At the start of 2011, my wife and I decided to finally pursue our dream of travelling - we sold our home, she quit her job, and we hopped on a plane with just our backpacks. This short trailer features some of the footage I shot during our travels together since then.

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Photo images from our travels at asphoto.ca/travel

Travel Notes ///

During the two years, we did 4 separate trips, the countries consisting of:
Indonesia, India, Palau, Philippines, Mongolia, Nepal, Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Ethiopia, and UAE. Most of these are featured in the trailer.

Gear Notes ///

All footage was shot either on a Canon 5D Mark2, 60D or Canon S95 (for underwater footage). Lens choice consisted of: 70-200L 2.8 IS, 24L 1.4, 28 1.8, 16-35L 2.8, 135L 2.0, 45TSE 2.8.

The Canon S95 was housed in a Recsea.com housing with a Dyron 16mm fisheye lens. No external videos lights were used, but I did have a ultralight arm set with a SeaAndSea.com YS-01 strobe (the ultralight arm set helped with camera control for video).

Support gear consisted of a Glidecam 1000HD, Manfrotto 776Y Compact Monopod, Joby Gorillapod Focus with Ballhead X, and a homebrew DIY Slider - I didn't always travel with all of these items but rather chose a couple pieces for each trip (usually 2-4 months at a time).

Backpacks. I'm a bit of a backpack collector, I've taken 3 different backpacks on my trips, trying to find the perfect one. The first two trips I used a Tamrac Evolution 8, second trip was a Lowepro Vertex AW 300, and finally for my last trip (the bag I was always on the lookout for) a fstopgear.com Loka.

Edit Notes ///

In conjunction with my ASUS laptop, we each carried a 1TB external HDD on us for safety, so I always had three copies of any data, in the case something got lost or stolen.

I had to search through over 3TB of footage to compile this trailer together. It took a while.

Edited in Adobe Premier Pro CS6
Music Licensed by Light Speed by Peter Mcisaac Music
Thanks to Michael + Casey + Danielle for all your help and inspiration for putting this together!