Exploring Northwest Ohio Photography

I had the opportunity to help out with filming the Redmoon Theater Grand Spectacle performance on Saturday, June 13, 2015 at the Toledo Museum of Art. The show was amazing! Here is a quick video of what I saw in my time there.

Check out this list of gear I use including a link to the adapter: http://goo.gl/rha6Ke

Urban Combat Fishing on the Maumee this weekend!  Anglers were shoulder to shoulder along the shore on both sides.  High water though so not as many waders out this weekend.

The Parking Lot at Fort Meigs Access is buried in Ice!

These photos were taken on March 12, 2015. Ice is Jammed up in Maumee (pictured) causing some pretty severe flooding at Side Cut. Much of this part of the river is still frozen solid so all the ice chunks coming down the river cannot get through forcing all of the water into the park. Notice on the right side of the image all of the huge chunks of ice along the park. Zoom in on the river along Side Cut, its pretty neat! And watch the video of the area here too: https://youtu.be/3mEIGz8TVGI

Spring and the Walleye Run will be here before we know it!

Spring was in the air today! I went down the the Maumee River for a bit this afternoon, its frozen solid at Orleans and Fort Meigs but water is flowing at Blue Grass Island! The ‪#‎WalleyeRun‬ will be here before we know it!

I was invited to come photograph beautiful Downtown Perrysburg during Winterfest 2015!  

Visited Metzger Marsh on February 13, 2015. The temperature was 6 degrees the morning I was out there, I could see ice fisherman a couple miles out in the lake but there was no activity at all at the shore where I was.

Spent some time tonight downtown on the east side of the river shooting some time lapses and long exposures. We have a beautiful city! The Schoonmaker looks especially cool at night in the frozen river.

The Maumee River is simply amazing in the winter! I went out in the bitter cold a bit after sunrise to capture the beauty earlier this week.

I've had a Phantom Vision sitting on the shelf for nearly a year. I just wasn't happy with the single dimension stabilization and simply haven't used it because of this.  I finally removed the Vision FC200 Camera and Gimbal and installed a Zenmuse H3-3D Gimbal so that I could fly my GoPro camera.  The process is fairly simple, I had a camera rolling as I did the install and I made a series of two videos showing how I removed the camera and installed the new Gimbal.  I was surprised that everything worked perfectly, even the 7th channel worked great to tilt the camera!

This is a playlist of video from my time in the stadium.  Included are up-close views of the Zambonis clearing the ice, time-lapses from all over in the stadium and a behind the scenes look walking around the rink.

This is the dropcam I used for the project:

The former City of Toledo Steam Plant has sat empty for years and years. ProMedica has purchased the building and is renovating it to create a pretty amazing facility while preserving the architecture of this awesome building.  I had the opportunity to take a look inside the building on December 27, 2014 during an open house at the building and had the camera rolling while in there. There is much work yet to be done on the building, it essentially is 4 walls and dirt floors.  The camera was handheld and stabilized in post so I apologize in advance, no fancy camera work or aerial shots this time around.

This was filmed with a DJI Phantom 2 Vision Plus quadcopter.

Sections of the South and North ends of the hotel have been taken down on two previous days.  On October 23, 2014 a middle section of the hotel was taken down.  In this demo they pulled out the two center supports simultaneously, the building bowed but stayed up.  Then the North West corner support was pulled out and the section collapsed straight down.  It was fascinating to watch.  Homerich, the company taking care of the demolition is doing an excellent job, it is impressive to watch them work!