the story breakdown applies to any style of video.  

Its in the library.  Here's the link: https://www.creatorfilmschool.com/programs/youtube_shorts_grow_with_vertical_video?category_id=124966

I am moving that group here so that it is all on one platform.  

For a new channel I wouldn't pay attention to that score as much.  You can still rank but that score is for when Tubebuddy can gather lots of data from previous videos so it makes a prediction based on data.  Without that data it won't be as useful 

Great to have you in here!  I just started a private FB group for the community.  Make sure you join  https://www.facebook.com/groups/creatorfilmschool

I had a Gnarbox and I don't like it. I found this solution: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXHuy62nbRw Seems like a good way to do it.