Le Refuge

A walk around Sachuest Point National Wildlife Refuge with
Walks & Rambles meetup group in Middletown, RI.
The refuge is a peninsula between the Sakonnet River and Rhode Island sound and was once a dump site for NewPort’s trash.

Music on the video clip is by Aidan Baker & Ben Fleury Steiner. The track is called: Wednesday and may be found on freeMusicArchive.org

Sachuest Point National Wildlife Refuge. Middletown, RI.

Shadows’ Journey In…. Timbuckhilltoo

This was a hike/walk with "Walks & Rambles In RI" meetup group.

We visited the area known as Buck Hill Management Area in the northwestern corner of RI. The trails used to be old wagon roads used for commuting and are now the paths that walk the visitor through a few ponds, grain fields and the remains of the original settlement houses(you could see a chimney, fence,..etc in the video).
We also passed by the tri-state marker that shows where Rhode Island, Massachusetts and Connecticut meet in the area.
According to the organizer, we followed Ken Weber’s 28th hike trails from his "Weekend Hikes in Rhode Island" book.

The music played in the video clip is:

1- At First It Was Chaos… by Anam Fior

2- Anam Fior by Anam Fior:

3- Our Great War’s a spiritual war, our Great Depression is our lives. We’ve all been… by Anam Fior.

4- Fecunda by Emanuele Errante
This track appears on The Silent Ballet Volume 9

5- Two Halves Of A Line by Last Days:
which also appears on The Silent Ballet Volume 6

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Fast forward…In Rhode Island…With A Ramble

This was a walk with "Walks & Rambles in RI" meetup group along the Blackstone River Bikeway. We started at the tourist information center on I295 and trekked our way towards Pratt Dam passing by Ashton Mill and historic district.

The music played in this video clip is:

1- Ghost track by Daturah.

2- A Summer Without You by DestroyAllDreamers.

3- To Make a Portrait by Message to Bears.

4- ScrewDriver by Riding Alone For Thousands Of Miles.

Out There In Exeter Sits Mount Tom

A hike with Walks & Rambles meetup group in RI last Sunday ascending Mount Tom in a tiny bit of snow.
Although there was quite a bit of rambling throughout the hike, you wouldn’t hear it because of the music which was included in Headphone Commute’s compilation for the best modern classical 2010(part 1).
The following tracks are played in order:

Rafael Anton Irisarri – Für Alina on Reverie [Immune, 2010]
Richard Skelton – Of The Last Generation on Landings [Type, 2010, Reissue]
Nest – Far From Land on Retold [Serein, 2010]
Max Richter – Infra 5 on Infra [130701 / FatCat, 2010]
Peter Gregson – Flight Path on Terminal [Mute Song, 2010]
Hildur Guðnadóttir – Casting on Mount A [Touch, 2010, Reissue]

 

Discovering a city: Providence, RI

It was a sunny day,with blue skies and the perfect conditions to go out to the Ocean state and start shooting. I arrived there at 4:30 and started wandering when I bumped into a friend of mine whom I met in a meetup group. I joined him with his buddy and the three of us roamed the streets around Waterpark waiting for fire to be lit….

Here is a peek

I’ve got the power

In an interesting showcase of power, precision and very well done marketing, the RI air show had, according to the people I saw, a bigger than thou crowd. Whatever the reason was, one can’t deny the effort put into making airplanes and how sophisticated it could get these days.

Tip of the hat for the L-39 demo. I liked it sleek lines, slim fuselage and nimble take off. If I ever were to pick an air plane, it would be the L-39. It reminded me of the (1983-1991)E30 M3 which is my favorite car ever!

On the other hand,the Raptor and the Viper are truly the Lamborghinis of the sky. If you ever decide to get a Lamborghini Reventon, the Raptor should be on your garage list. Seriously, it was a breath taking demo.It was as if I watched Reventon side by side with the Gallardo on a track!

Blue Angels,Canadian Snow birds, John Klatt, Sean Tucker ,Ed Hamill, The Horsemen and others performed an endless series of enjoyable maneuvers.

I bet the rush of adrenaline on that day was phenomenal.

Oh, by the way; Tax payers: Don’t forget the tips!

Enjoy the photos and the videos!

Raptor and Viper demo