Drift Assessment #1

Describe two situations that aggravated, bothered, shocked or otherwise stressed you during Drift 1 or 2. (Please note that the situation CANNOT be technology-related.)

One aggravation I had was during the first drift and I was trying to capture the sound of a flag flapping. I was walking by the flag when a gust of wind came by and I really liked the sound. So I got myself all set up to record the flapping flag and the wind decided it didn’t want to gust for about ten minutes. I refused to move from that spot because I knew the wind would blow the instant I walked away. Finally a gust came and right in the middle of capturing the sound, a car drove by, completely overwhelming the sound of the flag, so I had to start over and wait for another gust of wind. That leads right into one of my general aggravations; a louder sound passing by right as I’m recording a softer sound. Whenever I was recording a soft sound, like a wind chime or a buzzing electrical box, a car would always want to drive by, interrupting my recorded sound. A second, minor aggravation I had was on my second drift. One of my drift image strategies was capturing images of street signs. It was very difficult to get the right angles and straight on shots because, well, I’m short and the signs are very high up. I had to stand on snow banks, fences, and basically anything I could to try to get different angles besides the shot of the camera just looking up at the sign.