Joe, I watched the video. Keep up the good work. The first segment with Bob in particular was very good. It is what we should be striving for in these videos. Some of the major conservation organizations, like Greenpeace and the Nature Conservancy, are using web based video to promote their causes. This medium however is still evolving with hundreds of thousands of people participating in the web video process. Who know how things will work out in another ten years? I want to encourage people to try using video clips to promote the scientific, aesthetic, documentation efforts of ENTS, and to promote better forestry practices on areas appropriate for timber production and conservation of places that should be preserved. Education and outreach through video.
You might consider posting on both Vimeo and YouTube as the YouTube has a much larger user base. Ed "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science." - Albert Einstein ----- Original Message ----- From: Joseph Zorzin To: ENTS Sent: Sunday, August 16, 2009 10:12 AM Subject: [ENTS] brief video of Bob showing Mike and Sun Leonard MTSF I have a brief and very amateurish video of Bob Leverett showing some of the big pines at Mohawk Trail State Forest in Charlemont, MA- to Mike and Sun Leonard. (in the afternoon we went to the other side of the mountain where the old growth hardwood is- but it was raining so I didn't try filming) I had suggested to Bob that I could video some of his favorite areas but my objective was to do it slowly with a tripod- and set up each scene carefully. I couldn't really do that- because this trip was to show the old growth to Mike and Sun who haven't been there previously- thus I was just following them and trying to make the most out of it. It's only about a minute and a half. Unless you have a very fast net connection- because it's high definition, it's best to get it started then click on the pause button- which will allow most/all of it to download, then click on the button again- and it will play smoothly- otherwise it will stop and go frequently. In the lower right is a button, if you click on it- you can see the video full screen. If I had kept notes on the names of the particular big trees I could add this - and it would be more informative- perhaps Bob could let me know, then I'll edit it. I hope as time goes by to greatly improve this work of filming Bob at his favorite places in this region and some foresters such as Mike too. The video is at: http://vimeo.com/6118369 Joe --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Eastern Native Tree Society http://www.nativetreesociety.org Send email to [email protected] Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
