How did the Deadliest Catch thing come about?
One of the assistant producers randomly picked me and Matt up hitchhiking in Dutch Harbor during the filming of Season 1. We became friends, and she pitched the idea of using our boat for the second season of Deadliest Catch. They filmed on our boat for king crab and came back for snow crab. I’d say they spent about 4 weeks with us total and shot around 250 hours of footage! What camera were these photos shot on? I try to shoot medium format film as much as possible. Almost all of these are shot with a Mamiya 645 on color neg film. I wish I could sport a 4×5, but that would be impossible due to the weather. When did you pick up your first camera? I remember getting a lot of praise when I was very young for not cropping the heads off people when I took pictures. That was the measure of a good photographer in my family. At 12, my dad bought me a Pentax K1000. I felt grown up with such a fancy camera but I also thought photography was kind of nerdy at the time. It wasn’t until college tha
