I’ve been off the web for a few weeks; I was neck-deep in a photo shoot for Orvis and doing well to randomly check email on my phone. The computer wasn’t getting a lot of action other than file backups at night. Nearly three weeks back home in Montana proved to be good for the […]
The Vermont Chronicles
Howdy Big Sky Country. Currently wading through meetings and photo shoot scouting, and enjoying all Bozeman has to offer. It’s a bit surreal to be back after several years away; town has changed, but the mountains and the sage and the rivers are still the same. Spent much of today trying to scout out a […]
Kicking off a travel month this weekend at Hell or High Water ’15, held at West Branch Angler on the Delaware River. The fly-fishing gathering, film festival and brewfest is held near Hancock, New York, and serves as an unofficial “kick off” for the local trout season. A crew from Orvis has been manning the […]
As I sit down to write, I realize this post will pop up on Easter morning. I hope spring sunshine is peeking through the curtains, the coffee is deliciously hot and dark, and everyone is with friends and family. Take a second to reflect on spring—maybe there is green grass peeking up (unless you are […]
I’ve had a couple emails this week from folks getting ready for the coming season (come on, spring) and wondering what they can do to up their photography game while out on the river. Somehow life always shines a bit rosier when we are on the water, fly rod in hand, but the perennial question […]
We’re finally faced with the spring iteration of Daylight Savings Time, which means the official start of spring can’t be that far away. The promise of warmer days, fishing trips, and—someday—Teva tans looms just around the corner, and you can’t help but get excited at the hint of spring in the air. The light is […]
Winter continues to eke along. Here on the Ice Planet Hoth—aka Vermont—we are slated to get into the double digits this weekend, a fact which has caused much rejoicing amongst the fleece- and down-clad inhabitants. This is the time of year cabin fever tends to set in, and in the past week I found myself […]
Sometimes you experience something you know will stick with you of the rest of your life. You wish those few glorious moments could last forever; that somehow you could bracket and frame the juncture, to be lovingly referenced in the future when you need a little boost. I’ve finally grown up enough to recognize these […]
The thermometer is flirting with zero degrees again, and the Fire Girl Subaru is now sporting a coat of grey ice and white salt cracklings. I’ve resorted to toting the space heater with me wherever I move in the apartment, and have realized waking up to a room temperature in the 30s is going to […]
One thing I’ve rapidly discovered about the East Coast is the dearth of good wintertime fishing (as I write this I realize I am opening myself up to all manner of argument). But compared to the strong options back home in the West, I’ve been pretty underwhelmed with cold-weather trout fishing in the Northeast. In […]
It’s the season of grey and black and white… it gets light as I arrive at the Orvis headquarters, and it’s pretty solid blackness by the time I leave. We’re working on summer catalogs, and I find myself drifting off into dreams of foam hoppers and caddis swarms and wet wading while sitting at my […]
Maybe it’s cliché, but I can honestly say 2014 has been a hell of a ride. Different than the past few years—for the first time in more than five years, I was in one place for more than ten months. A year ago today, I had just arrived the night prior in Vermont, limping in […]
For a sport as outwardly benign as fly fishing, deep, dark, vicious things can lurk under the surface. What should be a sport of escape—an excuse to spend time outside, listening to the rivers and the water and getting away from all the petty annoyances of life—can turn into a politically-driven ego match astoundingly […]
I’ve escaped the clutches of the grey Northeast and made my way down to the South. Alabama in fact. So far I’ve been called “honey” in multiple stores, had my first Starbucks in months, and am enjoying the distinct lack of snow. I’m looking forward to a week of catching up on Fire Girl work, […]
It’s suddenly mid-December, a fact heralded by a remarkable run of grey days. The world is white snow and dark skies and Christmas lights all around… cosy and quaint, but not terribly inspiring with the camera. And so in honor of Vermont’s grey-ness, here are a few images from my favorite grey-toned photography session. Anglers […]
