Road Trip!!

Here is a teaser trailer from our road trip through the Great Smokey/Blue Ridge mountains. Go to Vimeo.com to watch in HD! Let me know what you think on facebook!!

Check out my cousin's blog to see some photos he shot as well!


Untitled from nicolas levasseur on Vimeo.

Day 4!

It is the end of day 4 of our trip! Jean-Claude and I have been having a great time shooting pictures and video for the past couple days! We spent a day in the Great Smokey Mountains National Park and a day going to different places along the Blue Ridge Parkway. Today was our longest day yet as we got to Blue Ridge for sunrise and ended somewhere down the parkway for sunset! We also had a very interesting night yesterday.

It ended up being a much longer night than we were planning. Through a few different circumstances I decided I was climbing to the top of a mountain near my grandparents house that overlooks the valley and town of Black Mountain. The plan was to shoot the view as the sun set and climb back down in the dark. We brought flashlights for the walk back. The trail to get there was non-existant because I'm the one who made it 3 or 4 years ago. Most of the trail markers I left back then were gone and I only found 4 of them on the way up. Anyway I finally made it to the top (leaving the flashlight with JC because we lost it for a few minutes) and shot the sunset. The journey started as I walked down. In the dark I found myself getting stuck every few feet in bushes and prickers everywhere. After 20 mins at least of struggling through JC found me and helped me out of a pit of prickers I fell into. Then we started walking the rest of the way down with the flashlights in hand. By the way, we both had a ton of heavy camera gear and our hands were more than full. We found ourselves completely lost in the dark in some area we never saw before stuck in some of the thickest brush I've ever been in. Eventually we downloaded a GPS app on our phones and found a road close by. Close by meaning .2 miles. Those .2 miles took forever to get through. We finally got out though! About 2 - 2 1/2 hours later than we were hoping :)

Sorry for the long story but it was an ordeal! I am still planning to keep to my promise and upload a teaser video right after I get home on Saturday/Sunday so be sure to look for it and check it out!!

Great Smokey Mountains

The calm before the storm. Actually, it was raining all day today. BUT I'm done packing and leaving my house at 4am tomorrow to fly to Kansas City! I'm gonna get picked up by my cousin JC at 930am KC time and we're going to drive half way to my grandparents house in North Carolina. Sunday we'll drive the rest of the way, spend some time with them in their house up in the mountains, and spend the whole week going to different places in the Great Smokeys filming and doing photography. With everything we own and are renting I'm positive that our camera gear will cost 10 times the cost of his car.. but we'll be far away from the city so we should be ok! Anyway I'm telling you all this because I'm very excited. My cousin and I started doing photography together a few years ago and we've both done a lot since we've started! I moved more into video and he has been interning with a professional photographer learning a ton. I am VERY excited to see what we will get on this trip! I come back next Saturday and plan to have a short promo video of what we did on the trip uploaded within those first couple days. Check back in a week and see what we got!