Carpe PM

This is my last post on this wonderful trip. I have been incognito due to the remote nature of this part of the trip. I spent the last few days in New Zealand filming mostly time lapse footage. I did not have the chance to get the perfect sun set where the sun sinks below the horizon of the ocean. However, I did get heaps and heaps of beautiful shots. I also had a chance for some major chillax. This has been a wonderful part of my holiday, but I enjoyed Australia the most and wish I could have stayed longer. I recommend this sort of trip to everyone my age because I came out of it changed and different. It even affected my accent a bit. Well, I’ll probably write again with a few more images when I get to the States. Until then, I have included a video of a time lapse I shot this morning. Enjoy.

I went to a place called Port Stephens yesterday. I have footage of various boats and such, but the really cool part were the shots I was able to capture of a little kookaburra. I had actually been wanting to get some footage of them for a good while now. It made yesterday’s trip an amazing day. I also have some wondrous footage from around sunset. There is one shot in particular that I absolutely love. I hope I can get more like it in the future because the gold and pink colors made me want to stare at it for a long time.

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Now playing: Delirious? – Rain Down
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I went out to a place near where I am staying that has a huge mob of gray roos. They are quite tame because people often feed them bread. So, I ended up getting very close to these critters. You could easily touch them and look at them in the eyes. The crazy part was that they are located in the yards outside the Morisset Mental Institution. Oh well. It was totally worth the trip because roos are normally very hard to see in the wild.

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Now playing: The Fray – Vienna
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I went to a nature reserve yesterday, mainly to see koalas. I think most of the shots from that trip turned out lovely. I also have a lot of footage from a pier and also along the coastline. It was a good day and I look forward to a continuing good weekend with an afternoon of filming roos in a park today. More on that tomorrow perhaps.

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Now playing: Coldplay – Swallowed In The Sea
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This last Saturday I got up at 4:30 am and drove to a studio to get to the recording for the band I’ve mentioned in my emails. I brought my rig to the session and captured the image above along with a number of other shots (~13 minutes of footage). It was a long day, but I hopped into a spa in the evening to loosen the muscles. I made a video for last Friday that turned out pretty much how I was intending. Some time next week, I will leave this area and head up the coast. I’m not looking forward to it, but I know that it is something I should do. The cool thing is that I’ll be mixing for the band this Saturday. At first, it also included Friday, but that ended up not happening. This trip has rocked my world, and I recommend something like this for every person I know.

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Now playing: Hillsong United – Second Chance
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Last Saturday I drove down to Sydney to get to the Jack Johnson concert. It was wonderfully relaxing and worth the trip one hundred times over. He had some great opening bands. This included G-love and Special Sauce, Will Conner, and another that wasn’t worth remembering because the lead was pretty strange. In any case, I think that day rates as one of the best if not the best. Well, I have things to continue doing. Until next time.

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Now playing: Sevem Mi Lord – The Answer
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Well, I went out around midday and found the horses in a different paddock from where they had been the other day. Yes, they were tame and did not run at me. The image above is the money shot I was able to get before heading back. This white horse is getting fairly old and wasn’t as energetic as the other one. I’ll be going into town this afternoon to spend the weekend there. It should be another fun filled weekend once more. In the mean time, I have a few hours to kill. I will be sure to bring my still camera for Sunday because I am going to go watch the live recording at Hillsong that night. Until next time.

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Now playing: Orbital – The Saint
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Last week I went on one of the best trips of my life to a place called Kanangra Walls. It was a fantastic trip with amazing views and a super clean river to camp near. We had to hike for six hours to get to our destination, but it was all worth it. The views on the way there were spectacular, but the fog on the way back was incredible. I may post some other photos from the journey in future posts, but I am most likely returning to the US and will be more capable of sharing such images in person. I just saw FoxyTunes on the blog of a friend and liked what I saw, hence the current use of it.

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Now playing: Hillsong United – There Is Nothing Like
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The tan kelpies were put up for sale yesterday. A mother and her daughter already came to get all four of the tan ones. So, now there are only three black pups left. They are not going to be sold though. I am going to get some more video of these mongrels up here soon. The reason I haven’t is that I was tired last night and I need to get up this morning for whatever tasks lie ahead. I wake up to the song Halcyon +On + On by the artist Orbital. If you don’t remember what one that is or haven’t heard the song, it is used towards the beginning of the movie Hackers. Ah the old 90s movies. In any case, I have iTunes setup to start playing at 6:00 every morning. It’s a very peaceful way to get up. I better get to breakfast now. The puppies will probably have to debut again via video after the weekend. I’m a little too busy to get any updates until Monday. Until we meet again or at least until I write again.

I had a wonderful afternoon yesterday. We were almost finished with all the shearing of the week. So, I asked the guys if they would mind if I brought my camera in to film them. The end results are absolutely beautiful. Every shot looks like it had cinema lighting. You can see the outside is over exposed. It was fairly dark inside, but this is clear evidence of how well the hvx camera performs. It’s times like these where you fully appreciate the big decisions you made only months before. I have enough coverage of this to be able to cut together a fairly good short documentary. Someone asked why I don’t most times show faces in the shot when people are in the frame. The reason for this is that it makes footage much easier to sell. So, I do have shots with their faces, but I would most likely need to get a release form signed by those involved for some of those shots. There you have. And that’s how the cookie crumbles.