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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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 …
Stay to the end and watch bear No. 97, who looks like it is just about time to hibernate. In Yosemite Valley, pockets of snow hide from the sun while melting snow adds to the volume of water spilling over the top of waterfalls. Mammals like black-tailed deer and coyote make the most of finding …
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 above 6K still photograph of Yosemite Falls was grabbed from a raw video file. It measures 6,144 X 3,160 pixels! Lance Milbrand also purchased a camera bag to carry equipment while outdoors. Here is an article written by Christina Green of Portabrace that shows the new camera and Lance in action. Click the images …
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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Milbrand Cinema recently sold two end segments to CBS Sunday Morning News. Its always fun to know that millions of people relaxing on a Sunday morning start their day by watching quality news and then wait for their “Moment In Nature.” These end segments capture a season, a location and usually an animal living its …
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 …
