The sunflower sea star, Pycnopodia helianthoides is an endangered species. It’s the largest and fastest “starfish” in the world. Wait, science no longer calls any species a starfish, because they are not fish, hence, they are now called sea stars. Sunflower sea stars were once common along the central and northern Eastern Pacific, but a […]
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Within the Puget Sound, 14 population groups of salmon are considered a threatened or an endangered species. After living in the ocean for several years, salmon return to the same creek where they were born, to spawn, lay eggs and die. When salmon return to their natal creek, it’s a called a “salmon run”. The
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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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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
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CBS Sunday Morning sent me a quarry and was looking for wolf or swan video to highlight their Sunday LOVE program for Valentine’s Day. I had neither sequence in my library but sent them pics of local damselflies from Pinnacles National Park. They purchased the damselfly video for their “Moment in Nature” sequence at 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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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
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Photo: Babe the bobcat grooms one of her kittens. In 2011, Milbrand Cinema was hired by the County of Orange in Southern California to create a blue-chip natural history film along the uplands of Newport Bay. Highlighting this protected wilderness in the heart of the city is a story about encountering wetland mammals, the regions
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