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A Whale of a Story
Of all the many fascinating things Jerry Harned and I have photographed during the past 38 years, our experiences with humpback whales rank near the top of the list. We’ve been blessed by numerous opportunities to work in close proximity (sometimes less than 20 feet) of these majestic giants, and the sensation of being sprayed or splashed by a 40 foot, 40-ton animal is incredible.
The thrills have extended beyond our close
Come Let Us Adore Him
One of the many production resources that Jerry and I have often accessed over the past 30 years is the extraordinary collection of visual material contained in the archives of NASA (the National Aeronautics and Space Administration). It’s a wealth of photographs, film and video footage that document the American space program, including the missions of Mercury, Apollo, the Space Shuttle, and the International Space Station.
As I’ve spent hundreds of hours
What–A–Wing
Before starting Illustra Media is 1997, Jerry Harned, Jim Adams and I made films for Moody Institute of Science. There was a catch phrase that was popular within the organization: Nature had it first. Basically, it meant that many important advancements in modern technology were originally inspired by the biological designs of animals and plants (each created by the master Engineer).
Aviation pioneers from Leonardo DaVinci to the Wright brothers studied bird wings as they laid