A GoPro Swedish Adventure
At the end of October life was getting a little bit hectic so we made a last minute decision to recharge our internal batteries with a short wilderness trip to Sweden. We hired a canoe and made the most of being outside. Patrick got the chance to practice making feather sticks and together we played lots of Gin Rummy.
During our 5 days camping we got to paddle, chop wood, make fires and toast marshmellows so now our souls have definitely been recharged with a warm smokey glow.
Whilst we were there we took time out to experiment with our GoPro HERO camera and Read more on A GoPro Swedish Adventure…
Alpification: A Mountain Biking Film
Finally made a little time to create this little edit of our recent mountain biking holiday to the French Alps. We spent the first week in a catered chalet with our own guides at The White Room in Sainte Foy and the second week self catered in Morzine. Both were fantastic and quite different in terms of trails. We completed over 5000m of descent on the first day alone, we got through 4 sets of brake pads each, ate too much cheese, celebrated my 30th birthday and topped it all off with a proposal of marriage! Not a bad trip.
How to ‘Alpify’ Your Mountain Bike
Rafting in the French Alps
So the first half of July was spent having an awesome time in the French Alps. It was primarily a 2 week mountain biking trip splitting our time between Sainte Foy and Morzine, but on our second week we took a day out and booked ourselves on to a Canorafting expreience with FrogsRafting.com.
A beautiful and bonkers Indian adventure
My expedition to India last summer was a truly beautiful and bonkers experience. I saw so many inspiring sights and filmmed so much footage that I wanted to create a video to remind me of the adventure forever. I decided to experiment a little with my storytelling and create a splitscreen video to incorporate all the different types of footage I had gathered. Hopefully it comes somewhere close to providing an insight into the visual feast that comes with any Indian experience. I called my film ‘I ♥ India’…and I really do.
Videos from my Raleigh Expedition to India
My Raleigh expedition to India this summer feels like many moons ago but I finally have something to show for it…(other than the amazing memories, friendships and shiny silver earings).
Since I’ve been back I’ve squirrled myself away in the office where I’ve sifted through over 200GB worth of video footage. After throwing out the crap and importing the good into Final Cut Pro, I’ve now have 3 short videos for the Raleigh International marketing department to use as they encourage more volunteers to take up the challenge. This is one of the videos which captures the Adventure Challenge phase down in Kerala. All footage was shot on my Panasonic GH1.
Algonquin backcountry paddling trip summer 2009
Our Algonquin Trip report
In the spring of 2008 I went on a Hen do, long story for another time, where I got talking to a friend who told me of an amazing trip he’d been on the summer before to a place called Algonquin. What a weird name I thought. After talking about their trip some more it realised it was exactly what I had been looking for. Since Hannah and I had been going out she had always talked about doing some kind of paddling trip. As this was a sport I had no real experience of I always banked the idea and moved on. This sounded like the perfect time to withdraw the idea and win some serious brownie points!
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Raleigh India Expedition 2010
Here’s a collection of photogrpahs from my recent trip to India as a videographer on a summer expedition with Raleigh. Raleigh is a leading UK based youth and education charity that provides adventurous and challenging expeditions abroad for young people from all backgrounds and nationalities. My overall objective was to provide a wide range of high quality videos for marketing both in country and for use in the UK at Raleigh Head Office.
My Videography Kit List for India
I will very shortly be on my travels to India as a videographer with Raleigh International. I’ll be away over the summer for over 10 weeks and will no doubt face a number of physical, technological and emotional challenges. Eeeeek! It will be monsoon season for a start and I’m not entirely sure what to expect.
The hazards of riding the LEJOG…
I thought I was aware of the many potential hazards involved in doing the LEJOG….blisters, painful achilles, chapped bits, un-friendly car drivers, pangs of hunger but never had I expected Velociraptor Raptors
Chamois butter…check
Patrick poses in the garden with his bike ready packed. Puncture repair kit…check, camera…check. Pedalling comences this Saturday…eeek. Just hope that northly headwind eases.
Lands End to John O’Groats pre-start jitters…
So there’s 10 days to go before the start of my rather epic feeling 1200 miles ride from Lands End to john O’Groats. The bike is ready, my kit is ready I’m kinda ready. I know I’m certainly keen to get on with it. I often get a little impatient in the final weeks before a big trip. All that time spent planning, thinking about the possibilities, dreaming about what you do want to happen and what you really don’t want to happen.
Team Pickle dabble in a little do-gooding
Little bit of background info – Nearly 10 years ago at the age of 18 I volunteered with Raleigh International on a 3 month expedition to Belize. My experience was empowering and life changing so as a happy ‘grown up’ I have chosen to give something back to Raleigh and volunteer my time and skills on the summer 2010 expedition to India. I will be living in the heart of some of the most remote areas, working as part of a team who will facilitate the growth and development of the young people on expedition as they work on sustainable community and environmental projects.
Serious Fun Road Trip Video
I’ve been reminiscing a little recently, looking through old photos, and decided I wanted to make a little reminder of our 2004-05 serious fun road trip adventure. I had so many photos sitting on our hard drive I just decided to stitch them all together in chronological order to create a little video of our 9 month trip in 6.30 minutes.
Hannah’s Moroccan Road Trip – 2002
I went on a 5 week road trip around Morocco with my friend Suey during the summer holidays of my second year at uni. It was quite an experience. A bit like marmite I both loved it and hated it.
Hannah in Tanzania – 2001
My first summer holidays at Uni and I managed to head off to Tanzania & Zanzibar for 5 weeks with my friend Suey. It was my first proper backpacking travelling trip and I loved it.
Hannah’s gap year trip to Belize – 2000
In 2000 I went away with Raleigh International for 3 months to Belize. I was 18 and it was my first real time away from home. I took part in various environmental and community projects including tracking the Fer-De-Lance snake, thatching the roof of a remote visitors centre and plastering the walls of a rural mountain school. It was amazing experience and one that sowed the bug of all things travel and culture. On my return to Blighty I was more than ready to start my degree in Social Anthropology.
