Our Trip to Alabama

                                           

What's new about this video, for me, is that I've added music. Oh! And a title and credits at the end...!

It was Sheria's idea after she viewed the Red Velvet Ant video I had posted in the previous entry. She had suggested adding music to the ant video... and I think that would be fun... but that project is on hold for now. I decided to add music to my Alabama show instead.

Turn up your volume for this one... it is 3 minutes and 41 seconds long. Five days wrapped up in 3:41 secs.

I don't know the name of the young woman singing this song, but I loved her voice, and the lyrics... those that I understood. The bulk of the photos were taken in downtown historic Montgomery, Alabama, where we had spent the night at Capitol Inn.

It was my intent to put titles over some of the slides so you'd know what you were looking at. For instance, Martin Luther King, Jr.'s home in Montgomery, and just down the road, the church he pastored at, or the place where Rosa Parks got on the bus that fateful day, now commemorated with a plaque. You can figure out the State Capitol building easily enough, but there were stories for each of those buildings I snapped, narratives recounted by our trolley driver, Michael. He's in the video as well.

If you ever go to Montgomery, go to the visitor's center and tell them you want to get on the trolley driven by Michael. He was a lot of fun, thoughtful about us tourists, and knew his history.

Like I said, it was my intent. It took me so long to learn how to do the movie making and uploading to AOL unCut Videos business that I had forgotten which building was which by the time I arranged the photos and made them into a "movie."

So, just enjoy the music, with the pictures. The reason I'm in the first part is because they are in order of sequence, and it was my birthday that day. I had asked Steve if he minded taking a tour of historic Montgomery, since we were there. He said it was my birthday... of course! Also, those first two shots (following me) of Montgomery are taken from the balcony of our room. Kind of like Scalzi's View from the Room entries <grin>.

There is one more real video I want to add here, the part where Dave and Teresa sang for us at the Nellie Cameron's Coffee House. (They're the couple singing behind the cash register in the slide show above.) I'm working on that one next.

The purpose of the Alabama trip was to visit my mother... I wrote about her in a previous entry, called Alabama Mama. she's at the end of the slideshow movie. I showed her how to get on the computer and send an email while I was there, but since I haven't received any email from her, I'm thinking she either forgot the steps, or hasn't been able to get to the public library to get on the computer. But doesn't she look intense at the computer? Just like a kid learning something new.

The rainbow at the end was exactly that... on our way back home to NC, there was a rain, and I had to shoot through the window of the car to get it because it wasn't easily shot from the passenger side. Seconds later, it was gone. They are both the same rainbow, two different photos, and I color enhanced one of them to make it more dramatic, and also to learn more about the new editing features on my Zoom Browser. I thought it was relevant and pleasing to end the slideshow this way, with the promise of the Dream that takes us all home.

Tags: Our Trip to Alabama, Montgomery, Gulf Shores, Mobile; Biloxi, Mississippi, historic downtown Montgomery, The Promise, Yanni's Ethnicity Album