Stock Footage
I have linked a few select shots from my Vimeo Page here on my web site. These are shots, some from sequences, that I have done some basic colour grading on and give me fond memories when I look back on them.
All the content you see here is owned by me and is available as stock footage. I have a vast library of footage shot on the Red One and the Red Dragon over the past 8 years. If you are looking for something specific please reach out to me as I have catalogued most of the footage on CatDv so easy to do a quick search.
One of my favourite Sharks, Carcharhinus limbatus, the Oceanic Blacktip. These are very curious Sharks and we see them hunting at many spawning aggregations. This is a short clip from my time in French Polynesia during the spawning of the grouper, which we managed to film the during our first ever visit to Fakarava as they displayed all the same pre-spawn characteristics as the grouper in Palau.
Sharks hunting at night in Fakarava channel. This was an incredible dive and not for the faint hearted. Imagine being surround by hundreds of Grey Reef Sharks, Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos, actively hunting at night. At times we were being bumped and slammed by these predators, not because they were being aggressive toward us but that we were in the way of them catching dinner. A dive and a sequence I will never forget . . . .
After living in Palau for 12 years I finally got to interact, and film, something that has been on my hit list for years, a Saltwater Crocodile on a shallow reef scene. We spent nearly 2 hrs trying to get close to this guy and it paid off in the end !!!
This is my favourite amongst a number of different shots I managed to get before he decided he had enough of us and headed back toward the shore across the very shallow reef flats.
This is probably my favourite spawning aggregation anywhere in the World and it happens to be in Palau!! The Sailfin Snapper, Symphorichthys spilurus. For 7 days, twice a year, somewhere between 50,000 and 100,000 fish turn up to spawn in the beautiful waters of Peleliu.
I have documented this in 4, 5 and 6K for the past 6 years and have literally hours upon hours of footage from the aggregation, from the pre-spawning days to the the spawning itself as well as the Sharks hunting the fish. A mind blowing spectacle and possibly the largest reef fish spawning aggregation anywhere in the World.
This is a visualisation of Palau created from real bathymetric data, not an VFX editors idea of what Palau might looks like. The Palau trench, on the East side, is over 9,500 meters deep putting it in the top 6 deepest places on the planet.
I utilise the skills needed to create such models for my scientific research as well as for production companies where I can source the data for most areas in the world and provide point cloud data for manipulation in 3D VFX packages such as Maya.
The sunsets in tropical locations such as Palau are truly beautiful. The holygrail effect allows the cameraman to change the camera settings as the timelapse progresses ensuring that you can have a balanced scene for editing in post and a lovely transition from the often bright golden and blue hour through to the darker stars and milkyway.