Wow, the Pacific Ocean. The wind, the smell of the salt and the elk, wait, elk? That’s right, Tule Elk have a designated place to roam free at the Point Reyes National Seashore. I am fortunate to have an organization like CBS Sunday Morning News as a client and friend. Their network has broadcast my …
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The Mesoamerican Barrier Reef in Central America and Mexico stretches nearly 780-miles, it’s the second largest coral reef in the world. Heart of the Reef is about a love for the ocean. Within this 20-minute film, our audience will learn about marine life, world climates and how mankind fits into this environment. Currently in production …
Skimming across the water along Upper Newport Bay. The film Newport Our Bay was commissioned by the Orange County Board of Supervisors and Newport Bay Conservancy. It was shot during the 2020-21 covid pandemic and brings our audience skimming along the surface of Newport Bay and underwater to see marine plants and wildlife. It will …
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Water within Newport’s Upper Back Bay looks innocent enough but like any wetland, it contains a soupy mixture of billions of tiny, microscopic creatures, larvae, and plants. Our objective in capturing plankton was to show creatures that live in the bay feeding upon this unusual life form. Sea Pens anchor to the seafloor and feed …
Lighthouse Field State Park – come for the butterflies, stay for the lifestyle. There are many reasons to visit this state park in Santa Cruz, California. In creating a one-minute film, I only touched on a few of the attractions. Here are a handful of reasons to visit: a cool lighthouse, CA’s first surfing museum, …
The video grab above was captured in Roatan, Honduras. Although I anticipated seeing dolphins on this dive, this moment of mutual breath holding was special. Who would exhale first, myself or the dolphin? The connection between my lens and the animal stays with me, this moment in time is something I can share with the …
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THIS Event during the Summer Belongs on Halloween! The Story of the Tarantula and the Tarantula Hawk Wasp All of the images were captured with my video camera. A tarantula hawk wasp feeding along the top of a milkweed plant. IMAGINE – You belong to the arthropod family; you are an eight-legged, furry tarantula and …
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Ever since I worked on my steelhead movie for NOAA, NMFS in Long Beach, I have been fascinated with the California creek ecosystem and steelhead trout. Steelhead, (Oncorhynchus mykiss) could tell a very interesting story about their life, if only they could talk. Adults deposit eggs and milt in gravel within creeks and rivers that …
In 2013, Milbrand Cinema was hired by the County of Orange, OC Parks to create a unique project for their 6,000-acre Laguna Coast Wilderness Park. Three large video screens play simultaneously and each screen has a different visual pertaining to the parks seasons and the regions flora, fauna and remarkable geology. The new movie was …
Nix Nature Center Three-Screen Project in Orange County, California Read More »
