No Running, But My Best Cinematography Yet

Most personality studies will tell you that by nature most bloggers are over achievers.  We're the types that are focused, driven, and generally fairly successful in life.  I would probably fall into that category.  Good at a few things, but not really great at any of them.  But I definitely am passionate about several of those things, and thus, spend a lot of time trying to improve at them.

A recent fascination of mine has been film making.  I love it, but there's so much to learn.  Being an artist at heart, it's a beautiful, but technically challenging way to capture emotion and express feeling.  So here is a short 6 minute film I made from our recent trip to Ruidoso, New Mexico to visit Michael's family.  It was a great trip and hopefully this video captures it.  I shot it all with my Lumix DMC FZ28 camera, and edited it with Cyberlink PowerDirector 12

The challenge I have now is finding good, ROYALTY FREE music that enhances my movies.  Unfortunately in my film making, I'm still breaking the rules a bit.  Even though I paid for this song, "Landslide" by the Dixie Chicks, I didn't have their permission to use it, and Youtube will absolutely pull this video before long.  But as I get better, I'll find unpublished music, or begin making movies without a musical soundtrack.  Anyway, view this one while you can, because it will be gone before long.  Have a great weekend!
... be great today!