I notice that all four blog posts in January were on mustelids - polecat, weasel, stoat and otter, so it's time for something different.
I have a lot of trail camera wildlife videos. They get seen transiently by people on this blog, or the NHSN blog, or on Winterwatch etc, or in Facebook groups but then don't get seen again so I have been wondering if there is anything else to be done with them. I have easily enough to make a film on otters, or just on wildlife generally, but I lack the script-writing and video editing skills. As an exercise I made a short trailer to showcase some of the things trail cameras can do - the photo above shows the production process. When I show videos to people (which is often!) they seem surprised by the quality and the colours, perhaps expecting blurry black and white images, like mine were 10 years ago. So here is a taste of what trail cameras can do. I hope you enjoy it. If you have ideas about what else to do please leave a comment.
Quite lovely, Chris! The ending is just glorious.
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DeleteJust wonderful Chris, I really enjoyed that, and so peaceful with the music too! Thanks, Louise Hislop.
ReplyDeleteThanks Louise. I bet you didn't know I could play the piano!
DeleteReally wonderful Chris. What an amazing variety of wildlife and beautifully put together.
ReplyDeleteThanks Amy. There were a lot of things that didn't make the cut - three more shrews, bank vole, wood mouse, rabbit, rat, mink and pipistrelle being just the mammals, and lots more birds. I'll have to think what to do next.
DeleteHi Chris.This is delightful, a real balm for the soul! I loved the footage and the music too - thank you for sharing your amazing talents
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