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Posted 11:26am September 6th, 2009
Hi, Debbie -

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Posted 2:08pm September 5th, 2009

Hi Dave...

I subscribed to your YouTube 

channel today as DebzVidz.

Like most everything I dabble in, 

I'm very much an amateur.

It occupies my time and usually 

keeps me out of trouble.

 

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Posted 3:37pm September 3rd, 2009
Swimming with the dead, oh well, it could be a new tv program.

About Doodemanskisten; it was never proven there were actually any coffins there.
They were supposed to be the washed ashore dead from the Lutine, a goldship that was wrecked here in Nov. 1799. Some of the gold was found. Most was not.

Who knows what lies under the surface of Lake Irene. Gold? If you had a metal detector like my father had, you could find treassures. Perhaps Ray could pop over to teach you how to do some underwater filming!

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Posted 8:12pm September 1st, 2009

Hi, Slrman. Thank you for dropping by. I was always a Mac man and swore I would be one forever. Until my Mac would no longer boot up. I had a laptop and that's what I've been using ever since. A Dell. With XP. Oh well, it's something. I experimented with iMovie a few years ago and everything I learned was self-taught, not that I wouldn't ever crack open a tutorial. But even this program, called Video Spin, I picked up on as I went, utilizing my iMovie experience and transferring it to this one. I mean, there are audio and video tracks that need to be synchronized.

I will say I am very interested in various lighting, sound and overall shooting techniques, so I will look up Izzy Videos. I've got to tell you, I was tempted by Sony Vegas, but Video Spin is absolutely free. Limited, yes, but free. Some of the features expire after 15 days, but I can upgrade to another program called Pinnacle Studio. I have other software, as well.

Anyway, thank you for the information. I think it would be great to exchange tips and videos. Let's keep up the conversation. I'm always around, either here or at my blog.

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Posted 7:56pm September 1st, 2009
I don't know who Lake Irene was named after, but there's a lot of duck and goose poop in it. 

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Posted 5:24pm September 1st, 2009
You obviously have a nice camera and you have learned how o do titles, add music, and so on.  There are a lot of free and inexpensive tutorials available on the web.  I'm currently working my way through the Izzy Video series. (www.izzyvideo.com)  It's oriented toward Final Cut Express and Final Cut Pro, both Macintosh video editors.  But they contain such good information about lighting, shooting videos, doing sound, and every aspect of making good videos that I would recommend them to anyone, no matter what editor you're using. 

I used to use Sony Vegas as an editor.  It's really a very high-end (meaning expensive) professional-level editor.  Final cut is much cheaper and at least as capable, but only available for the Macintosh.  There are also free forums to help you with the learning curve of Vegas.  I used them extensively. 

Keep up the good work and maybe we can trade tips and videos.

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Posted 5:23pm September 1st, 2009
Thank you, we just got back from the restaurant. It was very pleasant, I realized it was nice to be there because there is no smoking any more 

You know, when I was a child, we use to swim in Doodemanskisten, a little lake in the dunes here, a bit of the size of lake I.  There were ducks swimming as well and it wasn't very clean. Nowadays nobody swims there.  But never I got sick.  Almost killed by some one trying to drown me, but never sick from it.  ( botulism f.i. ) I suppose I was lucky!  Musqueeto's, you probably have them a lot?

The story about the name, which mean coffins really (dead mens travelling box ) is that washed ashore bodies were burried there a long time ago.  After whom was lake I. named?

Take care of yourself. And read my post here  please.  No one else does 

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Posted 3:51pm September 1st, 2009
That lake isn't very large, but I see people in there fishing sometimes, and along the banks. No, I've never been in it. I've never even gotten my feet wet there. I'm not all that much of a lake person. During the hot summer months, bacteria (nasty microorganisms) grow and if they get into your nose, they have been known to kill people. Sometimes, a paradise is not always that.

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Posted 4:30am September 1st, 2009
I meant our climate over here sucks.  We could do with a bit of more heat.  But a house and a lake like yours, would be in demand here very much.
That is what I meant by hot.

Placing plants= gardening I think?
It is our 10th wedding aniversary today and we have decided to buy something for the garden to grow. Not sure what it will be, this time of year. Whatever they will have 

Do you ever go on a (rowing) boat on those lakes?

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Posted 7:46pm August 31st, 2009
I like to spend time outdoors, but I am spending more of it in the shade than in the sun these days. I don't think I will ever shoot anything cute, with cats or babies, though. Alligators, maybe, but only if I can train one to jump through a hoop.

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Posted 4:16pm August 31st, 2009
Good thing you bought that! It will mean you have to spend a lot of time outdoors  Perhaps you will make an Americas funniest home movies with a cat in it or something ?  Or with somebody falling of the roof?

You live wonderfully. Our garden is a bit like yours, but a lot smaller.  It could do with some tlc   ( = transsexual lederhosen cutie.  No, I meant tender love and care I think but not sure really what the letters stand for.)  but as they say, it has lots of potential!  A house like yours, that size and with that lake, it would be very hot here. The house.  The climate sucks.

Please show more lake!