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The Videos are my way of having a little fun.  Whenever we travel or there is a family event my wife is usually on the camera (Nikon D70) and I am usually on the Video Camera (Sony AVCHD 16GB).  She does all the still shots and I do the montion.  The video camera will also take stills and I do use it sometimes but the Nikon is so much better that  I usually use it instead.

When it's over I like to take the best pictures and video and find some music that I think goes along with the vibe of the event then put it all together.  The result is what I call a 'Music Video Scrapbook'. It's just my way of documenting our journey through life.

Choosing the Music

I put music to all my videos so when we travel, I am always on the lookout for authentic native/local music.   Music has no language barrier; happy music is happy music, sad music is sad music, good music is good music, and bad music is just noise. 

So, all the Africa videos have music from Africa.  All the Ireland videos have music from Ireland. All the Newfoundland videos have music from Newfoundland.  They are all a journey in both sight and sound.

Editing The Video

There is a bit of work putting these together.   You can pan stills, adjust picture quality and sound quality, work with animation, and lot of other cool things.

Some are pretty simple.  Others required a significant amount of work.  'Indian Rocks Beach' took the most time by far.  I recorded everything on this one including the sea sounds and the music so it was pretty involved.