My Walking Videos – ‘Slow Journalism’

It is said that a ‘picture paints a thousand words’ and I curate my walking videos with this in mind. These videos are intended as both an ‘aide-memoire’ and a kind of ‘slow journalism’ meditative experience. No commentary, descriptions, explanations or distractions. Just sights and sounds. The idea is to simply capture a real-time, in-sequence, unedited essence of the trail, the journey and the place – its wildness, its nature, geography, geology and scenic beauty. And in a way that might serve as a catalyst for the curious to find out more…

On the trail, it is the meditative rhythm of the footstep, the birdsong, the dynamic contrasts of loud and soft sounds, the crashing of the waves and other sounds of nature that make it such a rich experience for the soul. And it is these elements that I try to capture the essence of in my videos —although my camera is put away (out of sight and mind) for most of the time in order that I can be fully present.