G8 Huntsville: Wednesdays Happenings

Ok… there was not much going on yesterday except for hundreds if not thousands of OPP!!!! looks expensive!!!

There was a few military trucks and helicopters… No Protesters no excitement!!

I am heading out soon…after this rain to see whats up.

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G8 Update

Photos of G8 preparations

News to report about the happenings in town. “A serious threatening”  Phone call  was received by McDonalds on Friday afternoon. As a result, both locations were evacuated for some of the afternoon. Unofficial word is that   it was a bomb threat

There is also a story floating around that 3 guys also had one too. Does not seem to me a restaurant would be a likely place for  something like that.

Sunday morning the entrance to Deerhurst was sealed off. Many police were there. they had the sniffer dog out also scanning a bus with an airport luggage scanner and various other electronic scanners and mirrors.

G8 Huntsville The troops are here!

Wow I have not entered a post for so long. Lots Has happened lately but I will be concentrating on the G8 happening in town. This will be my first try at real journalism. I will have pics and posts regularly from now on until the G8 is over.

If there is anything anyone wants me to report let me know….

Too much to say!

Wow, it has been a while since I posted and lots has happened. Its spring!! This spring has been my first try at maple syrup. With the purchase of the lot behind our house came a few maple trees. Off to Home Hardware to stock up on spiles and buckets and to see what other goodies there are and flip through a few books. I have seen how it is done and a couple of phone calls to my buddy who is a pro, I got set up and running!

I ended up with twelve taps going. This year I did not get a proper wood stove and pan. Next year I will be ready with a shed,woodstove and pan. I see there is enough trees to get twelve more taps going for a total of twenty four. For now I am using a propane Burner. I got the burner and pot as part of a hot oil turkey cooker. It worked awesome, clean and consistent. I do a finish boil, filter and bottle inside the garage usually late at night after a days boil. So far we have just over 2 gallons or twenty four 500ml jars. When the G8 summit is on I will put a “syrup for sale” sign up on the front yard

A Chilly Couple of weekends

It was an interesting couple of weekends in Huntsville. It was the coldest part of the year it took two weekends to fit it all in. Hundreds of Hockey players showed up and almost as many volunteers as well. It was the Canadian Pond Hockey Championships. I was volunteering with Cogeco to film the men’s and women’s finals during a cold windy snowy afternoon. So miserable in fact that the zooms froze  up on two of our cameras. We also did a few interviews for the hour and a half special cogeco is putting together.

I put some footage together on my own, using my Pentax K7 and Canon HF200. Along with a local band LAGANZA with the tunes from their new album. Hope you enjoy. Please leave comments.

The Trophies are like a Stanley cup only made from solid maple, and are housed at the hockey hall of fame.

Convergence

I just finished listening to a group of pro’s chatting about the convergence of photo and video. A year after professional still cameras have the ability to shoot HD video.

Link to conversation

It was very informative for me especially since I am embracing the whole video thing. Video is not new to me, I have had a video camera for many years now. Unfortunately I have been a terrible videographer. lately I have been converting all of my family video’s from tape to digital on my hard drive. It is terrible video  but it is all we have.

I have also been playing with my Pentax K7 and my new Canon HF200 camcorder , trying to get good quality shots. In the edit or post area, I have been learning Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects software with reasonable success.

I have been enjoying it immensely , the time flies by and my projects are getting better. I am looking for ideas or concepts to work on. Writing and scripts are not my thing and I find the ideas hard to imagine. Any help in this area would be greatly appreciated.

I do believe video is the next big  thing, if it isn’t already. All websites will soon want video. if not for product sales it will be for transparency, how to video, demonstrations or just entertainment. I would like to be part of it all. Not only for the business and money but just for the love of creativity and to take my photography to the next level. I do think photography and videography are very similar.

Another big event in Huntsville

Last weekend I went out to Help TV Cogeco produce a news story of the cross country ski race at Arrowhead Park. It was part of the Ontario Winter games that are being held in Huntsville this year. It was fun to get out and see the park in winter and see young skiers participate. They can move! very fast!

I took some photos and video for myself and put together a short video

 

I also took a bunch of photos and really enjoyed the fast action sports shooting and will try to do more and get better at it.

Click on photo to see more!

 

I love living in Huntsville and starting to appreciate all the activities and events coming to town. We have the best little place to host events of all sorts. The big test will be the G8 Summit coming this summer.