On February 8, 2003, I began shooting new material again for the Photography section (entitled "Photo Essays" until summer 2003). We started with a trip to Washington DC, and what a snowy day it was! But with the snow, and the trip around, I had a new tool at my disposal - movies! On this particular day, and all the photo shoot days that followed, I managed to take a bunch of movies. One fun thing about that is getting a bit of a running commentary, thus hearing what I'm thinking on these photo days. Some movies I made genuine mistakes on. Some movies are train movies, because I'm a bit of a subway enthusiast.
And be warned, some of these videos have "seasick" tendencies, as I am not exactly a steady shot with movies...
From the White House and Union Station day...
I set the camera up on my tripod, and attempt to describe what's going on today in some coherent sort of form.
A Breda train on the Green Line leaves the L'Enfant Plaza station...
I board a CAF train at L'Enfant Plaza on my way to the Gallery Place-Chinatown station.
The train operator has such a time trying to close the doors at the Gallery Place-Chinatown station to need to announce, "Attention, customers, at the sound of the chime, please do not continue to board the train..."
From the Protest day...
Now you see why I gave this to you as an MP3 in the actual Protest Movies page. Without realizing it at the time, I shot the entire movie sideways.
A quick video of Arianna and Linda, two friends from JMU.
Another case of why-I-only-gave-you-audio right here, as I managed to shoot it sideways...
Finished with Freedom Plaza, and now back to the Metro to break, and then head the group off on their route.
On an open-air skywalk over Fort Myer Drive in Rosslyn. A number of movies were made while I was essentially killing time waiting for the protesters to get somewhere on their march.
"It's not shorts weather. I'm wearing jeans, as you can see. Don't I look sexy?"
Back into Rosslyn station...
"You made it!"
Walking up Eye Street, looking for protesters.
I didn't find any! How disappointing. Turns out, though, that I was WAY too early, and a little too ahead of the game.
Now, the protest is over, and I'm back at Rosslyn Center, reflecting on the experience, and having a Pepsi. One thing to note, though. I thought at the time that a rather loud "boom" sound that showed up on a video was a tear gas canister or something, but upon discussion with Linda and Arianna, and all of us listening to the sound, it turned out to be a motorcycle sound, and perfectly harmless.
A CAF train leaves the Waterfront-SEU Metro station.
In July 2003, the Life and Times section was created, providing a more appropriate location for outtakes. Additionally, a lot of random photos taken on photo shoots now end up in my Journal.
