I've been having some fun with video recently and enjoying, very much, this extraordinarily creative art. It all came about when I moved from Windows to Apple Mac a few months ago. For sometime I'd been feeling that AMB Cote d'Azur was lacking something, so when I found I had iMovie on my new machine - it all fell into place: I was missing video.
Roughly two years ago Nigel and I had bought ourselves a small JVC camcorder. Already then the seed of an idea was burgeoning in my head but, after a few trials and tribulations (and still working in a Windows environment) the camcorder found its way back in its box and shoved into one of the office cupboards and completely forgotten. That is until recently when my world took on a whole new look: through the lens of a camcorder that is.
The exercise has been rather interesting too. Where once I'd go out and about with my Nikon D70 (you'll notice that this Big Boy does not get a nick-name - I'm too in awe of it) no matter what the weather, I'm now far more discerning and "Light" is the order of the day. And I've also discovered that I'm looking at things totally differently too. For a very long while I didn't want to have people in my photos - now I can't get enough of them (and movement too) on my footage.
And while I have loved photography, I absolutely adore creating videos. So, the idea is for me to go back to all my favourite places (that's most of the French Riviera), film everything and then create small videos for the new website. I never thought having a camcorder could be so incredibly creative. I only hope that everyone enjoys my films too.
