10 Year Anniversary of the San Diego Cedar Fire

by Ray Roman in , ,


I can't believe it's been 10 years since the cedar fire. I remember waking up on the morning of October 26, 2003 and seeing the sky filled with smoke. I had no idea what was going on, but I decided to grab my video camera and document my experience.  Below is a video I put together the week of the fires. 


A Trip To Texas (April 2013 Mini-Documentary)

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The past couple months I've been putting together this video of a trip my sister and I took to Texas to visit our grandparents. It seems like everybody has home videos but no one really does anything with them, so I thought I would edit together a "mini-documentary" highlighting our trip. I'll be visiting again soon, can't wait to see them! 


My first video camera? Circa 2002.

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I came across this picture recently and I believe it's of me recording on my first video camera. After searching online to try to figure out what camera it is, it looks like the Sony Handycam CCD-TRV68 model. However, something about the Sony Handycam CCD-TRV43 model looks familiar to me too. Either way, I think this is the oldest picture I have of me video taping after I gained interest in video taping. I'm sure I probably have a video of me in the reflection of a mirror that could help me figure this out. Although in the early 2000s I didn't always archive my videos because I was just a kid running out of video tape and most of the time I re-recorded over my Hi8 video tapes. Anyways, this photo is from 2002 at a birthday party. As you can see I haven't picked up my skills yet, but I did use the ladder for some extra height LOL!