For aspiring storytellers // Let’s talk about photos vs video. All of the digital cameras we use now can capture some level of video on a varying scale of quality. For those of you wondering if video storytelling is useful to learn, I would strongly suggest that you become familiar with moving pictures as a way to convert a story. My first media job was in 2012 working for a video production company and my primary job was video camera operator. It has continued to inform my storytelling principals as a supplement to a photo story and vice versa. ⁣⁣ ⁣ As I mentioned, I’m a total bird-nerd and here in Montana we have some pretty incredible avian spectacles. One of which is the springtime courtship display of the greater sage grouse. I spent weeks freezing my face off in blinds photographing these birds strutting their stuff. After a couple of years watching this behavior, I realized that the photos were leaving out so much of this birds display, after all, the display is visual to us but the females select the males based on how they sound.⁣⁣ ⁣ So I set out to capture some interesting video clips of these birds. Be sure to turn up the sound!⁣⁣ ⁣ What do you think about the video of the sage grouse vs the still photos?