I’ll spare too many details, but the short version is that I’ve been meaning to upgrade for a while and we have three travel adventures planned over the next year, not to mention a long list of local walking and running adventures, and I’ve been craving having a (reliable) camera back in my hands for action videography. Long story short, I splurged and… well… new toy.

One of the upgrades from my decade-old model tho piqued my curiosity: the new one has a front facing screen intended, as I am given to understand, for video blogging selfie-style recording.

Ugh—was my first thought. I’m not very good at that.

Hmmm—was my second thought: maybe that’s actuall a skill I should try to learn.

New camera, new approach, new skill. And oh look! I have this place where I write and post about just that sort of thing: honing creative skills.

Not everyone has a voice for video. Not everyone has a confidence for turning the camera on oneself and hitting record. And heck, I would be the poster model for those two hesitations and probably a long list of others I haven’t even considered.

Maybe it’s time to remedy that.

Maybe. 

Or maybe I’ll just take some good running videos.