Aerial Albany: I love seeing drone and aerial footage of familiar landscapes. The city looks quite different 400 feet above the deck. The chaos and push of movement falls away in the distance between the lens and the ground. It's like a Sunday morning or a scorning Upstate New York afternoon when all the streets are abandoned. What's special is at that very moment, the view is exclusively yours, and by extension, the landscape.
Sunset Launch
Video Field Notes | May 13, 2016
Storm Season is Coming...
Some public domain footage used via NOAA and the United States Department of Commerce.
The Earth is Art
Video Filed Notes | May 11, 2016
This was the scene last night of fisherman on the Hudson River from the Green Island Bridge in Troy, New York. I grew up in this city. I can see my first apartment in this video. Troy will always be home no matter where I live or travel. We probably all feel the sensation of viewing our collected personal histories in an image of our hometowns. In part, this one is mine. The sunsets the past few days have been spectacular because of unseen smoke in the air from a distant wildfire. I wait all winter for sunsets like this one.
Lightning Over the Hudson River
Storm Season is Coming...
Video Field Notes | May 10, 2016
Creating content is more than a process, it's a way of life. When speaking with other photographers and filmmakers, I find a common theme in the way we all view the world. As content creators, we define what we see in imaginary composition frames until we can actually record what we see in a beautiful and meaningful way. I try to shoot everyday and the lines between still images and video are often blurred.
Video Field Notes are clips from the process, a way of recording a location or a feeling in an informal way. They are my notebook as a filmmaker.
This scene was captured last night at the Tomhannock Reservoir in Valley Falls, New York. The afternoon was cold and windy on the shore, but back through the trees, the wind was all but gone and the sunshine was more than inviting after a gray winter. I don't tend to like Spring much, it's a stop over that is somewhere in-between two of my favorite seasons. And while most see new life, I can't wait for the deep greens of summer.
Tell Your Story
Severe Storm over the Hudson River
License to Explore
Get out there. Tell your story. Make it memorable.
Green Sky | Halfmoon, New York
Above Albany | Nor'easter Aerial Operations
Nor'easter Aerial Operations
Storm Sky
On-location: Manufacturing Documentary
On-location on May 4, 2016 capturing manufacturing documentary footage in Troy, New York.
Late Night Sky
For Challenging Environments.
Rotating Wall Cloud
Storm Season is Coming...