Connecticut/New York-area rock fans:

 

This Thursday, Sept 18, at 8PM, my company will be involved in producing a video of the Whitewood Band peforming this Thursday with the Molly Hatchet Band at Ridgefield Playhouse:

This has been a busy weekend of acquiring aviation footage, which saw me spending full days at an airport and at an Air Force base.

Friday, it was four vintage bomber planes (one was a pursuit plane, the P-51 Mustang) and Sunday was the Great New England Air Show at Westover ARB in Chicopee,

A couple of weekends ago, I attended a horse show, mainly as a spectator and to get a feel for equestrian events. I brought my trusty XDCam EX with me and recorded about 2-1/2 hours of footage over the course of the morning and part of the afternoon.

 

I shot some footage

I survived another public speaking engagement unscathed, this time presenting on HDTV and the coming transition to digital.

The audience was receptive and we had a large auditorium that was part of a large hospital, so the facilities were top-notch.

As I went through

In this business, a significant amount of my work is proprietary, and bound by union and copyright rules, so the cost of getting the rights to display it on the web would be prohibitive. As such, it's only the 'scraps' of my work--the uncontrolled material--that make it to these portfolios. In a

This was a decision long in coming. Back in February, we got the first PMW-EX1 and I found myself an unwitting beta tester for Sony. Two trips to Sony service later, all the bugs are pretty much worked out (the battery drainage issue is 95% improved, but not down to zero) and the camera is doing