Trek Assessment #3 (Situations)

1. Trek 01: I went into the forest expecting to gather some generic wind blowing or bird chirping sounds, but I was pleasantly surprised to find almost immediately after I began there was a much richer variety of sounds that were only really noticeable to me with my headphones on and the volume turned up. One of the surprises was, in an otherwise undistinguished area, the sound of crickets became overwhelming. I looked around for where exactly this large number of crickets was hiding, but couldn't find them anywhere. When I left the chirping stopped.

2. Trek 01: Another interesting discovery during Trek 01 was the sound of the highway. I had thought that I was distant enough from the road to get undiluted sounds of nature, but I was wrong as I distinctly heard a police siren and semi trucks passing every few minutes.

3. Trek 02: While I was filming from a low perspective, a curious squirrel jumped in front of the camera. As I had been focusing firmly on the tiny LCD screen, this sudden intrusion upon my subject matter made me fall backwards in shock and hit my head on a tree. True story.