A whole week has gone by since my last update because we’ve been so busy! It seems like we were traveling almost every day, and when we arrived at our daily destination we were immediately doing some site seeing, taking care of necessary maintenance & chores (try scooping a kitty box when the boat is rolling through a wake) or having visitors aboard, etc.
I’ll try and get caught up over the next couple of days. There are lots of pictures, and at some point Foster would like to add a gallery option. We’re trying to load blog entries on the actual date we do something, so look back through entries if you feel like you’ve missed something.
I’ll be honest with you all – this is a lot of work! Yeah, I know, cry me a river. There are sometimes over a hundred pictures in a day. Many of them are blurry (hard to take a good shot on a rocking boat) and others just need work like adjusting lighting or contrast, cropping, identifying what the shot is of, and researching if you don’t know immediately, adding a caption, resizing for optimum page loads, etc. Just choosing which shots to add this morning has been about 45 minutes and I’m not done yet. Maybe as we move along there will be less picture-worthy landscape going by but I doubt it.
Then there are the videos. Every day we move, we shoot time lapse video for the length of the trip that day. If I have properly charged the batteries, changed them at appropriate intervals, and not screwed up starting or restarting the time lapse, that results in 3-4 clips and about an hour or 90 minutes of editing time. Once the video is edited and an mp4 file created, it takes around an hour to upload to YouTube, provided we have a good internet connection. If my laptop gets closed or times out, the upload stops.
With that said, if you don’t see something from me every day, don’t panic! I’ve more than likely got behind on my processing and will catch up as soon as possible. If I get too far behind I get cranky because it interferes with other things that I want to do, like taking a nap.
Here’s a link to our YouTube channel; it may make it easier for those of you who enjoy the videos since you won’t need to wait for me to post a blog entry.