Well, there you have it. This is just a trip report. I have video, but nothing ready to release into the wild … except the short clip, below.
I wore my really tight, really short, white jean shorts that I love. They may never be white again, BTW. The tide was pretty tepid (we are between moons), so I picked a spot that has a little bit higher elevation. By “higher”, I mean a few inches (5-10 cm) higher. I really wasn’t sure how I was going to pull it off, but I wanted to get hogtied and slide into a mud hole, from which I would not be able to escape while hogtied.
Overall, I think the effort was a success. I managed to get tied up pretty well, and I managed to work up the mud so I’d be able to dunk my head under as I struggled against the ropes. I used two cameras to capture the action and both of them did a pretty good job. I’m in love with my little G100 and the 9mm pancake lens I bought for it. It is almost like an action cam, in that you don’t have to focus, but the camera gives me more control and better dynamic range than the action cam.
After the hogtie scene, I was a little chilly, so I reclined on the ground to soak up some warm sun and to keep my body out of the wind (being close to the ground, the swamp grass offers more protection from the wind).
I didn’t shoot much, outside of the hogtie scene and my little warmup, so, here is a short edit:
(note that my white shorts are toast)