Sights and Sounds Fifty-Three

As many of you know Dusti and I are trying to put together a documentary about our family. We have been interviewing members over the last several months and are almost done with that. We have an awful lot of editing to do but we decided to put a little sneak peek together. We hope to complete the project by the end of the year so we can show it to everyone at Christmas.

Branches Sneek Peak from Jonathan Coultas on Vimeo.

Sights and Sounds Fifty-Two

I am working on a highlight film of my Arena football team's winter season. I have made a couple of trailers. I am lucky to have a friend named Jim Doar to shoot the video with my Canon HV20 while we play. I will be shooting some extra footage from the sideline with my Canon T2i also.
Here's the two trailers.

Arena from Jonathan Coultas on Vimeo.

Arena 2 from Jonathan Coultas on Vimeo.

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Here's another little "trailer" with footage shot in England with Mac and Tyson as the stars.

The Roaches from Jonathan Coultas on Vimeo.

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Some good mixes on here.

RAC Portfolio by Remix Artist Collective

Sights and Sounds Forty-Nine

So we are back home after our trip home for the holidays. I was feeling a little down about the fact i wouldn't be seeing the family on that side of the pond again for a while so i decided to cheer myself up by making a Sunday roast. Influenced by the our trip i went with Pork, carrots, broccoli, cabbage, mashed potatoes, gravy and Yorkshire puddings. Having not made Yorkshire pudding in about 30 years i consulted the parents on the ingredients and directions. The was right but they fell a little flat possibly due to the mixture being a little too runny? Hopefully I'll get some feed back on what went wrong. The rest of the meal was awesome though. The fried cabbage was lovely.

And on a completely different note I also thought i'd post the of the family we took in Knaresborough.

Sights and Sounds Forty-Eight

This morning we slept late. We both are feeling a lot better...of course we are the vacation is almost over. That's the way it always works we're finally raring to go and we have to come home. We decided to go with Julian today to walk the dogs Mac and Tyson. We went to the Roaches which are just a large collection of rocks on the moors in Staffordshire. Dusti and i have been before but Julian took us to a new set this time. The weather was typically English, cold, wet and cloudy. We did manage a few pics and some video which we will edit at alter date.

Sights and Sounds Forty-Seven

Dusti had a pretty rough night last night and didn't get to sleep until around four but despite that we still got up at 9 and went to Liverpool for the day. We first went to Crosby Beach which is just north of the city. It is really a cool place. Around 100 statues have been placed in the sand on the beach staring out to sea. It was the same artist that did the Angel of The North in Newcastle. They are collectively called "Another Place" and the artists name is Antony Gormley. It was pretty sweet for photography. We were amazed on how far out the sea was. I had forgotten that being so far North the tides are pretty big. There was just miles of beach and soggy sticky muddy wet sand that made it a little difficult to get out to shoot pics. I can't wait to get some of my shots back to my iMac to give them a little Photoshop treatment but i posted a couple i edited a little with iPhoto below.

 

After the statues at Crosby beach we headed into Liverpool for lunch. We ate at a restaurant at Albert Docks and then wandered around the shops a little. We also headed over to Liverpool 1 which is a fairly large shopping complex. It was extremely busy with people trying to grab bargains in the after Christmas sales.  The lines in some of the shops were enough to put us of buying anything. We did have plans to go to Manchester tomorrow but after seeing the chaos in Liverpool we may just stay in Buxton.

Sights and Sounds Forty-Six

Well Christmas is over. We had a nice mellow last couple of days with mum and dad in Knaresborough. Both Dusti and I have been hit pretty hard with colds and i had a fever the other night. I feel much better today. We arrived in Buxton and went to Sarah's mum and dad's for some food. It was lovely to see Victoria and Kate and the rest of the family. We took the dogs for a walk on the snow covered golf course and returned to more food. Tony and Celia were fabulous hosts. We even played some games and had some beers.

It's snowing a pretty heavily this morning and more is expected tonight. We don't think it will effect our travel plans home.