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Richard Maurer
Thanks for the nice comments. Very much appreciated. I enjoy making videos of my travels and it's great to be able the share them.
Greg, you are partially correct about my career. I did teaching and research in cell and molecular biology. I will post some more of my future travel videos. I travel frequently and try to make a new video almost every month. I don't want to overwhelm the forum so that everyone groans about another post from me.
Joan, thanks for your comments and questions. About naming Cape Disappointment, Lewis and Clark were not the first non-indigenous people to visit the cape. At least three early explorers gave the cape different names.. 0n August 17, 1775, the Spanish explorer Bruno Heceta in the ship "Santiago" named the promontory as Cabo (Cape) San Roque and the river itself as the San Roque. On July 6, 1788, English fur trader John Meares, in the ship "Felice Adventurer" gave the cape its lasting name. Unable to find Heceta's river, he recorded the name "Cape Disappointment" presumably indicating his dissatisfaction at not finding the river. In May of 1792, Yankee Captain Robert Gray in the ship "Columbia Rediviva", entered the mouth of the river, raised the American flag and claimed possession for the United States. His ship's log recorded that Gray gave the river the name of Columbia River and the north side of the entrance, Cape Hancock. While Gray's name for the river has stuck, the more dramatic "Cape Disappointment" has become the lasting name of the cape. I guess everyone loves a sad story. In any case, Lewis and Clark didn't name the area Cape Disappointment. However, their logs indicate that during their winter visit they encountered storms and very rainy weather. For instance Clark wrote: “rain continued all day,” and “the wind increased to a storm from the SSE and blew with violence; o how horriable is the day.” So they may have thought that the name, Cape Disappointment, was appropriate.
Joan, on a different topic, your comments about holding the camera steady and using different camera angles are very perceptive. For holding the camera steady, technology provides the answer. Modern action cameras sense camera movement and correct for movement, "smoothing" the video. I am amazed at how well it works. In addition, to keep a video interesting, it is good to be able to look at things from differing perspectives. As a solo traveler, it is often difficult or impossible to take pictures of yourself and surroundings from different angles. A relatively new camera technology provides an approach to this issue. The camera technology is a "360" video camera which captures a full 360 degree sphere of the space surrounding the camera. It has a forward and backward facing lense which each capture half of the sphere. So it can record everything that happens around camera and you don't have to decide what to record, you record everything. Then after the video is recorded, editing software allows one to select a portion of the sphere to reformat providing a view much like a conventional camera. The software also allows you to "pan" the view from one part of the video sphere to another. I am not sure if that explanation is clear. But for those bike video shots where the view moves around, I didn't change the view while I was riding. It was done while safely sitting at home at my computer. This video is only my second trip using the 360 camera and I am still learning how to use use the camera and software. But I think it is great technology.
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