It’s not often I get up early in the morning, wide-eyed and bushy-tailed. I usually fall back into a deep sleep until well past civilized wakeup times. Sometimes, though, it happens. Last weekend was such a time. I was awake at 5:30 am and couldn’t get back to sleep.

So the next logical step was to grab a face cloth, dunk it in icy water and put it on my face to make sure that this golden moment wouldn’t go away.

Soon I will have to make some decisions. As well as fine suitable locations where to carry out my plans. When I was recording these Spring Peepers, they were close to an intersection with traffic coming and going all ways. It was not very busy, but this was a spot where I could find Spring Peepers.

Spring Peepers are tiny tree frogs, making a very specific sound in spring.

Often enough, as a recordist, you encounter a sound that just begs to be recorded. But it comes with “extras”, background noise, cars, or most likely some dark background rumble we don’t even hear ourselves.

Imagine this bird (not the same as in the recording, granted.

For a while now, I have presented different audio clips, with or without visual connection. When you do field recording, you end up with a lot of awesome sounds. Sometimes you would like that sound to be the sound track of some video.

So the first thought is to simply overlay the sound to a silent video track and present it as an old-fashioned slide show.