Field notes
Short dispatches, behind-the-scenes observations and lessons learned while documenting rivers, oceans and the people who depend on them.
September 27, 2026
For six years I have followed a sockeye salmon run through the rock canyons of northeast Vancouver Island. This year I went deeper, into stretches I had never reached before.
September 15, 2026
No coordinates, no known pool: finding and filming Chinook salmon at the end of their spawning run near Merritt, BC, for the Pacific Salmon Foundation, starting with the research.
June 7, 2026
A five-day descent into the Resurgência de Bombas to document Pimelodella kronei — the Brazilian blind catfish — in its own habitat for the first time.
May 1, 2026
The Arrombado do Taquari is what happens when a river breaks its own banks and doesn't look back. Decades of upstream land use overloaded the Rio Taquari with sediment until it had nowhere left to go — so it redirected itself into the floodplain, permanently flooding farms and reshaping everything in its path. The ranches are gone. What remains is one of the largest continuous wetland stretches in Brazil, and one of the least documented.
January 7, 2026
The part of the salmon story most people never see: filming Coho salmon eggs hatching with Mossom Creek Hatchery in Port Moody, BC, as it marks 50 years of work for salmon.
October 6, 2025
Deep inside a cave in Brazil's PETAR lives Leodesmus yporangae, a blind, pigmentless millipede found nowhere else. Here's how I created the first professional photos and video of this threatened species.
July 1, 2025
Five days of freediving and rebreather dives in Trinity Bay, Newfoundland, filming capelin and Atlantic cod for a North Atlantic documentary, with humpback whales and a whale graveyard along the way.
May 4, 2025
Twenty-eight days in one of the most remote corners of the Brazilian Amazon, documenting a Field Museum, INPA and WCS Brasil rapid inventory of the Alto Rio Içá.
September 22, 2024
A rare strain of sockeye salmon spawns in only a few hidden places in Morice Lake, BC. A week in Wet'suwet'en territory, documenting them underwater, by drone and from the shore.
September 6, 2024
At the height of the run, you could walk across on the backs of the fish. In the tributaries of Babine Lake, BC, that old saying is still true.