Happy Belated Canada day to all my fellow Canadians. And a happy 1 day late Independence Day to our American viewers. To the rest of you, hope your country has a super fun birthday as well. So this past weeks video was our annual Canada Day update. National Anathema now joins the ranks of… *runs to check the wiki* … “A Tribute to Canada”, “I am not American”, “Canadaman”, and last years (and one of my personal favorites of LRR) “A part of our Heritage”.

Jeremy had the original script idea, which you can hear more about by listening to this weeks LRRcast. After some tweaking of the ending and some photoshop work that was done by Jeremy and Graham (also maybe Paul, I don’t know for sure) the only thing we really had to shoot was the end scene with the whole gang of us singing Canada’s new national anthem. We decided that it needed to be outside, because we really wanted to use the dolly to pull back on the last scene. So we all packed up and headed down to Oak Bay High and after about 40 minutes down there we had it shot and done. We forgot to bring down the laptop with the song we recorded earlier at Grahams place so we just had to wing it. I believe Graham actually ended up using the audio from the actual shoot and just synced it up with the music. Yah, we’re that good. Here are some pictures for your viewing pleasure

In some other news all the pictures for that video (and more than likely all subsequent videos) will be taken with this beauty of a lens I just picked up the other day.

That is the Nikon 18-200mm VR lens. This thing is pretty much the ultimate do everything lens. A hybrid as it were. So my camera setup is now the Nikon D40, of which i highly reccomend to anyone out there looking to get into the dSLR world. My lens collection now sits at 3. The kit lens 18-55mm, this beauty 18-200mm and I also picked up a 50mm 1.8 which I am also falling in love with. When I get some good pictures taken with that sucker I will get them up on the blog as well.