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At Glidetrack we like nothing more than when we see excellent videos shot with the help of one of our products. Except, that is, when that video has been shot with an amazing back story.
Afghanistan: touchdown in flight is a video filmed by Lukas and Salome Augustin, starting on their plane journey into Afghanistan and then the everyday living of local Afghani people. It was filmed in part to be a tribute to Lukas’s friend Gayle Williams who was killed by the Taliban while working as an aid worker in 2008. Lukas lived in Kabul from 2006 to 2008, and while working as a humanitarian aid worker for an Organisation called Operation Mercy he met and became friends with Gayle. Lukas returned to Afghanistan with his then fiancée, now wife, Salome.

Lukas and Salome used a Glidetrack HD while making their intimate, moving six minute video. They capture the Afghan people and way of life absolutely perfectly.
Lukas has shown that even videographer working on a low budget can produce the most capturing of videos. The shots of the man carrying wood along on the road on the back of his mule sets the scene for a very open look at the Afghan way of life. The shot captured using his Glidetrack HD of the Mosque barely visible through the cherry blossom trees paints an very different picture to the Afghanistan we are shown on the news. Lukas’s shots show Kabul and Mazar-e Sharif as places of beauty.
Lukas wanted to go to other places as well but there were several incidents and it wasn’t safe for them. Just one day after Lukas shoot at the blue mosque in Mazar-e Sharif a mob started from the very same place before storming the UN building.
Videos like this show the extraordinary lengths people go to to ensure that others can see what it is they see in a certain place. Lukas sees beauty where others are told to see despair. Lukas’s video opens our eyes to the real Afghan people.
For more of Lukas’s fantastic video work why not check him out.
website: lukasaugustin.de
For more information and production photos: Facebook or Twitter

Touchdown in motion is very much Glidetrack’s video of the upcoming year.