This weekend

Finally up to date.

This weekend was full of fun packed activities.
Saturday 


Setting off at the crack of lunchtime I made my way down to Chester with my parents. Stopping off  on the way at certain locations where I did some filming.
The first location was Preston Brook where Canal Boats are moored. I managed to film a boat coming up the canal and under the bridge. This is a perfect example of man interacting with nature.
The second place is an example of the destruction of nature by man. In Runcorn there is an industrial plant part of the INEOS group. It is called INEOS Chlorvinyl and it produces chlorine gas. It was recently in the paper for being high energy intensive.
The next place I filmed is another example of interaction and that was the River Dee in Chester. The river was full of boats, sightseeing boats, pedalows and rowing boats. There were a few technical problems as I was filming on a bridge and every time  someone walked across the bridge started shaking, which made the camera wobble slightly.

Sunday.

I was up early this time as it was vital that I got to Crosby beach before high tide. For one of my videos I thought it would be interesting to film Antony Gormley's Another Place. The statues were obviously static but let me tell you the wind certainly was not. I set up the shot so I had one of the statues on the left of the screen, with the sea behind and also a wind farm to the right. Then as the video plays a ship appears to the left ans sails across. The thing I had to contend with the most was the wind. Blimey it was blowing something fierce. After I hit play I had to  take a firm grip of my tripod otherwise it would have blown away. The video is still a little shaky but this was an example of nature working against me.

The final place I filmed at this weekend was at Ingleton. I trudged one and a half miles taking various picture and films on the way to Thornton, (The big one). Whilst filming my camera got wet from the spray of the fall and also from actual rain. After I packed up I had to trudge back another one and a half miles in the POURING rain back to the car where I am ashamed to say I collapsed in a heap.