Working on a Boat

My behind the scenes content thus far is sparse, consisting of unintentional screen captures and cell phone pictures snapped at random. Still, I hope you can enjoy my humble gallery of fun memories:

New experiences make my job awesome!

Even in heavy boots and plastic bib overalls, there’s something wonderfully beautiful about sitting alone on an sandy island, filming from shore. Keeping my equipment clean proved to be a challenge, but the scenery was amazing. There’s nothing like the sun peeking through the Northwest clouds, water lapping closer and closer along the shoreline, and soft sand stretched out in both directions with not a single footprint but my own.

Though I tend to be a night person, I managed to get up at unmentionable hours for amazing fishing trips. Isn’t it beautiful?

At the same time, making everything work at a moment’s notice (i.e. when a fish gets caught and splashes water on the lens just as it is being reeled in) is far from glamorous. Here the lens had just suffered one of many encounters with water droplets. The only immediately available cleaning device was the rag shown here. Yes, the red stuff is what it looks like. And don’t worry, it’s from a fish. You do what you gotta do.