Dog’s Eye View

The video above, Beautiful Day at the Dog Park, by Kelsey Wynns, recorded on a GoPro HD Helmet Hero
made the rounds last week. It’s awesome. Kids and adults love it. Below are some more great videos made by strapping a helmet cam onto a dog.

Fetch Cam

Some dogs can be incredibly focused on the ball, or frisbee, or stick (my dog goes nuts for pine cones). It’s hard to understant what makes them so nuts. Seeing this video of a dog tearing out after a ball again and again shows you what it looks like, even if you can’t se what is so great about the ball

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0DJqc-aNC8[/youtube]

Duck Retriever Cam

Most dogs were bread to help us out somehow. Some pulled sleds, some protected us from wolves. Retrievers help hunters by going and getting what they shoot. In this case, what looks like a golden retriever, is fetching ducks out of a lake.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvD5D82ORns[/youtube]

The Golden Retriever is a medium-sized breed of dog. They were historically developed as gundogs to retrieve shot waterfowlsuch as ducks and upland game birds during hunting and shooting parties.^[1] As such, they were bred to have a soft mouth to retrieve game undamaged and have an instinctive love of water. [Wikipedia]

River Dog Cam

I like rivers too. If you strap a camera to me around a nice creek, stream or river, it might look similar to this.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ugNws2fCEA[/youtube]

Cougar Tracking Dog Cam

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDOZz-2cvFY[/youtube]

“University of Washington Conservation Canines are being used to monitor cougar populations in the Blue Mountains in SE Washington state. “Scoobie” is one of three rescue dogs on the project.”

Canine Camera Man

This video was supposedly shot by a dog. But I have my doubts.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dibEHPS3GO0&feature=related[/youtube]

Dog Running Wild

This one is rad. The editing and the music really makes you feel like you’re a running jumping dog.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqJE1Vl9-wA[/youtube]

It’s pretty easy to make videos like these. You just need a simple helmet cam like the GoPro HD Helmet Hero and a dog. I recommend you try it out. You can cut the video together using Apple’s iMovie or Adobe Photoshop Elements and Premiere Elements 10
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