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Thanks to the help of Dane Henry and Fred Wymore I put together this Bio video about myself. Pretty self explanatory, how I got started with video, where I studied film, and what I’m doing now.

I teamed up with filmmaker Dane Henry over at www.deeprootsmedia.com, producer Fred Wymore, and host Megan Haman to shoot a profile on Strawberry California. I signed on to be Assistant Camera and dolly grip. This was a great opportunity to be immersed in creativity. The whole team bonded from the start, which equaled a great time of joking and laughing. Our main location for the shoot was the historic Strawberry Lodge, and the surrounding pony express trail. Our adventures also lead us to capture the old hwy 50 wagon train, and its many characters. We even came across a hand made collection of cigar box banjos and of coarse the creator had to sing us a song. A one of a kind experience.

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I spent the last month helping out with the Undersea Voyager Project here in Lake Tahoe. These guys were amazing to work with, Scott Cassel the man behind the mission is a diver, filmmaker, sub captain, and explorer. Check out the link above or check out his latest work diving with the Giant Squid which is featured on the discovery channel. Scott was amazing to work with, truly one of the coolest and badass guys I have ever met.

For this project I was signed on to be the boat operator (28′ Almar twin diesel) to help tow the sub around Lake Tahoe and to help with the filming of the documentary about the work here. The Undersea Voyage Project has attracted lots of publicity. A film crew from the Discovery Channel was on the boat for a hand full of days, traveled all the way from London to capture this exploration. 20 year old filmmaker Nathan Garofolos from South Lake Tahoe was on hand filming with his Red One Camera (Camera #998) for an up coming Imax teaser.

Another shoot for Heavenly Mt. Resort, Dane Henry and I captured Après Ski and lifestyle shots in Heavenly’s California bar. Some hard work went into this production and the end product is astonishing. We had a full set up rolling with 2 cameras, lights, jib arm and dollies. Our wonderful models all looked great, engulfed in vibrant colors. Thanks to the bar tender for making some great looking drinks, as well as pulling down the shot ski. Look out for these shots to appear in up coming videos and broadcast commercials for Heavenly Mt Resort.

Here is a quick teaser of the footage with some behind the scenes shots.

This video gives an inside look into Heavenly Mt Resort’s amazing fleet of Prinoth Bison X Snowcats. Dane Henry got up at 4am and rode along with Heavenlys grooming manager Todd Rutis to capture some amazing footage of the snowcat fleet in action. The groomers go out every night and cover Heavenly’s 4800 acres with miles of perfect corduroy. The snowcats are also responsible for building and shaping all the features in Heavenly’s famous terrain parks.

Thanks to Dane for the great footage, I really enjoyed editing this one.

Here is a great event I got to shoot and check out. The Celebrity Winterfest is a fundraiser for Northern California and Nevada Special Olympics. The event teams up high profile companies with celebrities and Special Olympic Athletes to compete head to head with one another. This is a critical fundraiser that helps over 16,000 Special Olympic Athletes.

A couple of the TV stars on hand include; Ryan McPartlin, Scott Micheal Campbell, Tim Abell, and Nicole Sullivan. This was a very positive event, great weather, and of course some awesome skiing.

This is a short conditions piece from the first week of March. It basically looked like this for an entire week. A large storm cycle dropped up to 5 feet of snow in the Tahoe Basin. This was the first day of the storm. The next day (3/4/09) was INSANE! The snow was literally too deep. This was a fun but challenging shoot, it was blizzard like conditions most of the morning. Dan Thrift long time local and 15 year photographer from the Tahoe Tribune tagged along capturing still images. You can check out more of Dan’s work at www.danthriftphotography.com

03/03/09