I received the CobraCrane Backpacker last week, I picked it up for a trip to Mexico I’m taking in June. I’ll be going to some fairly remote places, with no crew, and wanted something I could handle and carry myself. A full review will be coming once I put it through more tests, but here’s the first thing I shot with it and some early bullet...

I recently purchased an Easom Halo Cage for my DSLRs from Easom Optics. This was something of an impulse buy, though about 10x more expensive than I generally limit my impulse purchases. I originally saw the cage in a Tweet from Philip Bloom and thought it looked awesome. About a week later I was at a workshop with Philip (I can call him Philip now that I’ve...

I was in east Texas not too long ago and had the wonderful opportunity to have a couple of hours free, so I shot around the Woods Camp at Pine Cove in Tyler, TX.  It was fantastic to just be able to shoot the scenery and not have a shot list or a time table, I really need to do this kind of thing more often.  It refreshes the soul. Shot on location at Pine Cove...

This may be overkill, but I figure if you’ve got the gear you might as well use it!  This is a shoot I worked on for the installation of a new filter system for restaurant grills.  It’s really pretty slick, instead of the normal filters which just pump the hot air out of the room, this system captures that heat and directs it to the hot water system in...