sea of cloud

Florida has some interesting clouds. I had an assignment in Immokalee the other day, so I shot a time lapse while I drove under the clouds for an hour on the way back to the paper.

I did it by wedging my camera between the dashboard and windshield, putting the motor drive on two second delay, and just holding down the shutter button for an hour (it would have been easier if I hadn’t knocked a wire loose in my cable release) . I think there are something like 1,800 images in the video, which were imported into FCP at 2 frames per image.

I’m going to try another one for my drive back to Ky.

Understnding In A Car Crash

Saturday night. Demolition Derby. I’m hooked.

Down here they aren’t called rednecks or hillbillies because there are no hills. Instead they’re called Florida crackers in reference to the cracking of cattle whips.

I’d much, much, much rather hang around with these folk than the people in the high-rises downtown. The kind folks at the derby were so kind and accepting it ave me new faith in this community.

It just also makes me excited for the rodeo in July.