I craaaaaaaave a good nights sleep. Where we are camped is right beside the road. We are literally about 10 feet from the road – with a small hedge complete with hedge hogs between us which does nothing for blocking out the sound but the rumble is also a contributing factor.
I want sleep
Despite the sun now making its presence known, its still muddy.
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We woke up this morning to see this big shiny yellow thing in the sky. It’s really bright and emits a lot of heat. We don’t know what it is but we welcome it for now. We will keep a close eye on it to watch for any developments.
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JP and suze wedding
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This is a geek-out entry but i want to record my thoughts more for my own benefit than for others.
In the industry we are all used to Shoulder mounted cameras been flung around by film crews. We are even familiar with smaller medium sized cameras being used in creative ways.
One of the problems has always been the cost of Cameras and lenses. In order to get a broadcast worth system you would be looking to spend about £15-25k on a camera then another £10-30k on a lens or multiple lenses. That’s a hefty £25 – £55k for one camera which is silly money. For a company like Tandem Creative (the company i work for) this becomes a major issue. How can we keep up with technology ad make some money to pay ourselves?
With the arrival of HD we are in the process of figuring out what the best solutions would be for us. Should we go for something like the Sony EX3 or a Panasonic P2 solution
A lot of these questions have been asked over the past year but then out of nowhere came the solution i want to go for. I give you the Canon 5D Mark II. Yes it’s a Digital SLR but it does video. So why is this so good?
Well combine the benefits of SLR lenses, the massive chip inside th sensor and the fact that you needed spend £50k to get a rig that will enable you to shoot beautiful video.
Below are some samples of stuff shot on the Canon 5D Mark II – I’ll let the footage speak for itself.
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Still feel really tired. An really really excited about JP’s wedding tomorrow hence the face.
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I fully intend for one of my children to out-rock these kids:
So Debs had this great idea to go camping for Nicks birthday…..and a great idea it was.
I left work early on Friday to give us plenty of time to get down with the idea of leaving before rush hour. This was not to go exactly to plan. The traffic was to hold us up quite a bit. The usual Chiswick drawl was bearable but it wasn’t until we were well past the m25 on the M3 that it picked up pace to qualify as motorway speeds. I spent a lot of that time shifting my weight backward and forth in the seat willing the traffic to move at a faster speed.
I must ask about the M3 – What the hell are they thinking bringing it down to one lane where the M25 merges? That is the most stupidest thing i have ever seen! There’ a big sign that says something along the lines of – Temporary test traffic layout – I wanted to get a can of red paint and splatter the word “FAIL” all over it.
Anyway. We arrived down at about 9:00, roughly 2 hours after i had hoped we would arrive but there was still plenty of light for us to put up our tent. The others had cooked and eaten earlier but had kept us some of the delicious nachos chili surprise. It tasted great but i did bight down into a few unknown veggie type bits but seeing as it was dark at this stage and i couldn’t see it i just convinced my self it was some meaty goodness and carried on.
We chilled out for the eve in the mahooosive gazebo and drank and were generally merry. We all headed off to bed after a trip to find the loos. We had our sleeping bags, duvet and the great mattress that Ruth’s mum bought us last year so we were all set to b snug and to get a greatly needed and deserved nights sleep…
Then the rains came…
tumbleweed…
It rained (in the words of Lionel Richie) All Night Looooong, All niiiight, all niight, All Night Looooong but i can assure you there was no dancing in the streets! Ruth couldn’t really sleep then i couldn’t really sleep, then i was too hot so pushed off the duvet but was still too hot so removed sleeping bag but then was too cold so got back in sleeping bag and this pretty much continued for th whole night with interspersed flecks of sleep.
We got up in the morning and had a brew and some cereal and soon realised that the milk was turning which is why the tea tasted funny. I ended up using some or Rich’s UHT milk which did the job. Some communal washing up followed and then we tried to figure out what to do for the day…seeing that it was raining and all.
We ended up splitting in to two groups -those with children and those without. We without went to the beach and did a picnic in the car/cafe (Rich and Victoria did cafe) and we realised that we were sitting in the car in the rain listening to Radio 4 having a picnic. I think we all felt a little bit older at that realisation.
After this we set off for TowerPark water park. Much fun was had in there. we went on pretty much all the rides and it was a giggle. We then left there and had a BBQ at th campsite. Now because it was raining we had the BBQ’s under the gazebo but they just so happened to be the smokiest BBQ’s i have ever encountered. it was comically smokey.
This turned in to a late night of playing “Colander (or rather ‘saucepan’ in this case) of Death”. Sleep soon called and we all headed for sleeps. I didn’t really get to meet sleep either cause at around 3am i thought i was gonna throw up so i took myself off to the loos an sat by a toilet bowl for about 45 mins contemplating all things one contemplates when preparing to be sick – Will i die? Will i choke? Will i get it all down myself? lovely! Luckily i managed to hold it down
I went back to the tent and ruth was there to offer condolences and snuggles – She’s such a great wife. The rest of the night was spent repeating the previous nights efforts of hot/cold endeavours but this time it was coupled with feeling quite horrible.
In the morning we had a quick brekkie then packed up to go home. We set off home and had another picnic halfway home…..
It was a great weekend of camping – Would i do it again? YES!
Yes its raining but we are enjoying it all the same. We arrived and set up late but it was still light. Enjoyed a great chilli and some cider. Slept awfully but have had tea to get us started. We all going to a water park later. Its indoors.
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there are my sister’s kids. All ready for bed camping in henley. I took this before they had their night time prayers. They are all so adorable.
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I got a hair cut. I was worried i’d have tanline/hairline syndrome. Its not too bad.
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sleepy time now. So tired! Sleep beckons me. Such snug. Such snug. Such snug is this for me...
