This short narrated photo essay provides a glimpse of downtown San Antonio that most residents and tourists never see. Peacock Alley meanders through old commercial districts just blocks from the Alamo. It is part of the infrastructure of the city that dates back to around the time Teddy Roosevelt was in town recruiting Rough Riders for the Spanish-American war.
Tag: Texas
Something New
Over the last few months I’ve been teaching myself to use Adobe After Effects. My interest in creating animation began with making flip books in grade school but didn’t progress beyond that. I never dreamed that there would be tools available that would allow someone like me to actually build and publish animation. It is a wonderful technological world we live in.
This is my first attempt to combine photographs, narration and music into a video based photo essay. My idea was to create something more compelling than the usual boring digital/projector based “Here is my summer vacation” style format. As someone once said, you never know what will work until you try.
The format of a blog post is not ideal for embedding full HD video. Hopefully it is good enough to convey my idea at least to some degree.
Waiting for Change
The evidence is plain to see all around us. Is it evidence of weather or climate change? In an arid place like Texas the consequences of climate change could go either way. Maybe more Pacific moisture will stream across to make the land verdant. It has happened before a hundred years ago but it didn’t last. On the other hand we might experience drought for the next hundred years. This too has happened in the distant past. All we can do is to wait and worry or get on with things as best we can. Life is short and climate change is not.