Vacation

Here’s another interpretation of our recent Tanzania Safari, this time created from photos I took. Once again, created from those photos using Apple Photo Memories – I’ve found that tool to be both excellent and terrible! It’s very fast to create a nice video slideshow using the Apple tool, but as soon as you want to alter or fine tune it, it becomes very challenging – the tool frequently and arbitrarily discards adjustments, and provides no way to control many aspects of the final creation. The minutes it takes to create an initial presentation turn into hours and days to try and get everything perfect. As you’ll see in this video, I eventually abandoned my attempts to reach “perfect”, and stopped at “good enough”!

Check out my other post for the alternative presentation, from videos rather than photos.

It’s hard sometimes when watching a Safari program on television – or when watching my Safari Video(!) – to get a realistic idea of what a Safari drive is like. So here I’ve put together a few videos taken during our trip, using just my iPhone (so these views are close to the truck, not zoomed in from far away!)
You can see that the terrain is sometimes grass plain, sometimes more full of trees, sometimes no animals visible and sometimes you have to stop because the animals are blocking the road!
Overall, it’s a spectacular place to visit; even when there’s no animals the scenery is very special …

Margaret and I recently completed our most fabulous vacation which included time in Abu Dhabi and Dubai, as well as ten days in Tanzania with most of that time on Safari in the Serengeti, Grumeti and Ngorongoro parks! Our personalized trip was created to our specifications by Africa Dream Safaris and included our own driver guide and private vehicle. We expected our Safari to be great but everything about it went far beyond anything we’d imagined; it was quite definitely our best ever vacation.

During the trip I collected more than 1,500 photos and 300 videos using both my iPhone and my Nikon camera which I’d bought specifically for the trip because of it’s great image quality and 2000mm equivalent lens.

With Apple Photo Memories, I’ve created this video of our trip – using only videos I recorded during the trip. I hope you enjoy sharing our vacation (see the full resolution here on YouTube):