Moving at the Speed of Creativity by Wes Fryer

Category: travel

  • Documenting the 2014 Trapper’s Rendezvous with iPhone Video

    This weekend my son and I camped near Hutchinson, Kansas, with several thousand other Boy Scouts and Scout leaders at the annual “Trapper’s Rendezvous” campout. I created a 14 minute video yesterday afternoon with footage I captured at the event, and edited it together with iMovie for iPhone. The Trapper’s Rendezvous campout is an opportunity…

  • Photographic Highlights and Mapping Media Learning from NW Illinois

    This week I had a very enjoyable opportunity to spend a day and a half with 70 educators at Eagle Ridge resort in northwest Illinois, very close to the Mississippi River. Here are a few of the photographic highlights of the trip, which included an hour of shopping Wednesday afternoon in picturesque Galena. These photos…

  • Document Field Trip Learning with AudioBoo

    (Cross-posted from PlayingWithMedia.com) As a free audio service with free smartphone apps for both iPhone and Android, AudioBoo is an ideal platform to use on a student field trip to document experiences with both audio and images. This morning I accompanied my 3rd grade daughter’s class to the Oklahoma History Center in Oklahoma City, as…

  • At the Eastern Edge of our Continent: Wells Reserve at Laudholm (Maine)

    Today our family explored the Wells Reserve at Laudholm, which is “a National Estuarine Research Reserve with its headquarters listed on the National Register of Historic Places.” We don’t have estuaries in Oklahoma. According to the English WikiPedia, an estuary is: …a partly enclosed coastal body of water with one or more rivers or streams…

  • Boiling River: Best Kept Secret In Yellowstone National Park

    If you visit Yellowstone National Park and are interested in “experiencing” hot springs in a very direct way, you won’t want to miss “Boiling River.” This special place is maintained by the Park Service but not listed on official Yellowstone maps or marked with road signs. The popularity of Boiling River has led to some…

  • Mammoth Hot Springs in Yellowstone: Perfect for HDR iPhoneography

    If you have an iPhone, you need the $2 Pro HDR app. HDR photography (High dynamic range imaging) combines a dark exposure and a light exposure of the same scene to create an picture with far more color depth than a “regular” digital image. Even though my iPhone4 has a built-in camera HDR feature, without…

  • Storychasing our Philmont Backpacking Trek in June 2012 with Images, Audio & Video

    This month I was greatly blessed by the opportunity to serve as an adult advisor on my son’s first backpacking “high adventure” trek to Philmont Scout Ranch in northeastern New Mexico. We spent 11 days and 10 nights on the trail, and I probably lost somewhere between 5 to 10 pounds on the journey! In…

  • Blogging from 37,000 feet with Delta Airlines

    I’m finally heading home to Oklahoma City from the Mobile Learning 2012 Conference in Phoenix. I missed my connecting flight in Salt Lake last night because of a mechanical delay of an hour and a half departing Arizona. This is the first flight I’ve taken when I’ve successfully used onboard / in-flight wifi, so I…

  • Trapper’s Rendezvous 2012: An iPhone documentary

    This weekend was my second opportunity to attend and participate in the annual Trapper’s Rendezvous campout held about 30 minutes west of Newton in southcentral Kansas. Two years ago, I shot a series of videos of different “mountain men” character re-enactors. (“Storychasing the 2010 Trappers Rendezvous“) My favorite video from that trip, however, was the…

  • Incredible Oklahoma City Christmas Lights Powered by Light-o-Rama

    Impressive home Christmas light displays are pretty common these days in most parts of the United States, but this year I encountered a first right here in Oklahoma City: A synchronized light display with music provided via a low-power FM transmitter in the homeowner’s garage! People drive by and tune their car stereos to 97.7…