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Ericlnz wrote:
Actually Winkworth Aboretum is in Surrey
Of course it is Eric, silly old me!!
Yes, Jill's coat was very lucky wasn't it, wouldn't have been the same had she been wearing bright red, although thinking about it, it may well have done...
Things are so quiet here .. I thought I'd post an old trip-film video of the Panama Canal. This was the Cunard Ship Queen Elizabeth's maiden transit of the canal in 2011.
Thanks Paul. Very interesting and quite different to how I imagined the canal to be. No wonder cruise ships appear so tall. They need to keep to a width that will squeeze through!
Sorry that I haven't been on here for a while, however when we came back from Spain I found that the weather back in the UK was appalling and wondered why we had bothered !
I was sitting at home and looking out of the window at the pouring rain and happened to look at the price of flights to Almeria back in early November and found a couple of return tickets for £35 each !! yes £35 !! so it was a no brainer. We flew down on the19th of November and will be back on the 14th Dec only to fly back down on the 31st.
I haven't been doing much in the video world but we are often going for what I call "a lost drive" in our area in Spain. This one starts up in the hills and mountains a few miles inland from our coastal home and finishes in Sorbas in the evening and shows a lot the amazing family run pottery that has to be seen to be believed !
One slight problem that I did have is I foolishly left my camera on 4K for all of the mountain scenery on the first part of the video and only realized it when we got to a small hamlet to film the tiny church.
As I haven't got any 4K editing software on this laptop that I use down here I had to convert it to 1080p to edit it, but it wasn't "that successful".
That's my excuse anyway !
https://youtu.be/-zxCxDxMTHA
Things are so quiet here .. I thought I'd post an old trip-film video of the Panama Canal. This was the Cunard Ship Queen Elizabeth's maiden transit of the canal in 2011.
A good film Paul you were lucky to have gone on that trip. Looks like they might have put some Vaseline on the sides of the ship !
Another short video of a recent village trip to Butterfly Creek. Not just butterflies, much more. The dinosaurs were impressive!
Eric I do like that video, well thought about and edited.
With the Summer to look forward to down under, all we have to look forward to is the long dark days of winter, but we did have the joys of wandering through an arboretum in Kent earlier this month to see the lovely colours, always a highlight of the year - for me at least. This is Winkworth Arboretum. Six minutes long.
Albert, it never fails to see the amazing trees and bushes at this time of the year no matter how many times we have all seen it. We have never been to Winkworth Arboretum but seeing it's in our part of the UK (but not Kent) we certainly will at some time. Terrific colours Albert !
... we are often going for what I call "a lost drive" in our area in Spain. This one starts up in the hills and mountains a few miles inland from our coastal home and finishes in Sorbas in the evening and shows a lot the amazing family run pottery that has to be seen to be believed !
ahhhhhhhhh ... what a leisurely pace of life you depict. Here we have non-stop "bad" news on television. It's nice to think that there are places like your "lost drive" where life goes on so peacefully.
Nice that you included shots of your lovely wife.
Thanks for posting.
Thanks Paul. Very interesting and quite different to how I imagined the canal to be. No wonder cruise ships appear so tall. They need to keep to a width that will squeeze through!
Yes. It's called Pana-Max size. They build the ships at the maximum width to fit through the canal. There are new locks that are wider but I'm not sure Cruise ships use those locks. They are for huge container ships. The new locks use a different system to keep the ships from hitting the sides of the locks.
Meanwhile cruise ships continue to get bigger. Eventually there will be a limit.
I haven't been doing much in the video world but we are often going for what I call "a lost drive" in our area in Spain. This one starts up in the hills and mountains a few miles inland from our coastal home and finishes in Sorbas in the evening and shows a lot the amazing family run pottery that has to be seen to be believed !
https://youtu.be/-zxCxDxMTHA
Thanks Gordon. As I may have commented with another of your scenic videos - the hills look very brown compared to my corner of the world.
You have a very impressive zoom on your camera. What software did you use to convert your 4K to 1080?
Thanks Gordon. As I may have commented with another of your scenic videos - the hills look very brown compared to my corner of the world.
You have a very impressive zoom on your camera. What software did you use to convert your 4K to 1080?
They may look brown as this is on the edge of the Tabernas desert, however amazingly stuff still grows there, also there is a forest further up in the mountains.
However there is a SERIOUS water shortage as we have had very little rain for the whole year and several of the big lakes and reservoirs have actually dried up ! luckily we get our supply from the desalinizing plant at Carboneras that is the next big town down the coast. Incidentally David Lean's prop master Eddie Fowlie lived there and ran a hotel until he died a few years back. I have a signed book of his exploits and a lot of Lawrence of Arabia was actually filmed just down the road, and there is a memorial statue of Eddie in the high street.
The zoom is very good on the Sony camera and I was using it hand held all day. Believe it or not I converted the 4k to 1080p mp4 with Moviplus X6 ! You have to do it in single short takes as there is not enough memory to do a long timed shot or a complete batch. You can do it in VLC media player but it is nowhere near the quality of Movieplus, also the free online ones weren't as good either, but they could all do batches.
ahhhhhhhhh ... what a leisurely pace of life you depict. Here we have non-stop "bad" news on television. It's nice to think that there are places like your "lost drive" where life goes on so peacefully.
Nice that you included shots of your lovely wife.
Thanks for posting.
Thank you Paul, I tend at my time of life to live "today for today" as none of us know what is happening in this crazy world that we are living in today!
We never buy a newspaper and I never watch the news on the TV so I suppose that I live in a blinkered world. Incidentally my wife and I have known each other for 55 years and she has been a model in a previous life. She is no dumb blond and has worked at various jobs and finished up in a high powered job at a large public boys school. This picture was taken when she was 40 !
pberk wrote:ahhhhhhhhh ... what a leisurely pace of life you depict. Here we have non-stop "bad" news on television. It's nice to think that there are places like your "lost drive" where life goes on so peacefully.
Nice that you included shots of your lovely wife.
Thanks for posting.
Thank you Paul, I tend at my time of life to live "today for today" as none of us know what is happening in this crazy world that we are living in today!
We never buy a newspaper and I never watch the news on the TV so I suppose that I live in a blinkered world. Incidentally my wife and I have known each other for 55 years and she has been a model in a previous life. She is no dumb blond and has worked at various jobs and finished up in a high powered job at a large public boys school. This picture was taken when she was 40 !
OMG .. Lovely .. 55 years .. WOW! .. Happy Wife, Happy Life.
No newspapers. No TV news. Blinkered Bliss I'd say.
>> Incidentally David Lean's prop master Eddie Fowlie lived there and ran a hotel until he died a few years back. I have a signed book of his exploits and a lot of Lawrence of Arabia was actually filmed just down the road, and there is a memorial statue of Eddie in the high street.
Gordon .. you mentioned the great Eddie Fowlie. Back in my younger Hollywood days, I worked for Ilya Salkind and Pierre Spengler in Hungary. They were doing a picture called "Crossed Swords", a remake of the old Mark Twain story, Prince and the Pauper. I was shooting a "featurette" of the production as it had an all-star cast including four men who had won "best actor" Oscars. Eddie had worked for the Salkinds on Three Musketeers and was hired again to do Props and Special Effects in Hungary where the show was being shot with mostly a Hungarian crew from MaFilm and a skelton key-man British crew. Part of the technical challenge was that the story called for Mark Lester, who was playing the Prince and the Pauper too, had to shake hands with himself. I'm not sure if Eddie had anything to do with that, but he was always about the set solving problems and, if I remember, correctly, keeping Oliver Reed from trouble. What a nice man -- Eddie I mean.
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Gordon .. you mentioned the great Eddie Fowlie. Back in my younger Hollywood days, I worked for Ilya Salkind and Pierre Spengler in Hungary. They were doing a picture called "Crossed Swords", a remake of the old Mark Twain story, Prince and the Pauper.
The book that I have about Eddie tells stories about a lot of the films that he was involved in, and I think that "Crossed Swords" is mentioned ? I'll have a look when I go back in a few days as it is in the UK. It's an interesting book and obviously tells what sort of things he had to do before the "computer age" came in and put a stop to most of it. Now we all expect totally amazing things in films that are made with Graphic Imaging by someone sitting at a desk. I may have mentioned that I know a guy that lives close to me in the UK (Tim Porter on Wiki) who is one of the main editors in the "Games of Thrones" series and this is yours truly holding one of his "Emmy's"
It's CHRISTMAS in case some of you had not noticed!!
Last Thursday we went to see the Glow festival at Hyde Hall in Essex, a good time was had by all https://youtu.be/SL2M123ZzCU
The following day we went into Kent to see how a Tudor Christmas was celebrated at Ightham Mote. Jill enjoyed herself in a second hand bookshop and managed to purchase a David Attenborough book for the princely sum of £1. We also helped a group of ladies who were trying to take a selfie of themselves, they had about as much knowledge of their phone as I do!!
https://youtu.be/7ucbEtnOU5I
It's CHRISTMAS in case some of you had not noticed!!
Last Thursday we went to see the Glow festival at Hyde Hall in Essex, a good time was had by all https://youtu.be/SL2M123ZzCU
The following day we went into Kent to see how a Tudor Christmas was celebrated at Ightham Mote. Jill enjoyed herself in a second hand bookshop and managed to purchase a David Attenborough book for the princely sum of £1. We also helped a group of ladies who were trying to take a selfie of themselves, they had about as much knowledge of their phone as I do!!
https://youtu.be/7ucbEtnOU5I
Well done Albert I enjoyed both of the films, especially the Ightham Moat one as we have been there a few times being local to us.
The night time "Glow Festivals" at these large houses seem to have taken off in the last few years with the advent of all these modern lighting systems, and seem to go from strength to strength. Incidentally my wife would spend all day in a book shop, and when we are in Spain she takes a load to the local charity shop every week and comes back with just as many !!
As we are at home until flying back for the new years day sea swim we hope to have a look at the one at Hever Castle as it's only 15 mins away from us in the UK. The only films that I have been making lately have been for local bands in Spain for their Facebook sites and one that had me dressed in a miniskirt ! Apart from that we did go for a walk in Sopalmo up in the hills the other week.
https://youtu.be/Ay6MzITdubw
Looked like a nice long walk Gordon, I was quite worn out by the time I had finished watching it! Guess I will have to get myself in shape and not eat too much Christmas pud...
New Years day sea swim sounds like a bit of a challenge, not for the faint hearted, so that leaves me out I'm afraid. Do you and your wife take the plunge, or will you be busy filming it?
New Years day sea swim sounds like a bit of a challenge, not for the faint hearted, so that leaves me out I'm afraid. Do you and your wife take the plunge, or will you be busy filming it?
Hi Albert, my wife will do the (easy bit) swimming in the nice cool water and use my waterproof GoPro, while I will do the (difficult) filming from the warm beach !!
I have filmed this event for several years except this year as we had a death in the family just before Christmas last year and everything came to a halt.
It is a brilliant event that a lot of people partake in that are sponsored for a local animal charity. I shall be sponsoring Sue and an old friend of mine who at 80 years of age is driving down from his home in France to stop with us for a few days.
Regarding walking in the hills, we will only do it at the end of October onwards as the day temps are normally starting to drop into the high to low 20s, whereas in June/July/ August and even September it can be in the high 30s. Saying that we did have one Christmas day where it was 35c! and last Thursday it was 28c so you never know. One thing is that directly the sun drops below the hills behind us the temp drops 10c almost immediately !
It's CHRISTMAS
Last Thursday we went to see the Glow festival at Hyde Hall in Essex, a good time was had by all https://youtu.be/SL2M123ZzCU
The following day we went into Kent to see how a Tudor Christmas was celebrated at Ightham Mote.
https://youtu.be/7ucbEtnOU5I
Thanks Albert. The coloured lights at Hyde Hall were very effective on the tree branches.
As for the ladies at Ightham and their phones I noticed it was Jill the photographer to the rescue.
Merry Christmas to everyone.
Apart from that we did go for a walk in Sopalmo up in the hills the other week.
https://youtu.be/Ay6MzITdubw
Thanks Gordon. It must have been very refreshing to pass the shaded areas as the sun looked very warm.
Eric Wrote:
As for the ladies at Ightham and their phones I noticed it was Jill the photographer to the rescue.
I attempted to use their phone to take their picture, but for some reason the shutter did not respond to my touch. I expected the picture to take as soon as I hit the big round white button, but after thinking about it, would I be right in thinking that the picture takes only when you take your finger off the button, much like the computer mouse only responds on the "up" stroke, so to speak?
Eric Wrote:
As for the ladies at Ightham and their phones I noticed it was Jill the photographer to the rescue.
I attempted to use their phone to take their picture, but for some reason the shutter did not respond to my touch. I expected the picture to take as soon as I hit the big round white button, but after thinking about it, would I be right in thinking that the picture takes only when you take your finger off the button, much like the computer mouse only responds on the "up" stroke, so to speak?
Right Albert. At least on my Android Phone (Samsung not an iPhone). Pressing and holding the button generates a sound but does not take the picture. Releasing the button takes the picture and makes a second sound. If you tap the button quickly it takes the picture AND you hear the sound. I've had this type phone for ages and never realized that.
I also recently discovered that touching one of the side buttons on my old Android also takes a photo. Much easier for steadiness than touching the screen button.
Perhaps the comments on how the button works explains a similar experience I had to Albert. Trying to take a group photo with someone's phone and I couldn't get it to work. It turned out I'd taken lots of photos when the group wasn't expecting it. The shots were hilarious with mouths open, silly faces.....
First, Merry Christmas to all of you around the world. I'm certainly ready for some "peace on earth, goodwill to all" ...
Here's one of my New Zealand videos .. I can't believe this video is nearly a decade old now:
Napier .. 9 min.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Db4nMTVkNDg
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