I have been making videos since my time in college 20 years ago. It has become a favourite activity of mine and given the chance I will pop out the camera and begin to record this or that. Perhaps it was to do with my occupation as Archivist to the Findhorn Foundation, though it started long before that.
This was a small part of a conversation with Ali Gökmen I recorded at Lilleoru, Estonia in 2018.
Here are a few shots of Dolphins in the Moray Firth.
I had to good fortune to meet Albert Bates last year at the Gen Europe Conference in Estonia. Talking with Albert was an inspiration and I decided to record him. Here is an extract of a much longer conversation.
Albert talks about the positive uses of Carbon in the form of Biochar, an ancient fertilizer used by Amazonian farmers for several thousand years.
I have just watched a slide show I made from GEN Europe 2018 in which I use the following soundtrack ‘Koit’ from Estonia TV. Koit means Dawn. THe song sings of the breaking of the ice of winter and the rising of the light. It is by Estonia’s most popular singer-song writer Tönis Magi. Very moving. It brings me to tears whenever I hear this. Beautiful song of hope for a nation struggling against the might of oppression that had lasted since the end of World War Two.