60 Things To Do Before I'm 60: video

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Sunday, 19 April 2015

Greek Orthodox Easter - the video

If I ever want to get good at making videos, I need to start actually making videos. Greek Orthodox Easter in Crete provided me with a good opportunity for a first attempt, as photographs alone couldn't do justice to the occasion. I didn't have a tripod or a specialist video camera, so I just pointed my usual camera and pressed the record button. I think I've done okay at capturing some of the sound and atmosphere, but I obviously have a LONG way to go to perfect my filming technique!

Sunday, 20 January 2013

Jake Bugg and ideas for film-making in Amsterdam

This could be my favourite music video ever. It's basically just a walk round Amsterdam, a city I love and feel I know quite well. I don't take many photos when I'm there as I feel I've taken them all before. However, when I go back at Easter I was thinking of experimenting with my video camera and trying to capture some of the spirit of the city on film. I'm going to be studying this music video pretty closely for tips.

PS The music's pretty good too.

The List

1) Learn to ride a horse
2) Learn to fly
3) Learn to ride a motorbike
4) Own a hostel
5) Own 5 houses - in progress
6) Get my walking group leader's qualification - in progress
7) Learn Arabic
8) Learn to play the drums - in progress
9) Go to Womad - completed
10) Go to the music festival in Timbuktu
11) Go to Iran
12) Go to Outer Mongolia
13) Go to Hell
14) Do a course at the Vegetarian Society - completed
15) Read all 200 books on the BBC Big Read book list - in progress 76/200
16) Fly in a helicopter
17) Go for a ride in a hot air balloon - completed
18) Get waxed - in progress
19) Go to Japan
20) Walk a long distance path in one go - completed
21) Go on a long distance cycle tour
22) See gorillas in the wild
23) Climb Kilimanjaro
24) Walk across Morecambe Sands - completed
25) Become a writer - in progress
26) Write a book - in progress
27) Learn to kayak/canoe
28) Read the Bible and Quran - in progress
29) Create my own website - in progress
30) Dive between the American and Eurasian tectonic plates
31) See lava
32) Relax in a floatation tank - completed
33) Go to New York
34) Wadlopen in the Netherlands
35) Learn archery
36) Learn to shoot
37) Have afternoon tea at the Ritz in London
38) Stay in the Ice Hotel
39) See the Northern Lights - completed
40) Learn to play chess
41) Go to St Kilda - completed
42) Spend time in Antarctica
43) Make a film
44) Go to St Helena
45)Travel on a cargo ship
46) Watch an England game at Wembley - in progress
47) Wild camp in the UK - completed
48) Learn to climb
49) Try hang-gliding, paragliding or skydiving
50) Attend Up Helly Aa festivities - completed
51) Take the Trans-Siberian Express
52) Drive confidently on the wrong side of the road - in progress
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