Nostalgia

Today was a decently successful day as we got several things done. First off, Muenkel and Connor reminisced about their childhood by meeting with Mrs. Seeley, the principal of Consolidated School about filming there. As they told me (Dan), this was a blast. They also told me a secret that would change the way I looked at my Consolidated education forever.

Meanwhile, Joey and I found a trail that would take us to a lookout over Squantz where we are going to film our timelapse starting at 4:30 am tomorrow morning. It's going to be a long morning.

Oh, and we also got some great footage of the playgrounds by the High School fields. I got some crazy slow-mo shots of children on swings (with their parents' permission), but Connor and Muenkel ditched me because they were afraid of being charged with a misdemeanor.

In other news, we had our prom this past weekend. Here's a photo of 3/4 of our SEE group.

If you look closely in the bottom rightof the photo, you can see Muenkel swimming in the lake.

A Change in Tides

Today was a real solid day of videography and photography. I shot two rolls, and Dan and Connor filmed a solid amount on footage, which hopefully will be up soon, while Muenkel created the facebook page at last. Make sure to "like" us on facebook, and keep checking in with the progress.

 Altman lookin' spiffy

 A welcoming sign and view at knollcrest, one of New Fairfield's private communities.

 Hidden Valley Nature Center, one of the many nature preserves our town has to offer. I gotta go back and shoot the sign again.

 I don't even know how this happened.

A view from the dock I have on Candlewood Lake.

Again, keep checking up on our blog, facebook, flickr account, and youtube! We'll post some new stuff for you guys soon.

May 26th

Today wasn't the best day we had. Not only did I do two hours of solid shooting for no reason at all, but we also struggled with creating a facebook page. In spite of all that, here are some shots from wednesday, none came out too good, and I plan on shooting the school at sunset instead, just because it would look so much better than the ones from yesterday came out.

 Double exposure of the windmill on knollcrest

 Another windmill shot.

 Altman playing tennis

 Connor filming the hit internet video "Demise of Muenkel"

 He threw his racket further than the ball went.

NFHS

Disapointment

After a solid afternoon of shooting, I went to rewind one of the best rolls of film I've shot for this project. Turns our that it never went fully around the spool, and I shot absolutly nothing. Some other photos will be up later.

More Filming

Today, the nicest day in two weeks, we filmed a little bit of everything. First we went to the school to photograph and film the fields and the tennis courts. The GoPro helmet cam came in handy especially when we were able to capture Kevin Muenkel's fury from a first person camera angle (see facebook). Later we drove through beaver bog while filming out the window, and we also visited Candlewood Isle and Knollcrest. Here are some photos.

Knollcrest Windmill

Joey being super artsy

Candlewood Isle Shot

Squantz Pond

Yesterday, as the sun began to come out, we decided to visit Squantz Pond to do some filming and to find a lookout point where we could do our timelapse. After over an hour of trekking through mud and getting eaten by bugs, we found a crazy lookout point that overlooked Candlewood Lake and part of Squantz Pond.

Once there, we did some panning shots and I (Dan) tried to use Connor's GoPro Helmet Cam to do a rock climbing type of shot. In the middle of that Connor came across one of the biggest snakes any of us had ever seen in the wild. The species is yet to be determined.

The way back was not so fun because we got lost and found ourselves on Pine Hill rather than at the top of Squantz where we had originally started. After 20 or 30 minutes of confused walking, Justin Menke came to save the day and drove us back to Squantz. What a good guy.

Here are some photos of our journey.

Connor all equipped

Brofile picture at the lookout point

The lookout point by itself - Candlewood Lake

Muenkel staring up in amazement while Connor is all business in his helmet cam

A Note From the Photographer

Some of the photos taken friday. I guess the way that I'm gonna do this is post everything on my flickr, which can be found at the top of the blog. Once we get a facebook page up and running, I'll have them thereas well, but overall, I'm going to post every shot in multiple places and have you can help me decide which ones to put in the final slideshow based on feedback. Below I attached a few, but go to the flickr link for all of them.



 Squantz

 A waterfall in a hiking trail

 Altman took this, he had some good shots that day, and it was his first time using a 35mm.

 Altman's face after getting a $75 dollar ticket for climbing on the rocks...just kidding.

 Hyped on how close this bro let me get.

 A lookout over Squantz Pond, New Fairfield's own State Park.

Getting a hang of double exposures