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I recently traveled to Peru to shoot for National Geographic,
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I recently traveled to Peru to shoot for National Geographic,
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which is easily the craziest sentence I've ever said in my entire life.
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Yeah, it was a week I will never forget.
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Over all those days I came away with a ton of photos.
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Peru is so rich with history, color, texture, beauty.
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But I don't want to get ahead of myself.
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I want to bring you back to the beginning.
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Day one.
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We started at a textile center 12,000 feet up in the mountains.
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In this courtyard, women weave all day long,
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making unique garments one by one, by hand.
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Some work alone, some work together,
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and some work alone together.
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There was a photo everywhere in this beautiful place.
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And watching these women do such meticulous and meaningful work was quite special.
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It was really a way to start off the week.
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I would argue that the most noteworthy element of any good Peruvian textile is the color.
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It's just undeniably powerful.
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And we got to see firsthand how these colors are all obtained exclusively from nature.
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whether it be from a grain,
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a leaf, a flower, or this moldy powder growing on a cactus leaf.
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You'd never know things like that can make colors like this.
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Speaking of color, I wanna talk about that because
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that may have been the most important thing in my head when considering what cameras what gear to bring on this trip.
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I knew I needed these colors to really pop
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so you bet your bottom dollar I lugged my GFX and I don't regret one second of it.
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I also carried around an XH2S just as a second body and second focal length option.
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I actually mounted a beastly lens on that thing.
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It was a 200 millimeter,
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it was an F2, a stunning gorgeous piece of glass.
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And this thing was heavy and big.
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It actually injured me quite a bit.
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My legs were incredibly, incredibly bruised after this week,
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but the photos I got with it made it all worth it.
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Next, we got to see a Peruvian Paso horse show.
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It's a story of friendship and love played out by three Peruvian horses,
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their riders, and this magnificent dancing queen.
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I was watching all of this from my viewfinder with my jaw literally dropped.
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Wow, sorry, it's hard to talk.
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I busted my lip.
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Oh, it looks way worse than it did this morning.
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Am I okay?
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Okay, we're going to make it.
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We're going to make it through.
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It's going to be okay.
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This is a good time to just take a pause.
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Okay, so we're going to take a break
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because now's as good a time as ever to say thank you to the sponsor of today's video.
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The lovely Dracula.
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Ta-da!
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Trickity track track track track club.
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Now I couldn't help but notice that recently all of y'all have been talking about the music in my videos.
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It seems like you're liking it and while I'd love to really just pat myself on the back for that,
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I can't really take the credit, right?
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Because it's really these musicians who are making good music, okay?
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It's...let me tell you.
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I just remember when I found Junie on Track Club,
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I couldn't believe it was the first time I was hearing that voice.
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I run into songs like that on Track Club
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and then I get to stream them now and sing them and hum them every day.
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the songs just are becoming permanently imprinted in my brain because they're so good
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back to business people
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to end the day we got to see salt mines this
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is a hillside of about 4 500 pre-incan salt wells that that are kept up to this day,
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each plot tended to by a different family.
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The scale of this place gets a little more real when you see it on 200 millimeter.
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I wish we could have seen this place in the sunshine and with clear blue skies,
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only because the plots really do reflect what's happening up in the sky a bit.
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But luckily the storm started to sort of clear up right as the sun started to set.
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and we were at the top of this really kind of gorgeous valley and so
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we were pretty lucky to catch the sunset here.
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The next day we took a train to Aguascalientes which is the town you actually get to Machu Picchu from.
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It's this storybook town nestled on a river with small bridges and cobblestone streets.
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We didn't get to spend much time in this town,
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but I've thought about it since getting home.
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It's definitely one of those places that I would like to go back to and have a few days in.
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After a twisty turny drive up this kind of wild road,
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we got to see Machu Picchu for the first time.
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Some of these photos are lined up for 15 minutes.
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Some of these photos from the Machu Picchu site ended up being some of my favorite.
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I wasn't particularly expecting that,
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only because tourist sites can sometimes just be not that exciting after you've seen it so many times.
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But there was something about the colors this day and the way the GFX registered them and the light.
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And it wouldn't have been maybe my ideal time of day to go there and shoot,
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but it ended up being absolutely stunning.
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It was interesting to see when I posted these on Instagram how many people asked what film stock these were.
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A digital camera with really,
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really, really good dynamic range to sort of match the good dynamic range in film.
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That's where you can really start to emulate that look.
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The next morning we got to see Machu Picchu again,
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but this time actually we hiked above it.
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We hiked a mountain called Huayna Picchu.
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This hike is up this really thin spine,
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and it consists mainly of stairs.
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Just straight stairs for quite some time.
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It's really truly not for the faint of heart,
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but it was worth it, that's for sure.
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Also, this pup sort of latched onto our group at the entrance gate
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and sort of guided us up to the top and then
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when we got up there he just like passed out on this cliffside.
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Ugh, this little angel.
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We hung out at the top for a good while,
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we had interviews to film,
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people needed to eat and rest and enjoy the views
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and then we finally started making our way back down
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which was surprisingly just as challenging as the way up but just for different reasons.
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You have to remember these steps were made for Incan people who were really,
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really short and had really small feet.
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So you're climbing down a really small staircase on the side of a mountain with like camera gear.
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I was getting a little bit of vertigo going down
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because you don't stop to like look up and
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so I was starting to get like dizzy and lightheaded and you're up at high altitude,
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I mean it really is quite an experience.
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And then to just make it all the more interesting you
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actually have to like crawl through this like black hole it looks like from afar.
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I was like where are we,
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what are we walking into right now?
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This is crazy!
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What on earth?
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What the heck?
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Good thing I'm not claustrophobic.
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The next day was our last shoot day,
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but it did not disappoint in the slightest.
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We went to a sort of remote llama farm out in the mountains and we got to witness a really,
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really beautiful ceremony there.
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I'd sort of been waiting all week for my moment to be able to take some portraits and this was finally it.
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so So
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this whole week I was shooting amongst my team at Sunny 16.
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So we were filming, it was a full-blown like film set with crew and talent and everything.
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And one of the people we were with all week is actually a National Geographic photographer.
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This is Juan.
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So Juan, after the ceremony at the llama farm,
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sort of starts talking to the little boy in the ceremony who we find out his name is James.
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I sort of catch this moment happening sort of off to the side,
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you know the ceremony is sort of broken up,
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everyone's kind of going their own way.
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And I see Juan and James and they sort of break away
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and they have this like 10 minute period this really sort
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of beautiful window of time where Juan actually let James hold his camera
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and this is the first time James has ever held a
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camera in his whole entire life the way these two sort
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of like broke the ice with a camera I don't know it was all really just
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so sweet and so special to see long live James we shot one more location
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that afternoon and then we were straight to the airport.
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This is a first right?
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Yeah definitely never done this and I also really hope it doesn't start raining.
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Same like look at this.
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We had sort of a funny moment here where we're having to organize
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and clean and divide all of our gear we're also downloading all of our footage
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and photos outside just in the parking lot at the airport.
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And just like that, we were on our plane rides home and the week was over.
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I remember sort of getting home and sitting down and kind of being like, Whoa.
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We just did that.
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Pretty cool.
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Don't you take your smile away Baby you're beautiful
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How do I tell you I love that you're different And the moment I know
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Is when we lay down under the moon Look to the sky,
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cause there's a billion stars They look the same,
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but you stay who you are Done so much and you've got far to go
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Don't wait on the world to let you know Baby,
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you're beautiful Baby, you're beautiful Don't you take your smile away
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Cause baby you're beautiful You've got something special I understand sometimes it's hard to see
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When the world is hanging on your shoulder Baby, can you trust me?
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Look to the sky, there's a billion stars But none compare to who you are Times get hard,
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you're natural You can conquer anything,
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but don't let go And remember,
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baby you're beautiful Baby you're beautiful Don't take your smile,
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baby Baby you're beautiful Do-da-da-da-da-da,
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ba-do-da-do Ayy Ba-do-da-da, ba-do-da-da-do Ba-do-da-do,
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ba-do-da-do Ya Ba-do-da-do, ba-do-da-do, ba-do-da-do Ya don't wanna know this Ba-do-da-do,
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ayy Yeah, yeah, yeah And baby,
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you're beautiful Baby, you're beautiful Yes,
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you are Don't you take your smile Cause baby,
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you're beautiful Yeah Yeah
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Thank you.
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このレッスンでは、「National Geographic」のためにペルーで撮影を行った経験を通じて、英語のリスニングとスピーキングのスキルを向上させることを目指します。登場人物が経験した感情や、ペルーの文化や風景に関する具体的な描写に焦点を当て、言語の運用能力を広げ、自然な表現を身につけることができます。また、YouTubeで英語学習を行い、IELTSスピーキング対策にも最適な内容を提供します。
重要な語彙とフレーズ
- 色彩 (Color) - 作品や文化における重要な要素。
- 手織り (Handwoven) - 一つひとつ丁寧に作られる技法。
- 馬のショー (Horse Show) - ペルーの伝統を体験するイベント。
- 自然からの色 (Colors from Nature) - 環境から得られる素材。
- 撮影器材 (Photography Gear) - 撮影に必要な道具。
- 雰囲気 (Atmosphere) - 撮影機会における重要な要素。
- ブレのない (Steady) - 撮影における安定性の重要性。
練習のコツ
この動画のスピードとトーンに合わせて、shadow speechやshadowspeakを実践するための具体的なアドバイスをいくつかご紹介します。まず、映像を一時停止し、発話のリズムや強弱を感じ取ることが重要です。動画は自然な会話が展開されるため、時間をかけてゆっくりとセンテンスを繰り返すと良いでしょう。次に、「撮影器材」や「色彩」などの重要な語彙を強調して声に出して練習し、単語に対する理解を深めてください。また、時には文全体を音読し、ペースを合わせてみましょう。リスニング能力を向上させることで、IELTSスピーキング対策にも役立ちます。
最後に、録音して自分の発音を確認することもお勧めします。このプロセスにより、話す際の自信を高めることができるでしょう。何度も繰り返し練習し、自分の成長を楽しみながら続けてみてください。
シャドーイングとは？英語上達に効果的な理由
シャドーイング（Shadowing）は、もともとプロの通訳者養成プログラムで開発された言語学習法で、多言語習得者として知られるDr. Alexander Arguelles によって広く普及されました。方法はシンプルですが非常に効果的：ネイティブスピーカーの英語を聞きながら、1〜2秒の遅延で声に出してすぐに繰り返す——まるで「影（shadow）」のように話者を追いかけます。文法ドリルや受動的なリスニングと異なり、シャドーイングは脳と口の筋肉が同時にリアルタイムで英語を処理・再現することを強制します。研究により、発音精度、抑揚、リズム、連音、リスニング力、そして会話の流暢さが大幅に向上することが確認されています。IELTSスピーキング対策や自然な英語コミュニケーションを目指す方に特におすすめです。