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Had a new experience in October--a camera op dropped my new F3 off a tripod and onto a concrete floor. Total loss, including a broken Sigma 50-150 (one of my fav lenses ever) and a cracked Prolock adapter. Total bill for value of broken gear plus cost to replace is almost $10K. The irony was...

Columbia, Costa Rica and Guatemala do not appear to be carnet countries. Anyone here traveled there to shoot recently? What paperwork did you need to get in and out smoothly with gear?

Man...let one tourist splash a drone into a geyser, and it ruins it for everyone else who wants to splash their drone into a geyser: http://www.nbcnews.com/tech/gadgets/yellowstone-national-park-reminds-tourists-absolutely-no-drones-allowed-n192251

Takes a current (but extremely annoying trend) in reality programming, and stretches just a teensy little bit: http://www.wimp.com/realityshows/

Go pro extravadoc with a slightly different ending than usual: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWOANXNGrZc

I've been working with the producers of a new film festival slated for this fall in Charlotte. The film entries can be any length, but they must contain exactly 100 words of dialog, with a countdown bug. Here's the "sample" short we shot this winter as an example for anyone who'd like to...

The future of video cameras has arrived: https://vimeo.com/markangelawalley

http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-supreme-court-photographer-gays-20140404,0,126351.story#axzz2yDZW2RBv A NM Supreme Court ruling that a religious-based refusal to shoot a wedding was discriminatory is not going to be reviewed by the SCOTUS folks, meaning the ruling stands. The...

I was stunned to see some serious craftpersonship issues in one of the Olympic feature stories yesterday--a puff piece with Mary Carillo and Maria Sharapova (who apparently grew up playing tennis in Sochi). While much of the b-roll was gorgeous shallow focus eye candy...when they were actively...

http://openchannel.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/01/29/16726198-anticipating-domestic-boom-colleges-rev-up-drone-piloting-programs?lite 10,000 US-based drones in a few years? We'll see....

Anyone ever work with this UK production company?

...and probably is reduced to working on shows like Honey Boo-Boo for the rest of her career, if she has one after all this... http://i-was-waving-not-drowning.tumblr.com/post/39847297986/reality-tvs-risk-reward

I had a chance to work with Cameradude on a pilot shoot I crewed up for NBC/Universal last week in Charlotte. Great guy, great gear, great attitude. Of course, you still have to hire me first, but hard to go wrong with Dieter. Other than the rough tattoos, you'd never know he'd ever even...

I had a call yesterday for a shoot, but the lady needing the video thought I still worked in Oregon, where I have not lived for over a year. When I asked her where she got my name and phone number (after thanking her for the call and referring her to a shooting friend back in Portland) so I...

My daughter has been involved in fencing for over a decade, from a 10 year old all the way to the Olympics. I've followed her all over the world with a TV camera (much to her chagrin, many times) and have hundreds of hours of tape sitting in boxes, probably never to be seen again. Once she...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/01/house-republicans-order-j_n_1246971.html http://www.treehugger.com/culture/josh-fox-arrested-house-filming-fracking-meeting.html So, it seems that the director of the "Gasland" doc was in a hearing room, attempting to shoot a Congressional committee...

A lot of work went into this one... http://vimeo.com/32397612

Not sure if I've read this here yet, but a reality show shooter and a police officer have been indicted after an investigation into a 9 year old's fatal shooting during a police tag a long series...

See...this is why still photographers should never have been given access to the wonderful world of video... http://overheadbin.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/06/17/6881194-humorous-airport-video-no-laughing-matter-for-dfw-officials

Ahhh...Charlotte TV. http://www.mediabistro.com/tvspy/newsroom-brawl-lands-wccb-anchor-brien-blakely-in-hospital_b5475 At least they weren't accused of shoplifting, unlike their ND.