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Took a while but I finally get to see my shots featured in a horror film on Amazon Prime. I didn't get paid much for this job but there were plenty of perks to it.
I found myself in an odd situation while in talking with some of the cast. A lovely girl called Lauren who plays one of the stepsisters asked me what the maddest thing I've ever done was. I was at a loss, my mind went blank. I'm sure there are plenty of things but what I recalled to be the most insane thing I have ever done was to spend years and decades of my finite life working jobs I hated surrounded by people who made me miserable, and for what? I certainly wasn't paid well, got very little recognition. The only explanation is that I was traumatised/brainwashed/ defeated. To live like that is no life at all, where all your life can be summed up as is the point between the natal ward and crematorium? No thanks. F**k no.
ps- they still spelled my name wrong in the credits, dicks....For the record Calum is a Scottish name derived from Saint Columba. Columba has one "l", argument settled, end of discussion!
18/06/2024
Anyone who knows me knows I'm not a morning person. On occasion I do like being up early to get a head start on the day. I do my best to organise things the night before but wake up very groggy, put two socks on one foot, fumble around trying to find car keys and in my attempts to stay quiet end up making far more racket bumping into things. Still, a good sunrise makes it pretty worthwhile and a hundred horses couldn't drag me there if I didn't want to be.
14/06/2024
Looking straight down at Bangley Quarry at blue hour (before sunrise).
I get asked a lot about how I got into drone work, I could list off the practical side of things and rationale, but I think what really drew me to it was that I see things from a different point of view. Not just images but life and the universe in general. It is often a blow to my ego when I meet likeminded people, especially as they often can put words and meaning to something in a far more eloquent way than this "mindful meat-head"! Much as I love nature, this biogas plant looks pretty cool, especially with LED floodlights breaking through twilight.
