It's been a while since my last post so I thought I would bring you up to speed on what's been happening. The biggest news since my last post is that I was hired as the Director of Photography for a film that will be playing at the new visitor center being built at Good [...]
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Twenty six posts in one month each one with about a subject that starts with a different letter of the alphabet. The A to Z Blog Challenge. If you asked me a month ago if I'd be able to write 26 posts in a month, I would have called you crazy! One of my biggest [...]
Yellowstone National Park. Just typing the name fills me head with all kinds of amazing imagery. I first travelled to Yellowstone in the eighties and it was love at first sight. Armed with a Pentax Super Program camera, I easily shoot ten rolls of slide film a day. (That's 360 images for those to young [...]
I have to admit, I was dreading this post just a little bit. I figured I could come up with a topic for every other letter in this A to Z Challenge but X was a stumper. Could I have done an Xtra Ordinary post and slide on by? Yeah probably but I wanted to [...]
And I think to myself, what a wonderful world. Every time I hear those words sung by the late Louis Armstrong I can't help but think about how amazing nature is. As a nature and wildlife filmmaker, I am so fortunate that I get to document this wonderful world and share it with others. My [...]
There's a difference between composition and vision, that being composition can be taught, vision is just something you are born with. I know some people may argue that you can learn vision too. Maybe so, but I still believe it's something you either have or you don't and no amount of study, practice is going [...]
To be a better nature and wildlife filmmaker I think you need to understand four things. There of those things, subject, habitat and behavior are pretty easy to understand. If I'm trying to film grizzly bears, there is a lot of information on the Internet and in books that will help you understand them as [...]
When you film nature and wildlife, you are documenting a moment in time. Every frame that is recorded is a moment in the past. The thing I think a lot of filmmakers and photographers fail to see is that our work also captures our past as well. When I look at footage I've shot over [...]
Probably one of the most filmed events in nature are sunrises and sunsets. When the sky turns to fire, I don't know of too many people that could turn their back to it and not film it. The problem is that colorful sunrises and sunsets are hit and miss. Sometimes it looks like you may [...]
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