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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMy PBS mini-documentary (eight minutes)
I did about 99% of the still photos and 60% of the video on this Arizona Public Media/PBS mini-documentary. It played Arizona last week. As my first involvement with PBS, I am very proud! My voice-over in the second half, or so, was done in the WCQS (NPR) studios in Asheville, NC. What a great group there!
elleng
(130,702 posts)Will be great if it plays here. I have 4 PBS stations available.
Ptah
(33,019 posts)elias49
(4,259 posts)Intrigued by the pictures of Tucson at night. My son just moved there with his wife and 1-year-old. I haven't made it out to visit them yet. I'm more eager than ever after watching your video.
Nice work.
Suich
(10,642 posts)That's a terrific video...congratulations!
panader0
(25,816 posts)I wish you had been able to visit the Huachuca Mountains area while you were in Tucson. (or above Tucson). If you're here next year, I'll try to come see you. Great pics. Years ago, when I climbed to the top of Miller Peak (9600 or so), there was a fire lookout on the very top. The sides hinged up, as yours, and the table in the middle still had the area map grid. I spent the night in deep snow. Thank goodness the place had a wood stove.
Empire Ranch
Portal
Huachuca Mountains
Dragoons (and Cochise Stronghold)
Baboquivary
Kitt & Graham
ETC.
Come visit, but give me plenty of notice. The Lemmon Rock lookout and Lemmon Rock were closed to the public in late June 2014. They will be closed on day one of fire season 2015.
But you are welcome as my invited guest. Email me a week or so ahead, and I'll give you the phone number.
Mac
wmtippins@gmail.com
panader0
(25,816 posts)The desert has hidden gems. Driving up from Douglas you would never believe that there is a place so beautiful just a few miles off the road. I have empty bedrooms here, as the kids are all gone now, so there would be plenty of room if you need a place in this area.
Or, my GF, a business manager for three local radio stations, has free rooms available at the Windemere in Sierra Vista. I'm about ten miles out of town, in the boonies. I have the Huachucas to the west, the Mule Mountains to the east, the Dragoons to the north, and San Jose Peak, in Mexico to the south. At 4650' where I live, the weather is fine.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,571 posts)Beautiful photos, very interesting piece!
young_at_heart
(3,763 posts)I enjoyed that very much.....so well done and so interesting to see your work. My husband used to travel to Tucson from time to time years ago and told me about the monsoons and severe lightning there.
dionysus
(26,467 posts)CaliforniaPeggy
(149,514 posts)That was really good! I enjoyed hearing the explanations of how you do your work, and seeing all the sights.
Thank you for sharing this with us!
Electric Monk
(13,869 posts)ReRe
(10,597 posts)... but a documentarian! Thanks for sharing your PBS doc with us. Very interesting.
Hekate
(90,525 posts)Thank you so much for sharing it here!
madokie
(51,076 posts)are still looking out for people like me and my family. Thanks
burrowowl
(17,632 posts)Love you! Love your pics! Good job!
Duppers
(28,117 posts)Thoroughly enjoyed watching that and am passing it on in emails.
Bravo!
Brother Buzz
(36,364 posts)Another lifetime window gazer, here.
Oldtimeralso
(1,935 posts)Not just the documentary, but the lookout job is also is also a great service to the public.
THANK YOU Demo Tex
Tuesday_Morning
(1,704 posts)longship
(40,416 posts)Always look forward to your posts here.
R&K
Turborama
(22,109 posts)Thank you for sharing.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)Scuba
(53,475 posts)Solly Mack
(90,758 posts)librechik
(30,673 posts)hope you don't mind; they're looking for things like this, esp with PBS links--can't say if they'll get back to you, tho
cheers!
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)No seriously, that is really cool. We've followed you here for a while and that video shows what you've been describing in such great detail.
I used to work surveillance and can appreciate the hours of quietly watching the environment around you. I envy the peace that job must bring.
progressoid
(49,929 posts)grntuscarora
(1,249 posts)Beautiful to watch!
CaptainTruth
(6,572 posts)Great scenery & thanks for doing this important job.
intaglio
(8,170 posts)for everything
malthaussen
(17,175 posts)By the way, seen this computer game?: http://www.firewatchgame.com/
As soon as I saw it, I thought of you.
-- Mal
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hootinholler
(26,449 posts)KurtNYC
(14,549 posts)great use of music. Years ago I was a cameraman for Mammoth Mountain Ski Area. It was a childhood dream come true to be paid to ski and snowmobile all over 2 beautiful mountains and the surrounding forests, to document the awesome beauty of an approaching storm or thick blanket of crystalline snow. But most of what we shot wound up in relatively crude promos for the ski area or in TV news clips about weather or ski and snowboard competitions. The piece you share here is a treasure. Congrats.
PS: when not skiing or shooting my job was to catalog Dave McCoy's film collection which included this one from the late 1930s:
bettyellen
(47,209 posts)aikoaiko
(34,159 posts)classof56
(5,376 posts)Have bookmarked for once and future viewing. Would be great if OPB could offer it for Oregonians to watch and enjoy.
Glad you had a good run at Lemmon Rock. It's been an interesting year here in Central Oregon. Fires to the east, west, north and south. Pretty disturbing. Still up in the 80s here, very dry and the mountains are depressingly bare. Ol' Man Winter can show up anytime!
Congrats and cheers.
Botany
(70,434 posts)BTW how many inches of moisture does your area get a year and what type of
trees are there?
matt819
(10,749 posts)I'll say the same thing I say every time I see one of your photos. Wow! Great work, great photos.
mnhtnbb
(31,371 posts)How fun to see and hear more about how your days are filled as a fire look out.
Thank you for sharing this!
MuseRider
(34,095 posts)So happy to see this. What a job you do. Thank you for it.
AuntPatsy
(9,904 posts)A HERETIC I AM
(24,360 posts)Glad you had a safe season.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)riverbendviewgal
(4,252 posts)of your Fire Watch Tower. You are an amazing photographer.
Always wondered what ik looked like up there. Great video!
rocktivity
(44,571 posts)and I couldn't be prouder of one of my oldest DU friends!
rocktivity
ChazInAz
(2,556 posts)That was great, DemoTex!
Couldn't help but think that's the best job in the world for us loners.
Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)catchnrelease
(1,944 posts)I don't know which was better--the explanation of what you do up there or your photographs and videos. It all adds up to a really nice piece of work!
sheshe2
(83,630 posts)Thank you!
slipslidingaway
(21,210 posts)gristy
(10,667 posts)Good job, Mac.
(I logged in just to say this - and I never log in any more!)
MrMickeysMom
(20,453 posts)This was a capturing 8 minutes!
Duppers
(28,117 posts)And I'm wondering about your little buddy. Sorry I cannot remember his name but think his name had four letters.
And Whenever you publish a book of all your fantastic photos and bits of your stories, please let me know. I'll certainly buy a copy.
alfredo
(60,071 posts)Loki
(3,825 posts)Posting on your fire season lookouts. It's good to see our fellow DU'er make the "big time" on PBS. Congratulations DemoTex!
Curmudgeoness
(18,219 posts)and the work of all others who are willing to live for a time in solitude. But you have entertained us with photos of the view, and for that I am grateful. Good job.
You had me laughing at the "pucker factor" during those storms. I can relate.
Nitram
(22,755 posts)...human interest, exceptional photography, educational.
libodem
(19,288 posts)Outstanding.