County Grounds arty shots

Here's some more stuff from our wander about the county grounds. These were more for me than for location scouting.

The first day I went I missed the right spot for the woods entirely. But the open fields had some nice flowers blooming so that's ok.

Location Scouting County Grounds

Our first Imagine MKE project is going to be about the County Grounds so we wandered through the woods looking for the things that make the area cool and visual.

Here are my best guesses on where all the pictures were taken. Along with a note about parking and where to pick up the path into the woods.

Floating down the Herring River

I was feeling in a bit of a funk over all the rejections that I've gotten for Enid's Wall lately. So I gave myself the afternoon off and floated down the river. I got some video of the bigger and smaller kinds of egrets. I also saw 2 adult great blue herons. And I saw one that looked like it should be a great blue, but was about half the size. Maybe a juvenile? The photo is too blurry to tell really, though I put it in at the end of the video.

Don't adjust your speakers, there is no sound.

Chatham Sharks

I was out tooling around taking photos and video for my Enid's Wall teaser and discovered that the sharks are out at the Chatham library.

Playing with a new toy

It's not mine, it's from work, but if I'm meant to be teaching it to the students then I'd better be pretty good at it myself, right? Also it's fun.

It's called a Ronin and it's a gimbal stabilizer. I think it probably works better with two people, because it comes with a remote so that you can force what direction it looks.

Thoughts about Enid's Wall

I am working on grant proposals so that I can guarantee a producer a salary for at least long enough for us to find the rest of the money we will need to make the film. It's a good process because it is forcing me to think about the film in a deeper and also broader way. Not just story structure and character development, or locations and logistics, all the practical things that have been on my mind for a while. Now I'm thinking about themes and artistic expression. Why am I telling this story and why am I telling it in this way? So here is what's on my mind this weekend:

Monday - the longest day

[I wrote this on my tablet over the course of the day]

I woke up about 7:30, which is about usual for here. Took a shower even though I knew I didn’t need one nearly as much just then as I would by lunchtime. But it was my last access to a shower for quite a while so I did it anyway. Then I had the free breakfast at the lodge. It wasn’t much, cornflakes, toast, and tea, but I had enough hiking food still so I wasn’t worried.