Every time you travel it’s different. Weather can affect your travel in so many different ways. Rain can cancel an outdoor activity, a beautiful day can make for great pictures or just to have fun and go swimming but if the weather is rainy, cloudy with storms you may need to alter your plans.
The Warehouse That Almost Ended Production I needed a military hangar for The Unauthorized Access. Had no permits. No budget. And definitely no access to an actual Air Force base. So I did what broke filmmakers do—found a sketchy industrial warehouse on the edge of town, convinced the owner I was “just taking some photos,” … Read more
Introduction: The Filmmaker’s Quest for Seamless Travel It’s 3:15 AM at Dublin Airport. Gate B22. The kind of cold that gets into your collar and stays there. I’ve got 94GB of raw footage from Going Home on a portable SSD that’s currently showing a blinking red light, my universal adapter is somewhere in a checked … Read more
The Filmmaker’s Ultimate Backpacking Checklist (2026) How to Pack for the Backcountry Without Sacrificing Your Cinematic Vision The first time I tried hiking the Juan de Fuca with a cinema rig, I made it forty minutes before my right shoulder went numb. The pack—a hand-me-down Osprey loaded with a Panasonic GH5, three primes, a carbon … Read more
The Hook 3:47 AM call time. Victoria, BC. February. The set for Maid smelled like sawdust and stale coffee, and the BC dampness had already soaked through my rain shell—the cheap one I bought thinking “it’s just drizzle.” By hour six, I had a headache sharp enough to ruin my focus, and by hour nine, … Read more
The 2 AM Reality Check LAX Terminal 1, 2 AM. My flight from Sundance just landed three hours late. I’ve got two Pelican cases stuffed with camera gear from Going Home post, a backpack overflowing with festival swag, and exactly zero energy left to deal with LA traffic. The Uber line snakes around the terminal. … Read more
The Beach Laptop Lie I’m in a Bangkok hotel room at 2 AM, uploading 47GB of footage through an ethernet cable I bought at 7-Eleven because the WiFi died. Again. My Instagram story from six hours ago? Me editing poolside with a coconut. Both things happened. But only one tells the truth. Three years ago, … Read more
The Moment I Wanted to Quit (And Kept Filming Anyway) I was standing in the middle of a crowded market in Lisbon, camera in hand, and completely paralyzed. Not because anything was wrong. Because everything was right — color, chaos, light — and I had no idea how to film it without looking like a … Read more
The Footage I Lost in Victoria (And What It Taught Me About Travel) Three years back, I’m standing in Victoria, BC with my Sony and a dead backup drive. The entire first week of footage—gone. Not corrupted. Just… gone. I’d been so focused on getting the perfect shots of the Inner Harbour at golden hour … Read more
The Suitcase That Almost Ruined My Film Project Last summer, I flew to Iceland to shoot exterior sequences for “Par in the Fjords.” I’d packed all my camera accessories—lens filters, batteries, memory cards—into a budget suitcase I’d grabbed off Amazon. Figured it would be fine. It wasn’t fine. Somewhere between Vancouver and Reykjavik, a zipper … Read more
The Ultimate Business Shoes Guide For Traveling – Why is it so hard to find dress shoes well-suited for the professional polish and rigors of a company trip, yet versatile enough to be dressed down after a hard day’s work at the hotel bar? And why are so numerous of the options so very cringeworthy, awfully for women? Great…