My parents have been farming a rare breed of seaweed-eating sheep on a remote Scottish island called Auskerry for nearly half a century, but age and ill health is forcing them to face a future away from their island home. With so much still to do on the farm, I've left my job as a TV reporter in Cardiff, Wales for three and a half months in order to help. I've taken a camera and some lenses and decided to make a RU-vid series to show what life is really like on the island where I grew up, and was named after. In episode four, part two, I have the pleasure of sharing the complete joy we feel every summer when we host the Auskerry bagpiping championships on the island. It's been a nearly-annual tradition for 25 years, bringing around 20 musicians and friends out on boats from the Orkney mainland to play music, eat amazing local food and have a few drinks! We sing a traditional whaling song by the skeleton of a Northern Bottlenose whale that washed ashore in the early 90s and then the winner of the championships is unveiled by mum. It's a sad goodbye until we see a pod of dolphins...
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Shot on my new Sony A7C (28mm, 35-70mm, 70-180mm lenses)
DJI RS3 gimbal
Audio with DJI wireless lavs and Rode Videomic NTG
#farming #documentary #islandlife #remoteliving #orkney #offgrid #hiddenhistory #scotland
3 сен 2023
