Well, I guess I skipped June

I had been doing so good! A post as often as I could manage to post a good image. 

I guess with June, also came a busy period with work, two engagement sessions, a wedding, and a baby shoot too - all between trips to East Tennessee and Knoxville, and then to Lake Cumberland for some much needed R&R. I've seen some stunning scenery from the top of Mount Roosevelt, to the extra-terrestrial weirdness of a man-made lake and some just beautiful stuff along the way. 

I'll leave you with this. It's not an image from far away, or anywhere exotic. It's right here in Louisville. It's a road like any other. But it pulls you in. It's warm. It makes you want to get out and do something.

The best part of exploring is that so much of what's around you is untouched. People don't seem to stop and smell the roses, much less take a camera out to a place they pass every day.

You should. 

Video

So today I made a YouTube channel and a nice shiny video to go with it.

I included two people on here: Peter McKinnon, and Casey Niestat. Casey you've all probably seen before. He's incredibly talented and just sold his company to CNN for a gazillion dollars. His company, by the way, that he built while vlogging, riding a boosted board, and flying almost constantly. He won GQ's New Media Man of the Year and his videos are incredibly cool. The pacing is awesome and he does a good job of keeping everything within a storyline. 

Peter McKinnon is a newer one, and his YouTube channel is exploding right now. He's a wealth of knowledge in cinematography, photography, and editing all of it. Every time I go watch a video on his channel I feel as though I've learned something new. It's awesome. Go watch them both. 

The videos could be a regular thing. Who knows. During the rounds of interviews last fall some of the feedback I got was that they wanted some "on-camera" of me. It's something I've really not done before, but I'm getting better. This is my way of getting it out there and pushing a little more into being comfortable on camera and figuring out the right pacing, and how I need to work all of it in. It's actually incredible just how much work it is to make something like this on the fly and then button it up in post with a quick turn around. 

I think that's why Casey Niestat is really so cool at what he does. He did a new video EVERY SINGLE DAY for almost two years. Shot, graded, edited, mixed, published and BOOM.

Thanks for watching! If you're not (nobody is.. it's cool) already, go subscribe to me on YouTube. I don't know how any of it works, but they say more subscribers drives more interactions, which blah blah blah. Just go do it. Thanks.