Day 28 March 30

Tuesday March 30 Day 28

I was headed down the hill to attend a rehearsal of the Advance Chorus when I realized I had on my dirty working jeans and would not be suitable dressed. I turned around to go back up the hill when I decided to look over the dorms in detail. I wanted to see if the “walk by” set up would work at Ridgewood and to get a closer look at the renovated Hostel. The camera set up will work at Ridgewood and the Hostel is beautiful from the outside. Now I need to get permission from the school administration to tape the buildings and hopefully to include interior shots of hallways common areas and, if possible, a demonstration room.

It has only taken 27 days to actually start shooting the trails and today was the day. I have recorded about 48 minutes of rhododendrons in the last couple of weeks.

I left my house at 1:30 pm and returned at 4:10 om. In 2 1/2 hours I captured 29 minutes of tape photographing a trail near the top of the hill. That is about what I expected to capture, time wise. I expect to fill one tape every 2 to 3 days if I go shooting each day. Each tape is 63 minutes long. I use a Nikon Coolpix camera to take a still shot of the trail. This camera allows me to make notes on a copy of the shot. I identify the number of the trail and the sequential location using the letters in the alphabet. The first shot is 44 (trail number) A (First part of the trail) D (looking downhill). I then shoot 44 A U (shooting up the same area). This indicates that I have gone to the end of this segment of the trail and shot back up the trail. I got all the way to U today, 21 segments of the trail. This evening or tomorrow morning I will log the tape into my video log listing the location on the tape, the length of the recording and its location on the map plus other stuff.