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Bonaire Photography & Videography: New place to post Bonaire Videos
Bonaire Talk: Bonaire Photography & Videography: Bonaire Videos: New place to post Bonaire Videos
Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Cynde (Moderator) (Moderator - Post #397) on Sunday, January 7, 2007 - 4:34 pm:     Edit PostPrint Post

Roger Burnham, a Bonaire resident and runs www.blennylips.com, and www.bonairevideo.com has created some unique ways to post your videos on Bonaire Talk. Hopefully as we tweak this, it will just get better and easier.

Thank you Roger for making this available to Bonaire Talkers.

Cynde

 

Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Roger Burnham - Blennylips Bonaire (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #102) on Sunday, January 7, 2007 - 5:42 pm:     Edit PostPrint Post

Thanks Cynde,

Caught here a little short of time:-)...fixing dinner and then going out to our Bonaire Cinema house to see "Flushed Away"...So I'll keep this short and expand on it in the morning, and answer any questions that come up overnight.

First check out the general FAQ.

This is a way for you to share your Bonaire related videos with Bonaire Talkers. Until we sort out the security issues, we will have a link from the post to the video, like Kids Carnival Parade, 2005.

Eventually, we hope to have embedded videos, right in the post, just like youtube allows.

This does require that you register with Brightcove, but is short, easy and free (Brightcove is a very reputable internet IPTV company founded by Jeremy Allaire, who brought Flash Video to market).

You can upload videos of up to 100mb of the highest quality you can and they are automatically converted to Flash 8 video...the standard internet video delivery format.

In the morning, I'll get videos up of this years fireworks display and Masquerada...

...I hope that's not dinner I smell burning...

Later,
Roger Burnham

 

Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Anonymous (BonaireTalker - Post #85) on Monday, January 8, 2007 - 6:30 am:     Edit PostPrint Post

Great initiative, Roger. I hope to see a lot of Bonaire videos here soon. Unfortunately I take photo's myself, so I have no videos to share. And since you mentioned it yourself, there are some nice Bonaire movies on YouTube already.

 

Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Roger Burnham - Blennylips Bonaire (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #103) on Monday, January 8, 2007 - 8:24 am:     Edit PostPrint Post

Thanks Anonymous,

This section is for any bonaire videos, no matter where they are posted. Please provide links here for your favorites you find around the web!

Cheers,
Roger

 

Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Anonymous (BonaireTalker - Post #87) on Monday, January 8, 2007 - 10:22 am:     Edit PostPrint Post

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=bonaire&search=Search

 

Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Anonymous (BonaireTalker - Post #88) on Monday, January 8, 2007 - 10:50 am:     Edit PostPrint Post

By the way Roger, I just visited your site. Great stuff!! I wish I had found it before. So much to see, I'll surely return. Thanks!

 

Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Cynde (Moderator) (Moderator - Post #399) on Monday, January 8, 2007 - 11:43 am:     Edit PostPrint Post

Roger, thanks again for doing this. I think it will be a great place for BTers to post their Bonaire Videos!

Anonymous, having a DVD of your dive is even better...you get one when you hire Roger to take you on one:-)

 

Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Anonymous (BonaireTalker - Post #89) on Tuesday, January 9, 2007 - 4:27 am:     Edit PostPrint Post

Cynde, a great idea, and I will certainly consider it when on island (in 11 days!). But I will have to think very hard about it, because I find it more relaxing to just float around and freedive, lose myself in the nature surrounding me. I'm already bothered by the necessary mask and fins, and I usually don't even take pictures (there are enough pictures already, and all of them better then I could ever take them). Taking along a "film crew", however nice Roger might be, would certainly make my experience very different.
Now, when I'm at home again, I simply play the video that I made in my head, which is usually even more beautiful than reality was, because I "edit out" the less interesting bits. And when Roger would film my dive, I would be in the movie, and and that is something that in my "editing" would certainly end up on the cutting floor - I prefer to look at pretty things instead.
My preference for avoiding all the hassle I can when I'm in the water, is also why I'm not a diver, but a still a snorkeler. Having to drag all the gear around (while travelling, preparing and diving) would not contribute to my happiness. I just feel closer to everything around me. I know I miss out on a few things, but that works both ways. I will never forget the lady at Oil Slick Leap last year. We were staying at the Caribbean Club and just walked to the site (1 minute). Just as we were getting into the water, a car, with a lot of diving gear in the back, pulled up with a nice couple and their son. When we got back from snorkeling (great snorkel, as I play the video in my head right now, I can still see the beautiful moray eels and other critters), about 25 minutes later, the couple and their son were only just about ready to get into the water. The lady said to me "It must really be relaxing to go diving like that". I confirmed that and added a minute from then I would be taking a shower, and then after a few minutes in would be lying in my hammock with a cool drink and a good book. She paused for a while, looking at me first and then her husband and son, then said "That's the right way to do this. I really envy you".

 

Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Cynde (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #643) on Tuesday, January 9, 2007 - 11:24 am:     Edit PostPrint Post

Anonymous, you remind me of a good friend who is a snorkeler...I introduced her to the island for the first time a year ago October. We had been to the BVIs together, and I'd been trying to talk her into learning scuba...well, after about the fourth day of going with us divers to sites...we pull up, she grabs her snorkel gear...we go to check the site out...there are about 10 huge rainbow parrotfish in the shallows...i mean in 2 feet of water! She jumps in...and swims with them...of course, we are gearing up...by the time we get in the water they are all long gone!...on one of the other dives, as we were gearing up, I looked at her and said "you will never scuba will you...it's too much of a hassle getting ready"...she said "you got that right!" lol! She did however, become hooked on Bonaire and is now making annual trips to the island!

For me, being 40 feet deep with ALFs is my "happy place" as is yours when you are free diving...I live to dive, drives my husband nuts! The gear is worth it to me cause there is no place I'd rather be:-) I do have a coworker who asked "you know, they make underwater mp3 players, you should get one so you can listen to music down there"...no way...that would ruin the peacefulness!

Have a great trip!

 

Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Anonymous (BonaireTalker - Post #91) on Tuesday, January 9, 2007 - 12:03 pm:     Edit PostPrint Post

Cynde, thanks for the best wishes for my trip. I'm sure I'll have a good time snorkeling. Of course I understand the advantages of diving over snorkeling, and maybe some day I'll be tempted enough to give it a try. It's just that the simpleness and freedom that go with snorkeling, fit in perfectly with my "holiday feeling".
As for your anecdote: we had the same experience twice last year. The first time was when I spotted two turtles at Andrea II, which I signaled to the people standing on the shore. The snorkelers among them all got to see the turtles, but most divers were struggling too much with their equipment to get into the water on time. The other occasion, the most memorable one, was when we were just dropped on Klein with a few others. I couldn't believe my eyes when after less than one minute I spotted 12-15 dolphins just beyond the reef. Again I pointed them out to everyone who wanted to know, and I put on my flippers straight away and was near them and was able to see them, hear them, and swim with them within a minute. When a few divers on a boat nearby (nearer to the dolphins than I was at first) who had just gotten out of the water, finally had arranged all their gear and got back in, the dolphins were gone...
But I know I also miss a lot because I don't dive, so it works both ways. As Johan Cruyff, the famous Dutch soccer player and "philosopher" once remarked: "Every advantage has its disadvantage", and he was right.

 

Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By maarten dufijn (New BonaireTalk Poster - Post #8) on Tuesday, January 9, 2007 - 8:50 pm:     Edit PostPrint Post

Hi Anonymous,
Every disadvantage has its advantage.
sorry to correct you about our great "philosopher"
We Dutch people can write a book full of this great Soccer player with/about his "one liners"
lol

 

Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Timmmmy (Supreme BonaireTalker - Post #2782) on Tuesday, January 9, 2007 - 10:02 pm:     Edit PostPrint Post

Personally I think snorkeling is a lot harder than scuba...I need to be near the bottom (don't care much for just floating around) and all that free diving,kicking and breath holding really wears me out!

 

Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Anonymous (BonaireTalker - Post #92) on Wednesday, January 10, 2007 - 3:59 am:     Edit PostPrint Post

Hi Maarten, I don't know if you're right in correcting me (on the AJAX-website and several others I find "elk foordeel hep se nadeel" of iets van die strekking), but if you are, thanks for putting it right. Not that it really matters, because the deep meaning of this stays the same. "Usually you only understand something when you get the meaning of it" is another great one. By the way, I think there actually already are several books with Cruyff's sayings. I wouldn't mind reading a few. Sorry non-Dutch BT-ers, but Cruyff is a Dutch icon equal to Babe Ruth, with the difference of still being alive. he was one of the best soccer players ever (up there with Pele and Maradona), a terrific coach, and he has furthermore amused us through the years with his way with words. He's a very intelligent man, but he hasn't had much education, speaks in a terrible Amsterdam dialect with the accent that goes with it, and makes many language errors. Combine this with his always wanting to explain (and know better) and you get a kind of stand up comedy most artists would die to be able to copy. He's just great.

Timmmmy, you're partly right. At first it is of course more tiresome, but a little training and lots of free diving gets you used to it and actually improves your health (lungs, muscles, endurance, etc) a great deal!

 

Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Nell Keene (BonaireTalker - Post #57) on Friday, January 12, 2007 - 1:30 pm:     Edit PostPrint Post

I registered and uploaded a video a few days ago but don't see it.
does it take a while to be posted?

thanks
Nell

 

Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Roger Burnham - Blennylips Bonaire (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #109) on Friday, January 12, 2007 - 4:02 pm:     Edit PostPrint Post

Hi Nell,

Seconds after reading your post, I received the notification. The delay was due to a big backlog of videos to convert to flash on the Brightcove servers.

You can find your video at:

Eagle Ray feeding at Tori's Reef - Nell Keene.

Thanks for your submitting!

Cheers,
Roger

 

Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Nell Keene (BonaireTalker - Post #58) on Friday, January 12, 2007 - 4:24 pm:     Edit PostPrint Post

Thanks Roger for doing this!

it is great to look at all the clips. and I expect
you have gotten tons of them.

best,
Nell

 

Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Denise Kacavas (Extraordinary BonaireTalker - Post #1410) on Sunday, January 14, 2007 - 4:41 pm:     Edit PostPrint Post

thank you thank you thank you .. I love seeing the videos !!!

 

Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Martin de Weger (Supreme BonaireTalker - Post #4434) on Wednesday, January 24, 2007 - 3:05 pm:     Edit PostPrint Post

OK Gang, I've been doing some adjustments in the files and we have a new tag now... For people who have uploaded their movies to www.bonairevideo.com and want to share it with all of us, you can use the following tag: \video{VIDEO#,description}. The video# is the last number in the link you get when clicking on the "get link" option on www.bonairevideo.com and the description, well, that's just the same as when posting an image... :-)

Thank you Roger for helping us with this nice extra addition to BT!

 


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