A Trip Down Memory Lane - Part 1 - Dusting off My GoPro Hero Black

I wonder if any of you notices the difference in my photo(s) but I sure do.

Days ago, I rediscovered my tiny GoPro Hero Black camera, that I stopped using years ago, for a reason unknown.

Perhaps because it was connected to my filmmaking, back in the days or because it's so small that it easily gets lost.

I have been filmmaking quite actively, from 2010 onward and then took a long hiatus from that, starting early 2019 ( after I moved to Portugal ). The break is still ongoing and I have no immediate plans to get back to it.

And now, 6 days after moving house, I discovered this little but powerful device, in a cardboard box in my current bedroom.

It took me a while to get it connected to my laptop, but once it worked, I was able to go through a couple of 100 pictures, most of them taken 5 or 6 years ago, during my early days in Portugal.

It felt like a trip through memory lane. So much has happened since then, including C*vid and the passing of my father.
The photos showed my first house, the renovation of that same place, the area around that house, including a bunch of walks/hikes and even some pictures of my last film project that I shared extensively on Hive, between the Summer of 2018 and early 2019. It was called Tunnels of the Shadow People.

It also includes video that I took for that film project, both in my house and in the adega (wine cellar/storage space) underneath that previous house of mine.

I sold this house, the only house I ever owned, in October 2021 but left almost a year before that, as I felt that staying there, during the plandemic was threatening to make me fall back into depression.

Since then, I have lived in 5 different places, if I include the current one and a lot has changed.

Fast forward to the now. I moved house, once again, a week ago and am really enjoying my new spot. Both the house, the garden and the overall location. It's probably my favorite spot so far, in my 6 years here.

I feel there's a lot of creativity going to happen here, starting with 2 book projects

and who knows what else?

TO BE CONVINUED...

And here's a link to the six episodes of the short (unfinished) shoestring budget serial, 'Tunnels of the Shadow People', starring yours truly ( yes, me ) and Ted, the American friend that I collaborated with, long distance ( we never met up! ) for over 5 years. The entire project was made by the two of us.