Still reeling over the fact that we lost all. Our. Footage. Every single bit of memory and special moment from this beautiful, beautiful day of filming our shortfilm in Nha Trang was lost, all due to a lack of thought from the organisers who mistakenly gave us demo phones to shoot with. By 8pm that night, the phone remotely wiped itself clean of all our memories, thus forcing us to opt out of the competition in despair. We were given anextension yes, but no effort to reshoot would be able to recreate the moments we had or produce the same quality, and yeah. Nobody would get that except us. We stuck the phone underwater fighting our nerves, hoping that our guide who was with us could be trusted, and we can't possible regenerate the same feeling we had when we pulled the phone out from undwrwater and the footage and phone was...fine. It was magical. We got caught in a storm in the middle of a fishing village with some locals and their children, who stayed there with us riding out the storm and played hide and seek and even offered us drinks. There was no way to recreate the sunlight that peeked between the rain clouds, and how we shot a slowmo video of the sun rays touching the waves that day. There was no way to recreate that same feeling, the same moment, even if we tried. It wouldn't do our traveling justice, and travel isn't about that. Travel has and always been about the experiences, and how you gather those experiences. It's never been about selling an experiences. Experiences can never be bought. Experience is earned, and no matter how much money we would get, we couldn't be okay with the fact that we would be lying to the people of Vietnam, that our film was a recreation of those memories. It goes against everything we stand for in our stance for believable content. Pretty scripts and pretty stories can't make up for the actual experience you will gain when you face them yourselves. If anyone is wondering, yes that's me on a paddle boat/ sampan. He got so excited when he saw me trying to shoot the waves and next thing i knew i was on his shoulders. I'll find him one day and thank him again. #travel #travelblogger #travelphotography #breathofthesea (at Nha Trang)
