My friend Cam decided to forgo photographs in lieu of videotaping on his point-and-shoot for our entire semester abroad in Europe. The results are a beautiful collection of moments, conversations, quips and action not necessarily captured with stills. He had impeccable timing when it came to cutting off, producing a variety of gems and one-liners that encapsulated our group dynamic.

An example (s235153885.onlinehome.us). These weren't playing in the browser, and strangely enough only the audio would play at work...but I know the video works, as I downloaded them all on my home computer.

None of them are overtly long or tiresome, and all give context a photograph just can't convey. There is something special with those videos. We all tended to forget Cam was randomly taping us after a few sessions of awkward video, so much of the content is pretty relaxed. Most of the clips are snippets of ongoing conversation, spliced in during train rides or downtime. It's probably impossible for someone not familiar with this group to really appreciate them, but to me every video is gold.