Well, if anyone else was actually recorded on my camera, then I may have put their names. But since I don't have any recordings of anyone else, I'm not going to start naming everyone that ran that day but doesn't even show up in my video. If somebody wanted to be filmed, they need to let me know and make arrangements. I really don't mind, but it has to be planned out, otherwise, it's whatever I end up recording which included Alex since she was always last to run things and I was second last. By that logic, I'd have to go to every video I've ever done and start enumerating everyone's names that paddled at CdB Newcomer's Day for example because I probably said "Cindy Doyle's first time on Garburator" and yet there were many others surfing it for the first time that day. They just didn't get recorded. Besides, there is a considerable amount of work in doing video edits, probably why a lot of people don't bother recording. The filming is the easy part, the editing afterwards can be a major pain. I find it worthwhile personally, but I do spend many hours on these videos. Usually I accompany such videos with a blog post where I describe the day... but I have been told before NOT to put names in my videos or my blog posts. So I'm going to go with what I think is reasonable since I'm the one making the video edits. I've also been requested NOT to record certain people which as you can imagine, is quite difficult when you happen to pan around them as part of a group shot or something of the sort. Since Alex was featured in the video AND I happen to know she wanted this video, I gladly obliged and placed her name along with it. Notice that it was also not within the actual footage and instead along the description of the YouTube video. The worse thing ever is when I've incorporated a text lower third in the video of who we're watching and then find out once the video has undergone transcoding for hours and then many hours uploading to YouTube and "processing" that they would like to have their names removed. This requires that I delete the video on YouTube, edit the source video, re-transcode the thing and re-upload again. In the process, any links that were shared no longer work and people complain that the video is gone. Rant over.
With that in mind.... this in NO WAY reflects on a lack of appreciation for those people doing safety. I saw many, many people on the shore line with throw bags ready to go, people watching to indicate when the way was clear and fellow paddlers such as yourself Christian ready at the bottom to save our sorry butts if/when one of us swam. With that, I definitely thank everyone that allowed me and the rest to run this section. It was incredible! But no, I won't be naming everyone unless each person explicitly requests that I name them in the description. With that in mind, anyone want me to add their name in the description? I"m happy to oblige.
