Are you pursuing your personal passions to get the pictures you want, or are you letting…ahem…”too many obstacles” stop you?
Here’s a little inspiration. Using a weather balloon, a Gopro 2, a Multiplex Funjet and some other lo-fi equipment, David Windestål decided to get some first person footage of a trip to space. What he ends up with is an awesome video of the camera’s trip into orbit, and a ton of inspiration for the rest of us. Sure he could massaged the footage and edited differently / better. But whatever. In this post its the spirit that counts. Because truth be told, he’s doing cool shit. And you…?
The takeaway is this: you might not be as handy as David with a soldering iron, but it doesn’t matter, that’s not the point. The point is to stop creating false barriers between you and what you want to be taking pictures of…
Take that project that you’ve pushed off… decided is “too difficult” or “too expensive” or “too [whatever]” and hack into it. If you can find step by step instructions on how to send a camera into space with a couple of mouse clicks, what else might you figure out how to do with a little elbow grease and that good, ol’fashioned get-off-your-ass-and-do-it attitude adjustment?
I saw this when you posted it last year and I come back to it now and again.
I showed this video to our photo club yesterday during a chat about drones and fpv flight.. Minds were blown.
I couldn’t agree more with the spirit here, “Just go out there and get your photos…”
Thanks again Chase for sharing this.
We’re heading to try to fix the mailing address/billing address thing.
I agree with QwesT. The version I saw of this involved a dad and sons. But in any case, relatively blind Twitter links keep leading me to revisit this same article. I understand evidence suggests people miss lots of tweets, but you’re overcompensating. Thanks for listening.
There is many times people’s obsession with these things