These images were all taken yesterday. The hang gliding stills are from video I may use in an upcoming project. The photos from last night were all taken with the Canon 7D. I was curious to see how it would work at the maxed out ISO (ISO 6400). [ISO just tells the sensor how sensitive [...]
Well, I’ve been working pretty hard, or should I say obsessively, on this new website. At first, I didn’t think I could handle the challenge. I came close to throwing in the towel and go crawling back to the easy-to-use Blogger. But, WordPress seems to be worth the effort and it is definately more powerful, [...]
This was originally titled “Hang Gliding Compilation – Aug 31st 2009″ on youtube, but I decided to change the name since that one was a bit sterile. Similar to The Sport of Hang Gliding, A Glimpse of Hang Gliding displays what the sport of hang gliding looks like in a more dramatic fashion than the [...]
“A Leg to Fly On” was created by me for the LG Film Fest. Tip was nice enough to let me bug him for a couple days during the TN Treetoppers Team Challenge event so that I could create this short film. He is a very interesting guy and fun to be around. I hope [...]
This was my winning entry into the 2009 HP “You on You” Youtube video contest. HERE is the official press release. Winning this contest has changed my life and I want to thank everyone who voted for me and asked others to join in and vote for me too! My video was chosen as the [...]
This was my entry into the Stella Artois Short Film contest. While I didn’t win that one I did place in the TOP 10 which was a huge accomplishment. Among the judges who viewed my work in this video was Kevin Spacey, Sacha Baron Cohen, Lawrence Fishburne, and Judy Dench! This was an amazing opportunity [...]
The footage for this was captured during the filming of “A Soaring Life,” and I couldn’t figure out how to squeeze this into that documentary so I made it’s own short video. This was on Stuart Beach in Florida, where exactly on that beach I’m not sure. It was too windy to compete that day [...]
Here’s a video I made to help give a quick overview about the sport of Hang Gliding
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