This year the Yukon Culinary Festival amped it up a bit and invited chefs from Vancouver, Toronto, Yellowknife and Skagway. This is the second year I've shot a video for them and one thing that I've come to realize is that chefs have a crazy ability to work in high pressure environments on pretty much zero sleep and still be relatively chipper in front of the guests. It felt like we were in a rock band travelling around the Territory, but instead of guitars and amps we had knives and fire.
Check out the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZS8j0Q80wuA
Behind The Scenes with Dr. Oakley
A few months back I got a call from Variable, a New York film collective that does some pretty amazing commercial work. They were on their way to the Yukon to shoot a promo for the National Geographic Wild's Dr. Oakley: Yukon Vet show, and were looking for someone to shoot a Behind The Scenes video of their shenanigans. Needless to say, I was stoked to have the opportunity. They flew in a team of 12 or so people from all over the states and BC: the camera team was from LA, the Producers/Director from NY, a Drone team from Nashville, and even a trained bald eagle from Victoria (I guess they didn't trust the local eagles after that whole Eagle Cam/Dog's breakfast fiasco). It was also good to see one or two familiar Yukon faces on set too. Although the weather was uncooperative, from herding buffalo with a drone to catching eagles and chasing horses, it was definitely one of the wildest shoots I've been on...I guess that's to be expected when working for Nat. Geo. Wild!
Check out the final video here: https://vimeo.com/107859446
*Disclaimer: I didn't shoot the drone or super slow mo shots.
Dreaming Tree
Stantec
Stantec recently brought me in to take some headshots of their team and a few snaps of them doing their thing around the office. They were all great sports, which made for a fun day of shooting!
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Ground Breaking
There's something rewarding about doing work for the hospital. Not that my other gigs aren't rewarding, but it's a little different when it's the hospital. I broke my collar bone playing soccer a few years back and my ankle a few years before that, and each time ended up at Whitehorse General where they quickly took care of my broken body and sent me on my way. Being relatively immobile for several weeks quickly makes you realize how much we take our health for granted and just how lucky we are to have the people at WGH to help when things go wrong.
WGH will soon become the first hospital in The North to have it's very own MRI machine! After a successful campaign by the Hospital Foundation (see previous post), and many other partners, the breaking of the ground commenced the other day and they brought me in to help document the ceremony.
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