Unlike Lan, I’ve been bad about blogging our trip to Cancun. Lawrence and Doug (Furious Photographers) flew us to Cancun to shoot a promo video for them… and shoot video for their 2 back-to-back weddings as well.
Everything went amazingly well… the weddings and a day after session are done… and yesterday we had a day to just hang out together. We decided to rent a car and drive out to the center of the Yucatan peninsula… and we ended up at Coba ruins.
The ruins at Coba are different from most… with all the structures being spread out through the jungle and attached only by white dirt roads that weave through the trees. Unfortunately we arrived pretty late and had less than an hour to hang out there, but it was still a great time. Lawrence, Doug, Lan and Tawny got free bikerides back to the entrance afterwards… while I jogged the 2km back. It was hot and sweaty, but I got to check out a few things they didn’t.
Our crew (plus Tawny) on top of the ruins:
photo by Doug Chan
Ok now watch.
Then go to Lan’s blog and watch his daily videos from the trip: Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5.1 | Day 5.2
That looked AMAZING. Going up would probably give me a bit of vertigo — definitely worth it though! :)
Oh Lan gets vertigo, too! Did you see his video of struggle? It’s his day 5 part 1 post. It’s a heartbreaking view of one man’s struggle with the seemingly impossible task of climbing the tallest ruins in the Yucatan.
That’s my brothar! That’s my brothar!
You and Lan are awesome! Thanks for the encouragement to hike the ruin!
You’re welcome, Tawny! I’ll heckle you up a ridiculous climb any day!
Man how did I miss this video. I’m hoping the girls I’m going with to the Dominican Republic will be willing participants when it come to me videoing. We’ll see…by the way I enjoyed it :)
I don’t think they should have a choice!
I learned a long time ago that you just need to start doing it… even if people are a little uncomfortable… in the beginning film them even when it isn’t something cool. They will develop a tolerance for it quickly, then you can shoot at the really important times and they will be used to it!