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Month: September 2015

  • Autumn Red – 4K footage

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteAutumn is here and the leaves are turning. It is a good opportunity to go out and take video and photographs of trees and their red and brown leaves. This was shot with the Sony Xperia Z3. Image stabilisation was on. The mobile phone is so light, and the resolution so…

  • Day In Auschwitz

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    Reading Time: < 1 minute”If you were young and healthy and if they needed labour then you were selected as slave labour. You would have suffered a slow death rather than a fast one”. This soundbite is 13 minutes in. In this documentary a concentration camp survivor takes two girls who are the age she…

  • 4K video and mobile phones

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesIn December I filmed some events at a staff party in 4K and never did anything with that footage because it was a private event. Two or three days ago I went to Geneva with the Sony Xperia Z3 compact and filmed some street scenes as well as the locks closing and…

  • Slacklining on a bike – A six month challenge

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteWe have seen videos of people slacklining and we have seen videos of people mountainbiking but having a video where we see people slacklining on a bike is less common. This video shows us some beautiful landscapes with cycling somewhere in shot before descending the mountain towards a slackline and crossing.…

  • Totem Escalade – Bouldering in Gland

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesThe three common forms of climbing are Rock, climbing, via ferrata and bouldering. Rock climbing is an excellent and amusing sport that requires living in the right place, having the right equipment and knowing the right people. I enjoy the sport but have not found a group to go with. Via Ferrata…

  • Via Ferrata du Diable – Aussois

    Via Ferrata du Diable – Aussois

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe Barrière de l’Esseillon are a line of fortifications two hundred years old and capable of holding two thousand soldiers in total.The fort Victor-Emmanuel is still standing and in it’s day could hold up to one thousand five hundred troops. This fort overlooks the via Ferrata. Some drone shots of the region…

  • Chamois at La Dôle

    Chamois at La Dôle

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesWhen the weather is cold and grey as it is today people are not tempted by a walk in the mountains. Chamois at la Dôle are more relaxed, especially up at La Dôle. They are hidden by the clouds and if humans are coming then they will smell them long before we…

  • E-bikes, autumn and the changing seasons.

    E-bikes, autumn and the changing seasons.

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesOne evening this week I was walking in the countryside at the foot of the Jura enjoying the evening when I walked by a couple. They were sitting on a bench looking across some fields towards the Mont Blanc, the Alps and of course the Lac Léman. Leaning against the bench were…

  • Human – A Yann Arthus-Bertrand documentary

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesThe French have an interesting history of documentary film. Jean Rouch explored social questions with his film Chronique d’un été, a revolutionary film at the time because of the tech that they used. The Cinéma Eclair and crystal sound sync. A few decades later Yann Arthus-Bertrand is following in Jean Rouch’s footsteps…

  • A chevreuil in 4K

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteYesterday I went for a walk around the foot of the Jura and there is an enclosure where deer are kept waiting to be slaughtered for meat. As the Chasse season is coming up this park might not be as busy. This video was shot using the Sony Xperia Z3 compact.…