Basic How To - Live Wildlife Video

For the past 6 years, I've been working with David Hancock and the Hancock Wildlife Foundation to create and publish live camera streams from wildlife locations, especially bald eagle nests here in the Vancouver and surrounding area.

Over this time I've been asked over and over how we do many of the things we do. Two years ago I started to write things down in what I hoped would be something that could be turned into a book - especially since David's Hancock House Publishers would have published it. 

Time passed and the book got longer and in some ways harder to write because I kept having to go back and change things as the technology changed. Not long ago I pretty much abandoned the idea that it should be a book, and decided to put it up on a web domain that I'd purchased a while back for another purpose that never got off the ground. Last week I put the finishing touches (for now) on the last of the 25 articles/chapters and turned on access to the site at www.Now-Pages.com.

I've decided that the best way to do this in such a changing world is to use the internet the way it should be used - as a collaborative vehicle where any/all may learn and hopefully contribute too. There is a discussion forum with some generic topics as well as the ability to comment on the individual chapters.

I'll be teaching a course to a group of grade-school kids this summer on creating a wildlife camera stream, and the articles will be used as some of the course materials. I'm hoping the kids will use the forum to continue to learn and interact after the course as they disappear to their respective homes and vacation venues as they'll have the tools to do all manner of interesting wildlife streams.

I'll be adding to the articles and updating them as time passes. Initially I'll be aiming at more definitive projects - specifics of how I've done things, wired stuff, written programs and used specific techniques. I'm hoping to attract some others who have their own ways of doing things too, to create a definitive place on the web for people to come to learn about the latest tools and techniques separate from the commercial sites that push specific products.

Join me and my friends and associates - we'll all learn together

richard