David Licata | April 29, 2011
Here’s a clip I put together just for Arbor Day. The bulk of this clip was shot on our first visit with the Milarchs in 2007. (Please pardon my little artsy interlude which was shot elsewhere.) This is one of my favorite bits of footage and I’m so glad cinematographer Wolfgang Held kept rolling, even [...]
David Licata | August 29, 2010
That’d be 105. Click here and here and here. Other numbers: 8/16-18/2010. Hours spent in a car and plane: 32. Hours spent looking at, thinking about, filming trees at 10,000 feet or more altitude: 20. Number of cameras lugged on trails (not including cellphone): 3 (Panasonic DVX 100, Canon Powershot A460, Polaroid SX 70). Number [...]
David Licata | August 25, 2010
August 18, 2010 – Inyo National Forest: Patriarch Grove I had an idea that I’d capture the sunrise, which meant getting out of bed around 3am. But insomnia, exhaustion from the day before, and mostly not having spotted a good sunrise location on the 17th kept me in bed until 7am. Glutes burned most of [...]
David Licata | August 24, 2010
August 17, 2010 – Schulman Grove, Inyo National Forest, CA I did not die on the mountain. Too busy working to be wowed by the trees. Or maybe I was in a constant state of wow? Don’t think I worked my body this hard ever. Lots of trees. Four and 1/4 mile trail but backtracked [...]
