I was surprised to discover today that I hadn’t been back to the Lab in almost a month!  The perfect opportunity to flex a little Lab muscle came in the form of a Vimeo Weekend Project.  Vimeo is a website similar to YouTube: it’s a place to post videos you make so your friends and family can see your work and so hobbyists can comment on and critique your work.

The Weekend Project challenge:

• Videos must be exactly one minute.
• No camera movement (no dollying, tilting, panning or zooming.) So, leave the Steadicam at home.
• Use original sound.
• No editing whatsoever (no titles, no cuts, no nuthin’)

I thought the perfect plan was a video of Roosevelt, my cat.  After 8 minutes of trying to get him to do anything, I gave up.  But in the process, I discovered some really cool footage I already had.

First, I stumbled on some old footage driving down Skyline Drive on a January morning with my friends Meg and Matt.

Virginia’s Skyline Drive in January from Brett Bearce on Vimeo.

Then I found footage of a sunrise in Durango, Colorado I took a few years ago.

Sunrise in Durango from Brett Bearce on Vimeo.

But I finally settled on Marine 1 departing the White House from this past summer (you might want to turn down your sound)

Marine 1 Departs the White House from Brett Bearce on Vimeo.

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