Birds
It’s wonderful being back in the desert again. As soon as I saw a Saguaro cactus, I knew I was back where I belonged. Things are much warmer here and will get even warmer as I head West.
I've talked before about how making a good video that someone may want to watch is difficult and time-consuming. And since it's not something I necessarily enjoy doing, unlike taking pictures, which I truly love, taking videos and putting them together is more work than fun for me. Even I recognize I don't have the talent for it, and it's probably not going to get any better with time.
So early on, I mentioned in the blog that I wasn't going to take the time to make my videos "pretty"; I was just going to stick them together in something resembling a movie and call it a day. But I'm finding out even that requires more preparation and time than I'm willing to give the subject because even in its most basic form, a movie has a beginning and an end and a logical way to get there, and even doing that is time-consuming and requires some basic talents. So, to make a video project as easy on myself as possible, my new idea is to stop thinking of what I'm making as a movie and think of it as a few brief video representations of what I'm doing during the day.
What I envision is making a video that is much like the pictures I take: random shots of things I see that often have no relationship to one another. In other words, the pictures I show every day usually don't tell a story; they are simply snapshots of what I saw, and each one tells its own little story. And that's what I'm going to try doing with my videos.
Instead of taking the time and effort to make a movie that takes you from point A to point B, I will stick various video pieces together in no particular order. Instead of trying to make it entertaining, which is what you do with a movie, I will have random bits and pieces of video showing where I'm at and what I'm doing.
Will this work? I don't know, but I'll probably find out after making some of them.
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This is a Desert Evil-Eyed Snake Poker, and it is the sole reason for the disappearance of all the snakes in the desert.
This is the famous movie star Woody Woodpecker. Woody has starred in more movies than John Wayne and has more Academy Award nominations than any other bird except The Road Runner.
How does a bird walk around on a cholla without getting stuck? It doesn’t seem possible, but this Sonoran Desert Chickpea makes it look easy.