Close, it was August 1996.
I took this in what I now refer to as my 'young, foolish, and tripodless' days, when I was shooting only for myself and had no ideas or aspirations about sharing it publicly. Heck, at the time it hadn't even been 2 years since I bought my first modem, and the first streaming video I watched was in a window maybe twice the size of a postage stamp.
We've come a long way since then. Nowadays, everything's HD and I can't conceive of going someplace to film without my fluid-head tripod and its homemade set of shock-absorbing feet in tow. Well, except for the excursions I took last month where I couldn't figure out a way to hang the tripod out the window, but I did use it on the ground for runbys. Anybody got a lead on a cheap, lightly used Steadicam rig? :)
F.F.V.
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