This morning I was visiting Ana Rameriez's blog, and read her post "Let the World See Who You Are". It really struck a cord with me and inspired this post. So thank you Ana! It's rare that a week goes by that I don't get an email or a phone call asking me about my [...]
My typical method for filming nature and wildlife it to visit a location and film whatever catches my eye. There's certainly nothing wrong with that as it's worked for me for many, many years resulting in some incredible footage. This year however I want to try something different. I want to set some goals for [...]
Let's face it, as the mercury drops, so does our desire to get out and film nature and wildlife. It's cold, the landscape is bleak and wildlife is hunkered down conserving energy in an effort to survive. It's far too easy turn off the alarm, roll over, pull up the blankets and go back to [...]
I read a recent article by nature and wildlife photographer Mark Graf of Graf Nature Photography about meeting a man that said "Nature wasn't meant to be photographed." His meaning was that nature is so grand and made up not only of sights, but smells, feelings and sounds that there's no way a simple photograph [...]
Low Light Sensitivity As a nature and wildlife filmmaker, you can most often find me out in the field at first light and last light. One of the hardest things for me is to see something amazing to film but the light is to low for my camera to capture. Ove the years video cameras [...]
In an earlier article I talked about music as one of the three things tha caused former Indian Creek Nature Center director Rich Patterson to say ""I like yours because they are outstanding and very much set a mood." The second thing I think that helps my films stand out and set a mood is [...]
Recently a photographer posed the question, would you rather have the best camera system in the world (price is no object) or learning to truly see (you could spot artistic compositions anywhere), which would you pick? The vast majority said they would take the vision to see over having the best gear that money could [...]
Nature and wildlife filmmaking is all about decisions. Where do we go to find our subjects? Once we find them how do we compose the shot that we want? Is the exposure right? Is the white balance where we want it to be? Sometimes our decisions are based on compromises. We can't put the tripod [...]
Recently, Panasonic called and asked if I wanted to shoot some more footage with the PX270 now that Iowa had greened up and subjects were more plentiful. But I had something better in mind, a trip back to Yellowstone National Park. It had been several years since I had been in Yellowstone. Hassles with filming [...]
I don't know what it's like where you live, but whenever I thought about filming nature and wildlife, my home turf in Eastern Iowa was usually pretty far down the list of locations where I wanted to plant my tripod and hit the record button. However on the last couple of years I've spent a lot of time [...]
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