Down From Kisdon Hill
In September this year, we went, as is usual, to England to see my parents and have a holiday. Well, the weather this trip was pretty bad, rain, rain, and flooding, but on one day it was brilliant sunshine and so we walked up Kisdon Hill behind my parents' house.
On the way down, I tried out a little experiment in animation. I took a photograph every 3 paces as we came down. It made the downhill walk take much longer than the uphill walk, but, as I say, it was a day full of sunshine and it was good to be out and breathing the Yorkshire air.
A few (few!) minutes processing, and the result is here on YouTube.
Not bad, even though I say so myself. The village you see on the way down is Muker, North Yorkshire, and the door the video fetches up at is my parents' back door.
Notes for next time though: go for broke and take a photo every 2 paces and use a tripod (or, better, a monopod). The movie is a little jerky to say the least and I didn't keep the camera at the same angle all the time. I also realized when I came to process the photos (some 350 of them) that I'd shot them all in RAW format. A bit of a waste of memory, that, and processing.
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Apart from that, an ex-pat Brit, atheist, microbrew enthusiast, Pet Shop Boys fanboy, slide rule and HP calculator collector, amateur photographer, Altoids muncher.
