It’s been just about a month, and I have learned so much. In fact, I just realized all that has been achieved and I can hardly believe it’s been only a month.
It started with the little kernel of an idea that I would love to blend sustainability and conservation with photography and travel and do it in some meaningful way.
And what better way to do it that get into all kinds of rabbit holes of ideas and visions all leading to exploring new avenues and things to learn.
I picked the brains of whosoever would care to share, shared bits and pieces of half formed ideas and absorbed all that came. But increasingly
I am recalibrating to how I was first able to start Lens and Atlas. With some very basic ideas, lots of self-learning, experimentation and jumping right into the deep end.
This time I am borrowing one more amazing idea I heard in the movie Listers – if
you really want to learn something well then just try to do the hardest thing that is there to achieve for that discipline. So here are some of things I have embarked on, they are still
divergent threads and probably will take a long time to converge to something real. But at this time, I want to just get good at them without worrying too much about
what the end result will be. Go with the curiosity…
Took a drone flying lesson from UAV Coach and instantly fell in love with the craft. Houston is not a great place for drone videos,
but I am sure there will be places to find.
Got a DJI Air 3s and started to practice a little on it. These things literally fly themselves. Getting the videos edited is probably the skill I really need to work on.
Got into the rabbit hole of Part 107 certification and it is really a wonderland. I have decided to get the certification. Not sure for what, but who cares.
Got myself an eBird profile and have already collected 23 species in the month of November. That is another crazy rabbit hole.
We went and saw several vans (Storyteller, Outside Vans, GXV, Rossmonster) and have started to realize how much fake advertising is produced by influencers and in the van world there is actually very little real content. Seeing the real things has given us completely new perspectives, started to shift and clarify priorities and has started to shape what that life might look like.
And finally opened the JavaScript book that I had purchased long time back and started to do the exercises. Learning the basics… because I will not use AI anywhere in Lens and Atlas. And the Google Earth Engine (https://earthengine.google.com/) rabbit hole needs JS. This one is probably the most divergent thread and possibly will pivot sometime in the future but for now… JS.
This is a small step, my first drone video taken at a local park. A simple climb up and yaw and edited in Premier Pro. But this is the joy I am chasing today.
