I have loved photography since I was a kid (at twelve I saved for a beautiful little Konica rangefinder). When I have a camera in my hand I feel like my senses are heightened and I am suddenly more aware of the light, color, shapes, and patterns around me. I still feel that way today, and I hope it shows in my images.
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The advent of digital photography, followed by the hybrid cameras that allowed photographers to expand into high quality videography has kept the work interesting and challenging, and made possible a whole new level of storytelling.
The video below was literally more than a year in the making. As the primary videographer capturing the start-to-finish creation of a commissioned totem pole by artist and friend Duane Pasco for Seattle based company Saltchuk, I filmed Duane’s work from the milling of the log to the crane installation of the finished piece through the roof of a nine story building on Seattle’s waterfront. The interview segments and the editing was the work of YUIT Communications of Anchorage, Alaska. A longer version of this film plays in a permanent installation at the base of the totem at Saltchuk.