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Documentary Photography: 250th Anniversary of the Boston Tea Party
It was a great pleasure to fly into Boston this past weekend to photograph the 250th Anniversary of the Boston Tea Party. As someone who’s always delved deeply into American history it was incredibly special to document the reenactment, starting in the Old South Meeting House, walking the streets of Boston, and then finally at the site of the original Tea Party in Boston Harbor. Thanks to the event organizers, the actors, and everyone involved in putting on this historic event.
Most of my images are going to a private party, but here are a few behind-the-scenes images I’m able to share.
New Workshop Announcement!
Come join me at the Denver, Colorado, Fly Fishing Show on Saturday, January 20, 2024 for a new, hands-on fishing photography workshop. Pre-registration is required; here are the details:
Capture Better Fishing Photos With Jess McGlothlin
Join international fly-fishing photographer and writer Jess McGlothlin for a workshop designed to help you better your fishing and travel photography. Shooting with your phone? That’s okay! Bring your phone, point-and-shoot, DSLR… whatever camera you have. You’ll come away with increased knowledge, skills, and a few handy tips and tricks to help you take better photos on the water.
All levels are welcome.
Thoughts on Thanksgiving
It’s Thanksgiving today here in the States, and I’m using the rare time at home base to give the year a little review. It’s been a whirlwind (and with more travel coming in up December, it’s not over yet!). The overwhelming theme as I dig through images, notes, and video clips from his year is overwhelming gratitude, which I suppose fits for a Thanksgiving note. Sure, I’m grateful for the images made, stories penned, and the fish caught along the way, but most of all I’m grateful for the people I’ve been able to meet and work alongside in these awesome places. The people who make it all happen.
There’s a certain breed of people out there who are happiest out in the far corners of the world, doing their thing. Vibrant souls who tend to be remarkably steady, balanced with a good dose of wild.
Perhaps it’s a result of being so close to the edge of the world, but the paradoxical sensation of so much peace—and feeling so alive—is impossible to ignore.
And it’s impossible to ignore the people who understand it.
So thanks to everyone who I’ve been able to work with this year. Thanks for the conversations around campfires, boat launches, dozens of airports, lodge lounges, and more than one gravel bank in the near middle of nowhere. Thanks for the nights we tried to solve the world’s problems over too much local booze and—just for a moment—it seems like we might know a thing or two. Keep on doing what you’re doing. Keep on living on the edges, and reveling those quiet moments.
So thanks to the crew in the trenches: the guides, cooks, lodge teams, airport desk staff, customs agents, and everyone else who makes it all work. There’s no way I can fit all your pictures in this post, though I sure wish I could. I’m grateful for you.
Stats Breakdown: The Past 11 Weeks on the Road
The past months have been a sprint. Some of it you’ve seen here on social media, some of it you haven’t. It’s been a mix of jobs—some fishing, some not fishing—airports, camera gear, fly rods, medical kits, and endless words jotted out onto various documents. Emails and editors and clients and customs agents.
Here’s a brief look at a some of the good, the bad, and the ugly:
– 1x Someone breaking into my quarters while I was sleeping (Of note, this happened on a non-fishing job. Which I’m taking as a sign that I should do more fishing work, and less of the other.)
– 1x Me breaking into a rental house when we were locked out
– 9 Dives into the medical kit
– 6 Countries
– 7 Client shoots
– 5 Personal best fish
– 7 New species
– 42 Airplane flight legs
– 13 Helicopter flight legs
– 21 Boat transfer legs
– 2 Bags lost by airlines
– 200 Dollars won in a self-tourniquet contest in a hotel bar
– 2 Fast-tracks through customs
– 13 Published stories (more coming soon)
– Way too many bad coffees in airports
There’s more travel yet to come in 2023, and 2024 is shaping up to be a pretty good adventure as well. Thank you to all the clients, guides, editors, and everyone who makes this work possible—you make it all happen!
Image: Transfers, jungle style, with a pass through Oromomo Village. Last week in Bolivia with Tsimane Lodge.
Fish Partner in Iceland for InsideHook
Excited to see this feature on Fish Partner’s Battle Hill Lodge sea-run brown trout fishery come out in InsideHook a few weeks ago. I’ve been down in Bolivia on another shoot and haven’t had time to post this, but playing a bit of catch-up now. Big thanks to the team at Fish Parter for having me, for my editors at InsideHook for running the story, and for the awesome anglers and guides who let me shoot while they fished! (And to the guides for shooting images of me when I got into fish.)
Read the full article here. And peek at my other work for InsideHook here.
Quick Assignment—and a Fishing Tournament—in Baja California Sur
Just spent a few quick days down in Baja California Sur fishing in the MAJA El Grande Tournament and covering a few assignments for various outlets. Stories coming soon—watch my social for updates!—but in the meantime, here’s a few snapshots of a very (too!) quick job south of the border.
Ready to get back to Mexico and spend more time…
When Good Things Go Wrong: Salt Water Sportsman Feature
This was one of the more fun writing assignments to come across my desk so far in 2023. When the editors of Salt Water Sportsman sent me an email saying, “We want you to write about when fishing trips go wrong,” a long list of former trips sprang to mind. It was an enlightening trip down memory lane to recount past trips-gone-wrong, and to really sit and put pen to paper about why we travel to chase fish around the world. (Which, when you think about it, is a fairly strange thing to do.)
The print issue just dropped yesterday, but if you’re not a subscriber, read the abridged digital version here.