Title: “ICE ROAD TRUCKERS”
FIELD PRODUCER / DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY
This excerpt demonstrates my field producing and single-camera cinematography under extreme conditions.
Content creation for Ice Road Truckers presented constant challenges, including extended shoots of up to 20 hours in temperatures reaching –70 degrees where equipment reliability and battery performance became critical concerns. Managing exposure time, maintaining operational gear, and working efficiently in such an environment required careful planning, technical discipline, and physical endurance. The series went on to achieve number-one ratings on the History Channel.
Title: “WILD JUSTICE” NAT-GEO
PRODUCER / EDITOR / DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY
Embedded with California Department of Fish and Game and the U.S. Marshals Service, This production required shooting in full body armor with compact, mobile camera systems and wireless audio while documenting a high-risk operations inside an Emerald Triangle marijuana grow controlled by a Mexican drug cartel.
Title: “Alaska Paranormal” NETWORK DEVELOPMENT
PRODUCER / EDITOR / DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY
Alaska Paranormal is an example of a rapid program development project (three-day turnaround). The challenge was to conceptualize and produce sufficient story, structure, and visual material to successfully pitch a full series to a cable network
Title: “COAL”
Position: DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY / FIELD PRODUCER
This sequence served as the opening for the premier of the television series COAL and exemplifies expertise in single-camera cinematography.
The objective in this scene was to quickly and effectively convey the essence of the series—capturing both the intensity of the work and the lived experience of multi-generational coal miners within a very limited timeframe.
To achieve this, I developed and implemented innovative shooting and lighting techniques to operate in an environment that is completely devoid of electricity, nearly pitch black, and both dusty and wet. Much of the footage captured for this opening had never been seen before, made possible only through custom, on-the-fly production solutions designed specifically for one of the most challenging filming environments imaginable.
Title: Outside TV’s “Locals”
Position: CINEMATOGRAPHER
This segment demonstrates the capacity to adapt cinematography techniques to extreme physical environments without compromising visual integrity or storytelling.
Title: UNDERWATER COMPILATION
Network: Discovery, National Geographic, History Channel
UNDERWATER PHOTOGRAPHY
The following selections are drawn from Emmy Award–winning programs filmed beneath the surface, capturing environments few ever see—and fewer still document on film.
Plunging to depths of 160 feet, my underwater work captures some of Lake Michigan and Lake Superior’s most haunting shipwrecks, preserved in cold, silent darkness. It ventures into pitch-black underwater caves and glides across the ocean floor of the Pacific while embedded with federal game wardens for Wild Justice. Among the most unforgettable moments is a descent beneath a 24-inch ceiling of ice, slipping into the frozen stillness surrounding the wreck of the Keuka.