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You may have seen the various films I've posted about my efforts to restore the West Peak of Mt. Tamalpais. The latest film, features local Mill Valley artists like Bob Weir, Maria Muldaur, Ramblin' Jack

I've been making a list of subjects for 360 films since I got my Insta360Pro a few weeks ago, and one thing I wanted to try was putting the camera on stage during a performance to simulate the perspective

There is a parallel world out there. I was recently hired by an ultra high-end private airport terminal to make an "experience" film about their services at Los Angeles International Airport.

Become Immersive or Die. Although I jumped into 360 video production fairly late in the game... December 2017, it's something I've been leading up to all my life. (For more on that, here's my Wikipedia

We are on the verge of a historic occasion, the impending release of iOS 10.1 for the iPhone7+.... making it the first phone camera that can produce a decent portrait, with a nicely blurred background

The summit of Mt. Tamalpais, sentinel mountain of San Francisco Bay, was considered sacred ground by the Coast Miwok Indians. In 1950 it was decapitated by the Army Corps of Engineers and, although

My second film in my Mt. Tamalpais trilogy is a meditation on impermanence in the style of Buddhist sand paintings. The objective was to create a painting of the whole mountain as it was before the military

Ho Steemians! Today I begin a week of sharing the project I'm most passionate about... Restoring the summit of Mt. Tamalpais, sentinel mountain of San Francisco Bay, to a natural state. Five years ago

Coast Miwok, a language almost forgotten, resurrected by Sky Road Webb in songs filmed in the rain this Sunday. I have a personal quest over these last five years... probably for the rest of my life....

Creating a video of the full moon rising directly behind the Golden Gate Bridge has always been a personal photographic challenge for me. Getting the weather and alignment timed perfectly required some

“This magical, marvelous food on our plate, this sustenance we absorb, has a story to tell. It has a journey. It leaves a footprint. It leaves a legacy. To eat with reckless abandon, without conscience,

“The first supermarket supposedly appeared on the American landscape in 1946. That is not very long ago. Until then, where was all the food? Dear folks, the food was in homes, gardens, local fields, and

“Let us not forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts will follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization.” ― Daniel

These portraits I've made of the farmers at my local market have changed my relationship with them -- it's made me much closer to the farmers. By freely giving my time and creativity to elevate and show

Here's a scary statistic.... The US Census shows that during the past 30 years the average age of U.S. farmers has grown by nearly eight years, from 50.5 years to 58.3 years. (source: Agricultural Census,

Enjoy the second round of portraits I've made of my heroes.... The Heroes of the Farmer's Market. No matter how tough the growing conditions are, these are the warmest, friendliest and most caring people.

Farmers! Without them we'd be dead. Every day for the next week I will share with you my portraits celebrating farmers and farming. For almost 30 years I've been going to my local farmers markets in both

I live about 10 miles north of this edifice, this symbol of the edge of the North American continent, and sometimes when I get up early on foggy mornings I head down there with my camera and tripod and

I happened upon a spider and a preying mantis both in the process of packaging up their food yesterday. (Was a strange coincidence.) And since I happened to have my phone in my pocket, I was able to save

You'll enjoy my fun, fast-paced aerial cinematography reel. It's a gas! I use aerial imagery to give you, the viewer, a clear sense of place... to immerse you in the story. Instead of using the word