everyday musings: a little film about the loire valley.

a little film about the loire valley.

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I can't say enough about my time spent at Le Moulin Brégeon -- the wonderful people I met, the nutella crepes I ate, the pine forests I walked through, the hilarious songs we danced to. It was the kind of experience I'll be dreaming about forever.

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I have been following Olivia's blog for some time now and LOVE the videos she makes of her everyday life happenings. I love the simplicity and slightly vintage feel and she always has the best music. I wish I knew how she does it.

Hawaii book

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Took a quick video of the book I made from my February trip to Hawaii. Made the book via Photobooks - a groupon I had purchased. I think the quality of the paper is nice (matte!), the print quality of the photos is just as good as any of the other photo books I've made (My Publisher, iPhoto, Blurb) and you can't even tell the iPhone photos from the DSLR photos!

The software was actually one of the easier ones that I've tried and lots of template options. Oh and it's fully customizable - you can change the shape of any photo box, place text anywhere and use your own fonts!

I am pretty happy with how it turned out, I took a risk with the cover and chose indigo silk with photo inset. Don't love that at all. The silk is OK, but the photo inset is glued down on top of the silk and looks crappy. I would rather have a hole through the cover to the front page, or the photo should be properly inset. And for some reason the dust cover pages are a little wrinkly ... not sure why. I give it a B+ overall.

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This takes my breath away.

Be sure to visit the Vimeo link to read about the making of the video.

"This was filmed between 29th April and 10th May 2011 in the Arctic, on

the archipelago Lofoten in Norway." by TSO Photography

island video

Playing with the 8mm iPhone app (and adding music via iPhoto = bad) while sunburning at the edge of the water with the ocean waves lapping at my feet... Ahhh!

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P.S.  This song is Bethany's ringtone and this video was shot at her favorite little beach.  You can see why it's a favorite.  One could really get used to this...