Per,

You always seem to come up with some sort of amazing footage!!!

With the recent change in weather and its effects I just may not be able to fulfill the intimate detail theme.


The birds I was really trying to get have moved out. I have some footage but not that intimate or detailed.

I am trying to come up with a different idea.

Change in weather here too! Winter has come, last night snowfall all night, so today the scenery is crisp and white. I have some days off next week and will do some more footage in real winter weather. Forecast says a temperature of as low as 5 F (-15 C). Gonna be very cold sitting there for hours!

Another Spotted Nutcracker showed up today. Had to go out and shop for more nuts. They have consumed 5 kg of nuts, 15 kg of Sunflower seeds, in 14 days!

It´s going to be a very expensive winter :-)

Hey Dale:

Hang in there with your entry. The invitation is open for you to share the kind of footage you have and maybe we can all give it a bit of thought and come up with an angle that might help you move forward with the theme.

You shared a beautiful sunset awhile back.... maybe you can start with that? If nothing pans out, I have no problems with getting you some of my raw footage of the immature goshawk to see what you come up with using that.

Cat

The good news is that the past weekend was beautiful here in Northern California - it was sunny and unseasonably warm.

And some bad news...

I had some cooperation, but unfortunately it seems I am too early for some of the footage I was hoping for and too late for others. At least I found one male Tarantula out "looking for love." He wasn't being very cooperative, but I think I have something I can use.

I have some clips, but I may need a slight adjustment to my storyline to make any use of it.

At least I got a good hike in yesterday. (-:

I have a similar problem - my original storyline was too long to fit into three minutes and trying to shorten it caused it to lose all meaning. Have had to re-think my story a bit. At least I have most of my footage - just one last sequence on Thursday - weather-permitting.

Wow Per. Perhaps you can tail it off slowly.

Mary, it´s a tradition in my country to feed the birds in the winter. So I will not tail it off any way!

Some of the birds forage food but others dont´t. Today it´s -10 C (14 F) the ground is covered with snow, trees with no foliage, no bugs to find. And it´s only November, still 5-6 months before winter is gone!
And for nature lovers this is the time of year when you get close contact with different kind of birds by establishing a feeding station. If you are lucky, rare species like the Spotted Nutcracker suddenly appears.

So for me this is the time of year when I really like to be out, sit for hours, observing those small creatures. Even in the same genus, entity are quite different in behavior. This have amazed me several times!

Hi Per
Yes - we all have very different weather conditions and the customs in one country can be so different from those in another.

Per....you are an inspiration ! The image in my head of you sitting in a hide in -10 for hours on end is fab! I nearly froze back in June doing 5 hours on the Black Grouse and that was only 4 or 5 degs. Sitting motionless is a killer indeed!

My film, well I'm one shoot away from being finished. This is indeed something very different from me and for uwol !

The hardest thing I’ve done in a blind is spend four and one half hours there with eighteen other people. It was ten feet by ten feet and the temperature was close to 100°F. We were waiting for a bird to arrive. Imagine standing motionless and silent while performing your best imitation of a sardine in an oven!

As for feeding birds, I do also. I’ve read several scholarly studies on the subject and, for the most part, it seems to not be detrimental. Most passerines operate under an optimal foraging strategy and simply treat the feeding station as a bonanza. I like to think of it like this- after spending a hard day rustling up wild foods they like to shoot round the bird pub and nosh bar for a quickie (or noonsies…). Many ascribe the beginning of the practice to Francis of Assisi, but it is certainly much older. The feeding of wild animals was a necessary prerequisite to their domestication. I think it began shortly after man invented art and developed a sense of aesthetics. In some cultures, such as the Bishnois of India, feeding wild birds is regarded as a religious and moral duty.

I’m pleased many of us seem to be nearing completion (I am not). I look forward to enjoying the fruits of your efforts and will, at least, try to post a clip which you may find entertaining. Good-luck all!

I'm finished and have uploaded to the UWOL vault. A little different work for me this time. A lot of facts and figures educational type film. None of my usual 'trying to figure out the universe' stuff. I spent about 15 hours on it, and it turns out I really enjoyed it. I hope it's not too 'boring'...

Looking forward to see yours, Bill. I'm about done editing mine.
But something is missing: Any kind of living creatures (except those walking on two legs) would be a good thing to add to my entry.
Oh well, at least not the dreadful shark tank for me this round.

Help Required

Although I have lurked here a long time this is my first entry. Could somebody please explain how I gain entry to the vault. Where do I find the user name and password or how do I create one. I am probably missing something somewhere.

After a lot of interruptions I have now manged to produce something, not as first planned and maybe a little disjointed, but never the less I have an entry!

Mick

Ah,

Have re read Cat's E-mail and see she is going to e-mail the details of the the password etc.
Bills post confussed me as he says he has uploaded. So in case I have not got the latest e-mail with the upload password etc could you please send it to me.

Mick

Mick - I wish our system were robust enough for uploaded films to automatically be added to the vault. Alas it is a manual process! I havent changed the upload password for a while but Cat/Meryem email it out each time as a matter of course.

Looking forward to seeing your work. I have a one hour window with my character over lunch to finish up my piece....we will see :-/ !

Thanks Trond and Mat for you e-mails and reply here

I will now attempt to upload

Mick

Again many thanks to all, upload completed (I think!)

Mick

Are you guys finished already! I´m still out in the woods trying to accomplish something. Today -10 C, very freezing temperature, fingers and battery drained rather quickly.
Got 3 minutes of usable footage in 4 hours wait in the hide. I´m now back home trying to warm up.
Good thing is that I will be able to edit something of the footage I got so far. But I still lack the good story, hopefully I will get some idea in the next days.
Planning to upload Sunday afternoon.

Hi everyone:

A flurry of activity I see! Splendid! Check your e-mails for the user name and password information. I've just sent it out.

Mick, you were confused by Bill already uploading because he has played before and as Mat said, the password hasn't changed so Bill already had the information.

Thanks Mat for stepping in and sending this info out to people that needed it. I appreciate it!

I'm thrilled for everyone. I can't wait to see what you have worked up this time. I'm glad on the whole, most of you seem to be having fun with it.

Any problems on the upload Mat and Kevin are the go-to people for this so pipe up. Let's starve these sharks this time.

Cat

I'm going to do a quick and dirty list of uploads here in a bit. Have to take a hike here in Half Moon Bay to see if I can get some footage for my own entry.

Mick, sorry for the confusion, I've never finished anything early before and had to toot my horn.
Looking forward to seeing the films from around the globe.

Good evening,

did not think I was going to make this one. Missing a bunch of hoped for footage, but in the end I got something wrapped somewhat close to my original idea. It was either falconry stuff or wildlife and I figured you all would prefer the wildlife footage. Hope it compresses and downloads nicely Rendering as I write).


dale

I look forward to seeing the films this round. I'll give no excuses other than:
1. I forgot (not really)
2. I have no macro lens : )
3. It has rained a lot and getting too cold to shoot
4. I have been too busy interviewing suits for a corporate video
5. My dog ate it

Honestly I never even got a start on this and knowing what my schedule was going to be I shouldn't have even signed up. But I was hopeful.
Good luck to all those that complete the challenge and hope to see you next time.

Mike, sorry to hear that you didn´t get the time! Maybe next round?

Dale, good the hear that you managed to get something, I always like to watch your films.

I´m doing well myself, have to go out for some hours today and get the last bits in the puzzle...

After missing a couple of these, I got one in this time..

Chris, that´s splendid to hear, looking forward to watch it!

Oh Mike! I'm sorry to hear this. We look forward to your entry next time.

As the first to admit they won't be submitting by the deadline, you get the honorary job of posting the shark tank thread and....(shudder) diving in!

As far as the excuses, option 5 was the best :)

Cat

Just realized that entries are due tomorrow. I guess I better get on it! Traveling most of tomorrow so hopefully I'll find some time to put stuff together.
Still not sure how it's all going to fit or if it even will but we'll see.

Well, today is due-day and I´ve not started to edit yet. And I still missing some more footage, to build the story. Hmmm... looks like a Sunday with lots of work to do.

Good luck to you all. Can´t wait to watch all the films :-)

Mike, sorry to hear you didn't make it.
Come back for the next round! Stay with us!!

I had given up on finishing, but if Bill was able to finish in only 15 hours and Kevin and Per Johan are editing today, well... let's see if I can come up with something! I'm going to start completely over from scratch. Fingers crossed.

Hi Mike,
according to the world clock, it still plenty of time left! As we speak 18.5 hours more to go. I´m still in the editing process, and I will not be finished until midnight local time at least 8-9 more hours!
So come on Mike, lets do it...

Thanks for the world clock link. I bookmarked it, but I couldn't find a listing for "anywhere in the world"!!!

Well the site in the links list places in descending order. I believe Midway in the Pacific is the place which is passing the timeline or dateline latest in the world. You can edit and upload until this place is passing Sunday 23.59!

Wow Per:

I actually never interpreted "midnight anywhere in the world" like that, but I like your interpretation. I took it to mean midnight for "you" the individual player in your own time zone. If your interpretation squeezes a few more hours in for somebody, then so be it!

Hang in there everyone. I can feel the heat. I'm starting to sweat myself and I'm not even submitting!

Cat

Fortunately I did not need to use Per's world clock this round. I managed to get something put together and uploaded in spite of a bad couple of weeks at work and a head cold. I'm not really happy with my entry since I was not able to get some of the shots that I wanted, but at least I avoided "swimming with the fishes."

I look forward to seeing the rest of your entries.

Kevin - I live about 40 miles east of Half Moon Bay so I know what the weather was like this weekend. I hope you did not get too wet (-:

Of course now that it's Sunday and I have uploaded my video the sun has come out and it's a beautiful afternoon.

But now it's raining again. :)

Cat, ho ho ho my little squeeze to get some more hours :-)

Well, I´m finished editing, rendering as I speak. Had to open a bottle of VSOP Cocnac, this is my first entry for over a year. Cheers everybody!

Now, that's the stuff, Per.

I don't have any Cognac handy, but I'll join you with a bottle Moose Drool beer from Jackson, Wyoming.

Nice Steve, I´m finished uploading. Think I need one more Cocnac before bedtime :-)

In Norway we say - one Cocnac in every leg, so this must be three for me... ...sorry Cat, this was a bit nasty ;-)

Thanks for that. Now I can legitimately use the phrase rolling on the floor laughing! I’m now rendering. And rendering. And rendering. And rendering…