Nature Photo Studios Blog

The 2017 A to Z Challenge is 26 posts Monday through Saturday for the month of April. The topic of each post is about a letter of the alphabet. The first post's topic is A, the second B and so on.  This is my second year doing this challenge and it's a lot of [...]

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 [...]

When it comes to nature and wildlife filmmaking, I tend to say "I wish" a lot. I wish I would see more wildlife, I wish I could travel to Australia, I wish I'd finish my film about the tallgrass prairie. I find that I tend to wish a lot. But something happened recently that made me [...]

David sent me an email asking "if you have never shot wildlife before do you recommend scouting a location before going out to shoot to see where the animals typically are or just go out and learn by trial and Error?" The short answer is yes. The long answer is going to be a little [...]

One of filmmaking's greatest strengths is its immediacy. You may think you live in dull surroundings, but the camera captures and frames things the human eye may overlook. Furthermore, it captures a precise span of time, moments that could prove to be important in ways or to people you may never have imagined. Filming nature [...]

Filming nature and wildlife is my passion. It's what winds me up and cools me down. While I read a lot of nature and wildlife blogs, I also like to read blogs about life. One of my favorite blogs I've been reading recently is Almost Sexy Mommy run by Trish, a truly remarkable woman. Anyway, she [...]

I'm always trying to be a better nature and wildlife filmmaker. Every day I try to get a little more insight into animal behavior, plant identification, weather, anything that helps me capture footage of the natural world. I also like to see what other filmmakers and photographers are doing. So I read a lot of [...]

It seems that whenever I use the word "never" as in "I'm never going to do that again", I end up eating my words. Although I AM proud of the fact that I said I would never stop at Wall Drug in South Dakota and I've honored those words for over than thirty years. So [...]

It's been a few years but I finally got up the gumption to enter a couple of my short films in the Cedar Rapids Independent Film Festival. If you know me, I'm not only my own worst critic but I hate promoting my own work and bringing any kind of attention upon myself. So, I quietly entered two [...]

Don't Play the If Only Game What camera should I buy? That's the number one question I get asked when it comes to nature and wildlife cinematography. The second most asked question I get asked is what camera do you use? While I'm humbled that other nature and wildlife cinematographers think highly enough about my [...]