The worlds most popular sports camera, The Go Pro Hero has now been updated... The New camera has adjustable degrees of lens settings; 1080p | 960p | 720p | WVGA120 | 60 | 48 | 30 FPS10 Photos/sec11MP170° | 127° | 90° FO
Power to the People... Amazing film, remember to click on 720p for HD viewing...
The first camera has proved pretty indestructible, check these films...
lost at sea...
Bounce Test...
Off to the Moon...
Attacked by nature...
Been some amazing films to watch on the web using these cameras, One of my favourites, tune is by Data `Italia` by Skatebard...
This film popped up on Singletrackworld Forum recently, A mountain biker out making a film set his Go Pro camera in a tree and caught on film, The Rambler, in his natural surroundings, check out Wave man! -:)
When the sun goes down, the boogie men come out to play...
Pics are from last weeks Thursday night ride with the Winton Massif crew at Pencaitland, been rain down south, but mostly dry and mild here in S.E. Scotland, note; the T shirts and no gloves, in late October!...
Last Sunday evening with the clocks having went back an hour for winter it was dark by 6pm, again went out riding with Mike and GW,
I did some filming with the Go Pro using both Magicshine 872 lamps combined there an (estimated) 3200 lumen's!...
The beam out in the dark is ridiculous!, and totally overkill, one lamp on 3/4 setting is more than enough, maybe full power on a down hill, but both full power is like daylight, except the Go Pro filming on r2 setting makes it look like one lamp on half power setting,
blurry shaky pic as on the move...
Out again tomorrow night with some of the other `Winton Massif` cycling division around Pencaitland village again then Friday a group ride from here at home taking mostly the same crew out to the woods on the coast,
Saturday is of course November the 5th, Guy Fawkes night,
so were night riding around Pencaitland then going to the village Bonfire and fireworks, with sparklers and hip flasks in attendance!,
Sunday evenings film, following Mike who is running a magicshine bar light and headtorch, having a rider in front certainly looks better in all films, including at night...
The film quality is ok, dark around the edges but were getting there, i reckon riding through Pine woods on a sandy trail should work better, here we ride down through Saltoun Woods, dark as it can get out there away from any surrounding lights, no one will here you scream out there... lol, and then down the Kinchie Trail and down through the Village,
Song is `Where did all the love go` mixed into `Swarfega` by Kasabian...
"never look back..." my motto for solo night riding!, Some folk i know say they would never go night riding on there own down in woods, i love it, growing up on an old estate with no street lighting and helping out at the estate gamekeepers meant i was often out and about in the woods at night. thinks that go crunch and snap twigs in the dark were just deer or rabbits etc... A shriek of an owl or the shining eyes of a field of sheep or cattle could spook some people i imagine,
I love the early Gothic Hammer Horror colour films of the late 1950s to 1970s, They often used to be shown on BBC2 on Saturday nights, films that made Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing famous...
Not that scary to watch today but filmed in amazing colours and i like the sets of eastern European locations (sets made and shot in England), and then always those pale skin straight haired Gothic girls (with a bit of cleavage) kept you watching late into the early hours...
Girls like Ingrid Pitt...
Not sure how many Hammer films were made, but whole series of the story's of Frankenstein, Dracula, werewolves, mummy's, zombies, Jekyll and Hyde etc...
Wow...
From the same era is The 1967 Roman Polanski comedy horror film: 'The Fearless Vampire Killers, some clips are on youtube to watch, The Gothic girl this time is Sharon Tate,
Trailer...
A gruesome film from 1974...
A 1980 classic which is a must see for all coastriders...
`Halloween` started a `slasher` movie theme through the 80s and 90s...
Then all the classic Teen Horror series, mostly with a comic horror scene... The classic `Evil Dead` series...
The 1980s saw the start of `Freddy Krueger` in `Nightmare on Elmstreet` series...
Here is the original trailer...
`The Lost Boys` in 1987...
`Scream` series...
But topping them all is the classic Teen horror comedy:
`Scary movie`... lol
Some recent films like the `Saw` series and `Hostel` take a bit stomach to watch and for me are a bit too much on the torture and butchering side, However there is one real chilling film, based on true events that happened in the Aussie Outback...
`Wolf Creek`...
CGI has changed films forever now, though many are way over the top some cool films were released through the 90s and 2000s which, if you don`t take too seriously are entertaining,
Werewolves and Vampires?, `Underworld` Trilogy with Kate Beckinsale is worth watching...
Zombies?, One of my favourite films, `28 Days Later`...
What must be the biggest profit making lowest budget movie was `Blair Witch Progect` released in 1999, A Story of three student filmmakers who hiked into the Black Hills near Burkittsville, Maryland in 1994 to film a documentary about a local legend known as the Blair Witch, and disappeared. the three were never seen or heard from again, Their video and sound equipment (along with most of the footage they shot) was discovered a year later. This "recovered footage" is presented as the film the viewer is watching. if not liked by many folk, it is still a very clever made film...
But if you don`t giggle too much at men in costumes and low budgets there are some cracking new films out there, loosely based on Black comedy in a way these films have more in common with those old early colour Hammer Films than Hollywood block busters, don`t take them too seriously and enjoy the sets and characters...
Shot on location in Glen Affric in Scotland was `Dog Soldiers`, An army exercise goes badly wrong when a unit on a training exercise are bated by Special Ops who use them to try to lure and capture a family of werewolves who live in a remote Highland Glen, it all goes wrong once the moon comes out, and the team have to fight for there lives, besieged in a farm house...
Some new Norwegian films, This is a recent class horror made in a 1980s (fight to survive) style!, Teenagers on a snow sports holiday upset some Zombie Nazis out for a feast... EIN ZWEI DIE! "i told you we should have went to the beach" Lol...
`Dead Snow`...
This i have not seen yet, awaiting release on DVD, Trolls are now the latest horror creature to be revived... "They can smell Christians..."
`The Troll Hunter`...
Plenty to keep your mind occupied and heart rate pumping cycling through the woods alone tonight.... Im prepared, got my 2 Magicshine 872 lights, 3200 Lumens should blind any trolls...
And `Haribo Horror` mix i can feed to any zombies, time they chew through them i will be long gone...
Up early Friday morning and in 15 minutes cycling from the house were onto the local beach and rolling on the hard pack at low tide....
Big empty beach, it is ace being off work through the week...
Fantastic early morning light...
The 1.2 meter low tide exposed a lot of the coast here around St Baldred`s Cradle...
But i am not alone here on the coast this morning...
Can you see another bicycle on the coast?...
Cockle pickers, using old MTB`s to carry bags like panniers from the low tide up to there 4x4 in the woods, there rusty old things with siezed chains, coast pushers?...
Memorial seat...
Riding off trail through the woods...
Beech tree`s in Autumn gold...
Starting work on more trails through the woods down here now, the trails are here already, probably created by Deer, walked by a few, nice sandy single track weaving through Scots pine woods, dry and ride able all year round, ace...
Autumn time and the first of the big swells that form out in the North sea at this time of year have hit our shores, yesterday was a very high tide and some huge waves. I drove to Dunbar then rode east to Barnes Ness...
I nearly got caught out and wet feet by an incoming wave that came right over the grass and up to my ankles as i tried to fit the lighthouse into the picture,
The lighthouse is an impressive sight, and a major landmark on the coast here,
In 1940 the lighthouse was strafed by a German bomber heading for Roysth, no Major damage was done and the light remained operational, i bet the lighthouse keepers filled there breeks when it happened!, and the bomber crew had a good giggle!...
Looking East along the coast to Torness Nuclear Power Station...
Not much room along the beach with the high tide and after the sea washed in right over my pedals it was time to bale out and drag the pug up the dune and over on the headland and the grassy trails...
Sandy shoreline is turns to pebbles towards Skateraw and Torness...
About 4-6 feet of coastline has disappeared here, the path diverted through a `catch and kiss` swing gate, however now horses wont get through...
I sat for a while at Chaped Point, at the entrance to Skateraw bay and soaked up views out to sea...
I minute film...
Riding back and here is that erosion...
It is often said this is caused by global warming etc, this film explains that is a natural occurrence...
Back along to Whitesands on grassy trails...
Just before Whitesands some surfers were heading out to catch a wave or two...
This guy was good... should have gave him my Go Pro to wear!
Back at Belhaven at Dunbar, tide on the turn now, here is why we call it `The Bridge to nowhere`, a nice wee ride...
I live in East Lothian, S.E. Scotland.
I fill my time with my hobbies, interests and passions. Often cycling along the coast here. I ride steel bikes with big wheels, I like to enjoy all interests of the coast, Its scenery, wildlife, local history, with my other interests in art and music when out and about...
I was diagnosed with Relapsing remitting Multiple Sclerosis in August 2018, it`s early days but i plan to continue to live my life as i have and show that having a medical condition like MS does not mean you need to stop enjoying your life,
Please excuse the bad grammar, i am working on it!
